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  • Chasing Abby by Cassia Leo

    Chasing Abby by Cassia Leo

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 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...
  • Love Me by Jillian Dodd

    Love Me by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    My mom says that you can’t love someone until you learn to love yourself. So even though Vincent is getting more and more scary. Even though he’s doing a nationwide search for me. I’m going to learn to love myself. Well, I’m going to try. Mostly, I want a boy to love me...
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  • The Man I Love by Suanne Laqueur

    The Man I Love by Suanne Laqueur

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    "You never got over her. You just left. ". From author Suanne Laqueur comes an astonishing debut novel: a young man's emotional journey to salvage relationships destroyed in the wake of a school shooting. As a college freshman, Erik Fiskare is drawn to the world of theater but prefers backstage to center stage...
  • Hot Summer School Nights by Michelle Mankin, L.A. Cotton

    Hot Summer School Nights by Michelle Mankin, L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    All new and exclusive enemies to lovers and bully romance short stories and previews by:. L A Cotton. Siobhan Davis. Ashley Jade. Piper Lawson. Tracy Lorraine. Michelle Mankin. Daniela Romero. Ginger Scott. Ivy Smoak. Becca Steele. Shantel Tessier. This will be a wide release with special preorder pricing...
  • Fame by Jillian Dodd

    Fame by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the eighth book in the addictive Keatyn Chronicles series. Discover a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters set in a glittering celebrity world. Fans of reality TV will devour this pulse-pounding, sexy Hollywood drama. Follow the lives and loves of those who work at Captive Films:...
  • Remember When 2: The Sequel by T. Torrest

    Remember When 2: The Sequel by T. Torrest

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    You know how sometimes, your high school crush grows up to be an insanely famous movie star? Okay, probably not. But I do. ~Layla Warren. Back in high school, Trip Wiley’s fanbase only encompassed the denizens of the nothing little suburb of Norman, New Jersey. Ten years later, all that is about to change...
  • 放学等我 Wait For Me After School by Jiang Zi Bei

    放学等我 Wait For Me After School by Jiang Zi Bei

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    喻繁看班里那位新来的转班生非常不爽。. 对方朝他看了一眼。. 喻繁:他在找我约架。. 第二眼。. 喻繁:他问我是不是怂了。. 第三眼。. 转班生依旧顶着那张面无表情的冰山脸,递给他一封信:“喻同学。”. 喻繁心想学霸就是臭讲究,打架还递挑战信,抡起衣袖站起身。. “请你收下我的情书。”. 喻同学敦地一下坐回去了。.
  • The Proposition 2: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    The Proposition 2: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Blackmail. Sex. Ferro. There's no doubt in my mind that Bryan Ferro is serious—if I don't sleep with him, he'll destroy me. Everything I've earned will be blown away like dust, and my life will no longer be my own. His demand for just one night rolls into days. He doesn't want me for a one-time fling, it's more than that. But as I stand there, ready to tell him off, I hear it...
  • Down to My Soul by Kennedy Ryan

    Down to My Soul by Kennedy Ryan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    ***This is Book 2 of the Soul Series. You MUST read Book 1, My Soul to Keep, first. ***. RHYSON. She doesn't wear my ring. We never stood before a preacher. The only vows exchanged were between our bodies; between our souls. But she was mine and I was hers until I ruined it. I have to believe that every day, every step, every breath brings me closer to making things right...
  • Crew Princess by Tijan

    Crew Princess by Tijan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Being crew is walking between two worlds. One world is normal: Prom. Parties. College. Those are the concerns they worry about. In our world, we deal with other situations. Cops. Drugs. Brawling. That’s a typical day for us...
  • August by trickology

    August by trickology

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Nyctophilia. (n. ) Love of darkness or night. Finding comfort in darkness. August Villin was a name people feared. Cruel and powerful, his anger was a storm that never went away. He was the monster that lurked in all of your worst nightmares, waiting for you to cross onto his dangerous path. But the gates of hell swing open and all hell breaks loose,. When they cross paths.
  • Torn Hearts by Claire Contreras, Madison Seidler

    Torn Hearts by Claire Contreras, Madison Seidler

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    **This novella is part of the Kaleidoscope Hearts Series, and is meant to be read in between Kaleidoscope Hearts and Paper Hearts (which releases September 10, 2015). **. I met a boy once. He made my heart go into a frenzy every time he looked at me, and my knees go weak whenever he touched me. The beginning of our love was beautiful that even its demise was bittersweet. I met a girl once...
  • Pledge by Kandi Steiner

