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Paradise Lagoon by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
I made my choice. I took the hard way out. Now all of our fates are riding on the dice I’m about to throw and luck never was on our side. I was whole once, with my boys in this slice of paradise we’d carved out for ourselves, but in the time that we were parted we grew up. Grew apart...Categorized as:
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The Saviors: Part one by Ames Mills
The Saviors. We’re a myth in the criminal underworld. Our name runs fear through even the most hardened criminal. Don’t let the name fool you. We aren’t the good guys. We lie, steal, cheat, and kill. I keep my most trusted by my side, and we’re unbreakable. Until my vendetta against my father brought me back to my hometown, Forest Grove...Categorized as:
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Riches To Riches: Part One by Ames Mills
**This book has been professionally edited since its first release**When Dad died, he made me the leader of the Italian Mafia. That position was unheard of for a woman until me.Ryder, Dex, Gage, and Holden are my team, my closest friends. Then Leo waltzes into my life, turning it upside down, along with everyone in it.One lie. One secret.That's all it took to bring it all burning down around me...Categorized as:
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The Perfect Fit by Sadie Kincaid
One wannabe writer from Brooklyn. Three insanely hot billionaires. One very indecent proposal. West Archer, Ezekiel Cavanagh, and Xander King. AKA The Unholy Trinity. Ruthless. Ambitious. Intimidating. With dark tastes and even darker desires, they’ve been searching for the perfect woman to fit into their unique lifestyle for over a decade...Categorized as:
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Surrender by Brooklyn Cross
The glimmer of hope I held was shattered.Happiness was yanked away from me all over again by the same person that broke me at fifteen. Whether he’d done the deed or not didn’t matter. My mind only saw his face lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike.Kaivan McMillan ripped open the scars on my soul and let them bleed... -
Featherstone Academy Boxset: Volume One by K.C. Kean
LUNA'S COMPLETED STORYFEATHERSTONE ACADEMY BOOKS 1-3“We’re here to assist with your transition to Featherstone Academy.”Suddenly thrown into a world representing bloodlines I know nothing about, forcing my past I refuse to remember into the present, has my world turned upside down.It doesn’t matter that I didn’t want to go to college, it doesn’t matter that I don’t want to be here...Categorized as:
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Gallows Bridge by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Every story comes to an end eventually. Maybe ours was never meant to have a happy ending. I was back in my hometown at last, surrounded by the boys I’ve loved for my entire life, and I’d finally had everything I’d ever wanted. But fate never was kind to this dead girl and we aren’t done fighting to claim our happily ever after... -
Smudged Lines by Kris Butler
Was the truth too costly? My life had become full of scribbles and lies, the lines smudged too many times to know the truth. Small town girl, eyes full of hope, I never thought my life would come to this.It had started out so simple, and then somewhere between first loves and now, it went majorly off course. All the lies caught up to them, and I no longer knew who I could trust... -
Second Chances by Alisha Williams
“Hang on to your panties because apparently, I keep losing mine. It's gonna be a sexy ride”Okay! So breaking into my workplace after hours to steal money and then running from the cops, may not have been my brightest idea... -
Deceit by Katelyn Taylor
I wasn’t sure what to expect when arriving in Salem.Forced to marry a man I’ve never met, attend a private university I’d never heard of, and the whispers of a rumored secret society filling the halls.This life would be near unbearable with my insufferable fiancé if it wasn’t for his uncle, his best friend, and his enemy...Categorized as:
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Secrets & Stoners by Suki Williams, Jarica James
Everyone has skeletons in the closet. Mine are just a bit… crazier, than most. I’ve spent most of my adult life keeping a low profile and flying under the radar. Because my past is better off staying in the past. Now I’m living my best life in Alexandria with my three besties. We have a new place, new jobs, and for once I’m feeling optimistic where life has taken me... -
Bait by Maggie Alabaster, Jo Bradley
The plan? Get some air. The reality? I witnessed a murder. The only thing I saw of the killers—a couple of tattoos. That's what I get for wandering off alone during the biggest party of the year. In Dusk Bay. A place known for its violent undercurrent. Too scared to tell the police what I saw, I try to put it out of my mind. I almost succeed, until I meet three guys who turn my world upside down... -
Caged Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
What do you do when the guy you’ve loved since you were fourteen is sent to the most dangerous prison in Solaria for saving your life?Okay, so maybe he doesn’t love me back. And maybe getting sent down would seem insane to some, but I’m Rosalie Oscura, champion underground cage-fighter and alpha werewolf from the infamous Oscura Clan... -
Psycho Devils by Jasmine Mas
★ A new Enemies book in the Amazon Top 5 Bestselling Series ★The one where Aran dances with the devil...Shackled to her Enemies, Aran is forced to compete beside them in the brutal Legionnaire Games.They want to break her.But you can't break what's already broken.Just wait until they uncover her secrets.She'll have them on their knees...Categorized as:
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Carnival Hill by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
I thought that I was broken before, but my damage never tasted as bitter as this.The Harlequin boys are more than just a memory now. More than a daydream of our youth and an idea to cling onto.They’re my greatest weakness and my biggest regret, but I’ve started to realise that coming back to Sunset Cove was always my fate.My heart beats to the turn of the tide here... -
Psycho Academy: Aran's Story by Jasmine Mas
