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#Bae by Cambria Hebert
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis fall... Happily-ever-after. That’s what happens when you get married. Right? Turns out sparkly rings, cake and a fantastic wedding do not automatically grant you that, not even when it’s all you truly want. I’m even starting to doubt the bottomless, unconditional love I share with the man I married will be enough... -
#Holiday: A Hashtag Series Short Story by Cambria Hebert
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGivers gonna give… Twas the night of game day, And all through the town, Lacey glittering snowflakes fluttered around. They clung to the roads, concealing everything with white. It was a beautiful #holiday sight. The paparazzi were out without any care, In hopes to catch Romeo and Rimmel, rumored to be there. When out on the road there arose such a clatter... -
Misunderstood by R.L. Mathewson
From New York Time’s Bestselling Author R.L. Mathewson comes the YA series inspired by the Neighbor from Hell Series… The Neighbor from Hell YA Series. For readers who enjoy stories that leave them smiling… Do you ever feel like life isn’t going the way that you thought it would? That’s what Sebastian Bradford is realizing as he tries to figure out how everything went wrong so quickly...Categorized as:
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Guardian Angel by Terri Anne Browning
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThings in Creswell Springs have been quiet lately. Or so it appears. Appearances can be deceiving. The night I met Gracie Morgan was the night that my life changed forever. I saved her that night, but it feels like she’s been the one saving me ever since. --Hawk Hawk didn’t just save me that night. He took me home with him and his family made me one of their own...Categorized as:
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The Truth About Air & Water by Katherine Owen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Truth In Lies Series. READ This Much Is True, book 1 first, although it's been written as a standalone. Readers say, don't do that. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway ~ A Farewell To Arms They share an epic love but one moment changes everything. A life together that seemed certain is shattered... -
Let Me Love You by Megan Smith
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWill their lives take them in different directions? Jaylinn McCormick is determined to forget that one terrifying night which left her feeling broken and tainted. There is one person who can make her whole again… but he is hell bent on keeping her at arm’s length. She has loved him her entire life but can she wait for him to step up to the plate? Cooper Cahill has loved Jaylinn for years... -
Eden High: Book 5 by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSian might have seen something she shouldn't have. How will she deal with her suspicions and who can she share them with? If what she suspects gets out, it can destroy a lot of lives, but she's tired of spending so much time on her arch enemy... -
His Forever Girl by Lucy Darling
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsZoey Hawthorne has always been my forever. Best friends since we were kids, she and I were meant to be. Until I screwed it all up before we went to high school. I had to step away before I ruined my shot with the girl who held my heart in her hands.Letting her go was the biggest regret of my life. Making it up to her won’t be easy, but I have to show her that I never lost sight of her...Categorized as:
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Eden High: Book 4 by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNow that he has staked his claim Jace and Sian are the new 'It' couple and there's love in the air , not only for these two lovebirds, but their friends seem to have been bitten by the bug... -
Curvy Girls Can't Date Best Friends by Kelsie Stelting
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIt was all fake dating and games until my heart got involved...I wanted to have the best summer ever. To have my first kiss and finally get my brother’s best friend to notice me.So I talked my best friend Carson into helping.He’d do anything for me, and I’d do the same for him. But somewhere between fake dating and pretending to fall in love with him, I fell for real... -
Addicted To Him by Monica Murphy
New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy delivers an angsty high school romance featuring a forbidden love between two high school rivals... Eli Bennett. Quarterback at our biggest rival high school. My brother's worst enemy. So why can't I stop thinking about him? For one, he's totally gorgeous and boy, does he know it. He's an arrogant trash talker who brings drama wherever he goes...Categorized as:
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Dare to Dream by S.B. Alexander
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe'll do anything to protect his love, even if it means trading his life for hers... Bad boy Kade Maxwell knows the pain of loss. His sister's death tore his family apart. His life seemed destined down a nightmarish path until he met Lacey Robinson, a light that cuts though his darkness. Despite her own tragedy, her beauty, determination, and dedication makes him believe he can dream again... -
Captivate by Dylan Allen
