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Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWolfe Emerson is notorious for two things: being an absolute beast in a boxing ring and being a voluntary mute. His story remains unspoken and he prefers to live his life in silence. That is, until, his world is turned upside down when he meets someone who is louder than life... -
Forgotten Secrets by Christy Barritt
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFBI Special Agent Jesse Marx doesn’t know which is worse—waking up in a horse stable with no memories of the past two weeks or waking up to discover he’s wearing a wedding band. Not only has he been injured, but he’s also married—something he vowed to never do.Dakota Fleming refuses to feel a connection to any man, much less be tied down to one... -
Perfectly Jaded by R.E. Bond
Over a year ago, my only real friend allowed her boyfriend to come for me.I’d only played a joke on him, but I almost paid for it with my life.Broken bones healed, but our friendship was gone.Aurora Donovan was dead to me.My boyfriend Stevo is an abusive junkie, but I can’t leave.He’d kill me if I even thought about it.No one knows the danger I’m in, until Alex finds me beaten and bloody...Categorized as:
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Huge House Hates by Stephanie Brother
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMy five huge housemates are my stepbrothers and my worst enemies!When Mom tells me she’s getting married and moving to Antigua, I don’t know what to do. My friends are all in relationships, and I can’t afford to pay rent on my own. With no other options, I reluctantly accept my stepfather’s offer to move in with his sons... -
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Scoreless Nights by Katie Rae
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratings"I knew I wouldn’t be strong enough to resist her anymore."Our parents wanted us to spend quality time together, but I’m not sure this is what they meant….CruzAs the goalie of the Miami Inferno FC, it was my job to keep everyone scoreless.So how did I end up being the one that couldn’t score?The answer: Lily Harris. My step sister, and apparently my new roommate... -
Born Reckless by B.J. Alpha
A Dark High School Romance.A bad-ass FMC makes a huge mistake causing her world to collide with a stuck-up rich boy who hates her for it.FrankieOne night is all it took to change my life for the worse. I grew up with no real home or blood family around.That is until my uncle decided to be an unwelcome hero... -
Going All In by Kate Campfield
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe’s going to lose a bet… or I’m going to lose her heart.I’m about to lose my future wife, and we aren’t even married yet. But despite me being sure she’s the one I’m meant to marry, Holly’s convinced we’re not meant to be. That may have something to do with my mom being engaged to Holly’s dad, but we didn’t know about that until after the hottest night of our lives... -
Baking and Blindfolds by Sylvie Haas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCooking with my stepbrothers really heats things up.I'm a disappointment.A failure.A burden.That's how my billionaire father and his wife see me.After getting dumped and flunking out of college, there's only one place left to go: back home. The last thing I want is to see that look of utter disgust in my father's eyes and that smug smirk on my stepmother's face, yet again...Categorized as:
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L-DK, Vol. 01 by Ayu Watanabe
Shuusei Kugayama is the "prince" of his high school, but he always turns down confessions--including one from Aoi Nishimori's best friend. Although she initially hates him for this, when Shuusei moves in next door to Aoi, who lives alone, she starts thinking that he might not be such a bad guy after all..Categorized as:
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Second Chance Ex by Shann McPherson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsJoey Tanner once said nothing hurts worse than when love goes wrong. And he was so right. I just wish I'd taken his word for it back then... it would've saved us both a world of pain.Prue Watson knows heartache. For two years she's tried to leave the past where it belongs and move on from the scars caused by first love gone wrong...Categorized as:
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Ruthless Queen by Amanda Richardson
Hunter, Ash, Ledger, and Samson.The Kings of Ravenwood Academy. Their names still send shivers down my spine, for more than one reason.Back then, they didn’t expect me to fight back.But I did.And now I’m theirs.After making a pact with them, they help me get revenge on the one man who wronged me.I’m not the same meek, little girl that got taken advantage of... -
Wrapped Up in You by Melody Claire
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHayden When I fled to the cabin after a fight with my father, I wasn’t expecting to find my uptight stepbrother. Once again, my impulsivity has me in a bind, and now we’re stuck here together in the middle of a snowstorm. Might as well make the best of it.Jonathan With my divorce finalized and my parents on vacation, I came to the cabin to drink my way through the holidays...Categorized as:
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A Bully's Penance by S.T. Moors
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHarrison O'Connor.Hot. Sexy. Cocky. Arrogant. Nasty.Bully.At least, that's how I remembered him.Once I was done with high school, I hightailed it out of Ashburton as fast as my legs could carry me.Finally thriving and happy in San Francisco, my tormented flashbacks of Harrison O'Connor and his reign of terror on me were soon nothing more but muted memories...Categorized as:
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One Step Back by Edie Danford
