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  • Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

    Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 166 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The highly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled mystery. Pip is not a detective anymore.With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year...
  • Come and Get Me by Jillian Dodd

    Come and Get Me by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From USA Today, bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the seventh book in the addictive Keatyn Chronicles series. Discover a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters, suspense, and a glittering celebrity world...
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  • The Bay by L.J. Ross

    The Bay by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    SECRETS NEVER STAY BURIED FOR LONG... In the picturesque seaside town of St Ives, Detective Sergeant Sophie Keane is a pillar of the community. Between the occasional collar and lazy weekends spent on the beach, it seems a perfect life. But for Sophie, the golden sands and crystal waters hide a dark secret, one that’s lain buried for twenty years...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  contemporary  young adult
  • Always Us by Allie Everhart

    Always Us by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Final book in The Jade Series! Includes an extended epilogue! The countdown has begun. Garret’s running out of time and he’s losing patience as he waits for his father to take action. It’s getting harder to keep this a secret from Jade, and he may not be able to after an unexpected visitor stops by...
  • Sound of Snowfall by C.L. Stone

    Sound of Snowfall by C.L. Stone

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sang and the boys share in a delightful winter morning in this slice of life story from the popular Academy Ghost Bird series. This short story is an inside look at Sang as she enjoys a day off with Kota, Victor, Silas, Nathan, Gabriel, Luke and North...
  • 電撃デイジー 12 by Kyousuke Motomi, 最富 キョウスケ

    電撃デイジー 12 by Kyousuke Motomi, 最富 キョウスケ

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Can a mysterious DAISY protect her?After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her...
  • Promising You by Allie Everhart

    Promising You by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When Jade first arrived at Moorhurst College, she never imagined that the guy who helped her move in would end up being the guy she wants to be with forever. Now, seven months later, Jade and Garret are starting to talk about a future together. But the people around Jade are planting doubts in her mind, questioning her decision to be part of the Kensington family...
  • Sky Zone by Creston Mapes

    Sky Zone by Creston Mapes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A Political Rally. A Terrorist Threat. A Nightmare of Cataclysmic Proportions.Jack and Pamela Crittendon have hit the breaking point. After months out of work as a reporter, Jack is playing Mr. Mom and working part-time at Festival Arena with his survivalist friend Brian Shakespeare...
  • You Better Run by Willow Rose

    You Better Run by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dead.Who is this girl?How did she end up in the pool?Was she even at the party?Even more strange is when they pull her out of the water, Meg realizes the girl looks very familiar. As a matter of fact, she looks just like her.Like an identical twin.But Meg has no twin, at least none that she knows of, and no one at the party knows this girl or can say where she is from...
  • So Over My Head by Jenny B. Jones

    So Over My Head by Jenny B. Jones

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Newly single, stalked by a killer, and in desperate need of some chic clown shoes--Bella is one skinny mocha frapp away from total meltdown. When the Fritz Family Carnival makes its annual appearance in Truman, Bella's keen reporter instincts tell her the bright lights hide more than they reveal. Her suspicions are confirmed when one of the stars is murdered...
  • Fast Life by Cassandra Carter

    Fast Life by Cassandra Carter

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Caught up in a world of easy money,designer labels and drug-dealing boyfriends, sixteen-year-old Kyra Jones is living life on the fast track. But when her single mom is offered a job that takes Kyra away from her old Chicago neighborhood, and the drugs and gang violence that go along with it, she finally realizes that there's more to life than Gucci, Prada and ghetto-fabulous bling...
  • I'm So Sure by Jenny B. Jones

    I'm So Sure by Jenny B. Jones

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    "Think you're having a rough week? Bella's stepdad, a semi-pro wrestler, just signed the entire family up for a reality TV show. Bella's first thought: Kill. Me. Now." Living in Truman, Oklahoma wasn't 100% miserable for Bella. Sure, she misses Manhattan, couture clothes, and her dad. But she was making new friends at Truman High and almost enjoying her work at the school newspaper...
  • Locked by Eva Morgan

    Locked by Eva Morgan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When eighteen-year-old Irene Adler meets her new neighbor, the gorgeous, brilliant, and arrogant Sherlock Holmes, she never expects him to be the one to make her feel like life is worth living again. Ever since her sister's death, she's been addicted to risk-taking as a way to deal with her depression, and Sherlock quickly becomes the biggest risk she's ever taken...
  • Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 01 by Kyousuke Motomi

    Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 01 by Kyousuke Motomi

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her. Meanwhile, mysterious Tasuku Kurosaki always seems to be around whenever Teru needs help...
  • Gentry Boys by Cora Brent

    Gentry Boys by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    “All my life I’d always known what the Gentry boys were. A set of fraternal triplets born to a depraved family, they were rough, sexy and wild as wolves..." DRAW They called us ‘those white trash Gentry boys’ until we believed that’s what we were. Our people squatted at the edge of a hellhole prison town for generations. The childhood we endured was the stuff of nightmares...
  • Whispered Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Whispered Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Government secrets are being sold and the newly-sworn-in President of the United States already feels out of options. Without knowing the full scope of the scandal, the president decides to turn to the one person he knows he can trust--former FBI Agent, Elizabeth James. Her deep distrust of the system is rooted in her unfair discharge from service...
  • Mosaic by Leigh Talbert Moore