    Pledge by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It’s a new year at Palm South University, and a new chapter for Cassie — who’s excited to take her relationship with Grayson to the next level. But when he asks her to make an impossible choice between him and Adam, loyalty will be tested, and hearts will be broken...
  • The Song Remains the Same by Jovana Shirley

    The Song Remains the Same by Jovana Shirley

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Phil. “Kenna stood strong, taking my grief into herself. In that moment, if the world had truly threatened to fall, I had no doubt my Baby Girl would hold it up. ”. A pillar of strength, Kenna only grows stronger as time passes. I’ve known from the beginning that I was the weak link between us. Always, she’s risen above and beyond the darkness of the unknown that threatens to suck me down...
  • Reject by Bea Paige

    Reject by Bea Paige

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What’s the saying: keep your friends close and your enemies closer? Guess I’m about to find out just how difficult that really is. I might have my best friend back but his safety and that of my chosen family depends on me doing something I vowed never to do. Join Camden’s crew...
  • Beneath His Stars by Amie Knight

    Beneath His Stars by Amie Knight

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I met Adam Nova under the twinkling lights of a nighttime sky. He was hiding, but that gorgeous boy didn’t belong in the dark. Nevertheless it was where he lived; a different world than mine. I was Livingston Montgomery, Southern debutante. With the world at my fingertips, I was well on my way to being another spoiled socialite. But I didn’t want money. I didn’t want social status...
  • Eden High Boxed Set by Jordan Silver

    Eden High Boxed Set by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This ebook contains the following works. Eden High Book 1. Sian 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...
  • Low Over High by J.A. DeRouen

    Low Over High by J.A. DeRouen

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I fancy myself a purveyor of truth, a sifter of lies, a cutter of bullshit. It’s not a gift, but rather, all skill, honed to a razor’s edge after one too many trips down the rabbit hole. Some may dismiss my talent as misplaced and misguided cynicism, but they’d be wrong. Cliches about hope and faith in mankind are concocted unicorn farts, an effort to keep the dreamers dreaming...
  • Rush: The Beginning by L.A. Cotton

    Rush: The Beginning by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An emotional, angsty, rockstar romance from the bestselling author of The Trouble With You and Wicked Beginnings. The sweetheart of Country is about to show the bad boys of Rock, it only takes a single beat for everything to change. Evangeline Walker knows how quickly everything can change. But nothing can prepare her for the moment she meets Rafe Hunter. Intense gray eyes. Wicked smile...
  • Something Like Lightning by Jay Bell

    Something Like Lightning by Jay Bell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Never stop running. No matter how often life trips you up, or how many times your enemies knock you down, just get up and keep on moving until you find where you belong. Kelly Phillips has been out of the closet since he was a young teenager, and thanks to the gay youth group he frequents, he has never been short on friends or lovers...
  • Captivate by Dylan Allen

    Captivate by Dylan Allen

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He'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...
  • My Life as an Album Series by L.J. Evans

    My Life as an Album Series by L.J. Evans

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Five heart-stopping books with football heroes, swoony rock stars, and tortured artists who might just work their way into your soul. It all started with kids at a lake. And when loss hit, they all had to learn to live again. .. To find joy. .. To find redemption. .. To find love. .. MY LIFE AS A COUNTRY ALBUM ― a boy-next-door, coming-of-age romance...
  • The Wishes Series Box Set by G.J. Walker-Smith

    The Wishes Series Box Set by G.J. Walker-Smith

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first three books in the iBooks #1 bestselling Wishes Series. Bonus inclusion: Sand Jewels (novella) and first 11 chapters of Secret North (book 4). Over 350 000 words, 162 chapters! ! SAVING WISHES: For Charli Blake, being seventeen is a tough gig. She's been branded a troublemaker, her reputation is in tatters and she's stuck in Pipers Cove, a speck of a town on the coast of Tasmania...
  • When I Grow Up by John Goode

    When I Grow Up by John Goode

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    After graduation, Kyle Stilleno and Brad Graymark move to California to pursue their dreams. But high school sweethearts are called that for a reason, and their love rarely stands up to the test of time. As money, school, sex, and jealousy test their relationship to the breaking point, Kyle and Brad fight to hold on to the love that brought them together...
  • More of You by Laura Pavlov

    More of You by Laura Pavlov

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Life is sweet until it’s not…. I followed my dreams when I wanted to follow my heart. I spent the summer touring with the band. Cruz Winslow is the love of my life and. being with him 24/7 was amazing, until it came to an end. I needed to go back to school while he finished up his commitment to Exiled. But, that one decision threatened to tear us apart...
  • My Girlfriend's Child, Vol. 2 by Mamoru Aoi