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe's on the edge of stardom. I'm on the edge of disaster. One night will change our lives forever... I was standing in the middle of a storm when Carter Bosh asks me to dance. I should have said no, but his outstretched hand and glittering green eyes were too tempting to resist. His touch sparked a fire inside of me. His kisses thrill and soothe at the same time...Categorized as:
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Eden High by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSian Claiborne is not a happy camper. Just when she was getting into the groove of high school hijinks, her parents decides to pick up stakes. Now the popular cheerleader is off to the ritz and glamor of the Hollywood Hills, where her new school is home to the offspring of Hollywood's elite... -
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The Love We Make by Katie Rae
Ethan was my best friend.Ace pitcher for the Atlanta Kings.My confidant.My protector.The man I loved most in the world—as a brother of course.He was supposed to be supportive and helpful and caring.But he was actually crazy.And never more so than after I told him my plan to lose my virginity. In the blink of an eye, Ethan went from brotherly love to overprotective daddy...Categorized as:
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Heartache and Hope by Jay McLean
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAva Diaz needs saving.She just doesn’t know it yet.Just like she doesn’t know a thing about the boy she sits next to on the first day of senior year.He thinks she’s a brat.She thinks he’s entitled.Maybe first impressions don’t always last… Because Connor Ledger’s about to save her.He just doesn’t know why... -
Arabian Nights by Simone Shirazi
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBlair Bakhtiar always wanted to be royalty. Zayn al-Haydar wanted to be anything but. When one fateful summer brings them together, the two discover that maybe it's not that much better on the other side... but the journey there is always full of surprises, with love being the biggest surprise of them all. [Book #2 in the Fairytale Series, but can be read as a standalone... -
At the Buzzer by E.M. Moore
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSenior year. My last chance…The Ballers took everything away from me last year. Riding the bench wasn’t what I’d planned, and I don’t want a repeat of that this season. I can’t have a repeat of that, not if I want to accomplish all those goals I set for myself when I first came to RHS.There’s one problem though. One Baller is determined to keep me on the sidelines. I’m broken because of him... -
Brave by Natalie Gayle
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrave A moment in time, that’s all it took. Beauty, pain and tragedy. Xander “Pretty Boy” Todd was a demon in the ring. A professional MMA fighter with a career that had the world a buzz—but now it’s gone. Or is it? Eden Sommers had her dreams of an international modelling career within her grasp—and lost it. Gone within a few seconds, leaving nothing but pain... -
Fighter by Tijans Books
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAll of Dale's brothers help with their bounty hunting business, all except her. Wanting out of that life, she left for college, but on her first morning back home for the holidays, she’s back to chasing after a bail jumper. When she realizes the jumper is her ex-boyfriend, Jax, Dale gets dragged into helping him evade her brothers so he can win an underground fighting competition... -
The Lyon Trilogy by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThis bundle includes the following novels: Lyon's Crew: Colton Lyon is the tattooed, pierced (with an Apadravya) leader of a bike crew. His wealthy background and bad boy good looks makes him every young girl's fantasy but Lyon has sworn off women...Categorized as:
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Varsity Tiebreaker by Ginger Scott
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAbby Cortez is a girl with goals, on the verge of turning eighteen and on the brink of stardom. Falling in love isn't just something she doesn't have time for, it's something she doesn't really believe in. Her rule? Date but never, ever fall.Tory "Salvatore" D'Angelo loves falling in love...just not for real... -
Fumbled Past by Lauren Runow
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsTwenty years have passed, yet not one thing in my hometown has changed … even the man I left behind.I was the girl no one could touch because they all feared my father. He was a legend, the head football coach who had created this town’s Friday night lights. Only two football players dared to win my heart—the boy next door and the new guy in town...Categorized as:
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Levi by Brynne Asher
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLife and death … they have a way of tainting fairy tales in the ugliest way. You know the sugary-sweet romances where the new girl moves to a small town, falls in love with the most popular guy in school, and they live happily ever after? I wish my story were that simple. Levi Hollingsworth is the most popular guy in school. He’s stoic, mysterious, and aloof. A man among boys...Categorized as:
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Guarded Heart by C.A. Harms
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLife can be very scary...Really Scary when a wounded heart is involved. Giving your entire heart to someone is hard enough once but when it is completely shattered by the one person you believed would always keep it safe only makes it almost impossible to give it away a second time... -