Fight like a man...or a girl disguised as one.I'm a princess disguised as a boy at a supernatural academy. But this isn't any normal school, we're training to be assassins.All I have to do is survive.I didn't count on the 7 foot tall warriors who call themselves Kings. Covered in strange tattoos, gorgeous, and powerful they're like no men I've ever met.They think I'm a pretty boy... -
Feral Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
A morte e ritorno.My family’s motto circles in my mind as I look this problem dead on and try to figure it out.I’ve faced worse than this. Survived worse odds than this. I won’t let this failure break me.We have 72 hours to turn this around.72 hours to make a new plan out of the dregs of the old.72 hours until all hope is lost.This task is impossible, but I still like my chances...Categorized as:
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Psycho Gods by Jasmine Mas
Are you ready for war?Fight for survival and the fate of the realms.I discovered my abilities...but that was just the beginning.Malum, Scorpius, and Orion are now fighting for me.Their power is mind-boggling. The carnage staggering.The High Court wants me to control them, but you can't leash monsters.Even with Sadie, Jinx, and John by my side, I'm struggling to survive...Categorized as:
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Knot My Problem by Sinclair Kelly
Secrets are my life. But after so many years of living one lie after another, do I even really know who I am without them? When work explodes—quite literally—in my face, I’m forced into hiding until the smoke clears. Now I’m living in a small town, with the one man who has the power to break down my carefully constructed identity... -
The Psycho Shifters Sadie's Complete Collection by Jasmine Mas
★ This Omnibus contains all three of Sadie's books from the bestselling Psycho Shifters series ★Fight like a girl...or a shifter of lore.After growing up with nothing, I've finally found my path to I'm a shifter, an elite soldier who transforms into a monster. All I have to do is survive. I didn't count on my three 6'5 roommates... -
Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert
She was the face that launched a thousand ships,The fierce beauty at the heart of Olympus,And she was never ours to claim.*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Patroclus that's as sinful as it is sweet.*In Olympus, you either have the power to rule...or you are ruled...Categorized as:
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Devourer of Men by Nikki St. Crowe
I have few friends and fewer allies. What I do have on the island of Everland is a lot of people who want me gone. So when the Crocodile and Captain Hook reappear in my life, I am in no mood. And worse, they’re unknowingly endangering themselves by asking for me by a name I long considered dead... -
Always Running by Calliope Stewart
Is it finally time to stop running?Tibby Sinclair is the queen of messy beginnings. Raised for fourteen years in a religious cult before being tossed into the San Francisco Omega Academy, Tibby never had a chance. That didn't stop her though. She toughened up and became someone that would protect herself...Categorized as:
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Wild Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Freedom never tasted so bitter. A stolen love. A strangled curse. A heart of sin. And a fate touched in moonlight. My men weave a tangled web around my soul, and I’ve formed a pack that will go to death and back for me. The moon hangs low over my heart as the call of the endless sky draws me closer and I find myself lost in the abyss that was waiting for me out here... -
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Descent by Katelyn Taylor
My heart is broken, my pride shattered to pieces on that altar. He walked away so easily, too easily, and I know none of us will ever forgive him. We have bigger issues to focus on, though, here in Salem. My stalker is becoming more agitated, more violent. I’m constantly looking over my shoulder, chasing after ghosts for answers...Categorized as:
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Sinners' Playground by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Dead girls don’t feel pain.But they like the taste of vengeance.Maybe that’s why I came back to my hometown. Because it sure as hell wasn’t for the surf. But what else was I supposed to do when I found myself in Sunset Cove with twenty bucks to my name, the key to my enemies’ secrets hanging around my neck and a mouth full of grave dirt that wouldn’t wash clean?I hate the Harlequin boys...Categorized as:
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Redfang Royal by Lola Rock
I'm trying to be a good girl.Every day, I lie and pretend I'm not a threat. I swallow insults and avoid the electric fence, crossing fingers I can fake my way to freedom before I snap and end up permanently caged.Borrowing my sister's identity is my last chance at escape.But Serafina Redfang isn't just a cartel heiress. She's the reason I can never mate the pack of my childhood dreams... -
Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres
Naomi Queen swore to herself she'd never get involved with criminals. She didn't want any part of the world that raised her because she knew the trouble the malicious underground could bring. But all that changes when she witnesses a murder between a gang of mermen shifters.Swept into the maelstrom of the paranormal criminal underbelly wasn't exactly high on her to-do list... -
Demise by Katelyn Taylor
The end is near, I can feel it in my bones. Secrets are practically seeping from the seams of this fabricated society. Deceiving you with the pretty allure of all that is promised. Descending you into the inky black reality of this world’s past, present and future. If we can all survive, what kind of future awaits us... -
Thieves and Monsters by Clio Evans, Opal Fairchild
When it comes to working for the Three Fates Mafia, there are three rules.Don’t get caught.Don’t betray others.Don’t get eaten.After being hired to steal a painting, Ashley finds herself ensnared.Damon, Minos, and Aaecus- the three heads of the monster Cerberus- have never met a human like Ashley. Instead of killing her, they decide to offer her a deal...
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