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Initiation: Year 1 by Rachel Angel
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Ruin Me
Angel James - 2019
I am the unwashed masses that they can’t stand and they never miss an opportunity to grind that message home.Especially Rosalie Evers, the queen bee who rules with a manicured grip wrapped around the throats of everyone trapped beneath her.But I don’t care what they think. I’m just doing time at Twin Falls until I can get back to California for college.Except I’ve attracted the attention of the three hottest — and most dangerous — guys at Twin Falls.Preston, Maddox and Quinton are my weakness. I don’t know if anything is real or I’m getting played like countless others before me.Are they lying to me? Or have they changed? I shouldn’t risk my heart when the stakes are so high but I can’t seem to make myself walk away...
Even when I should.
RUIN ME is part of a four-book series that ends with a massive cliffhanger and must be read in order. The books are: RUIN ME, SHATTER ME, WRECK ME, DEVASTATE ME. Contains foul language and mature themes. Enjoy!
First Impressions
C.R. Jane - 2018
Failed by the foster system, and left in the hands of a woman who hates her, and a man who wants her, Eva has given up hope of ever having a life. When she finds a mysterious letter from Rothmore College addressed to her in the trash, Eva's future suddenly comes alive. Now all she has to do is figure out a way to escape her attic prison, make her way across the country to New York City, and figure out all the things that point to the fact that there are things about her that aren't exactly normal... Along the way Eva meets new friends, explores new places, and stumbles across three beautiful, charismatic, and alarmingly otherworldly men. Do they hold the key to Eva discovering who she really is, or are they just good at first impressions?
Angel
K.M. Raya - 2020
They call themselves The Brotherhood. Carter, Holden, Captain and Ellis rule the school like gods while their fathers rule the city. But Angel Valentino has never been one to take orders blindly. After her father, one of the most feared and infamous mobsters on the East Coast sends her to Seaside California, Angel finds herself entangled in a web of love, lies, death and darkness.Being in the Brotherhood comes with a heavy price and an unshakable legacy that spans generations. They don't like this baffling new girl who threatens to turn their world inside out. She might just be the most beautiful, most darkly alluring girl any of them have ever laid eyes on, with a heart of steel and intellect well beyond her years, but Angel has secrets too... and in their world, secrets get you killed.Disclaimer: This is a why choose, RH title in which one woman has multiple love interests and does not have to choose. 18+ due to graphic sexual and violent situations and strong language. Be advised that this book contains situations that can be possibly triggering for some readers. This is a strongly worded novel filled with bullying, Mafia violence, questionable morals and a love that's so dark and twisted, you might want to read it while you're home alone.
Vernal
Randi Cooley Wilson - 2016
Tristan has a dark past that haunts him. Together, they have a love that can never be.Sheltered, and unable to escape her bloodline, Serena St. Michael has spent the last two years training at the Royal Protector Academy. Struggling with a dark past, Tristan Gallagher’s current assignment is to protect a lifetime of secrets. One chance encounter will change everything. Serena must decide if she will follow her heart, forsaking all she’s ever known and risking a future worse than non-existence. Tristan will break every rule to save Serena, even if he can’t keep her. When you’ve hidden behind a mask for so long, would you reveal yourself for love? Vernal, the first novel in The Royal Protector Academy series is a dangerously exciting and darkly romantic tale that will take your breath away.
Blood and Promise
Miranda Lyn - 2021
When it comes down to it, can she sever the tendrils of her morality and do it? After being taken prisoner by the sea queen, she manages an escape riddled with questions, only to arrive home to absolute heartbreak. Discovering everything she knew to be a lie, she sets out on a dangerous journey to learn the truth of her upbringing. But when the hunters begin to come for her, she realizes she isn't the only one that will need her lethal skills.Meanwhile, Temir, a lesser fae in the vicious Court of Wind, hates no one more than himself. Gifted with the magic of healing and therefore protected from the prejudices befallen the rest of the lesser fae, he is smothered beneath the firm hand of the northern king. But when he makes a discovery that could change the world, he must decide, produce the serum and convince the one he is falling in love with to run away with him and his beloved mentor or let fear suppress him into defeat.One high fae. One lesser fae. One goal. Find a way to fight back.
