Book picks similar to
On the Edge of Regret by Kate Squires
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second-chance
romance
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Bad Romeo
Leisa Rayven - 2014
She was the good girl actress. He was the bad boy about campus. But one fated casting choice for Romeo and Juliet changed it all. Like the characters they were playing, Cassie and Ethan's romance seemed destined. Until he broke her heart and betrayed her trust. Now the A-list heartthrob is back in her life and turning her world around. One touch at a time. Cast as romantic leads once again, they're forced to confront raw memories of the heartbreaking lows and pulse-pounding highs of their secret college affair. But they'll also discover that people who rub each other the wrong way often make the best sparks
It Must Have Been the Mistletoe
M.L. Broome - 2021
I love Christmas, but I’m not in the mood for merriment and mistletoe this year. I have a different plan—camping out at my lakefront cabin to nurse a bottle of wine and a broken heart. It’s all going smooth, until my ex-fiancée, Jackson, shows up on the doorstep with the same plan. There may be a blizzard outside, but I’m far more worried about the inferno smoldering between Jackson and me—one he insists on stoking every chance he gets. Looks like there’s more than one way to keep warm this Christmas.
You Keep Breaking Us
Carrie Aarons - 2022
We were the golden couple of our high school. The king and queen of prom, the sweethearts voted most likely to get married and have babies, and the absolute idiots who decided to attend the same college.Because that’s when it all fell apart. The naïve, puppy love versions of ourselves couldn’t see the obvious cracks we’d had back in our hometown. But they sure revealed themselves when we started living in an off-campus house together with four of our other friends.Within a semester, blow-out fights, jealousy, every-other-week breakups, and my abandonment issues had him bowing out. Not just on me, but on the house, too. Until our senior year, when his parents refuse to keep paying rent on two places.So he moves back in, and I’m forced to live with my ex. The one who has ruined all other men for me. The one I still cry myself to sleep at night thinking about. The one who confesses, during a run-in in a dark hallway, that he hates how much he still loves me.And when he starts dating again, he might as well plunge a knife straight through my heart. Despite our breakup, I’m on the verge of losing him for real this time, and possibly forever. The only option is to seek help for my deep-seated trauma, the thing that Callum always encouraged me to see someone about. The thing that eventually pushed him away.Put two of the most driven, headstrong, and passionate people in any relationship and it’s bound to combust. We’ve always had that twin flame kind of love.So, together we might burn. But we also might heal.
Under the Mooseltoe (A Sunset Ridge Sweet Romance #5)
Jacqueline Winters - 2020
Pride has kept her from asking for help or even confessing her dire situation to those closest to her, most of all her well-meaning but overbearing mother.Brayden Young came to Sunset Ridge to slow down from his hectic lifestyle after a tragic accident last spring and never left. The charming small town has shown him there is more to life than persistent pursuit of wealth and prestige. He’s even adopted a dog. Much to his mother’s dismay, he has no plans to move back to Texas—or even come home for Christmas.Bonded by their desperate need to avoid their mothers meddling in their lives, Ava and Brayden forge a plan to fake a virtual relationship. A few photos should be enough to get their mothers off their backs.Except, the simple plan turns south when both their mothers announce they’re spending Christmas in Alaska.Ava and Brayden have to spend more time together if they’re to be convincing, which only blurs the line between what is fake and was it real. Feelings weren’t supposed to get involved. Oops.
Humiliating Revenge
T. Christensen - 2018
What he had endured was more humiliating, so she swallowed the uncomfortable emotions swirling in her stomach trying to crawl their way up her throat…” Olivia Crawford was ‘famous’ for being the rich, snooty, spoiled town princess. Ever since she could remember girls whispered and pointed at her. Boys gawked at her, but didn’t dare approach her. Now she was in college, in the same town, with the same people who never forgave her for callously dumping the boy who had become the town celebrity. Calum Breen was the adored, easy-going, captivating high school athlete. He didn’t know who Olivia was at first and then he didn’t give a damn. He pursued her until he had her and then Olivia made it crystal clear her uppity reputation was more than deserved. His humiliation, at her hands, and anger drove him to the MMA. Now he was back to prove who was better than who. He was no longer the gullible, love struck boy; he was a hardened man who had learned to defend himself. And he was going to enjoy teaching Olivia how sweet payback is. “In case you haven’t noticed you are the one waiting on me hand and foot. Did Daddy finally come to his senses and realize you weren’t a princess, but a selfish, vain stuck up bitch?” Calum’s path for revenge takes some unexpected turns and he learns not everything is at it appears. If you enjoy a Romantic Young Adult Novel with a Hot Alpha Male and a Determined Heroine, this is the book for you! (A guaranteed HEA with 94,577 words)
Stranded with the Ex-Boyfriend (Snowbound Billionaires Book 2)
Sophie Brooks - 2020
I don’t even want to see his stupid, handsome face, let alone pretend to be a couple. Too bad there’s a blizzard raging, and the innkeeper won’t rent us the last room until Aaron convinces her it’s our honeymoon. Like I’d ever marry him! Sharing close quarters should be a nightmare after everything he’s done, but with him pretending to be a loving husband, I start to remember the good times. How it feels to curl up next to him. The way his strong hands rub my shoulders when I’m tense. He’s charming when he wants to be, keeping me from going stir crazy and holding me tight when the power goes out. When I see how great he is with the kids at the inn, it reminds me of the future I thought we’d have together. Is it possible I was wrong about him? He claims he wants a second chance, but that might be even more dangerous than the storm outside.
