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  • Chasing Abby by Cassia Leo

    Chasing Abby by Cassia Leo

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    The heart-stopping conclusion to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shattered Hearts series. Five years, six months, eight days… It’s been eighteen years since Abigail was born with a hole in her heart. Five years since she collapsed on the soccer field. Five years, six months, eight days since she found out she was adopted...
  • A Sign of Affection, Vol. 4 by Suu Morishita, 森下suu

    A Sign of Affection, Vol. 4 by Suu Morishita, 森下suu

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    “I WISH ITSUOMI-SAN WOULD TAKE ME INTO HIS WORLD…” Yuki, a deaf college student who’s led a relatively sheltered life, has just taken a huge step: She’s got a boyfriend! And he seems like a keeper: Itsuomi is a multilingual globetrotter who works hard, and he’s a knockout, to boot...
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  • Finding Us by Allie Everhart

    Finding Us by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Finding Us is in both Jade's and Garret's POV After the events of last year, Jade and Garret are anxious to get a fresh start in a new town and a new college, far away from the people who tried to tear them apart. But soon after moving, their relationship problems begin. Jade finds out Garret hasn’t been completely honest with her...
  • Endure by S.E. Hall, Sommer Stein

    Endure by S.E. Hall, Sommer Stein

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Our vessel may have cracks and dings, tatters in its sail, and sometimes takes on water… but it still cuts through the waves with authority. Because of its Crew— bonded for life. Unsinkable. Will this be our final voyage… or just the beginning of a new chapter in our lives? Endure is best read following Emerge, Embrace, Entangled(novella) and Entice of the Evolve Series...
  • 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...
  • Forever You by Allie Everhart

    Forever You by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Jade and Garret have a love story like no other. They’ve survived heartache, tragedy, and numerous forces trying to tear them apart, but through it all they’ve developed a love that will endure forever. Now it’s time to celebrate their love with a wedding...
  • Forever by Rachel Van Dyken

    Forever by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Men fall hard. Rock stars? Fall the hardest. This is the conclusion to Alec and Nat's story. I breathed in and out for a few seconds as I waited at the end of the aisle. It felt like I was standing overlooking the edge of a cliff, and the minute I saw my future wife, I was going to freefall. The music started. Shit, I was seriously going to pass out...
  • Chasing River by K.A. Tucker

    Chasing River by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Armed with two years' worth of savings and the need to experience life outside the bubble of her Oregon small town, twenty-five-year old Amber Welles is prepared for anything. Except dying in Dublin. Had it not been for the bravery of a stranger, she might have. But he takes off before she has the chance to offer her gratitude. Twenty-four-year-old River Delaney is rattled...
  • Finding Now by Allie Juliette Mousseau

    Finding Now by Allie Juliette Mousseau

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After a tragic accident that plays on an endless loop in her mind, wild child Kate Jolie died inside. She now functions only through her rigid, ironclad routine, which keeps her mind and soul in check – balancing her in a dangerously precarious position between life and death Rocker and Master's student Sam North knows no limits and seeks out every challenge to conquer and defy...
  • Take A Chance by Micalea Smeltzer

    Take A Chance by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    I had life all figured out. Married with a baby on the way I stupidly believed that things were perfect. But then the good guy I fell in love with turned out to not be as good as I thought. I was left alone to pick up the pieces of my life and provide for my daughter. And then I met him. Hayes. The bad boy that just might not be so bad...
  • Dead Serious by C.M. Stunich

    Dead Serious by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "You ever see one of those old western movies where the sheriff and the outlaw face each other in a dusty street? Revolvers at the ready? Good versus evil and all. Well, this is kind of like that. Only more f***ed." Naomi Knox is on her way to becoming the world's most worshipped Rock Goddess. I'm so in love with this chick that I could be the King to her Queen, the Devil to her Angel...
  • Saving Tatum by Micalea Smeltzer

    Saving Tatum by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Even tough girls need saving. Jude Brooks is bad news. He’s the kind of guy that leaves behind a string of broken hearts and Tatum O’ Connor is not about to be one of those girls, despite all of Jude’s advances. They have a past, and Tatum’s determined to make sure they don’t have a future. Unfortunately for her, “no” isn’t a word in Jude’s vocabulary...
  • Fully Automatic by Jade C. Jamison