    Mosaic by Leigh Talbert Moore

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Love is stronger than time... The future never goes as planned.People are never what they seem.Time changes everything. So you want to know what happened to Anna and Julian? Well, listen up, because I’ve got the whole scoop. I’m Jules, btw, and I am an artist, as you already know if you’ve read Watercolor...
  • Pretty Little Liars Box Set by Sara Shepard

    Pretty Little Liars Box Set by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling series This paperback box set includes the first four books in Sara Shepard’s #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, Pretty Little Liars , Flawless , Perfect, and Unbelievable...
  • Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

    Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Knitting and life. They’re both about beginnings...and endings.That’s why Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle’s Blossom Street, offers a class called Knit to Quit. It’s for people who want to quit something—or someone!—and start a new phase of their lives.First to join is Phoebe Rylander, who’s trying to get over a man. Alix Turner and her husband want a baby, so she has to quit smoking...
  • The Darkness Dwellers by Kirsten Miller

    The Darkness Dwellers by Kirsten Miller

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    First they ventured deep under New York to save the city itself. Then things got personal as the Irregulars ventured into a haunted mansion in Chinatown to uncover an evil twin...
  • All That Remains by Michele G. Miller

    All That Remains by Michele G. Miller

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Storms come and go, but true love remains. Fear, guilt, and jealousy all rear their ugly heads as Jules and West strive to figure out what they want now that they've emerged from the wreckage of the storm. A year has passed since the night Jules Blacklin and West Rutledge were thrown together by a tornado...
  • Garret by Allie Everhart

    Garret by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My life is nothing but rules. Rules for how I act. How I dress. Who I date. Who my friends are. I hate the rules and yet I keep following them. Until I met Jade. Being with her is forbidden. She’s not one of us. She’s not allowed in my world. But I don’t care. She’s different and I like her and I want her. And the fact that she wants nothing to do with me makes me want her even more...
  • Her Song in His Heart by C.L. Stone

    Her Song in His Heart by C.L. Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Gabriel Coleman has always known he has distant relatives, but since his father’s funeral, he’s never heard a word from them.However, Academy rules are clear: finding your family and putting them forward to the Academy to be vetted for adoption is a requirement of becoming a full-fledged member. If Gabriel doesn’t complete the task, he’ll be left behind.Again...
  • A Gallagher Wedding by Ally Carter

    A Gallagher Wedding by Ally Carter

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
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  • Vanilla Bean Vengeance by Agatha Frost

    Vanilla Bean Vengeance by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The FIRST BOOK in a BRAND NEW cozy mystery series!Claire Harris loves nothing more than crafting homemade candles. She has always dreamed of one day opening a quaint candle shop in her home village of Northash, but at thirty-five, she still can't afford to take the risk. Stuck in a dead-end job at the local candle factory, and back living with her parents, Claire knows her life needs a shakeup...
  • Out of Ruins by Michele G. Miller

    Out of Ruins by Michele G. Miller

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    “Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what you did, or in my case, what you didn’t do.” Surviving the storm was only the beginning for Jules. Surviving the guilt? That is something only love can help her overcome...
  • Love Me by Kristin Mayer

    Love Me by Kristin Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Engaged and happily in love, Allison Scott and Damien Wales are looking forward to joining their lives together as one. Coming from a mournful year after losing her parents, Allison is ready to heal and move on to the next chapter with the love of her life. But Damien’s past continues to threaten their future. A man once obsessed with Damien’s sister is now after his one and only love, Allison...
  • The Complete Fire on Ice Series by Brenda Rothert

    The Complete Fire on Ice Series by Brenda Rothert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This series has five full-length novels about hot hockey stars and the women who steal their hearts. Bound College senior Kate Camden has learned to adapt - to her last year of school, to the promise of motherhood, to the fact that she’s doing it all alone. But just when she’s learned to adjust, heartache threatens to break her apart...
    Categorized as:
    athletes  young adult  contemporary  sports  hockey
  • Protected by Vannetta Chapman

    Protected by Vannetta Chapman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ERIN JACOBS doesn’t hesitate when she receives a desperate call in the middle of the night. As owner of the Noah’s Ark Animal Shelter, it’s her job to rescue animals. But from the start, this case is different. The woman’s frantic plea. Directions to a deserted hunter’s cabin. Insistence that she come alone. Then she’s looking down into a washtub at an infant child...
  • Just For The Summer by Danielle Jamie

    Just For The Summer by Danielle Jamie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bestselling Author of the Savannah Series brings you a fun summer romance novella showing the ups and downs of a hot summer romance. It's the perfect beach or pool side read! Ages 18+ due to Adult Content & Language. This novella is a prequel to the Chasing Carolina series out next year but can be read as standalone. **BLURB** Chase Kenzington loves two things: fast cars and women...
  • Let My Daughter Go: A Mind-Blowing Christian Fiction Thriller by Creston Mapes

