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  • The Complete Twisted Series Set by Ana Huang

    The Complete Twisted Series Set by Ana Huang

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 47 ratings
    Twisted LoveAlex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can't escape.Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart.But when he's forced to look after his best friend's sister, he starts to feel something in his chest. A crack. A melt...
  • Always Crew by Tijan

    Always Crew by Tijan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For 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.They’re growing, going through their own things...
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  • Heart of Marley by T.K. Leigh

    Heart of Marley by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    To 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...
  • Barely Breathing by Rebecca Donovan

    Barely Breathing by Rebecca Donovan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    Emma’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...
  • Sadie by Courtney Summers

    Sadie by Courtney Summers

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 113 ratings
    A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial-like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about.Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water...
  • 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’...
  • Tame by Coralee June, Raven Kennedy

    Tame by Coralee June, Raven Kennedy

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’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...
  • Collateral Damage: A Second Chance Mafia Romance by Amy McKinley

    Collateral Damage: A Second Chance Mafia Romance by Amy McKinley

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 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...
  • Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Small town, small-minded people, small expectations, and big A-holes.Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape...
  • The Empathy series Box set by Ker Dukey

    The Empathy series Box set by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    This is the entire Empathy series including, Empathy, Desolate, Vacant and Deadly. This is a dark romance series...read with caution. Blake: I am a brother I am a police detective I am a contract killer I don’t want to love I don’t want to feel I don’t want … EMPATHY...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  young adult  dark  length-long
  • The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 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)...
  • Perfectly Flawed by Nessa Morgan

    Perfectly Flawed by Nessa Morgan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I thought I was okay.I mean, I went through my days just fine, pushing toward a goal I could easily achieve. I had friends that loved me, an aunt who adored me, and everything was just okay.But what I thought was okay and fine, all of that changed...
  • The Edge of Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    The Edge of Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Librarian'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...
  • Better When He's Brave by Jay Crownover

    Better When He's Brave by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover’s third novel in her sexy, thrilling Welcome to the Point series, a woman’s search for repentance leads her to the one man from her past she can’t forget as they join forces to save their city—and the explosive love neither can live without. Titus King has always seen his world in black and white...
  • Where All Paths Meet by Gregory Ashe

    Where All Paths Meet by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Holmeses. Moriartys. Adlers. What’s a Watson to do? When Jack Moreno receives an anonymous invitation to the Zodiac anniversary gala, he’s inclined to ignore it. His best friend (and more), Holloway Holmes, vanished from his life five months ago, and Jack has no desire to bump into Holloway’s terrifying father, Blackfriar...
  • Lovely Vicious by Sara Wolf

    Lovely Vicious by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 51 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..
  • Fear of Falling by S.L. Jennings

    Fear of Falling by S.L. Jennings

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    I can’t remember the last time I felt completely safe. Security seemed more like a luxury to me, reserved for those who were fortunate enough to have picture perfect childhoods. For those who didn’t bear the ugly scars that keep me bound in constant, debilitating fear. I’ve run from that fear my entire life. But when I met him, for once, I couldn’t run anymore...
  • Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray

    Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 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...
  • I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 45 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...
  • The End of Gods by Con Template

    The End of Gods by Con Template

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • 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...
  • Hunting Grounds by Crystal North

    Hunting Grounds by Crystal North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is not a love story. I was just looking to keep my head down and complete my education, so that I could move as far away from my hometown, and all its tainted memories, as possible. I never bargained on running into my past. But then again, I never asked to be kidnapped, drugged and branded as The Doe either...
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

    Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 192 ratings
    Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe...
  • Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets...
  • Pretty When You Lie by Anne Roman

    Pretty When You Lie by Anne Roman

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 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...
  • 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...
  • Stay Baby Stay by Don Both, Maria O'Hara

    Stay Baby Stay by Don Both, Maria O'Hara

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Du bist hin- und hergerissen zwischen dem Licht und der Dunkelheit. Aber du brauchst die Dunkelheit. Du brauchst den Abgrund. Du brauchst mich. Spiel nicht den Löwen, wenn du nur ein kleines Kätzchen bist. Du gehörst mir, Emilia. Jetzt und für immer. Bleib! Der finale Teil einer Reihe, die dich süchtig machen wird...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  dark  young adult  abuse  length-medium
  • Dark Romeo by Sienna Blake

    Dark Romeo by Sienna Blake

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I’m a good girl. Daughter of the Police Chief. A detective desperate to solve her mother’s murder.Until I spend a wild no-holds barred night with a mysterious man. No personal details. No last names. No tomorrows. Except… he lied. About everything. Now this Mafia King has claimed me. And he won’t stop until I’m his “good girl”...
  • 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 KILLINGA 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...
  • Paper Dolls by Sienna Blake, Hanna Peach

    Paper Dolls by Sienna Blake, Hanna Peach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My life comes down to this. Two faces. One choice.Salem is my twin sister. She loved me. She protected me. She forgave me, even after I failed her. I just got her back after searching for three long, lonely years.Then there’s Clay. Sweet yet intense and nursing a dark past of his own, he’s all the redemption I don’t deserve. He wants to open me up and know the insides of my soul...
  • Whiteout by Dyan Layne