    Fully Automatic by Jade C. Jamison

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    You might think you know Brad’s story, but think again. There’s so much more to his story than what Valerie knew. See Brad before Valerie came into his life and, when he was playing back burner to Ethan, see what Brad was up to when no one else in the band was looking...
  • Broken Promises (The Secret Life of Trystan Scott) by H.M. Ward

    Broken Promises (The Secret Life of Trystan Scott) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New Adult novel by New York Times bestselling author H.M. Ward.A TRYSTAN SCOTT NOVEL - BROKEN PROMISESIt's 3 years later and Trystan's life has changed. The Secret Life serials are how Trystan became a rockstar, the novel is what happens after his rise to fame, and his brush with the Ferro family...
  • Abandon by Cassia Leo

    Abandon by Cassia Leo

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    This gritty spin-off of the New York Times bestselling Shattered Hearts Series follows mysterious and sexy Tristan as he attempts to abandon his demons in the name of love. A steady stream of meaningless sex is all Tristan has left when he discovers the grandmother who raised him is dying and his best friend is getting married...
  • Good Sensations by S.L. Scott

    Good Sensations by S.L. Scott

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Evan Ashford is sex personified. He makes me feel things I never have and crave things I'm not sure I should. Time doesn't exist when we're together-all of our worries becoming obsolete. Our tongues touch, and as if by memory, they move in harmony, feeling at peace, feeling at home...
  • Ella and Micha: Infinitely and Always by Jessica Sorensen

    Ella and Micha: Infinitely and Always by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A Secret Series Novella After five years of marriage, Ella couldn’t be happier. Her job is great. Her marriage is amazing. But when she receives some surprising news, her world is turned upside down. Micha loves being a musician, but being on the road, and away from Ella, is difficult...
  • Because of Ellison by M.S. Willis

    Because of Ellison by M.S. Willis

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When I was nineteen years old, I lived for sex, drugs and a good party. I had it all - good looks, a fast car and a hot girlfriend. Nothing in life was more important. That was, until I met Ellison James…. Since the moment I first saw her she was a raging bull; tackling me in the mud and throwing out insults as fast as her tongue could form the sound...
  • Buried Castles by Monica Alexander

    Buried Castles by Monica Alexander

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Emily Cole thought she was going to have the best summer of her life when she met Zack Easton, the dark, mysterious, gorgeous, guitar playing guy who captured her heart at first glance. He encouraged her to take risks and act without thinking, but more than that, he taught her what it was like to fall head-over-heels in love with someone...
  • Dazed by Kim Karr

    Dazed by Kim Karr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A Connection Series Novella featuring Aerie Daniels and Jagger Kennedy (River Wilde's cousin) Jagger Kennedy never went looking for fame, he just fell into it. After scoring a major modeling contract, his clean-cut good looks and charm catapulted his career. But when his actress girlfriend breaks his heart, he moves to L.A. to try his hand at acting...
  • Chasing Olivia by Micalea Smeltzer

    Chasing Olivia by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Book 2 in the Trace and Olivia Series How far would you go to reignite the spark you once had? Two years later, Trace and Olivia are as much in love as they’ve always been. But the spark they once had for life is waning and Trace is determined that they find it again. His solution? A road trip. But he doesn’t tell Olivia the real reason they’re heading north...
  • Riptide by H.M. Ward

    Riptide by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A random hook-up isn't enough for Trystan, not anymore. After everything Trystan went through to tell Mari that he loves her, there is no way that he's letting her walk away without knowing how he really feels. Every mask is stripped away making Trystan completely vulnerable. Mari's the one girl he wants, that he knew he'd never have...
  • Pep Talks by Ali Dean

    Pep Talks by Ali Dean

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    (This is the fourth book in the Pepper Jones series, which should be read in order. The first three books in the series may be purchased as a box set for a discounted price, under the title “The Pepper Jones Collection.”) Pepper’s freshman year at college is a harder transition than she anticipated...
  • Riot by Jamie Shaw

    Riot by Jamie Shaw

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    When Dee Dawson meets sexy mohawked guitarist Joel Gibbon, she knows it won't be long before she has him wrapped around her finger. No guy has ever been able to resist her … but Dee's met her match in a player like Joel. Dee's not the relationship type—not after seeing the pain "love" has caused her friends and family—yet she's desperate to make Joel want her more than anyone else...
  • Twisted by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Twisted by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He’s always saved her. Now she’s going to return the favor... Gray Duffy never thought he’d end up as the co-lead guitarist of Oblivion, one of the hottest rock bands in the country. Even better? He's sharing the experience with his best friend, Jazz. Since the day she’d showed up as his family’s new foster kid, Gray has protected her. Loved her. And not just platonically either...
  • Always Remember by Emma Hart

