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  • Empire by Rachel Van Dyken

    Empire by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    I have lost everything. My purpose. My love. My soul. Death knocks on my door, I want to answer, but every time I reach for the handle--the promise I made her, brings me back. So I breathe. I live. I hate. And I allow the anger to boil beneath the surface of a perfectly indifferent facade. I am broken, I dont want to be fixed...
  • Trouble at Brayshaw High by Meagan Brandy

    Trouble at Brayshaw High by Meagan Brandy

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 42 ratings
    "You don't belong." No words whispered in anger have ever rung more true. They're the Kings of Brayshaw with the world at their feet, destined for greatness and in need of control.  I'm the girl from the gutter with nothing to offer and as defiant as they come.  They say it doesn't matter, that I'm one of them now, and nothing could ever change that. Not even me, should I dare try...
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  • Jackson by Siobhan Davis

    Jackson by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    The devil came to me in disguise. Too bad I didn’t notice until it was far too late. Vanessa:The devil doesn’t always wear an evil mask.Sometimes, he appears in the most beautiful form.Like the super-hot bad boy with the dirty-blond hair and a wicked glint in his blue eyes who swept in out of nowhere, stealing all the air from my lungs.I thought he was my savior. But he’s my ruination...
  • Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world. We knew it wasn’t going to be easy.That our love could start a war...Dear reader,Dark Legacy is the twelfth book in my Knight's Ridge Empire series, and the third book of Calli and Batman's story...
  • Almost Broken by Portia Moore

    Almost Broken by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Lauren Brooks fell in love with Cal Scott at 21, married him at 22 and had her heart broken at 23 when he walked out of their marriage. At 25, though raising his daughter on her own, Lauren was finally moving on with her life. Until, she learned the reason for Cal's abandonment, the walls she’d carefully built around her collapsed.
  • Still Jaded by Tijan

    Still Jaded by Tijan

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Sheldon, Bryce, and Corrigan ruled their school until a killer wanted to rule them. Three years later, Bryce’s back home from Europe the local celebrity jock. Corrigan’s busy running his fraternity and Sheldon's about to be pulled back into the social world of drama...
  • May We Rise by K.G. Reuss

    May We Rise by K.G. Reuss

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Possessive. Violent. Perfect. Mine.After our time at Black Falls High, we moved to Mayfair, the college of my dreams. With my singing career taking shape, Fox’s football career off and running, Ethan’s photography, and Enzo and Cole’s. . .well, whatever secret things they do happening, life seemed good.Too good.If there’s one thing I know about my life it’s that nothing good ever lasts...
  • Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    I found everything I didn’t know I needed. Accepted forgiveness I didn’t deserve.She fought for us. Killed for us. She was one of us. And there was no way I was letting her go… again. But I’m not the only one with wicked intentions for my siren. With her missing, we turn our blame to an obvious enemy. But our path of destruction could be leading us right into another trap...
  • Bradford Butcher by Sheridan Anne

    Bradford Butcher by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 23 ratings
    One life. Two lives. Three lives. Four.My hands are stained from the blood and the gore.The screams and cries of agonizing pain.If I lose them now, I’ll never be the same.My sister, my cousin … my whole damn world.It was my worst nightmare come to life, and I don’t know how the hell I’m supposed to survive.I thought that night was the end of it...
  • Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next installment of her dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world.My life has been full of half-truths tangled in lies—I’d been to hell and back more times than I could count...
  • Elicit by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elicit by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Cursed, numb, rejected, scorned, wicked, sinister, dark, twisted...my name is Tex Campisi and this is my legacy. I killed my father in cold blood and lost my soul right along with him. I crave war more than peace, and I'm about to take my place in history as the youngest Capo dei Capi in the Cosa Nostra...that is until someone stops me, saves me from myself...
  • Corrupt Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Corrupt Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next instalment of her forbidden dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world.I learned from a very young age that the only person I could count on was myself.For years I’ve been content with meaningless one-night stands and zero promises for tomorrow...
  • If You Dare by Shantel Tessier

