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virgin heroine  bad boys  forbidden love  college  angst  m-f

  • Consolation by Corinne Michaels

    Consolation by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Natalie My life wasn’t supposed to be like this. I had a loving husband, a baby on the way, and a beautiful home. One second was all it took to destroy it all. One knock on the door ripped my perfect world apart. He said he’d come back. He lied. Then Liam returned and one night changed everything...
  • Revealed by H.M. Ward

    Revealed by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fame has a price and Trystan doesn't want to pay it. Everything he worked so hard to hide is about to be revealed. Nothing he can do will stop it. Within a few short hours everyone will know about his father and the sordid details of his past. Brie is by his side, sputtering things that she shouldn't know...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  college  m-f  rockstars  abuse
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  • For the Record by K.A. Linde

    For the Record by K.A. Linde

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    With Congressman Brady Maxwell up for reelection and journalist Liz Dougherty about to graduate into a promising career, the ambitious couple’s future is brighter than ever. They share a passion for their work…and for each other. But when Brady holds a press conference to officially introduce Liz as his girlfriend, reporters hungry for a scandal bombard her...
  • Catch Me When I Fall by A.L. Jackson

    Catch Me When I Fall by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times best-selling author A.L. Jackson, an exquisite new romance available in audio-first!Sometimes trying to catch a star will light your whole world on fire....Emily’s entire existence is wrapped up in touring with her up-and-coming country rock band Carolina George and trying to build them into a music legend...
  • Amplify by Anne Mercier

    Amplify by Anne Mercier

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    SERA: He’s my protector, my confidante. Then one night he became more. I want him, I need him, and, if I’m honest with myself, I love him. I just don’t know if he’ll ever see me as more than what we’ve always been: friends. I don’t want to lose him but it’s getting harder and harder to keep my feelings to myself. Should I risk it all or play it safe? CAGE: She’s my light, my saving grace...
  • Claim by Piper Lawson

    Claim by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He showed me a side of myself I never dreamed existed. Olivia’s professor promised her lessons she couldn’t learn in class.What he didn’t expect was to find peace from his tormented past in her arms. Now, that past has caught up to both of them, ripping them apart even when he vowed she was the person who mattered most...
  • Half My Blood by Lauren Gilley

    Half My Blood by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s summer in Knoxville, and if the outlaw crew at Dartmoor Inc. thought they were getting a respite from the drama…they were kidding themselves. Almost a year ago, Mercy’s dying mother claimed he had a half-brother, sired by the beloved father he’d always thought infallible, raised by another man as his own...
  • Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover

    Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Hardships and heartache brought them together… now it will tear them apart. Layken and Will have proved their love can get them through anything; until someone from Will’s past re-emerges, leaving Layken questioning the very foundation on which their relationship was built. Will is forced to face the ultimate challenge…how to prove his love for a girl who refuses to stop ‘carving pumpkins...
  • Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Things heat up, and not just the Georgia summertime, when Dane and Laney go head to head over plans for her new duplex. But Laney's got his number, and knows just how to coerce her bossy, domineering man. Spend the summer with the gang and find out...just how many is a crowd? The members of the Evolve Crew are getting older; so is the content. Mature audiences recommended...
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    bad boys  college  m-f  contemporary  dual-pov
  • Flat-Out Matt by Jessica Park

    Flat-Out Matt by Jessica Park

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Matt is a junior at MIT. He’s geeky, he's witty, he's brilliant. And he’s also very, very stupid. When beautiful, cool, insightful Julie moves in with Matt’s family, why (oh why!) does he pretend to be his absent brother Finn for her alleged benefit? It seems harmless enough until her short-term stay becomes permanent. And until it snowballs into heart-squeezing insanity...
  • A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuire

    A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuire

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 57 ratings
    You know that Abby Abernathy unexpectedly became Mrs. Maddox. But what do you really know? Why did Abby pop the question? What secrets were shared before the ceremony? Where did they spend their wedding night? Who else knew about it . . . and didn’t tell? Everything about Abby and Travis’s elopement was top-secret . . . until now...
  • Loyalty by Bethany-Kris

    Loyalty by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Fresh out of prison after serving a three-year sentence, Johnathan Marcello wants to get back to normal business as a mafia capo. The rules set out for him are clear—keep out of trouble, maintain a low profile, and stay stable. But stability is a delicate balance for a man like John, and shaky ground is only a single step away...
    Categorized as:
    angst  forbidden love  m-f  suspense  mafia  contemporary
  • Closer by Mary Elizabeth

    Closer by Mary Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Gabriella Mason is damaged. Teller Reddy is wrecked. Misery loves company, and that’s exactly what Ella gets the afternoon her path crosses with Teller’s: the misunderstood premed student who instantly becomes her lifeline when she moves to Los Angeles, an attempt at escaping her heartbreaking past. In the beginning, Lonely and Defensive complete each other...
  • Cyrus by M.J. Fields

