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Do You Dare?


Lylah James - 2019
    Reckless bad boy. Infamous playboy. My nemesis. And now my best friend.I know heā€™ll never leave me hanging. He knows I'll never refuse a dare. Everywhere we go we turn heads, but itā€™s not like that.Until it is.For one of us, anyway.I've always known he would be my downfall. But I trusted him to catch me.He proved me wrong.Maddox has gone too far, and I donā€™t know if I want to rein him in or push us further into dangerous territory.He tells me those three little words that I crave. Three little words I want from no one else.š‘° š’…š’‚š’“š’† š’šš’š’–Except this time, it's no simple dare. This could burn us to the ground."š‘° š’…š’‚š’“š’† š’šš’š’– š’•š’ š’‡š’–š’„š’Œ š’‰š’Šš’Ž."

Pieces of You


Jay McLean - 2021
    Another world.Where his wasnā€™t falling apart.And hers wasnā€™t already in pieces.-High school senior Holden Eastwood only has one fear in life: growing up.He spends his days unmotivated, moving from one game to the next, searching for his next challenge.He never expected that challenge to come in the form of a girlā€¦A girl with zero fashion sense, a filthy mouth, and a bullsh*t attitude.Unlike Holden, Jameson Taylor had no choice but to grow up.Neglected, isolated, and forced to raise herself, Jameson only has one goal in life: graduate and move on.The last thing she needs is some guy she canā€™t stand suddenly declaring her as his new hobby.Their lives couldnā€™t be more opposite.Their pasts a complete paradox.But in each other, they find the unexpectedā€¦They find solace.Fragments of foreverā€¦A forever that might tear them to pieces.

Magnolia


Kristi Cook - 2014
    Neighbors since the Civil War, the families have shared vacations, holidays, backyard barbecues, and the overwhelming desire to unite their two clans by marriage. So when a baby boy and girl were born to the families at the same time, the perfect opportunity seemed to have finally arrived.Jemma Cafferty and Ryder Marsden have no intention of giving in to their parentsā€™ wishes. Theyā€™re only seventeen, for goodnessā€™ sake, not to mention that one little problem: They hate each other! Jemma canā€™t stand Ryderā€™s nauseating golden-boy persona, and Ryder would like nothing better than to pretend stubborn Jemma doesnā€™t exist.But when a violent storm ravages Magnolia Branch, it unearths Jemmaā€™s and Ryderā€™s true feelings for each other as the two discover that the line between love and hate may be thin enough to risk crossing over.

Riot Hearts


Livy North - 2021
    Crow is awaiting my fall so they can trample over me.Everyoneā€™s competing over taking her downā€”but Iā€™ll be damned if I let anyone catch my prey.Our lives entwine and when weā€™re shipped off to New York together, I figure out just how much River Sinclair gets under my skin.Emory Lauder has always been stuck under my skin.River thinks heā€™s invulnerable, but everyone has that one fatal flaw.I know everyone has a soft spot. I guess I just didnā€™t think mine would look so much like her.Note: This book is the first in a duet and ends with a cliffhanger.

The Girl in the Love Song


Emma Scott - 2020
    But most of us knew them as the Lost Boys...Miller Stratton is a survivor. After a harrowing childhood of poverty, he will do anything it takes to find security for himself and his mom. Heā€™s putting all his hopes and dreams in the fragile frame of his guitar and the beauty he creates with its strings and his soulful voice. Until Violet. No one expects to meet the love of their life at age thirteen. But the spunky rich girl steals Millerā€™s heart and refuses to give it back. Violet McNamaraā€™s life hasnā€™t been as simple as it looks. Her picture-perfect family is not so perfect after all. Her best friend Miller is her one constant and she is determined not to ruin their friendship with romantic complications. But the heart wants what it wants. As Millerā€™s star begins to rise to stratospheric heights, what will it take for Violet to realize that sheā€™s the girl in all of his love songs?Lost Boys is a new series of interconnected, coming-of-age standalones from USA Today bestselling author Emma Scott, coming in 2020

Four Doors Down


Emma Doherty - 2016
    She has good friends and a gorgeous boyfriend but Ryan Jackson, the bane of her existence, keeps popping up everywhere. She doesn't care that they were best friends for years. She doesn't care that their moms are close and therefore she hears more about him that she'd ever care to know. She doesn't care that their mutual friend, Jake, keeps pushing them all to hang out together, and she especially doesn't care that the rest of the school bows down and worships him. Becca decided years ago that he wasn't worth her time and nothing, NOTHING, is going to change her mind.

Sincerely, Carter


Whitney G. - 2015
    Sheā€™s just my best friend... Arizona Turner has been my best friend since fourth grade, even when we ā€œhatedā€ each other. Weā€™ve been there for one another through first kisses, first ā€œtimes,ā€ and weā€™ve been each otherā€™s constant when good relationships turned bad. (We even went to colleges that were minutes away from each otherā€¦)Throughout the years, and despite what anyone says, weā€™ve never crossed the line.Never thought about it.Never wanted to.Until one night changed everything.At least, it shouldā€™ve ... Just friends.Weā€™re just friends.Iā€™m only saying this until I figure out if sheā€™s still ā€œjustā€ my best friendā€¦

The Traveling Man


Jane Harvey-Berrick - 2015
    Nice. He was extraordinary. And he wasnā€™t always nice.Moody and difficult, brilliant and beautiful, Kes scared me and he protected me. He could be incredibly hurtful and incredibly thoughtful. He wasnā€™t perfect, but he was perfect for me. He challenged me, he took me out of my safe little box and showed me the world could be magnificent. He was everything I wasnā€™t. Aimee Anderson is ten when the traveling carnival first comes to her nice little town. She doesnā€™t expect her world to change so completely. But meeting Kestrel Donohue puts her life on a different path.Even though she only sees him for the two weeks of the year when he passes through her home town, his friendship is the most important of her life. As a childā€™s friendship grows to adult love, the choices become harder, and both Kes and Aimee realize that two weeks a year will never be enough.

