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  • Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 40 ratings
    This book is the sixth book in the internationally bestselling Eagle Elite Series. It's an interconnected stand alone novel with no cliffhanger. Twenty-Four hours before we were to be married--I offered to shoot her. Ten hours before our wedding--I made a mockery of her dying wish. Five hours before we were going to say our vows--I promised I'd never love her...
  • Inferno by Catherine Doyle

    Inferno by Catherine Doyle

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 29 ratings
    Romeo and Juliet meets The Godfather in the second installment of Catherine Doyle's Blood for Blood series. Sophie's life has been turned upside-down, and she's determined to set things right. But Nic, the Falcone brother who represents everything she's trying to forget, won't give up on their love - and it's Luca's knife she clutches for comfort...
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  • Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 207 ratings
    Check out the #1 New York Times bestseller Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, called “a surefire hit” by Entertainment Weekly. "The secrets burrowed in this seemingly placid small town. .. are so suburban noir they would make David Lynch clap with glee. .
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  abuse  dark  young adult  humor  rape
  • Still Jaded by Tijan

    Still Jaded by Tijan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 41 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. With the killer killed, who's trying to hurt Sheldon this time? Or maybe it's someone closer than she wants to admit?
  • Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 27 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...
  • Elicit by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elicit by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 42 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...
  • Almost Broken by Portia Moore

    Almost Broken by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 35 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.
  • Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 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...
  • Out of the Dark by Danah Logan

    Out of the Dark by Danah Logan

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    Lilly. My 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. Rhys...
  • The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    Blackmail. Breakups. Boys. Trouble always comes in threes. Life is different for Jack Moreno. Good. Definitely good. Well, better, anyway. He’s back in school (although classes are harder than he expected). And his dad is healthy (which means he’s worrying again about things like Jack’s curfew and, oh yeah, grades)...
  • Enforce by Rachel Van Dyken

    Enforce by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 34 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...
  • Ghostgirl by J.B. Salsbury

    Ghostgirl by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She was brainwashed into believing she could save mankind. Now, she’s the one who needs saving. Abandoned with his two younger brothers, Milo Vega was placed in foster care. Now a twenty-year-old high-school senior covered in gang tattoos and working as the school’s janitor, he is living a life vastly different from the one he was destined for...
  • Game by Barry Lyga

    Game by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 32 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...
  • Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Out of the past six years of my life, I only remember about half of it. After a dozen doctors and thousands in medical bills, I was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder--one that causes me to lose track of time. Sometimes it’s hours, days or even weeks with no recollection of anything. The good thing is it's been almost two years since I had my last ‘black out’...
  • Vendetta by Catherine Doyle

    Vendetta by Catherine Doyle

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    When it comes to revenge, love is a dangerous complication. With a fierce rivalry raging between two warring families, falling in love is the deadliest thing Sophie could do. An epic debut set outside modern-day Chicago. When five brothers move into the abandoned mansion in her neighbourhood, Sophie Gracewell's life changes forever...
  • Just Like Heaven by Trilina Pucci

    Just Like Heaven by Trilina Pucci

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 39 ratings
    He’s a criminal—an abomination. We’re wrong in every way. If only I could’ve convinced my heart. His lips whispered promises of all the stars in the sky. I dreamt of a love that would last forever. We were gorgeously young and desperate for one another. But we're star-crossed. Fate had decided our course. Leaving us to cling to each other as we crumbled to ash. His need became possession...
  • Devotion by Cassie Hargrove, Story Brooks

    Devotion by Cassie Hargrove, Story Brooks

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴇᴀꜱʏ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴅᴇᴠᴏᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴏʙꜱᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅʀɪᴠɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀᴄᴇ…. Danger is lurking around every corner while my guys are fighting to survive. Dad is still missing, and everything is going to sh*t faster than we can grasp it. It feels like anyone and everyone has become an enemy. The more unknown we’re surrounded by, the more the darkness tries to claim my mind, but I won’t give in...
  • Persuasion by T.K. Leigh

    Persuasion by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I came to Hawaii to get answers about my sister’s death. But that all changes when I meet her. Beautiful. Charming. Haunted. And the last thing I need in my life. But that doesn’t mean I can stay away from her, a powerful force pulling me toward her when all rationale tells me to keep my distance. So we make an agreement. One week. No names. No falling in love. It’s the perfect plan...
  • Echoes by Dylan Page

    Echoes by Dylan Page

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Blurb & cover to come! ! Release date is a placeholder.
  • Savage Kind of Love by Nicole Snow