    Cyrus by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meet Cyrus, the oldest of the Steel brothers. He's strong, independent, and damaged. But don't feel sorry for him, Cyrus likes his life just the way it is. No rules, no commitments, and no more than 3 times with the same woman. TRUTH. Until Tara. A child of the foster care system who can't remember ever being loved or feeling safe, Tara brings out the protective alpha male in Cyrus...
  • The Rocker That Loves Me by Terri Anne Browning

    The Rocker That Loves Me by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The Rocker…. I was the fun loving, easy going, different girl—okay, different girls every night—Demon. One look into a pair of violet eyes and all of that changed. She doesn’t even realize how beautiful she is and that makes me want her even more. Realizing that she is just as damaged as I am breaks my heart. Harper is a part of me, my other half...
  • Shattered Hart by Ella Fox

    Shattered Hart by Ella Fox

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Damien Hart will never allow himself to fall into a committed relationship. He's seen the worst of the worst, and he knows that there isn't a woman on earth that will ever change his mind. All of that changes the moment he meets Brooke Tyler. Damien's entire view of women and relationships is rocked by her, and though he tries, he can't make himself stay away...
  • Strings of the Heart by Katie Ashley

    Strings of the Heart by Katie Ashley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Twenty year old, Allison Slater has been in love with her brother’s bandmate, Rhys McGowan, since she was fifteen years old. But to him, she’ll always be Jake’s little sister and off limits. Now a college sophomore and licking her wounds from a bad breakup, she sets her sights on making Rhys see her as someone he could date…maybe even love...
  • Breaking the Wrong by Calia Read

    Breaking the Wrong by Calia Read

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Emilia Wentworth would do anything for her sister. For three years, Emilia has lived in the past, feeling her sister's pain and hating those who are to blame, including one of the Sloan brothers. Finally, she has had enough. The only way to be free is to create a Burn List with all the people who have ever hurt her sister...
  • Rock Star's Heart by Kella Campbell

    Rock Star's Heart by Kella Campbell

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    When a twist of fate throws university student Crys Murphy into an unexpected job on tour with a wildly successful rock band, her crush on the guitarist turns into powerful temptation...
  • Restless Rockstar by Gina Azzi

    Restless Rockstar by Gina Azzi

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Derek Reiner is an epic, consuming, forever, kind of love.He’s also at the center of my deepest heartache.While he focuses on his personal growth, I figure out my future.As much as I want him in it, I won't choose Derek at the expense of myself.Not anymore.My rockstar may be desperate and restless, but I’m calm and decisive.Some epic loves burn out before they have the chance to blaze...
  • Shallow by Georgia Cates

    Shallow by Georgia Cates

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Nick Hawke wants his car fast and his girls faster. He blows through them quicker than his muscle car races down the drag strip in Collinsville and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s determined to avoid the devastation he has watched his father endure in the aftermath of his mother’s abandonment...
  • Crazy Good by Rachel Robinson

    Crazy Good by Rachel Robinson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Before there were bikers, or fighters, or even good old-fashioned jerks, there were Navy SEALs. They put the bad in badass because, well…it’s their job. Navy SEAL Maverick Hart has everything. Women want him. Grown men idolize him. Little boys want to grow up and be like him. The job, the glory—it’s all his. Not because it’s handed to him…because he works hard for it...
  • Uncaged Love, Volume 1 by J.J. Knight

    Uncaged Love, Volume 1 by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Colt McClure is a rising MMA fighter out to prove that he has what it takes to be a champion. Jo is on the run from her one terrible mistake. When Colt drags Jo from a brawl with street thugs, he recognizes her potential as a female fighter. But as they begin her training, their desire for each other sparks a love affair that could jeopardize them both. Uncaged Love is a five-part series...
  • Fearless by Rachel Van Dyken

    Fearless by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When I met Kiersten, time stood still. It was as if every cell in my body screamed HER. I couldn't look away, I couldn't walk away, I couldn't even move. My other half, my soul mate, was staring right at me. I had to have her. I had to make her mine. But I felt selfish doing that--knowing that I may not have endless amounts of time to give her..
  • Reckoning by Jessica Ruben

    Reckoning by Jessica Ruben

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Vincent: Forgetting about Eve was the plan. Finding her at a party on my college campus was the last thing I expected. But letting her go again isn’t an option—not this time. Juggling the life I want with the one I was born into may be near impossible, but for her, it's a risk I'm willing to take...
  • Light Me Up by Cherrie Lynn

    Light Me Up by Cherrie Lynn

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Candace Andrews is dreaming of a little sparkle in her Christmas stocking this year, and now that she and Brian Ross have been living together for over a year, her overbearing family is getting impatient for him to pop the question...
  • Damaged 2 by H.M. Ward