    Always Remember by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    How long does it take for a long-distance relationship to break down? Sixteen months. When Jen and Carl put their relationship to rest after Christmas, Jen’s biggest problem is going back to London ten days earlier than planned – and her ever-present attraction to Samuel ‘Bing’ Edwards. Bing has no idea why Jen left Devon so fast...
  • Zack by M. Malone

    Zack by M. Malone

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Zack Marshall may look like a thug but underneath he’s all about family. His popular older brother, Gabe, has always had his back and he’s never envied anything he has. Except for Josephine Harlow. As the daughter of a congressman, Josie's family is appalled when she ends her engagement to work at a local mechanic’s shop. They all assume she’s still in love with her high school boyfriend...
  • Never Too Late by Micalea Smeltzer

    Never Too Late by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 24 ratings
    "I’d never met anyone quite like Mathias Wade. He was brooding and arrogant, but I loved him anyway. Together we were wild and uncontained—a hurricane raging. Then I had to leave and words were exchanged that could never be undone. But I was back, and Mathias better watch out, because this bitch wasn’t finished with him. Game. Set. Match...
  • Strum Your Heart Out by Crystal Kaswell

    Strum Your Heart Out by Crystal Kaswell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Special new release price of 2.99. Price goes up 11/23 Best friends aren't supposed to fall in love. College senior Kara Kendrick is not about to let lust ruin a good friendship. Yes, her rock star guitarist best friend Drew Denton is stubborn, over-protective, and quick to threaten violence on anyone who hurts her. He's also the only person she's ever trusted. He makes her laugh...
  • 180 Seconds by Jessica Park

    180 Seconds by Jessica Park

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Some people live their entire lives without changing their perspective. For Allison Dennis, all it takes is 180 seconds… After a life spent bouncing from one foster home to the next, Allison is determined to keep others at arm’s length. Adopted at sixteen, she knows better than to believe in the permanence of anything...
  • Strung by Rachel Van Dyken

    Strung by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two brothers. Who knew that the sleepy town of Seaside, Oregon would eventually be the location of both our downfall and our redemption? Drugs, sex, lies, shame...it all led us to the Coast. It led us to her. And ever since we met her. Our lives have never been the same. You may think you know what really happened--but you don't. After all, there's two sides to every story...
  • Girl on Tour by Caisey Quinn

    Girl on Tour by Caisey Quinn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    An up and comer trying to make a name for herself... KYLIE never expected to be stuck on a tour bus with a pampered princess and her boyfriend’s ex. A troubled artist struggling to hold onto his career... TRACE thought he was finally getting to do things his way...
  • Mended by Kim Karr

    Mended by Kim Karr

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    MUSIC HAS THE POWER TO HEAL ALL…BUT NOT ALL BROKEN HEARTS CAN BE MENDED. Always in control, Xander Wilde considered life on the road to be a perfect fit for him. But when disaster strikes on the Wilde Ones’ latest tour, fate intervenes…and a newly single Ivy Taylor, the only girl he has ever loved, steps back into his life...
  • The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak

    The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    "When I met Oliver Perry, I had no clue he was the lead singer for The Heartbreakers. And he had no idea that I was the only girl in the world who hated his music." Stella will do anything for her sick sister, Cara—even stand in line for an autographed Heartbreakers CD...for four hours. She's totally winning best birthday gift this year...
  • Forever Love by Chelsea Landon, Megan Smith

    Forever Love by Chelsea Landon, Megan Smith

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For a limited time only, enjoy books one, Forever Dark, and two, Forever Light, in the Forever Love Series together. Forever changed by one night that leaves their lives, love, and sacrifices forever altered...
  • Chasing Ever After by Stephanie Hoffman McManus

    Chasing Ever After by Stephanie Hoffman McManus

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andrew Reid had his whole life mapped out. Serve his country for four years and then return home to marry his high school sweetheart. Sadie Pierce had everything her heart desired. Sacrificing her life of privilege to be with Clayton West was an easy choice. This is the story of two people who thought they had it all...
  • Can't Let Go by Michelle Lynn