    Savage Kind of Love by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    SAVAGE LOVE: FIERCE, SEDUCTIVE, AND LIMITLESS. .. Shelly “Saffron” Reagan's life is in shambles, and it's about to get worse. Keeping up a broken home and a brother in the vicious Grizzlies MC is more than any woman can handle. Remembering the tough talking biker who nursed her after a savage attack is all she has, a bad boy who's impossibly out of reach. Or so it seems...
  • Never His Girl by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Never His Girl by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    West Golden--Football star. Playboy. Dead to me. Nothing puts the final bullet in a girl’s rep like a leaked sex tape. Especially one starring her and the cocky quarterback who’s had it out for her since day one. Yep, you guessed it. That girl is me. At Cypress Prep, West is king, but all I see when I look at him is the wicked prick who gets off on trying to break me. His plaything. Go ahead...
  • I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    What if the world's worst serial killer. .. was your dad? Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod...
  • These Dark Hearts by L.A. Cotton

    These Dark Hearts by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Harleigh Wren Maguire has loved Phoenix Wilder for as long as she can remember. He's everything she isn't. Brave. Reckless. One-hundred percent unapologetic. But it's Halloween. .. the perfect excuse to dress up and be someone you're not. To step out of your comfort zone and do things you wouldn't usually do. And Harleigh is determined to make her best friend notice her for once...
  • Hidden Gem by Skye Warren

    Hidden Gem by Skye Warren

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    Of all the girls in Paris. .. he picked me. I was studying the Mona Lisa, and he was studying me. Not my sister. Me. He turned me upside-down. I hardly recognized myself through his eyes. Beautiful. Interesting. But it was all a lie.
  • Ignite by R.J. Lewis

    Ignite by R.J. Lewis

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    They grew up together as the closest of friends. .. and then more. When Sara Nolan and Jaxon Barlow decided to be together, their relationship as a young couple was consumed by a love that was both passionate and beautiful. Sara had it all when it came to a boyfriend: romance, trust, and a protector of all things bad. Jaxon had given her his bleeding heart for the keeping...
  • Remember Me Forever by Sara Wolf

    Remember Me Forever by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    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 and sort-of-maybe-definitely hated has dropped off the face of the planet in the face of tragedy, leaving a Jack Hunter–shaped hole. Determined to be happy, Isis fills it in with lies and puts on a brave smile for her new life at Ohio State University...
  • Pretty When You Lie by Anne Roman

    Pretty When You Lie by Anne Roman

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Juniper Wild is a liar. With her full lips, pretty blue eyes, and angelic face, she might have fooled everyone else in our small town, but not me. I know the truth about her - that she's a spoiled, selfish liar. Five years ago, she shattered my dreams with a single lie. And just when I thought she was gone for good, she shows up again, still hiding something...
  • Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I was crying one minute and laughing the next. A definite must read! ". Winnie is content in her role as the reining matriarch of Smithville, but when a letter arrives from a long-lost friend, the door to her past is reopened. Memories come flooding in, drawing her back to 1968, her college days; a time filled with people and events she hasn’t allowed herself to recall...
  • Meet Me in the Dark by J.A. Huss

    Meet Me in the Dark by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    He’s empty, inhuman, dishonest, and cruel. She’s never wanted anyone more. Sydney has lived in fear for eight years after freelance assassin, Merc, failed to rescue her from a cult-like militia group. Left in the hands of a sadistic man, she did whatever it took to survive. But Merc’s last words gave her hope. Hope he’d be back to finish the job...
  • Shattered Legacy by Caitlyn Dare

    Shattered Legacy by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Mia Thompson wants only one thing: to survive Gravestone University, graduate, and get far far away from her hometown and its archaic traditions. But she’s about to become a pawn in a game she doesn’t understand. Bexley Danforth wants only one thing: to keep his head down, survive four years at college, and get far far away from his past and the mistakes that haunt him...
  • Savage Delight by Sara Wolf

    Savage Delight by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 52 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...
  • Get Bent by C.M. Stunich

    Get Bent by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Naomi Knox is missing. I don't even f*cking know whether she's dead or alive. What I do know is that she's the air I need to breathe. She's my redemption, an all consuming fire that burns in my blood. And I'll do anything to find her. Anything. Even if it means the end for me. & & &. Turner Campbell is searching. But he has no f*cking clue what it is he's searching for...
  • Lovely Vicious by Sara Wolf

    Lovely Vicious by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 57 ratings
    1. Don't talk about love. 2. Don't think about love. 3. Thinking and talking about love leads to Love, which is the enemy. .. For 17-year-old Isis Blake, the list has one goal: to ensure she never falls in love again. Ever. As Isis and her mom settle into their new home in Buttcrack-of-Nowhere, Ohio, Isis is rockin' the purple hair and a beat up old car. .
  • Tough Luck by C.M. Stunich

    Tough Luck by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    * This is NOT the last book in the series. There will be later books featuring Turner and Naomi again, and they also appear in this volume quite a bit. ;). Ronnie McGuire is my target. But I wish he wasn't. I didn't sign up for this destruction, this pain. In his music, I hear his soul crying out for me...
  • Scarred, Part 3 by Kylie Walker