    If You Dare by Shantel Tessier

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The game was over. The dares were getting old, and the secrets were piling up faster than the bodies.But someone had other plans. They wanted to play a new game.Becky Holt was the love of his life until he found out what she was hiding. Now he wants to seek his revenge in the most daring way.Deke Biggs has always been a shark. He's not afraid to kill, and he's about to become her worst nightmare...
  • Lost Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Lost Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Who the f&*k gave Slade Cruz this kind of power over me?I don’t know how it happened. One minute he was the guy I loathed and the next thing I knew, I was waking up beside him desperate to get out of there.When secrets are revealed, Slade and I realize that we are more connected than we could have ever known...
  • Fallen Heirs by Laura Lee

    Fallen Heirs by Laura Lee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive... Pretty, pretentious little liars. I’m surrounded by them everywhere I turn. But I’m learning not everything is as it seems. The ones who I thought were my enemies have become my greatest allies. And the ones who I severely underestimated turned out to be much eviler than I could’ve ever imagined...
  • Taint Her: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Taint Her: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He wants to ruin her. She wants to save him.Hadley Rexford was a distraction I didn’t need. But when she discovers me with blood on my hands, I know I can’t walk away without demanding her silence.I’ll taint her.Torment her.In the end, I’ll ruin her.Cole Jagger was a puzzle I wanted to solve. But he refuses to let me in, and now I’m ensnared in his trap.He’s cold.Immoral...
  • Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lucien Valentine must die.It’s the thought that’s kept me going for four long years. I’ve imagined it, dreamed about it, relished in it. I want it so bad, but the question is, do I have what it takes to make it happen?Taking a life isn’t for the faint-hearted. Just ask Lucien, he knows.He’s taken me back to where it all started and I know exactly how it’s going to go...
  • Always Crew by Tijan

    Always Crew by Tijan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For the longest time, I was Bren Monroe.I lived in Roussou, California.I had no parents, no brother, but I had a crew.Then things started to change.I never planned for any of it.I didn’t think I’d fall in love.I didn’t think I’d have a relationship with my brother again.I didn’t think that he’d come back.Now I’m in Cain.My crew is in college.They’re growing, going through their own things...
  • The Resolution of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

    The Resolution of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Things are well for Callie and Kayden. They’re still dealing with their past and the pain connected to it, but for the most part they’ve moved on. The biggest decision they have at the moment is what they want to do with their lives in the future. Eventually, though, the past catches up with them and they’re left facing tough choices...
  • Shame by Rachel Van Dyken

    Shame by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Everything done in darkness, will eventually be brought into the light. I ran, but all it did was keep me one step ahead of my past. I tried to start over; new name, new identity. But you can't change your soul. A fresh start at college was just what I needed. For a while, it worked. I was the party girl, the one that seemed confident, but it was a lie. When guys kissed me--I felt only pain...
  • The Probability of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

    The Probability of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Luke Price and Violet Hayes haven’t seen each other in a couple of months, not since they discovered Luke’s mother’s connection to Violet’s parent’s murders. But when Luke gets into some gambling trouble with the wrong people, destiny decides to throw the two of them together and they head out to Vegas to try and settle Luke’s debt...
  • The Destiny of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

    The Destiny of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Luke Price's life has always been about order, control, and acting tough on the outside. For Luke, meaningless relationships are a distraction-a way to tune out the twisted memories of his childhood. He desperately wishes he could forget his past, but it haunts him no matter what he does. Violet Hayes has had a rough life...
  • FALL by Cora Brent

    FALL by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author Cora Brent comes a new epic crossover novel. Jenny... I was a lost girl, a child bride. Now, to most people I appear to be just an average college student. They would never guess my strange history. But secretly I'm still held down by my past. I cannot bring myself to trust men...
  • Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

    Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over? Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on and moving forward, just as Clay wanted her to. Clay never stopped thinking of Maggie...
  • Out of Breath by Rebecca Donovan

    Out of Breath by Rebecca Donovan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Emma leaves Weslyn and everyone in it behind to attend Stanford University, just as she always intended. A shell of her former self, she is not the same girl. She is broken, and the only way that she’ll be whole again is through forgiveness. Emma must find a way to forgive herself and recognize her own worth before she can receive the love she deserves...
  • The Havoc We Wreak: An Enemies to Lovers College Bully Romance by Becca Steele