Desolate


Autumn Grey - 2018
    I was going to finish high school, attend seminary, and finally answer my calling. Becoming a priest was all I ever wanted. Until her. Grace Miller was always the one who could steal my breath with a single look. She was perfect. Out of my league. I never thought we could become more than friends. But we did. On the path Iā€™ve chosenā€”the path that chose meā€”our love is forbidden. Wrong. And that doesnā€™t seem to matter when sheā€™s in my arms. Thereā€™s a crossroads ahead of me and a battle raging in my head. Eventually, Iā€™ll have to choose a side. But how can I choose between Grace (my heart) and what I know in my soul Iā€™m meant to be?Desolate is the first book in the Grace Trilogy. It's a sometimes sexy, angsty, slow burn contemporary coming-of-age romance. Download today and experience first love all over again in this forbidden romance. *This story has some content that may be sensitive for some readers.*

My Skylar


Penelope Ward - 2014
    One thing after another kept us apart, and Iā€™ve spent the last decade in fear of losing her forever. First, it was the cancer, but she survived only to face the unthinkable at my hands. Because of me, she left town. For years, I thought Iā€™d never see her again.But now sheā€™s backā€¦and living with him. I donā€™t deserve her after everything Iā€™ve put her through, but I canā€™t live without her. This is my last chance, because sheā€™s about to make the biggest mistake of her life. I can see it her eyes: she doesnā€™t love him. She still loves me...which is why I have to stop her before itā€™s too late. My Skylar is a STANDALONE novel and a companion to Jake Undone.**Contains graphic sexual content and harsh language. It is only appropriate for adult readers age 18+

Kiss and Break Up


Ella Fields - 2019
     Dashiell Thane wasnā€™t a nice guy. He was an abrasive, demanding, conniving, intolerable brat. Yet somehow, weā€™d been best friends our whole lives. Until our senior year when I finally decided to dip my toes into the dating pool. All it took was one kiss for jealousy, lies, and betrayal to sweep in and propel us heart first into dizzying, hostile depths. Youā€™re not supposed to kiss your best friend. Youā€™re definitely not supposed to kiss your best friend while youā€™re dating someone else. And the absolute worst thing you could do is fall for your best friend. Unless, of course, you want to ruin everything.

Up in the Treehouse


K.K. Allen
    Then again, she never imagined she would fall in love with him either. When she finally reveals her feelings, rejection shatters her, rendering her vulnerable and sending her straight into the destructive arms of the wrong guy.The Rhodes twins never saw the betrayal coming. Chloe has always been their forbidden fantasy--sweet, beautiful, and tempting. But soon the lines between family, friendship, and love become as tangled as the roots of the treehouse they once shared.Now it's too late . . .Four years after a devastating tragedy, Chloe and Gavin find themselves crashing back into each other's lives. Haunted by the past, they're forced to come to terms with all that has transpired to find the peace they deserve. Except they can't seem to get near each other without combatting an intense emotional connection that brings them right back to where it all started . . . their childhood treehouse.Chloe still holds her secrets close, but this time she isn't the only one with something to hide. Can their deep-rooted connection survive the destruction of innocence?

Fake It 'Til You Break It


Meagan Brandy - 2020
    He didnā€™t have to break me to win. But he did it anyway.

Release


Aly Martinez - 2020
     Growing up, Ramsey Stewart branded my soul in ways time could never heal. At twelve, he asked me to be his girlfriend. At thirteen, he gave me my first kiss. By sixteen, weā€™d fallen in love, planned a future together, and had our eyes set on the horizon. Love never fails, right? But for Ramsey, it did. Love failed him. I failed him. The entire world failed him. At seventeen, Ramsey was convicted of killing the boy who assaulted me. Move on, he wrote in his first and only letter from prison. Start a new life, he urged. I donā€™t love you anymore, he lied. There was no such thing as giving up on Ramsey. Love may have been our curse, but he was mineā€”then, now, and forever. So here I am, twelve long years later, waiting for a man I don't even know to emerge from between the chain link gates.

Until Harry


L.A. Casey - 2016
    Hard because Harry, her beloved uncle, has died suddenly, but also because of him. Kale.Kale Hunt has been her best friend since childhood. But it was never that simple. He was Laneā€™s reason for leaving home and moving to New York. Seeing him with someone else, in love with someone else, shouldnā€™t have hurt. But it did. It really, really did. So she upped sticks and left, started a new life and cut herself off from her past.But now sheā€™s back, and all the feelings are right there. As if she had never left.Emotions are running high for everyone, and tragedy has a funny way of bringing people together. But is Lane reading the signs right? Are they still just friends, or is there something more?