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Jane
April Lindner - 2010
Practical and independent, Jane reluctantly becomes entranced by her magnetic and brooding employer and finds herself in the midst of a forbidden romance. But there's a mystery at Thornfield, and Jane's much-envied relationship with Nico is soon tested by an agonizing secret from his past. Torn between her feelings for Nico and his fateful secret, Jane must decide: Does being true to herself mean giving up on true love?An irresistible romance interwoven with a darkly engrossing mystery, this contemporary retelling of the beloved classic Jane Eyre promises to enchant a new generation of readers.
Devious Kisses
Thandiwe Mpofu - 2020
š°š'š š±ššš šÆššš šŗššššš.ā ā Hereās the 411 about high schoolāwell, at least for my high school, Clintwood Academy.ā ā šItās a fucking warzone.ā šEveryone has a grudge against someone else. ā šItās the breeding ground for losers, jealous broken-hearted girls, and acne covered fools with zero game.ā šThe disgustingly rich kids are vile, vindictive, popular, and the mecca of a social life worth a damn.ā šLastly, high school is simply survival of the fittest.ā ā And I was the fittest of them all. Once.ā ā Once, before I set up to take the fall for an attempted murder of one of the Fitz brothers, the golden boys of St. Jude High, our sworn rival enemy.ā ā Before I was played for a kiss and it worked. ā ā Now, the Fitz brothers hate me.ā They suspect me.ā They want to destroy me.ā They know everything about me, and I hate them for it.ā ā And now, weāll all be living together, like one big, happy step-family. With secrets brimming, hatred festering, and other feelings I have no business having for my step-cousin-brothers or whatever, haunting me night and day.ā ā Now, letās kiss and be forever rivalsā¦ā
Between the Lives
Jessica Shirvington - 2013
For as long as she can remember, she's had two lives. Every twenty-four hours she "shifts," living each day twice. In one life, Sabine has everything: popular friends, perfect grades, expensive clothes, and the guy everyone wants. In the other, Sabine's family struggles financially, and her friends are considered rebels. But then she meets Ethan. He's gorgeous and challenging, and he makes her feel like she's never felt before.All Sabine really wants is the chance to live only one life. But when this finally becomes possible, is she willing to risk everything - including losing the one person who might actually believe her - to make it happen?
21 Stolen Kisses
Lauren Blakely - 2015
. . even though she shouldn't.When I first met him I resisted.Like any forbidden love, I told myself he was a crush, and it would pass.That was a lie. It never faded.And I never expected he would fall for me just as hard.There were so many reasons that should have kept us apart, least of all, the decade that separated us.Growing up in New York City, I learned early on that love is a double-edged sword.Love broke up my parents, love took away my friends, and love ā the big, intense, never-been-like-this-beforelove ā landed me in therapy.Now I'm heading to college, and it's time to give love a clean slate again. But, can I really start over when he's still in my life?Because the one man I've always wanted, and also the only guy I absolutely can't have...And he wants me just as fiercely.Can I settle for anything less than the love of my life?
Devils' Day Party
C.M. Stunich - 2020
To be fair, he deserved it. But Calix and his friends, Barron and Raz, they donāt see it that way. Not that it matters. Theyāve bullied me for years, and Iāve never known why. At least today, they have something real to be pissed about. All of which would be fine, if today was a normal day. But itās not. Itās far from normal. My mantra has always been: this too, shall pass. But not today. Not the worst day of my life. Hot bullies, busted cars, and pain. Somebody kill me now.
Darker Days
Jus Accardo - 2013
Cheating husbands and stolen inheritances? They're your girlsābut their specialty is a bit darker. Zombie in your garage? Pesky Poltergeist living in your pool? They'll have the problem solved in a magical minute. For a nominal fee, of course...When gorgeous new client Lukas Scott saunters into the office requesting their help to find a stolen box, it sounds like a simple caseāuntil the truth comes out. The box is full of Sin.Seven deadly ones, in fact.They've got five days to recapture the Sins before they're recalled by the box, taking seven hijacked human bodies with them. Easy peasyāexcept for one thing...There's a spell that will allow the Sins to remain free, causing chaos forever. When the key ingredient threatens the life of someone she knows, Jessie must make the ultimate choice between love and familyāor lose everything.
The QB Bad Boy and Me
Tay Marley - 2017
. . in all the ways that she shouldn't. But Dallas has one goalāto pursue her dance-school dreams in in Californiaāand no one, not even a hard-bodied, green-eyed football god, will stop her. As the tension between Drayton and Dallas grows thicker, the lines are getting blurred, and all she wants is to come undone under his touch.But this thing between Dallas and Drayton could cost her her dreams . . . if he doesn't break her heart first.
Cocky AF
Katie Ford - 2018
Trentās my soon-to-be adopted brother ⦠and he drives me up the wall! Janieās the daughter of two hippie do-gooders. Her parents have a mission to save the world, and that includes welcoming handsome quarterback Trent Lewis into their home after his parents pass in an unfortunate accident. Trentās got a chip on his shoulder the size of a house. He's not interested in being āadoptedā per se, especially because heās already an adult. But when the alpha gets a look at the curvy girl living under the same roof, suddenly the heat skyrockets ⦠because he and Janie are about to embark on the taboo!