    Whiteout by Dyan Layne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Wrecked by Leia Stone

    Wrecked by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Getting married at eighteen wasn't the smartest idea but ... I'd been in love. Bryce, with his perfect words, his money, and all-American good looks. He had pulled me in, and when he spit me out, I'd barely been left alive. Now at twenty two and divorced, I just wanted to build a life for myself on my own terms. Free of fear. First job. First crappy apartment. First taste of freedom...
  • Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret...
  • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 43 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...
  • Ugly by Margaret McHeyzer

    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...
  • Locked and Loaded by Nenia Campbell

    Locked and Loaded by Nenia Campbell

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... Christina Parker agreed to go to work for the BN because she thought it would keep her and her loved ones safe. But the BN's training facility is more like a prison than a school, and rumors about her illicit relationship with an IMA assassin make assimilation difficult - if not impossible...
  • 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...
  • Going Under by S. Walden

    Going Under by S. Walden

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Brooke Wright has only two goals her senior year at Charity Run High School: stay out of trouble and learn to forgive herself for the past. Forgiveness proves elusive, and trouble finds her anyway when she discovers a secret club at school connected to the death of her best friend...
  • Redesigning Fate by A.M. Wilson

    Redesigning Fate by A.M. Wilson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I left everything behind in order to be free. I should have known better than to think it would be so easy. All it took was one day at my new job. He came for me. I used a stranger to deter him, and in doing so, realized my heart began to beat again. Elias Brooks put me back together after Travis Dawson tore me apart...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  young adult  dark  length-medium
  • Sacrifice by G. Bailey, Scarlett Snow

    Sacrifice by G. Bailey, Scarlett Snow

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I know their secrets.But they don’t know mine.Holly Oak Academy is breaking up for winter break, flying all of us off to France. Sledging, eating marshmallows by the fire, sexy times in hot tubs and a little murder sounds like a good holiday...
  • Collide by E. K Hunter

    Collide by E. K Hunter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Riley I didn’t need friends. I didn’t need a man. All I needed was to keep my little sister safe and cared for, and I would have done anything to do that, even working in a dive like Club Sin. The last thing I needed was to get the attention of the most dangerous man in Hollows Bay….KaiI was the King of Hollows Bay.I had it all, money, power, and control over the city...
  • 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...
  • Camden by K. Webster

    Camden by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I am intelligent, unassuming, and the son of two murdered parents. I’m calculating, damaged, and seek revenge. I’ll do whatever it takes to further my agenda, even if it means seducing my way into a bed I don’t belong. Anything to make the ones who’ve hurt me pay. My name is Camden Pearson. I am focused, fierce, and power-hungry. The youngest of four brothers...
  • What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

    What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Magda just wants to forget what happened. But there's a nightmare lurking —and it's coming for her...This is Magda’s last chance. Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school that threw her life into a tailspin, she’s shipped off to live with her grandparents in the Pacific Northwest for the summer...
  • Brake: A Serialized Dark Romantic Suspense by Skye Callahan

    Brake: A Serialized Dark Romantic Suspense by Skye Callahan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's no stopping as the bitter feud between brothers, Colt and Devlin, speeds out of control. From Colt's pawn to Devlin's captive, Aubrey is caught even deeper in their pact to destroy one another. Imprisoned in darkness, she fights for her life--and her sanity. Her only hope is a cocky and sadistic car thief who is already wrestling with his own demons...
  • The Bad Boy Series Collection Books 1 - 4 by S.E. Lund

    The Bad Boy Series Collection Books 1 - 4 by S.E. Lund

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Bad Boy Series Collection I've been in love with Hunter Saint my entire life. He was my first love and the one I could never forget. Then Fate intervened and we became enemies. Now, I must go to Hunter on my hands and knees to beg him to save my brother's life. I'll pay any price to save him. I'll do anything Hunter wants. Anything… The Bad Boy Series by S. E...
  • Return to Black Frost Academy by Tatum Rayne

    Return to Black Frost Academy by Tatum Rayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Book 1: I don’t belong here, I know it the second I step into Black Frost Academy for the first time. The opulent setting screams of money and is shrouded in secrets but this isn’t my world.Bound by a promise made to my aunt that I’m determined to keep, I lockdown my fear and embrace the fresh start I’ve been given...
  • Alternate by Lili St. Germain

    Alternate by Lili St. Germain

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you haven't read Alternate, you might want to download it and read it before you read Zero Hour (Which is the final book in the series).In Alternate, you'll get to learn some things you didn't know about Jase, Dornan and Elliot before you dive in to Zero Hour for the final Gypsy Ride...
  • Girl, Stolen by April Henry

    Girl, Stolen by April Henry

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of the car while her stepmom fills a prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, the car is being stolen. Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne and once he finds out that not only does she have pneumonia, but that she's blind, he really doesn't know what to do...
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