Court of Crimson
Helen Scott - 2020
Unwanted. Orphan. In a time of war between mankind and fae, no one ventures outside of the safety of the human kingdom. Abandoned in the furthest corner of Amnestia, in a convent long forgotten by most, Cress grows up thinking she’s nothing more than a human of horrendous skill and grace. One moment, the quiet countryside of Amnestia where she’s been raised her whole life is devoid of any danger and the next, it’s there. Powered by a strange magical spell, a castle appears seemingly from nowhere. Ruled by a court of fae few humans had ever laid eyes on and lived to tell the tale, Cress stumbles right into the center of three royal princes. There, she discovers that perhaps she’s not a human at all, but a changeling--a fae child left behind in the ancient tradition of an extinct court. In the face of possible execution, she better hope she’s a fae, because the worst thing a girl can be in the court of crimson is human.
Made For Magic
Melody Rose - 2021
I thought it was crazy, but it turns out magic is real, and more than that, there hasn't been a witch born in generations.So it's just me and a school full of deliciously hot wizards who haven't had a woman around for years. What's a girl to do in this strange new world, other than fall in love... again... and again... and again?But it's not all fun and games. When a dark force rises to threaten the school, the only thing that has a chance to save the day is my boys and me. Time to show the world that I was made for magic!
Knightfall
Ann Denton - 2019
I will stop you. Even if it means I have to go back to the palace. Even if it means I have to take back the crown I left behind. Even if it means I have to face the four men I left at the altar. I will take on them and their anger. I will take on anything to save Avia. Because the kingdom needs her. The kingdom needs a good queen. Not a cursed one. Not me. If I can’t save her, then the kingdom will fall. Because I can’t rule. I’m a walking death sentence for anyone who gets too close…
Midnight Kisses
Leia Stone - 2020
Then when she arrives at Alpha Academy, the Alpha King is not happy to see her.And if that isn’t enough...Mysterious magical marks pop up on her skin, outcast shifters keep attacking the school, and someone is trying to kill her.There is no way things could get worse. No way.Until she meets her fated mate at a masquerade party…He’s sexy as sin.An Alpha Heir.And completely and totally forbidden.If you love YA fantasy, wolf-shifters, and enemies-to-lovers romance, get ready for a pulse-pounding story that will keep you riveted until the very last word.*This new series is NOT Reverse Harem.
Tin
Candace Robinson - 2020
Cursed with a stone heart, he is the perfect assassin: ruthless, efficient, and merciless with thousands of kills to his name. When his old friend, Lion, offers him a small fortune to deliver Dorothy to the South for his lover to wear the girl’s head as her own, Tin doesn’t hesitate to accept the unsavory deal. Dorothy Gale lost everything—her family to illness, her dog to age, and now her farm to foreclosure. The entire town thought she was crazy for believing in a faerie world called Oz, but even after ten years have passed, she can’t help knowing she was right. So when an emerald green portal opens in her wheat field, she jumps at the opportunity to return to the only place she ever felt like she belonged. Tin wasn’t expecting a grown woman to step through the portal, just as Dorothy wasn’t expecting Tin to have his stone heart back, but Oz holds more unexpected things than either could have imagined. Magic has hidden dangerous lies behind glamour, trapped innocents in curses, and left the land of Oz in turmoil—none more so than the South. As Tin and Dorothy travel together for the second time in a decade, their lives begin to make sense again. Soon, they must decide who to give their loyalties to before Lion takes Dorothy’s head and Tin’s cursed heart is forever doomed.Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Laura Thalassa.
