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Elude by Rachel Van Dyken
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...Categorized as:
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Inferno by Catherine Doyle
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
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 207 ratingsCheck 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. . -
Still Jaded by Tijan
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?Categorized as:
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Almost Broken by Portia Moore
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.Categorized as:
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Always Crew by Tijan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFor the longest time, I was Bren Monroe. I lived in Roussou, California. I had no parents, no brother, but I had a crew. Then things started to change. I never planned for any of it. I didn’t think I’d fall in love. I didn’t think I’d have a relationship with my brother again. I didn’t think that he’d come back. Now I’m in Cain. My crew is in college... -
Skin by B.B. Easton
With Netflix adapting BB's 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN into a new series, you're going to want the full story behind her roller-coaster love story with the ultimate bad boy. Because BB Easton had so much fun writing her bestselling, award-winning memoir, she decided to give each of her four men his own steamy standalone...Categorized as:
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Taint Her by Caitlyn Dare
He wants to ruin her. She wants to save him. Hadley Rexford was a distraction I didn’t need. But when she discovers me with blood on my hands, I know I can’t walk away without demanding her silence. I’ll taint her. Torment her. In the end, I’ll ruin her. Cole Jagger was a puzzle I wanted to solve. But he refuses to let me in, and now I’m ensnared in his trap. He’s cold. Immoral...Categorized as:
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Heart of Marley by T.K. Leigh
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTo the moon and back…. From the stars to the ocean…. That was Marley and Cameron Bowen’s secret code. Twins born just five minutes apart, they have the perfect life… Until tragedy strikes just weeks after their eighth birthday and their father is killed by a drunk driver... -
Out of the Dark by Danah Logan
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... -
Wild Girl by Sheridan Anne
Have you ever known what it feels like to die? It’s not great. Trust me, I don’t recommend it. I’ve always said that my life is about surviving, but I didn’t realize how true that was until the devil sent me soaring off a bridge with the love of my life and lodged a bullet through my thigh. It’s not my time to die... -
Enforce by Rachel Van Dyken
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThere’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... -
Tame by Coralee June, Raven Kennedy
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI’ve got a secret. I’ve got bruises no one can see and the devil’s blood running through my veins. If I want to end my father’s reign, I’ve got to help Rocco Nomar with his daughter. She’s broken, jaded. A sad, pretty little thing with a big heart and eyes that make me feel like I’m drowning. She’s not swayed by the social politics of Savannah, but she has my heart doing double takes... -
Game by Barry Lyga
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsBilly 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... -
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The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe
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)... -
Barely Breathing by Rebecca Donovan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 84 ratingsEmma’s struggle with an abusive home life came to a heart pounding conclusion in the final chapters of "Reason to Breathe". Now everyone in Weslyn knows Emma’s secret, but Carol can’t hurt Emma anymore. Some are still haunted by the horror of that night, and some must face the repercussions of their choices... -
Before I Break by Portia Moore
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsOut 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’... -
Collateral Damage: A Second Chance Mafia Romance by Amy McKinley
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe spark is real, but the timing’s wrong. When Mafia surgeon, Trey La Rosa, met the one woman who could bring him to his knees, grief from his girlfriend’s recent death loomed between them. He forced himself to walk away. Months later, she’s been kidnapped—and he’ll do anything to save her... -
Vendetta by Catherine Doyle
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... -
The Edge of Darkness by Melissa Andrea
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLibrarian's Note: This is an alternate cover for ASIN B00D4AAU08. I loved to dance, but I don’t anymore. I was in an accident I don’t remember… or maybe I don’t want to remember. Either way, every day since, has been… an adjustment and I’m left with a constant reminder that nothing is forever. Now, my life is a tangled web of darkness filled with deceit, hate, betrayal and lies...Categorized as:
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Devotion by Cassie Hargrove, Story Brooks
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsɪᴛ’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... -
Salvation and Secrets by L A Cotton
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsChastity Falls was supposed to be Ana Parry’s fresh start. But what started as her salvation soon became her undoing. Four months after losing the very thing that gave her reason again, Ana is back at Chastity Falls. Holding on by a thread and trying hard to forget about Jackson isn’t easy when she’s determined to uncover the Donohue’s biggest secrets... -
Savage Kind of Love by Nicole Snow
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSAVAGE 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
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWest 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... -