**Stranded with the Ex-Boyfriend is a romance novel with steamy scenes, no cheating, and a happy ending. It can be read as a standalone.**
Inc's Regret
Elizabeth Knox - 2020
Now I have my chance to get her back, but will it even matter? With time comes pain and I know we’ve all been through enough of it.I walked out on them— Zane and Octavia that night at the hotel. I forced myself to run from the both of them because of the lies I’ve told. Now I’m being sent to Montana as a regent for the Satan's Raiders MC, and my club will be getting a Reaper.It’s supposed to help secure our alliance, to make it stronger. If you ask me the only thing it’ll do is stir up trouble.Only, when I get there I find out I’m not the only one who’s been keeping secrets.There’s a little boy named Neo who looks a fuck of a lot like me.I guess it’s time for us all to fess up to the lies and secrets we’ve kept. I just wonder if we’ll be able to move past it in the end, or if they’ll tear us apart even more.
Sergei
Naomi West - 2020
The man, the myth, the monster.Naomi was an innocent club girl. Hardly worth my time.But I needed a release, and so I claimed her the only way I know how:Utterly and completely.And then I forgot about her.But she’s back now—back in my underworld, back in my enemy’s sights…and back with secrets she cannot hide any longer.The baby she’s carrying may have been an accident, but it’s my problem now.Because the men I’m at war with will stoop as low as it takes to see me vanquished.If I’m to protect Naomi and my child, I have to make a choiceSave my empire…Or save my family?SERGEI is a full-length, standalone mafia billionaire romance novel. It comes complete with a snarly, growling mob boss, hot action, no cheating, and—of course—an HEA!
Current
Abby McCarthy - 2016
One moment was all it took for the river’s current to take everything from them. June would have done anything for Jake. The two were inseparable. He was going to run away to be with her. Then, his abusive father destroyed their happiness. Years later, June sits down to write a review for the band Silent Tides and is floored when she comes face to face with Lucas the keyboardist. Lucas looks so familiar; the resemblance to Jake is uncanny.June falls fast and hard for Lucas, but she continuously questions her feelings for him, unsure if they are because he reminds her of Jake or because of who he is. Just when June thinks she’s found happiness with Lucas, she loses him too. Their new love is torn apart, clouded in a veil of deceit and lies, shattering June. Six years pass and June feels like she finally has found peace in her life. Once again, it’s ripped wide open when she comes face to face with a love from her past.Now it’s June who has a secret.
A Lyon's Pride
Emily Royal - 2021
unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves.Pride tore them apart—can forgiveness reunite them?On the death of his father, Mason Redstone returns from the militia to claim his title, only to discover his family estate is nearing bankruptcy. He needs money, and he needs it quickly. What better means to secure it than a rich wife, courtesy of Mrs Dove-Lyon? Having loved, and lost, in his youth, a marriage of convenience is the solution to his problems.Lily Diamond has known known poverty and hardship, and now runs a successful insurance enterprise. Having hardened her heart after her childhood sweetheart abandoned her a decade ago, she’s looking for a titled husband to give her daughters the position in society which was denied her. When she calls upon her mother’s old friend, Bessie Dove-Lyon for help in finding a match, she stipulates that the suitor must have no expectations regarding love, or the marriage bed.When Lily’s prospective suitors take part in one of Mrs Dove-Lyon’s games, the Black Widow of Whitehall weaves her spell once more, then presents Lily with her betrothed—the very last man on earth she thought she’d see again.
Can Mason prove to Lily that he’s conquered the pride which tore them apart? And will Lily trust him enough to reveal the secret she’s been keeping for ten years?
One Night
K.L. Humphreys - 2018
I didn’t expect to walk in on my boyfriend cheating on me. I shouldn’t have slept with my brother’s best friend. I shouldn’t have ran once it was over. But I did, and now I’m back with a secret that will change all of our lives. I want a happily ever after… But that may not happen. Jaxon: One night and she’s ruined me. I slept with my best friends little sister, the one girl I’ve wanted for a long time. It was the best night of my life. She’s back with a bang and the whole town's talking. I need her in my life, but the people trying to sabotage us are making it hard for me to get her. She’s all I want and I won’t stop until I get her.