    Damaged 2 by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER Home isn't supposed to be dangerous, but for Sidney it is. Returning home means that she has to face her past. It's not just the man who hurt Sidney that makes it horrible, but the family that didn't believe her. They were dead to her, but now that her mom is really dying things seem different. It's a chance to set things right...
  • Lila and Ethan: Forever and Always by Jessica Sorensen

    Lila and Ethan: Forever and Always by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ella and Micha series comes a story of love, risks, and rewards . . . Lila Summers just wants to know one thing for certain: that Ethan Gregory will be with her always. Once her friend, he's become so much more, melting the pain of her past away with each kiss...
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    bad boys  college  angst  m-f  tattoos
  • Awakening the Mobster by Amy Rachiele

    Awakening the Mobster by Amy Rachiele

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A breathtakingly beautiful man is standing right next to me-holding me, reassuring me, protecting me. Antonio is my savior. Having him with me makes the ickiness that’s stuck in my stomach tolerable. Megan, Awakening the Mobster Loving Megan and caring for Erin like the sister I never had is dangerous. These feelings cause you to think...
  • November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer

    November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Set at the turn of the century, November of the Heart tells of Lorna Barnett, a young woman from a wealthy Saint Paul family, and Jens Harken, the ambitious dreamer who works in the kitchen of her family’s summer estate. Lorna’s father, Gideon, an avid sailor, is determined to claim victory for his own White Bear Yacht Club in the next summer regatta...
  • Shattered Ties by K.A. Robinson

    Shattered Ties by K.A. Robinson

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    With a former supermodel mother and a rock-and-roll legend father, Emma Preston has the best of everything. Nothing is as perfect as it seems though. After her parents divorce, she’s forced to live with her mother in a private Santa Monica community. Ignoring their parental roles, her mother becomes more focused on climbing the social ladder while her father is off on tour...
  • Watch over Me by Tara Sivec

    Watch over Me by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Due to heavy subject matter, this book is recommended for ages 17+. From the USA Today Best Selling Author of A Beautiful Lie. Addison Snow is your typical teenager. She has a family that loves her, friends that make her laugh, and she's wrapped up in the excitement of graduating high school and going off to college to pursue her dream of becoming an author...
    Categorized as:
    virgin heroine  college  angst  contemporary
  • Hustle Me by Jennifer Foor

    Hustle Me by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    John (Jammer) Thomas is not one of the good guys your parents want you to end up with. He's been on his own since he was seventeen, traveling from city to city, making enough money to survive by doing the only thing he's ever been good at. Playing pool. He's covered in tattoo's and has a mouth that would make a grandmother cry. He doesn't do relationships...
  • Emancipating Andie by Priscilla Glenn

    Emancipating Andie by Priscilla Glenn

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Ever since the one time Andie Weber threw caution to the wind - and paid the price for it - she’s learned that it’s safer and smarter to live life playing by the rules. Now she’s got a great apartment, a steady job, and a wonderful boyfriend in Colin; he’s sweet, stable, and essentially perfect – except maybe for the fact that his best friend is Chase...
  • Campus God: An Enemies-to-Lovers Football Romance by Jennifer Sucevic

    Campus God: An Enemies-to-Lovers Football Romance by Jennifer Sucevic

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Crosby Rhodes is considered a god when it comes to Western Wildcats football.And who knows?Maybe he actually is one. There’s certainly no shortage of girls on campus who agree with the sentiment. They swoon over his pretty face, dark messy hair, and hard body honed from years of lifting and two-a-day practices. That alone makes him catnip for the female species...
  • For the Love of Gracie by Amy K. McClung, Cover Lust Designs

    For the Love of Gracie by Amy K. McClung, Cover Lust Designs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **This book will be part of a New Adult Series. Each book will have an ending though, no Cliffhangers! They will all be New Adult and have similar themes with crossover characters*** Gracie Walker doesn't have much luck with finding Prince Charming. Hudson James enters her life, the bad boy who gives her a reason to hope that he is Mr. Right...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  college  m-f  contemporary  abuse  new adult
  • Reckless King by Maya Hughes

    Reckless King by Maya Hughes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An irresistibly steamy college sports romance. Heath Taylor. Laid back. Easy going. Fastest guy on two skates and chill to a fault, at least that’s what they say. Until Kara. Three nights together and I’m done for. Her laugh, her smile, the way my hand curves around her waist. She’s the one. Not a doubt in my mind...until I walk into my last class of the semester...
  • Enemy Dearest  (Monreaux Brothers) by Winter Renshaw