    My Girlfriend's Child, Vol. 2 by Mamoru Aoi

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    With her pregnancy all but confirmed, Sachi decides to visit a clinic alone and in secret. She indicates that she plans to have an abortion while filling out all the paperwork, but once she hears the quiet heartbeat of the life forming inside her during the ultrasound, her resolve begins to waver. Now she and Takara have three weeks to decide what to do...
  • Secret by Nia Forrester

    Secret by Nia Forrester

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shayla has a secret. She’s very different than the person she used to be three short years ago; that woman she finally feels like she’s left behind and never wants to be again. And she’s been doing fine so far with her plan to reinvent herself. Trey Denison wasn’t going to put even a dent in those plans...
  • Beautiful Assassin by Jordan Silver

    Beautiful Assassin by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Alternate Cover: ASIN B00EJ6D9SG. Shane Flanagan Prince of the City and his young lover Arianna Rossi whom he just learnt is actually Princess of the Underworld syndicate of the country are back in this fast paced tale of mob wars, assassinations and take overs...
  • 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...
  • Losing Kyler by Siobhan Davis

    Losing Kyler by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Condemned to repeat the sins of the past. .. Faye thought losing her parents was the most devastating thing to happen to her, but she was wrong. Her uncle’s scandalous revelation has sent her into a tailspin, leaving her questioning her entire existence. Everything she believed is built on a lie. And the one person she shares a passionate, soul-deep connection with can’t be there for her...
  • Liam by Jay McLean

    Liam by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Hatred comes in waves. But love? Love is a tsunami. —. Liam Preston was five the first time he laid eyes on Adelaide Baker. Eight by the time he found the courage to actually speak to her. By ten, she’d ruined his entire existence. And at fourteen, he got his revenge—a single decision that drove her out of town for good. Or so he thought. Five years later, she’s back...
  • Broken Lives by Brenda Kennedy

    Broken Lives by Brenda Kennedy

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emma Greyson thought she had it all, until she was faced with Alec Collins’ ugly past. While Alec tries to leave the past in the past and move on to the future, his wife, Molly, has other plans for her husband. After Emma is stalked and taunted by Molly, Alec makes a decision that could change everything...
  • Wild Thing by Blair Babylon

    Wild Thing by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The music calls Georgie. Every night, she stands offstage, watching Xan Valentine set fire to the crowd with music until they would burn down the city for him. His music wraps her until her fingers dance, desperately wanting the piano, but her terrified legs could never walk onto a stage...
  • Faded by Julie Johnson

    Faded by Julie Johnson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I was never supposed to be famous. I was a lyricist, not a singer. Certainly not a star. Too bad none of that seemed to matter to a rock-god like Ryder Woods. He didn’t just want my words — he wanted everything. And he took it. My songs. My voice. My goddamned soul. Between those haunting bedroom eyes and that heart-stopping grin, I never stood a chance...
  • The Summer You Were There Vol. 3 by Yuama

    The Summer You Were There Vol. 3 by Yuama

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    CRUEL SUMMER. At Kaori’s gentle urging, Shizuku reaches out to Ruri, the girl she bullied back in elementary school. All Shizuku wants is to apologize, but it soon becomes clear that even that won’t be so easy. Things take a dramatic turn when Kaori faints, and Shizuku learns that Kaori’s been keeping a big secret...
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  • The Summer You Were There Vol. 2 by Yuama

    The Summer You Were There Vol. 2 by Yuama

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A TWIST IN THE TALE. After Kaori read her classmate Shizuku's novel, Kaori suggested that the two of them date to give Shizuku inspiration for her next book. Shizuku decides to go along with it, but as they spend time together, she grows worried that she'll hurt Kaori. When Shizuku opens up about her past as a school bully, Kaori has a revelation of her she already knew...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  f-f  contemporary  young adult  length-short
  • Hold on Tight by Nicola Haken

    Hold on Tight by Nicola Haken

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A figure from Dexter’s past has uprooted all the memories he has tried so desperately to bury… to forget. The terrible events of his past have been blown wide open once again, immersing him a pool of guilt deeper than he’s even experienced before. Dexter feels powerless. The future he foolishly allowed himself to conceive is falling apart around him and there’s nothing he can do about it...
  • No Regrets Book 1 by Aimee Noalane

    No Regrets Book 1 by Aimee Noalane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He left you. He's gone. And so are you. If life ever taught me anything, it's that nothing should be taken for granted. One moment. .. is all it takes to break a promise. Friendship becomes love. One second. .. is all takes to end a life. Love becomes pain. One distraction. .. is all it took to change our destiny. Pain becomes hate. One moment, one second, one distraction...
  • Finding Ever After by Stephanie Hoffman McManus