    Can't Let Go by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dex is many things, a college senior, the bassist for The Invisibles, a son, a friend, everything but a boyfriend. Everybody knows him as the shallow guy who’s up for a good time anytime. People rarely take the time to see the loyal guy lying just beneath the happy-go-lucky façade. There are parts of Dex’s life he keeps hidden. Ones he believes no one would understand...
  • All Broke Down by Cora Carmack

    All Broke Down by Cora Carmack

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    In this second book in "New York Times" and "USA Today" bestselling author Cora Carmack s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with "All Lined Up," a young woman discovers that you can t only fight for what you believe in sometimes you have to fight for what you love. Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one...
  • Let Me Go by Michelle Lynn

    Let Me Go by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Rob Winters, aka, Jackass. Even to my closest friends. I wasn’t always so arrogant and condescending. It only took one night to change me—one point twenty-seven seconds, to be exact. When tragedy struck, I promised myself, no matter what, unbreakable chains would lock my heart. If one veers too close or digs too deep, the cruel and mean bastard many hate is unleashed...
  • More Jade by Laura Pavlov

    More Jade by Laura Pavlov

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    And then I met Cruz Winslow…He’s everything I’m not, and then some —a budding musician, he’s cocky and arrogant. He’s at ease in every situation and treats me like I’m the only person whoexists. Together we’re in sync with everything we do and I’m falling hard and fast forhim...
  • When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Reyes

    When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Reyes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When her head was screaming “enough,” her hopeful heart continued to whisper “wait.” It's the only way Valerie Zuniga can justify her ongoing addiction to the amazing but ever, elusive Alex Moreno. Mesmerized by the profound connection neither has ever quite understood, Valerie accepts their crazy relationship for what it is—non-exclusive...
  • The Hazards of Sex on the Beach by Alyssa Rose Ivy

    The Hazards of Sex on the Beach by Alyssa Rose Ivy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One broken heart, one drink too many, one steamy night in the sand... No one warns you about the dangers of drinking with a broken heart. At least no one warned me. I never imagined I'd fall for a musician, especially not one like Chase, but then again I never expected to have my heart broken into a million pieces by the frat guy I thought was the love of my life...
  • Broken Hill Hearts by Sheridan Anne

    Broken Hill Hearts by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I have never been at such a low. School work? Stuff it. Manners? Get screwed.Being a decent human being? Over my dead body.And it’s all because of him. Nate was supposed to be the reason I wake up in the morning until he took that reason away. Now, I’m left feeling like an empty shell of the girl I used to be.He’s the love of my life. Always has been and always will be...
  • Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

    Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual POV Young Adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao...
  • Starless Nights by Kathryn Andrews

    Starless Nights by Kathryn Andrews

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Beau Hale She said that she was my best friend and then one day she wasn’t. Every day I live with the visible scars, but it’s the invisible ones that hurt the most. They are a constant reminder of everything I’ve lost as well as all the things that I’ll never have. I should be over this by now, it’s been years, but I can’t escape the memories that haunt me...
  • Rock Candy Kisses by Addison Moore

    Rock Candy Kisses by Addison Moore

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Annie Edwards was born deaf, but she’s never let that define her. She’s settling in as a freshman at Whitney Briggs University, loves her dorm, her roommate, her classes, but something feels as though it’s missing—enter Blake Daniels. He’s everything Annie is not—a rocker, a player, a college dropout...
  • Almost Beautiful by Jamie McGuire

    Almost Beautiful by Jamie McGuire

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The highly anticipated sequel to Jamie McGuire’s New York Times and internationally bestselling phenomenon, Beautiful Disaster.Newlyweds Travis and Abby Maddox return from Vegas, hoping to one day leave Eastern State University’s fatal fire in the past. But when the FBI arrives in Eakins, friends quickly become enemies, and the Maddoxes fear their happy ever after could go up in flames...
  • His Nerd Next Door by HoneyJewelz

    His Nerd Next Door by HoneyJewelz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One thing, just one little thing Julie had to do to have a great start at her new high school. Don't Draw Attention.She thought she could handle it, how hard could it be right?She was reading in her room when she just decided to take one, little, harmless peek outside of her new bedroom window...
  • The Trouble with Flying by Rachel Morgan

    The Trouble with Flying by Rachel Morgan

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When nineteen-year-old introvert Sarah boards a plane to fly home after an overseas holiday, the last thing she expects is Aiden, the guy sitting next to her who's never flown anywhere before and refuses to shut up. Hours of random conversation later, they part ways. Sarah can't stop thinking about Aiden, though, and wondering if she made a terrible mistake letting him go...
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