    The Havoc We Wreak: An Enemies to Lovers College Bully Romance by Becca Steele

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    The final part of Caiden and Winter's story...Secrets and lies are being revealed. Loyalties are being tested, and betrayal cuts deep.My mother needs to be stopped, but at what cost? At the end, who will be left standing? And...WhoWillFall…Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.You underestimated the Four and Snow.You thought you were on a winning streak...
  • Wild Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Wild Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Have you ever known what it feels like to die?It’s not great. Trust me, I don’t recommend it.I’ve always said that my life is about surviving, but I didn’t realize how true that was until the devil sent me soaring off a bridge with the love of my life and lodged a bullet through my thigh.It’s not my time to die...
  • Savage Delight by Sara Wolf

    Savage Delight by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Light meets dark. Secrets meet truth. It's been three years, twenty-five weeks, and five days since Isis Blake fell in love, and if she has it her way, it'll stretch into infinity. After a run-in with her mom’s ex-boyfriend, she scrabbles to remember what she’s lost to amnesia...
  • Heresy by Lily White

    Heresy by Lily White

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sixth CircleHeresyAlso Known as Shane CarterThere are no rules with this man.No courtesies.No acceptable behaviors he’ll conform to in order to be accepted.He marches to his own beat.Gives the finger to expectations.And does whatever pleases him because nobody can control him.Arrogant.Aggravating.Absolute Chaos.Shane is the last person you want walking into your world...
  • Beneath Your Beautiful by Adaline Winters

    Beneath Your Beautiful by Adaline Winters

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Passion is a perilous game.HonorMy ruthless husband hunts me across the country and in my dreams. If he catches me, I'll lose not only my freedom, but my sanity. I have to stay one step ahead, but he's closing in. So I keep running, straight into the arms of a man who whispers seductive promises of protection and safety. One way or another, this race will end...
  • In Her Wake by K.A. Tucker

    In Her Wake by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Before you knew him as Trent in Ten Tiny Breaths , he was Cole Reynolds—and he had it all. Until one night when he makes a fatal, wrong decision…and loses everything. When a drunken night out at a Michigan State college party results in the death of six people, Cole must come to terms with his part in the tragedy...
  • Enforce by Rachel Van Dyken

    Enforce by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    There’s two sides to every story… And ours? Isn’t pretty… Then again, what’s pretty about the mafia? Trace Rooks, that’s what. But she only wants one of us, and I’ll kill him before I let him have her. The only problem ? We’re cousins . And she may just be our long lost enemy. Whoever said college was hard, clearly didn’t attend Eagle Elite University...
  • The Golden Boys by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    The Golden Boys by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 42 ratings
    West Golden—easy to hate, yet so hard to resist.Don’t let that pretty face of his fool you. He isn’t the boy next door, or the kind you trust with your heart. He’s the devil in designer jeans, with all the charm of a bona fide psycho.Trust me.He swears I did something to cross him before I even stepped foot inside Cypress Prep, but it’s a lie...
  • Campfire Chaos by K. Webster

    Campfire Chaos by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes a forbidden, enemies to lovers romance called Campfire Chaos!I have a new problem.Cal Hutton.Town’s lawless, gorgeous bad boy. A Hood River Hoodlum. My new nemesis.He wants me to pay for what I did.Cal thinks I’m weak and an unworthy adversary, someone he can toy with.But I’ll never allow another man to have that power over me.I have claws now...
  • Out of the Dark by Danah Logan

    Out of the Dark by Danah Logan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LillyMy name is the only truth they didn’t take from me.Betrayed by my family, my desperate need for answers put me back on his radar.The one person who was never supposed to find me.Again.I was unprepared for the world I got thrust into—the connection we shared.The deeper I dug, the more unstable my future became.With Rhys as my anchor, I will fight to bring my past out of the dark...
  • Pretty Little Savage by Lucy Smoke

    Pretty Little Savage by Lucy Smoke

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 48 ratings
    Rule No. 1: Don't piss off the Sick BoysThey're cruel. Reckless. Impossibly fucked up.The Sick Boys feed on the order they create. They rule Eastpoint University just as their families have for decades. But their power doesn't stop there. The three of them are heirs to some of the largest fortunes in the world, and behind that kind of wealth lies an underworld of corruption...
  • Crank by Caitlyn Dare

    Crank by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My name is Quinn Renshaw, and my father is the VP of the Savage Falls Sinners MC.But I refuse to be a club princess.I want more from life. I want to graduate and go to college and spread my wings. I want a life beyond Savage Falls and club life.Until him.Killian Crankton, VP of the Red Ridge Reapers.He looks at me and I feel things. Things I don’t want to feel. Dangerous, deadly things...
  • Brutal Precious by Sara Wolf