    Finding Ever After by Stephanie Hoffman McManus

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Revised 09/2014. The day she graduated high school, Jaxyn left everything behind to escape. Now, three years later, she's done running from her past and finally returning home to Boston to face the friends she abandoned without warning and the nightmares that still wake her in the night...
  • Out of Control by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Out of Control by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Three years have passed since Dare Wilde walked out of Reagan McKinley's life. Three years of radio silence. Three years of regrets. But she’s not the same girl anymore. Now, at twenty-two, Reagan has big plans to change her life, and it all starts with a trip to Europe...
  • A Wicked Kiss: An Erotic Thriller by M. S. Parker

    A Wicked Kiss: An Erotic Thriller by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Wicked Kiss is the second installment in the Wicked series. You should read "A Wicked Lie" before reading this. There were three men in this world I thought I could trust and two of them had just betrayed me. Everything I'd thought I'd known about my life, about the people I loved, all of it was gone. I found myself staring at a pack of lies with no idea just how deep they went...
  • True Love: The Trilogy: The Complete Boxed Set by Harper Bentley

    True Love: The Trilogy: The Complete Boxed Set by Harper Bentley

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From USA Today Best Selling Author Harper Bentley comes all three True Love books together in one boxed set! True Love, Book 1 - Discovering Us. They wanted forever. .. but sometimes forever's not that easy. Ellen has loved Jagger since she was five and he was seven when they kissed through the chain link fence at school...
  • Chasing Allie by Meli Raine

    Chasing Allie by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It turns out my stepfather has plans for me. Plans that make dying look like a walk in the park. He’s selling my virginity to a Mexican drug lord to get out of debt. Chase just found out and is here to take me away to safety. To the ocean. To my dreams. But while I’m gone, a murder takes place back home. I receive a phone call. It’s the police. I’m the prime suspect...
  • Disorder by J.L. Weil

    Disorder by J.L. Weil

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Return to Elmwood Academy. My douchebag of a stepbrother is blackmailing me. Carter thinks he can use me to steal something from the Elite, something he is desperate to bury. Reckless. Frantic. Violent. I didn’t ask for this life, and yet I’m caught in the middle of a dangerous game. And the stakes are deadlier. The Elite, four damaged, gorgeous, arrogant guys, think they own me now...
  • Glass Hearts by Lisa De Jong

    Glass Hearts by Lisa De Jong

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sequel to Plastic Hearts. .. Can a relationship survive on love alone? Is love truly enough? Dane and Alex’s relationship has never been easy, but now they have a fresh start without the pressures of Alex’s family. Together they try to move forward while continuing to struggle with a past that they can’t seem to escape. Sometimes no matter how hard we try to make things work, love isn’t enough...
  • The Art of Loving a Greek Billionaire by Marian Tee

    The Art of Loving a Greek Billionaire by Marian Tee

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Once upon a time, there was an ordinary girl who grew up listening to bedtime stories where there were no knights in shining armor or Prince Charming. Instead, it had Greek billionaires and this little girl dreamt she’d one day have Her Own Greek Billionaire to live happily ever after with. When this little girl grew up, she found what she was looking for...
  • Wild at Heart by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Wild at Heart by Jinsey Reese, Victoria Green

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    With his dad hell-bent on destroying him, Dare's life hangs in the balance. Fearing the worst, Reagan rushes from Paris to New York, hoping to get to him in time, only to find their entire world collapsing around them. The threat is too real, risk too high, death too possible. Unfair doesn't even begin to cover it...
  • All is Lost by Marie Wathen

    All is Lost by Marie Wathen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Recommended for ages 18+ (sexual content and language). Bang. .. One second: loud music, dancing, laughing, fun, family, friends, love and everything. .. Bang. .. Next second: screaming, running, crying, fear, pain, blood, loss and nothing. .. Bang. .. . The events of one night on Willow Island will irrevocably change the lives of so many forever...
  • Twisted Affair Vol. 5 by M.S. Parker

    Twisted Affair Vol. 5 by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't miss the final installment in the bestselling Twisted Affair series! I didn't want to believe it when my PI told me that everything I'd thought I'd known about my wife and my lover was a lie. But he'd had proof. Now I needed to decide what I was going to do with the knowledge I had...
  • Twisted Affair Vol. 4 by M.S. Parker

    Twisted Affair Vol. 4 by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My life was almost back on track. I actually enjoyed my job. I had a gorgeous wife who my family loved, and an equally gorgeous girlfriend who I loved. But I couldn't shake this feeling that it was all going to hell soon. As Blayne Westmore tries to juggle the woman he's married to and the woman he's in love with, he begins to see that things aren't as simple as he'd hoped...
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