Hey Readers ā Can you say FORBIDDEN? Well, we promise you'll shiver and squeal reading this fun-loving tale. As always, thereās a sweet HEA where the BBW brunette gets her gorgeous man :) Bonus books included. Love, Katie and Sarah
Rites of Passage
Joy N. Hensley - 2014
And she's not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died.So Sam joins the first-ever class of girls at the prestigious Denmark Military Academy. Sheās expecting push-ups and long runs, rope climbing and mud-crawling. As a military brat, she can handle an obstacle course just as well as the boys. She's even expecting the hostility she gets from some of the cadets who donāt think girls belong there. What sheās not expecting is her fiery attraction to her drill sergeant. But dating is strictly forbidden and Sam won't risk her future, or the dare, on something so petty... no matter how much she wants him.As Sam struggles to prove herself, she discovers that some of the boys donāt just want her goneāthey will stop at nothing to drive her out. When their petty threats turn to brutal hazing, bleeding into every corner of her life, she realizes they are not acting alone. A decades-old secret society is alive and active⦠and determined to force her out.At any cost.Now time's running short. Sam must decide who she can trust... and choosing the wrong person could have deadly consequences.
Of Silver and Shadow
Jennifer Gruenke - 2021
Ren is just trying to survive, sticking to a life of petty thievery, card games, and pit fighting to get by. But when a wealthy rebel leader discovers her secret, he offers her a fortune to join his revolution. The caveat: she wonāt see a single coin until they overthrow the King.Behind the castle walls, a brutal group of warriors known as the Kingās Children is engaged in a competition: the first to find the rebel leader will be made Kingās Fang, the right hand of the King of Erdis. And Adley Farre is hunting down the rebels one by one, torturing her way to Ren and the rebel leader, and the coveted Kingās Fang title.But time is running out for all of them, including the youngest Prince of Erdis, who finds himself pulled into the rebellion. Political tensions have reached a boiling point, and Ren and the rebels must take the throne before war breaks out.
In Harmony
Emma Scott - 2018
The happy, driven girl is gone, and she is left wracked by post-traumatic stress her body remembers even if she does not. When her father suddenly uproots the family from their posh penthouse in New York City to the tiny town of Harmony, Indiana, Willow becomes more untethered and lost under the weight of her secret. On a whim, she auditions for a part in the community theaterās production of Hamlet and unexpectedly wins the role of Opheliaāthe girl who is undone by madness, and her love of Hamlet⦠Isaac Pierce is from the āwrong side of the tracks.ā The town bad boy. Girls pine for his attention and guys are in awe of him. That heās an acting prodigy only adds to his charisma. Isaac utterly disappears into his characters; the stage is the only place he feels safe from his own traumatic home life. He wants nothing more than to escape to Broadway or Hollywood, and leave Harmony behind for good. No one can play Hamlet but Isaac, and when the director pairs him with Willow in acting class, they clash again and againāneither willing to open their hearts to anyone. But clashing leads to breaking, breaking leads to the spilling of terrible secrets, and soon Isaac and Willow find Shakespeareās words mirroring their lives. When they are cruelly torn apart, neither know how this play will endāwith madness and heartache? Or healing, love, and the discovery of who they are truly meant to be. In Harmony is a standalone NEW ADULT love story, and is intended for readers 18 and up. PLEASE NOTE, this book contains sensitive material such as physical abuse, and the aftermath of sexual assault (off the page). Reader discretion is advised.
Six Goodbyes We Never Said
Candace Ganger - 2019
Sheāll hate you forever if you ask her to open up and remember him āas he was,ā though thatās all her loving family wants her to do in order to manage her complex OCD and GAD. Sheād rather everyone back the-eff off while she separates her Lucky Charms marshmallows into six, always six, Ziploc bags, while she avoids friends and people and living the life her father so desperately wanted for her. Dew respectfully requests a little more time to process the sudden loss of his parents. It's causing an avalanche of secret anxieties, so he counts on his trusty voice recorder to convey the things he canāt otherwise say aloud. He could really use a friend to navigate a life swimming with pain and loss and all the lovely moments in between. And then he meets Naima and everythingās changedājust not in the way he, or she, expects. Candace Ganger's Six Goodbyes We Never Said is no love story. If you ask Naima, itās not even a like story. But it is a story about love and fear and how sometimes you need a little help to be brave enough to say goodbye.
Tycoon
Katy Evans - 2017
This hot. This difficult.Aaric Christos was a guy who protected me. Wanted me. Maybe even loved me.That man is gone.In his place is the most powerful real estate tycoon in the city.Heās a cold, ruthless, aggressive businessman.The only one who can save me and my startup from ruin.It takes every ounce of courage to put my pride aside and ask for his help.I didnāt expect him to offer it easily.And he doesnāt.Instead, he vets me harder than heās vetted anyone.Donāt invest in what you donāt know, he says.He's assessing every piece of me, to the point I've never felt so bare.I yearn for the boy I once knew, whose touch once craved me.Putting it all on the line will be worth it, I tell myself.Until I realizeātoo lateāthat some risks are not worth taking.
The Two of Us
Kennedy Fox - 2020
What happens when the entire world shuts down and youāre quarantined in a cabin with your brotherās best friend? You take every chance to make his life miserable, the same way he did yours, and most definitely donāt fall in love.The Two of Us is an enemies to lovers, brotherās best friend standalone romance set in modern-day 2020.
The Boy Most Likely To
Huntley Fitzpatrick - 2015
For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the āsmartā choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard. Then the unexpected consequences of Timās wild days come back to shock him. He finds himself in a situation that isnāt all it appears to be, that he never could have predicted . . . but maybe should have.And Alice is caught in the middle. Told in Timās and Aliceās distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this return to the world of My Life Next Door is a story about failing first, trying again, and having to decide whether to risk it all once more.