    Enemy Dearest (Monreaux Brothers) by Winter Renshaw

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I loved him. I lost him. And now he’s back. August Monreaux was a stormy sea of a man, the dark between the stars, an electric chill cutting through a crowded room—all wrapped into one wicked, beautiful package. He was also off-limits. My entire life, I was kept a safe distance from the notoriously virulent Monreauxs, banned from so much as breathing the same air...
  • Fractured Love: A Standalone Off-Limits Romance by Ella James

    Fractured Love: A Standalone Off-Limits Romance by Ella James

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I was sixteen when he came to our house. Landon Jones, a boy with nothing, from nowhere. He had cinnamon hair and grey eyes—light blue, just like mine. When we went out as a family with my foster brother, people asked if Landon was my twin. He wasn’t. That year, we found out how much he wasn’t. When my parents caught us, they threw Landon out like trash...
  • The Thrill of It by Lauren Blakely

    The Thrill of It by Lauren Blakely

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A new adult story of Love. Sex. Addiction. Blackmail. And Power... Some say love can be an addiction. Others say it's the thing that makes life worth living. Let me tell you everything I know about love...Love isn't patient, love isn't kind. Love is a game, a chase. A thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves. At least that's how it was for me...
  • Sweet Blasphemy by Sara Cate

    Sweet Blasphemy by Sara Cate

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    I watch his fingers brush the pages of the Bible as he turns them. And I watch his lips move as he speaks the sermon.I notice the way his dark eyes land on me. I cannot give a name to these feelings for Father Roman. He has already taken his vows of celibacy, and I am about to take mine. But I can’t help the way I feel in his presence: like I’m dying of thirst and he is the holy water I need...
  • Gemini by Penelope Ward

    Gemini by Penelope Ward

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Diner waitress Allison Abraham had no idea her mundane life was about to dramatically change the day she serves a devastatingly handsome customer. Allison is immediately captivated by the mysterious man who stared through her soul with his electric blue eyes. After he abruptly leaves the restaurant, she can’t get him out of her head...
  • Jane's Melody by Ryan Winfield

    Jane's Melody by Ryan Winfield

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What boundaries would you cross for true love? That's the question a grieving mother must answer when she takes in a young street musician she believes can shed light on her daughter's death—only to find herself falling for him...
  • In a Heartbeat by Hilary Storm

    In a Heartbeat by Hilary Storm

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Eaven Bennett is a college student with a passion for photography. She has high hopes of completing college and starting a new life as she moves away from her hometown with her best friend, Ivy Adams. Her last boyfriend ruined any chance of her trusting ever again. Talon Walker is the dark and intriguing drummer for the up and coming band ‘Rebel Walking’...
  • Slow Twitch by Liz Reinhardt

    Slow Twitch by Liz Reinhardt

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Summer scatters three friends, ties them back together, and makes them question who they have been and who they want to be in the future. Brenna expected to soak up the knowledge of great Irish writers at her summer workshop in Dublin...
  • Someone I Used to Know by Blakney Francis

    Someone I Used to Know by Blakney Francis

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Adley Adair's ex-boyfriend did more than just write an international bestseller about their failed relationship. He exposed all her dirty little secrets to the world, and locked all her demons into print, masquerading it as a love story...
  • Fall from Love by Heather London

    Fall from Love by Heather London

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Struggling to put her life back together after a tragic mountaineering accident kills her college sweetheart, twenty-one-year-old Holly Treadwell is trying to set aside her grief, forge ahead in school, and find herself again. When Carter Hansen, a guy who brings back horrible memories from the night of the accident, finds his way back into her life, Holly’s unsure if she should let him in...
    Categorized as:
    college  angst  m-f  contemporary
  • What a Boy Needs by Nyrae Dawn

    What a Boy Needs by Nyrae Dawn

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A companion novel to WHAT A BOY WANTS. Jaden Sinclair knows he'll never amount to anything...so why would he deserve a girl like Priscilla Mendoza? Since last summer, things have been screwed up between Jaden and Pris. He knows it's his fault, but that doesn’t stop him from wanting to go a few rounds with her new boyfriend...
  • Bite & Release by Cory Cyr

    Bite & Release by Cory Cyr

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ryan Chase left Fairbanks, Alaska, when she was 21 years old to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Somewhere along the way her dreams of stardom crashed and burned, along with her life. Thirteen years later she is forced to return to Fairbanks because her unforgiving and emotionally-distant father has suddenly died...
  • Shattered by C.C. Brown

    Shattered by C.C. Brown

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When it rains it pours…. Hard-nosed and self-reliant Dallis O'Brien has had her fair share of devastation. Her father's tragic accident sparked what seemed like a domino effect of heartbreak and loss. Unable to shake the fear of enduring any more pain, she builds walls around her heart, hoping to heal on her own...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  college  m-f  contemporary  tattoos
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