    Scarred, Part 3 by Kylie Walker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After agreeing to attend a Gala in New York with Derek, Chloe stumbles into her worst nightmare. Vince Donovan. .. District Attorney of New York. .. Jesse Donovan's father. RUN. .. is the only thought firing in her head. When Derek finally catches up with her, she realizes that her world has been flipped upside down and out of control. Chloe now decides to let the flood gates open...
  • Unstable by Alexandra Ivy

    Unstable by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 10 ratings
    WHEN IT COMES TO KILLING. A dead man in a cemetery isn’t news—unless he’s found on top of a grave, with a bullet through his head. The body belongs to Jude Henley, who was supposed to be buried below. Instead, the grave contains the remains of Staci Gale, thought to have run away nearly three decades ago...
  • Whiteout by Dyan Layne

    Whiteout by Dyan Layne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dear Miss Dalton,. On behalf of our client, your presence at Dalton House is kindly requested. She’d been summoned. By the grandmother she’d never met. After missing twenty-one years of her life, why did she want to see her now? Please make arrangements to travel before the arrival of winter weather in the Sierra Nevada. Breanna had questions. Grandmama had the answers...
  • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Faulkner’s most famous, most popular, and most anthologized short story, “A Rose for Emily” evokes the terms Southern gothic and grotesque, two types of literature in which the general tone is one of gloom, terror, and understated violence...
  • The Falling of Hadley by Jessica Sorensen

    The Falling of Hadley by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My life is getting more complicated the longer I remain in Honeyton. But I'm tough. I always have been. But trying to handle everything on my own is becoming difficult, especially when I discover a family secret. I hate to admit it, but I may need some help if I want to protect my sisters. And the only people I may be able to turn to for help are my next-door neighbors who drive me insane.
  • Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 23 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...
  • Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray

    Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    My entire world was turned upside down the day my mum died. I feared what my life would become when an aunt I never knew about came swooping in and threw me into the unknown. She was rich. I couldn’t even afford a pack of gum. We were complete opposites, yet I wanted a fresh start in life, and she was promising to give me that. I just had to live with her for a year, until I graduated college...
  • Prince of Hawthorne Prep by Jennifer Sucevic

    Prince of Hawthorne Prep by Jennifer Sucevic

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Betrayal. Blackmail. Revenge. How is it that those three words now rule my life? From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Sucevic comes a dark, sexy high school bully romance. Welcome to the world of Hawthorne Prep. A seemingly idyllic school where ivy clings to the thick stone walls and a wrought iron gate keeps out the townies who can’t afford to foot the hefty price tag...
  • Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

    Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he “changes. ” But Connor’s troubles are only beginning...
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    mystery  suspense  young adult  queer  contemporary  horror  m-m  dark
  • Heart Sick by Monica James

    Heart Sick by Monica James

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Piano has always been my one true love. So when the music stops, I do whatever I can to hear it again. But when I wake, all I hear is his heart and the memories that come with it. This is my body. My mind. But not my heart. Each beat hides a secret, and his voice now replaces the music, demanding I uncover the truth. I’m sent to a place to get better, and that’s when I meet her...
  • Ugly Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Ugly Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 38 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...
  • Ómorphi by C. (Cody) Kennedy

    Ómorphi by C. (Cody) Kennedy

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Hauntingly beautiful, a book that you never wanted to end because you were so much a part of the characters lives. When you finish the book you want to know more, to pick up the phone and call Christy. Magically written, the voices and setting of the story were so clear you lived each moment with the characters. "~Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention, 2014...
  • Forget Me Always by Sara Wolf

    Forget Me Always by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    All warfare is deception. Even in high school. It’s been nineteen days since Isis Blake forgot about him. The boy she can't quite remember. She's stuck in the hospital with a turban-size bandage on her head, more Jell-o than a human being should ever face, and a tiny bit of localized amnesia. Her only goal? To get out of this place before she becomes a complete nutjob herself...
  • The End of Gods by Con Template

    The End of Gods by Con Template

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In every Kingdom, every government entity, and every secret society, there is an epic era that defies the boundaries of times and immortalizes itself in the history books. These unforgettable eras are unpredictable by nature and rare in occurrence. The centuries may come and go and such an extraordinary era may never grace the lives of those who live for it...
  • Nanny Dispute by Shandi Boyes

    Nanny Dispute by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    With an illustrious career and more ‘cool creds’ than he’ll ever need, Brodie Davis, seems to have the world at his feet. The sexy yet moody federal agent could secure the attention of any woman when he enters a room, but he only has eyes for one. His almost six-year-old daughter, Lucy. She’s the apple of his eye. His reason to breathe. And his recently recruited nanny’s biggest ally. ***...
  • The Debt by Molly O'Keefe

    The Debt by Molly O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    LOVE AND SECOND CHANCES ARE NOT FREE. For the five kids who live at St. Jude’s Home for Court Placed Juveniles, life is a nightmare. Carissa, the youngest, has been there the longest. And barely speaks. Rosa is sixteen and pregnant. Simon keeps his head down and studies, hoping to get back the life he lost...
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