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Pained by Vera Micic, Vera Hollins
Two months have passed since the day I pushed Hayden away. Two months since I found out he loved me and wanted to be with me. I’ve been trying to move on and forget about him, but my heart refuses to listen. Hayden had almost died saving me. Half of me wants to forgive him for everything and give him another chance...Categorized as:
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Hidden Gem by Skye Warren
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsOf 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
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsThey 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...Categorized as:
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Pretty When You Lie by Anne Roman
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsJuniper 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
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... -
Shattered Legacy by Caitlyn Dare
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsMia 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... -
Get Bent by C.M. Stunich
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsNaomi 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... -
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
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter 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
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...Categorized as:
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Whiteout by Dyan Layne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDear 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...Categorized as:
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Whiteout by Dyan Layne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDear 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...Categorized as:
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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsFaulkner’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... -
Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWhen 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... -
Their Kingdom Come by Logan Fox
We're ready to die for the sins of our fathers, but is she? Zac, Apollo, Cassius, Reuben. They told us we were the cure. That we were special. That we were pure. It was all a lie. We were just like all the others they defiled, abused, neglected. We formed a brotherhood and vowed to have our revenge. Now no one stands in our way. No one, except one girl. Trinity Malone doesn't know about our past...Categorized as:
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Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMy 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...Categorized as:
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Ugly by Margaret McHeyzer
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings**2. 99 on pre-order and 3. 99 on release date**. If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to see. If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to feel. If I were dead, he'd never raise his hand to me again. If I were dead, his words wouldn't cut as deep as they do. If I were dead, I'd be beautiful and I wouldn't be so. .. ugly. I'm not dead. .. but I wish I was... -
Trouble in Tampa by Nicole Williams
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen it comes to trouble, Eve’s used to showing plenty of it to her Targets, but when she’s assigned a new Errand, the roles become reversed. Rob Tucker is the kind of man who raises every red flag in a woman. He reminds Eve that some Clients aren’t just looking for freedom from their husbands—they’re trying to save their lives. She’s worked domestic violence Errands before, but this one’s . .Categorized as:
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Treachery Prequel by Lily White
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTHE PREQUEL NOVELLA FOR TREACHERY HAS NOW BEEN ADDED TO BOOK ONE AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON ITS OWN. To read the prequel, you can now find it in Treachery (Antihero Inferno #1). Ninth Circle. Treachery. Also known as Tanner Caine. He is a temptation with cold, dark eyes. A man with a seductive smirk and a body built for pure sin. The linchpin of a group of wealthy bad boys known as the Inferno...Categorized as:
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Heart Sick by Monica James
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPiano 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... -
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Setting Fire by Mia Smantz
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSasha lives in the high mountain village of Stillwind. Not even thirty yet, she already owns her own cafe and spends her free time as a volunteer firefighter. No part of her life ever suggested that she'd become caught up in the middle of a crime ring that spans the globe. It's Stillwind. Nothing bad ever happens in Stillwind... -
Ugly Girl by Sheridan Anne
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... -
Forget Me Always by Sara Wolf
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsAll 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
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn 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
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWith 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. ***...Categorized as:
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All Bets Are Off by G.N. Wright, Samantha Bee
Blurb:. I bet you can’t. Four words that started a game that would alter the course of our lives forever. You never know when one moment is going to change everything. What handful of little words will shift the path you always thought you were going to take. Elias. Ashton. Zaiden. Hudson. I thought nothing would break us. That nothing could tear us apart. But those four little words did...Categorized as:
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