Invisible
Sariah Skye - 2017
Ever since I was young, I have had this strange “gift” of invisibility. I can’t explain it, nor can I always control it. It affects my work, my personal life, dating—all but my mother and best friend seem to be affected. No matter what I do, I seem to always be forgotten. Until I meet these gorgeous guys during a girls’ night out, and there’s something strangely alluring about them. An ancient curse brings us together, while a group of supernatural “Collectors” is threatening to tear us apart. They’re targeting people with special abilities like mine, and all four men have taken it upon themselves to protect me. But with their complicated pasts, I can’t help but feel protective of them, too. I’m trying not to get in over my head, with these men, and the magic. But I have to admit, It’s nice to be seen after years of being invisible. *Author's Note: this book is 'reverse harem;' meaning, one woman, multiple love interests. This series is meant for readers 18+ only
Savage Lands
Stacey Marie Brown - 2020
A battle for dominance is brewing between the elite fae and the privileged humans in Eastern Europe. The prejudice between the sides is bubbling with hate and violence. Nineteen-year-old human, Brexley, has grown up in privilege, but not without heartbreak. After being orphaned, she is taken in by General Markos, living in a walled city rife with power grabs and ruthless political games. Then one night the course of her life changes, and Brexley is thrown into the most feared prison in the east. Halalhaz, the House of Death—where you go in but don’t come out. She must learn to live with the worst of fae and human criminals. The rule of hierarchy puts humans on the bottom, where the only way to survive each day is to make alliances with the fae.Here she meets the sexy, vicious legend, Warwick Farkas. A myth among man and fae. He is as brutal, cruel, arrogant, and as lethal as the lore says he is, ruling the prison with unchallenged authority. Brexley can’t deny an intense draw to him, one that might cost her life.If The Games don’t take her out first—A fight to the death where only one survives.
Taken by Storm
Elle Middaugh - 2019
Princess. Pawn.
As a peasant, I was forced to work the jewel mines in order to survive. My life was hard, but my worries were few: affording food to eat, and keeping my pet sloth out of harm’s way. But when a chance encounter with a stranger concludes with me obtaining the power of the gods, suddenly my whole world changes. When the Storm King finds out—and trust me, he always finds out—he plans to make me a princess by marrying me off to one of his four sons. Which doesn’t really seem like too bad of a thing...at first. After all, the Storm Princes are sexy as sin, rich, confident, and built like the very gods themselves. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and the luxurious life of the Blackwood royals is nothing but a nightmare I cannot wake up from... and neither can the princes. They grew up knowing and resenting this fact, but I had to find out the hard way...
In the Kingdom of Blackwood, we are all just pawns in the Storm King’s wicked game.
TAKEN BY STORM is the first book in the STORMS OF BLACKWOOD series, a fast burn, RH, paranormal romance. 18+
Chosen by Grace
Alicia Rades - 2018
until the night they attacked.Ryn Tyler didn't intend to kill a demon when she moved to Eagle Valley—or to become the hero of a divine race of angels. She just wants to be a normal teenager, but fate has other plans.While discovering the secrets of the supernatural, Ryn navigates a complicated relationship with Marek, the guy who can't stop saving her life. But Marek knows more about Ryn's magic than he's letting on.Only Ryn has the power to stop the coming apocalypse. But there's a demon in Eagle Valley who wants that power for himself—and if Ryn wants to survive, she'll have to fight back.
Fallen Elemental
Tamara White - 2016
And it feels like they know it too, because they treat me like an outcast. When all I really want is to be cared for by someone. To be loved for who I am. Not hated by my parents like I am now, or bullied by girls who know nothing about me, but treated like I too am important and worthy of affection. It seems like that day has finally arrived when four new guys show up at school and turn my life on its head. I know I shouldn’t let my loneliness be the reason I let them into my life, but I can’t seem to help myself. There is just something about them that draws me in, that makes me long to be near them. But when my eighteenth birthday arrives, everything I thought I knew about them, and myself, changes. I have to adapt to all sorts of new challenges, like controlling powers I never knew I had. Let’s just hope I don’t destroy the world by accident. ***Warning: this book, while based in high school, is not YA. I recommend readers be over the age of 18 before reading this and and to ensure you read the inside warning page regarding possible triggers.