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you fall for a guy who's about to become your stepbrother, do you listen to your heart and risk everything? Or listen to your head...and take one step back? In high school I had a hundred reasons to steer clear of my soon-to-be-stepbrother, Joe Beneventi. He was a hothead, and I was reserved. His life was football, mine was academics... -
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Cheaters by Simon Strange
When Aiden comes home to help the man he grew up with sort through his mother's estate after she passes, he expects it to be a brief visit. One of support, and encouragement and perhaps even one of the last visits they'll have now that there are no more family ties to keep them together. After all, they live in different states...Categorized as:
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Hunter's Target by West Greene
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew school. New Hell.Samuel just wanted to complete his final year of school at a Hell he understood.But when he's forced to move, he knows it's going to be worse. He just doesn't know how worse it's going to get.Not only has he become the target of the football star recently released from jail, but Samuel's also about to realize that things at home are about to get ten times harder...Categorized as:
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Make You Love Me by L.A. Shaw
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA summer to never be forgotten…Well, at least that’s what I thought anyway.Until one misunderstanding altered the course of our love story.I thought Greyson Rexwood was the perfect guy, and just like all first loves, I fell hard and fast for the sexy bad boy. The guy who knew how to worship every inch of my curves. Greyson seemed to know exactly what I needed to hear and when... -
Eternal Sunshine by L.J. Shen, Savannah Peachwood
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdam Mackay. Local legend. My brother's best friend. The world biggest movie star. ...and my major, epic, unrequited crush.He needs a cat-sitter in sunny L.A., and I need a place to live after a bad breakup. Perfect, right? Sure, if you possess any type of self-control. Spoiler alert: I have none. This arrangement has trouble written all over it, but warning signs are meant to be ignored... -
Triple Puck by Sarwah Creed
Rated: 2.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree sizzling hockey stars leave me skating on thin ice! I didn’t think I would see them again after middle school. My parents got divorced, and I moved to another state...Categorized as:
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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 5 by Bisco Hatori
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsIn this sharp-witted romantic comedy about the clash of the classes (of all kinds), a poor girl at a rich kids' school ends up working at the school's toniest club-and gets mistaken for a boy!In this high anticipated title, a kind of cross between HANA-KIMI and BOYS OVER FLOWERS, Haruhi is a scholarship student at an exclusive private school: Ouran High School, where it turns out the... -
Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 10 by Bisco Hatori
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsEver since the day he helped her up after a nasty tumble, Black Magic Club member Reiko Kanazuki has been obsessed with Hunny. She is devoting all her knowledge of the dark arts to curse him and steal his soul... -
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood... -
Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 8 by Bisco Hatori
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsThe first-years in Class 1-A are taking part in a test of courage, where the loser will receive the dubious honor of being dubbed Best of Cowards... -
Maid-sama! Vol. 07 by Hiro Fujiwara
It's Sweet Day at Café Maid Latte! Usui is responsible for preparing the pastries for a tasting contest. Misaki disguised herself to participate incognito in this contest to help Erika. Indeed, one of the customers was in the lead to win the jackpot to be able to spend the day with it! Miss luck for Misaki, Hinata, his childhood friend, is also in the game... -
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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 3 by Bisco Hatori
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsIn this sharp-witted romantic comedy about the clash of the classes (of all kinds), a poor girl at a rich kids' school ends up working at the school's toniest club, and gets mistaken for a boy! One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the "Host Club," a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys... -
Maid Sama!, Volume 5 by Hiro Fujiwara
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Your Letter by Hyeon A. Cho
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSori is a special young girl - kind, caring and principled well beyond her years. Unfortunately, these are NOT the personality traits generally celebrated in middle school – especially Sori’s, where she’s bullied mercilessly for defending the defenseless until she herself becomes a target... -
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsA young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo.Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking... -
Sasaki and Miyano, Vol. 6 by Shou Harusono
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe moment has arrived. Miyano knows. He knows Sasaki likes him. And Miyano has realized...he likes Sasaki back, in a BL romance kind of way. Step one: realization is complete—but step two: confession is much harder than he thought it’d be... -
A Silent Voice, Vol. 2 by Yoshitoki Oima
SPEAKING WITH ACTIONSIt’s been five years since Shoya Ishida bullied Shoko Nishimiya so badly she left their elementary school, because of one simple difference between them: Shoya can hear, and Shoko can’t. In the intervening time, Shoya’s life has changed completely. Shunned by his friends, Shoya’s longed for the chance to make up for his cruelty...
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