The Southern Nights Series by M. Never
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKamdyn Ellis is the man. Mr. All-Star athlete and resident bad boy. #7 quarterback on the field, and #1 player off. Every guy at school wants to be him, and every girl at school wants to date him. Well, except Laney Summers that is. The sassy city girl is the only one immune to Kam’s clear blue eyes and arsenal of southern charm... -
The Secret Ex-Boyfriend by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Don’t have a best friend that’s a girl" — this was the advice from my older cousin. I didn’t take it. Because he followed with, "friends don’t f*ck friends. And you’ll want to f*ck her." It was terrible advice. My cousin should’ve told me that being best friends with Baylee Wright — since she was twelve — would be the best and worst decision of my life...Categorized as:
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Unafraid by Melody Grace
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"The first time I saw her, I knew this girl was wilder than any stallion I’d ever trained. She was headstrong, wounded, passionate and free. And I had to have her…" Brittany Ray doesn’t care about her bad reputation. Growing up in a sleepy beach town with a junkie mom and a runaway dad, Brit’s learned the hard way that the people you love will only let you down... -
The Game by HJ Bellus
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 12 ratings**Mature Content Warning** Recommended for ages 17+ due to language and sexual content. Born to shine. Groomed to dominate. Levi Wilks is destined only to be a champion… Number one on the field, in the record books, and in every fans’ heart. This star QB is perfection from head to toe. Only his looks rival his talent on the field... -
Unspoken Rules by Eliah Greenwood
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"I lost the fight. I lost her. But I don't care about my promise. I'm chasing that girl... again." Haze Adams and Winter Kingston were supposed to be a done deal. A onetime thing. The notorious street fighter had one goal and one goal only: make the girl fall in love, break her heart to hurt his enemies, and move on to the next best thing. Easy, right? Wrong... -
Making Her Mine by Monica Murphy
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeck Callahan.Star defensive Lineman.Most popular boy on campus.One of my best friends.He’s always been off limits because I know a relationship with him could never work. Like, ever. He’s too perfect, too sweet, too good looking. Taking what we have a step further has the potential to ruin everything, and his friendship is too important to me... -
Not Just Another Romance Novel by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIs it really wrong to have more than one boyfriend? I brought a new one into my bed almost every night. From conference rooms to broom closets, I escaped reality with my leading men. Okay, so they were fictional book boyfriends. In reality I should have been concentrating on classes while I looked for a living, breathing man to help me achieve my romantic fantasies... -
Accelerate by Tracy Wolff
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA sexy carjacker takes a would-be starlet for the ride of her life as a pulse-pounding new series from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff begins. Once the brains behind a car-boosting ring, Nic Medina has spent the last three years playing it straight. Now drag racers flock to his L.A. auto shop, Hotwired, for a shot at going head-to-head with the man himself... -
Rebound by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMatthew Steele is over it already. His last year of high school behind him and college looming ahead, the young heartthrob should be enjoying his last summer of freedom. Instead he's nursing a broken heart from the deception of the girl he thought he knew, until she started a campaign of destruction against his younger brother Josh and his new love...Categorized as:
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The Good Girl & the Bad Boy by M.L. Collins
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when Jackson High’s Good Girl and Bad Boy are forced to work together? I’ll tell you:I destroy his guitar. (Accidentally!)He uses my guilt to trick me into doing his work.For three weeks!Until I find out he lied. Oh, heck no. This bad boy has crossed the wrong girl.I call him out on it. In front of the whole school.Check mate, bad boy. “It feels good to be bad,” he whispers... -
Her First Kiss: Londons story by M.J. Fields
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new adult / college / sports romance novel from USA Today bestselling author, MJ Fields . One woman with her entire life in front of her. Having experienced a lifetime’s amount of loss and love under the spotlight of her stepfather and stepbrother’s rock and roll stardom, London Fields decides now is her time to shine...Categorized as:
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Chasing Forever Down by Nikki Chartier
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen seventeen-year-old Haley Sullivan is dragged to a corporate party with her parents, she's searching for one thing - the nearest exit. Instead, she finds a mysterious stranger who plays by his own rules and chases his own dreams, and he's definitely cute enough to disappear with for the night... -