    Brutal Precious by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Life meets death. The end meets the beginning. Eighteen-year-old Isis Blake hasn’t fallen in love in three years, forty-three weeks, and two days. Or so she thinks. The boy she maybe-sort-of-definitely loved has dropped off the face of the planet after his girlfriend's death, leaving a Jack-shaped hole...
  • Ravage Me by Ryan Michele

    Ravage Me by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 35 ratings
    After spending the last two years stuck behind bars for a crime she didn’t commit, Harlow ‘Princess’ Gavelson’s time inside has finally come to an end, and she’s ready for revenge. Unfortunately, being the daughter to the Vice President of the Ravage Motorcycle Club cuts into her plans, as orders must be followed...
  • Game by Barry Lyga

    Game by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Billy grinned. “Oh, New York,” he whispered. “We’re gonna have so much fun.” I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history’s most infamous serial killer, Billy Dent. In an effort to prove murder didn’t run in the family, Jazz teamed with the police in the small town of Lobo’s Nod to solve a deadly case...
  • Broken Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu

    Broken Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What’s wrong Baby Blue? Did you mistake his forced sincerity for love?Every kiss will fade in time.Every memory will fade in time.Every smile, every teardrop, every wound—it’ll all dry up—in time.But every lie? That shit only gets bigger and more devastating with time.In time..
  • Ava by Leslie Luckie

    Ava by Leslie Luckie

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ava The minute we walked through the gates of Blackheath Academy I knew we weren’t welcome. It was us against them. The Club Brats against the Elite. Bastian de Trafford was their ringleader, but I wasn’t about to go down without a fight. Only - that fight would be so much easier if he didn’t look like a god of old...
  • Better when He's Bad by Jay Crownover

    Better when He's Bad by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Welcome to the Point There’s a difference between a bad boy and a boy who’s bad . . . meet Shane Baxter. Sexy, dark, and dangerous, Bax isn’t just from the wrong side of the tracks, he is the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he’s the master of bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five years...
  • Like Gravity by Julie Johnson

    Like Gravity by Julie Johnson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Twenty year-old Brooklyn “Bee” Turner is no stranger to grief. After witnessing her mother’s brutal murder at age six, Brooklyn is guarded, damaged, and – by all accounts – a bitch. And that’s just the way she likes it, if it means keeping everyone at arm’s length...
  • Fall With Me by Lucy Smoke

    Fall With Me by Lucy Smoke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Isaac Icari: The God of Hazelwood University. My stepbrother.My lover.My enemy.It was dangerous to let myself be swept up by him but he’s a drug that I crave.I should have walked away the second I realized what he was involved with, when he revealed who his father truly was.Now it’s too late.We should have known better. Get too close to the sun and you get burned...
  • Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Small town, small-minded people, small expectations, and big A-holes.Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape...
  • Unlit Star by Lindy Zart

    Unlit Star by Lindy Zart

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    We are not guaranteed anything, not even this life. Rivers Young is the popular guy untouchable by reality. He is like a star—bright, consuming, otherworldly. The thing about stars, though, is that they eventually fall, and he is no different. He falls far and he falls hard. Delilah Bana is the outcast enshrouded in all of life's ironies...
  • Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When you're born wrong, sometimes you get bent and you get f*cked. Sometimes your life takes you places you don't want to go.Sometimes, it does. Dax McCann is as cold as ice. I'm intrigued by him. But I can't get close to him either. His music strokes my soul, butchers my broken heart. I wish he'd see me, but he only sees her...
  • Ugly Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Ugly Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Slade Cruz is a d*@k.He’s intimidating, sexy as sin, and unpredictably wild. His eyes draw me in while his vicious smirk screams at me to run and never look back. I’m a toy to him, a pawn to use in his devilish games.I’ve already suffered through hell and back and if it’s games he wants then it’s games he’ll get, but he should be warned, this time it’s my turn to play the lead...
  • Taunt Her: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Taunt Her: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    𝗛𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺.Remi Tanner wasn’t part of the plan. But when I see my uncle doting on her, I know she’s going to help me destroy him.I’ll taunt her.Test her.In the end, I’ll break her.Ace Jagger wasn’t a good guy. But he swept into my life like a storm, and I’m caught up in the aftermath.He’s cruel.Calculating...
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