    Let My Daughter Go: A Mind-Blowing Christian Fiction Thriller by Creston Mapes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rogan Sneed is spending life in prison for the mass shooting he committed at Pioneer Square in Portland, Oregon. The copycat shooter who attempted a similar attack on the anniversary of the event is dead. Time has passed. Wounds are healing.But then a blip on the screen.A teenage girl is kidnapped in Portland...
  • Til Death by Annette Dashofy

    Til Death by Annette Dashofy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When one of Chief Pete Adams’ first murder convictions is overturned, he and County Detective Wayne Baronick are assigned to reinvestigate the case. As new theories about the murder surface, Pete begins to question not only the original suspect’s guilt, but his own investigative skills from the days when he first took over the Vance Township Police Department...
  • I Thought I Knew by Melissa Trombetta

    I Thought I Knew by Melissa Trombetta

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It’s 1995 in Upstate New York, and Nicole Doherty is days away from her college graduation—that is, if she graduates—ready to move into her own apartment and start a new job in a prestigious accounting firm when an unseen assailant attacks her, only steps away from the safety of her dorm, changing her forever...
  • The How & the Why by Cynthia Hand

    The How & the Why by Cynthia Hand

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A poignant exploration of family and the ties that bind, perfect for fans of Far From the Tree, from New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand.Today Melly had us writing letters to our babies…Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for. They’ve given Cass a life she wouldn’t trade for the world. She has everything she needs—except maybe the one thing she wants...
  • Raw Temptation by Eve Carter

    Raw Temptation by Eve Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This is Book 2 in the Tempted series. You should start with Book 1 Pure Temptation, on sale for only 99 cents here on Amazon. From New York Times best-selling author, Eve Carter, comes the much-anticipated sequel to Pure Temptation...
  • Portland Storm: The First Period by Catherine Gayle

    Portland Storm: The First Period by Catherine Gayle

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BREAKAWAY She’s reaching for a breakaway pass. Dana Campbell has spent the past seven years in self-imposed isolation for a crime she didn’t commit. The danger is well in the past, but her panic attacks make it impossible to have a normal, healthy relationship with a man. Even her counselor has given up on her...
  • Hidden by Vannetta Chapman

    Hidden by Vannetta Chapman

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A Christian romantic suspense by bestselling author Vannetta Chapman Home is where our story begins ... DANA JACOBS would rather forget the night of tragedy and violence that marred her childhood. She is now supervisor in charge of the Department of Homeland Security in Taos, New Mexico. Her team is prepared to handle any threat—biological, chemical, conventional, cyber, even nuclear...
  • Promise Me by Kristin Mayer

    Promise Me by Kristin Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With her best friend happily married and now pregnant, Sam Matthews should be overjoyed. Instead, she can only see what is missing in her life. Pushing her emotions aside, she retreats to a piece of her past that she’s kept hidden, something that even her best friend knows nothing about. Taking a step into her future, Sam moves to North Carolina where she once again encounters Mark Robertson...
  • No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Jenna Mason’s life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the beach, and an adoring son, Josh, whose artistic talent looks as promising as his mother’s. But there’s something nobody realizes about Jenna...
  • Watercolor by Leigh Talbert Moore

    Watercolor by Leigh Talbert Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Love is stronger than distance... Finishing senior year is supposed to be the best time in a person’s life.Finishing senior year as Julian’s girlfriend should’ve been the icing on the cake.Knowing the secret that could change everything for him is the only thing threatening to spoil it all. Until Jack returns...
  • Stepbrother With Benefits 14 by Mia Clark

    Stepbrother With Benefits 14 by Mia Clark

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It's not just for a week, it wasn't just a fling. Ethan's not just my stepbrother anymore, he's my boyfriend... Rule #14 – You're perfect just the way you are, Princess. Don't let anyone ever try to tell you differently. That's it for an entire week. We're going back to college now. We won't see each other until the weekend. It's only for a week, Ashley, I remind myself...
  • Stepbrother With Benefits 15 by Mia Clark

    Stepbrother With Benefits 15 by Mia Clark

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "It's you, Princess," Ethan says. "You're perfect, and I need you in my life." Rule #15 – We have to cuddle as much as possible. All the time. Every night. "I love you," I say, mumbling, not sure how to tell him exactly how I feel about him right now. "I love you, too," he says. "I love you so much." "Can you tell me what you meant before?" I ask...
  • The Society by Jillian Dodd

    The Society by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the third book in sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society...
  • A Single Thread of Moonlight by Laura Wood

    A Single Thread of Moonlight by Laura Wood

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Iris Grey's childhood was idyllic... until her father remarried. Iris's new stepmother and two stepsisters were cold-hearted schemers , and when her father dies in mysterious circumstances, Iris knows that something is wrong. Far too spirited to be forced into a life of servitude, she runs away to London...
  • The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    This thriller YA is Scandal meets Veronica Mars.Sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick has spent her entire life on her grandfather's ranch. But when her estranged sister Ivy uproots her to D.C., Tess is thrown into a world that revolves around politics and power. She also starts at Hardwicke Academy, the D.C...
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