If There's No Tomorrow by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsLena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic—one of opportunities and chances... -
Love Struck by Nikki Ashton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s the girl he wants but can’t keepHe’d shown me that I did hold some light in my life. I wasn’t all misery and darkness, there was sunshine in there too.Life for survivor Sarah Danes has finally started to brighten. After opening up and trusting the bad boy bully of Maddison High School, love is beginning to touch parts of her life she’d thought long dead... -
FAZE: A Dark High School Bully Romance (Rosewood High) by Tracy Lorriane
I shouldn’t be fazed by him…He turned up like a ghost in the night, determined to make me scream.But he's no ghost, he's as real as the feelings I try not to have. My illusive stepbrother, has everyone fooled. Except me. One look into his dark eyes and I know. He's pure evil. Haunting my house... and my darkest dreams...Categorized as:
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Until Now by Carmen Rosales
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsStill reeling from the death of both of her parents, 17year-old Aura Rayne is out of options. Moving in with another family for room and board, Aura becomes the family's new housekeeper in the richest part of town. Attending Elite Spencer Academy as a senior changes everything for her.Football star Kalum St...Categorized as:
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Eden High Series 2 Book 2 by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMandy has decided to up the stakes now that Jace seems to be getting farther out of her reach. From the safety of her hospital bed, she has devised a scheme to get Jace just where she wants him, but everything and everyone keeps getting in her way. Jace is hell bent on proving that Mandy had something to do with the attack on Sian but can’t seem to get a bead on just what is going on... -
Somethin' About That Boy by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBanner Spurlock knew the moment that he walked into Kilgore High School and saw Perry Street that life was about to get interesting.Forced to move due to a problem at home, a problem in the form of his ex-best friend hating him for something that Banner’s father did, Banner doesn’t think very much could improve in his life... -
Just Don't Mention It by Estelle Maskame
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTyler Bruce – hell raiser and bad boy – tells his story in his own words.Alternating between past and present, Just Don’t Mention It is narrated from Tyler’s perspective. We see his life as a twelve-year-old boy suffering physical abuse at the hands of his dad... -
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Did I Mention I Miss You? by Estelle Maskame
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIt’s been a year since Eden last spoke to Tyler. She remains furious at him for leaving her and has moved on with life in Chicago, where she is at University studying psychology...Categorized as:
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Broken Beautiful Hearts by Kami Garcia
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHer heart has to break before it can open.When star soccer player Peyton Rios receives an offer from her first-choice college, senior year starts off exactly as planned. But when Peyton uncovers her boyfriend’s dark secret, she confronts him―and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Peyton’s knee―and maybe her dream of going pro―is shattered... -
Stealing Home by Becky Wallace
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFight for your dreams, even if it means breaking a few rules.Seventeen-year-old Ryan Russell has life perfectly planned. If she keeps up her hard work, one day she’ll take over the family business: owning the Buckley Beavers, a minor league baseball team, and become one of the only female General Managers in the sport... -
Devious Kisses: A Bully Enemies -To-Lovers Romance by Thandiwe Mpofu
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratings𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕... 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍.⠀⠀Here’s the 411 about high school—well, at least for my high school, Clintwood Academy.⠀⠀💋It’s a fucking warzone.⠀💋Everyone has a grudge against someone else. ⠀💋It’s the breeding ground for losers, jealous broken-hearted girls, and acne covered fools with zero game...Categorized as:
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Falling For My Nemesis by Tia Souders
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSpending time with my nemesis never felt so good.Carson Brooks has been my enemy since the day he moved to Sweet Water and tried to drown me in a rogue wave.Not only are we enemies, but we're not quiet about it either. We're polar opposites. Where I'm a perfectionist and methodical in all things, he is carefree and the life of the party... -
Flirting with the Bad Boy by Michelle Pennington
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI knew better than to fall for him. There was a reason I had a no dating rule. It only leads to heartbreak.And no one had ever tempted me to break it—until Jason. I was close to giving in, to trusting him enough to be more than friends who stood a little too close and looked at each other a little too long. But then he started dating her...
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