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The Judgement by Ruby Vincent
reverse-harem
romance
rh
bully
Tethered to the World
Stacey Brutger - 2019
Starvation, beatings, broken bones--she's survived them all and emerged stronger. But it's not enough for him. It will never be enough. When she discovers her uncle plans to sell her to the highest bidder, she risks everything to escape the prison that has become her life.The last thing she expected was to land at a university for supernaturals...or be paired with a pack of men as broken as her. As students go missing, Annora can't get over the suspicion that she's being hunted. To protect her, the guys must set aside their personal troubles and begin working as a team. But as her past collides with her present, she must make the ultimate sacrifice and expose her secrets to save the guys who've become more than family to her...and hope she's strong enough to live with the consequences.A Phantom Touched Novel: Book 1Meet the Pack: Annora, Camden, Xander, Mason, Logan and Edgar.
Love Is Not Lost
Nikki Bolvair - 2015
A chance to forget her dark past and forge her own future. But that's hard to do when your past is full of great darkness. Death always comes at a hefty price, more so, when you're unsure if you've carried out such a sentence. Given the chance to break free from her hometown with an officer by her side, Daniels will find out that sometimes it's not the past you have to be worried about; the future can be just as scary. Especially in a new town where three hot neighbor guys want your attention. As Tyler, Kayden and Lincoln McGuire try to break down the walls Daniels has formed; things get a little out of hand. Maybe it was the dumb mutt that kept harassing her or the crazy cop foster parent that seemed to keep her on her toes, either way; Daniels walls were cracking. Sometimes it takes more than just one guy to keep your walls down. To gain your trust. To help you love again. Maybe for Daniels, three hot guys was her lucky number. Or perhaps, it was all about the mutt.
Dominic
L.A. Casey - 2014
If she doesn't befriend people, talk to them or acknowledge them in any way they leave her alone just like she wants. When Dominic Slater enters her life, ignoring him is all she has to do to get his attention. Dominic is used to attention, and when he and his brothers move to Dublin, Ireland for family business, he gets nothing but attention. Attention from everyone except the beautiful brunette with a sharp tongue. Dominic wants Bronagh and the only way he can get to her, is by dragging her from the boxed off corner she has herself trapped in the only way he knows how... by force. Dominic wants her, and what Dominic wants, Dominic gets.
Loyalty and Lies
L.A. Cotton - 2015
Especially when she catches the eye of the captain of The Fallen football team for all the wrong reasons.Determined to keep her head down and survive, Ana swears off guys. Until she meets the gorgeous, yet mysterious, Jackson. He sees past her walls, her pain and secrets, and slowly, Ana finds herself unable to fight their undeniable connection.But Jackson harbors a dark secret too...One that might destroy her.*Loyalty and Lies is the first book in Ana and Jacksonโs trilogy. Due to mature content this book is recommended for readers aged 17+
Do You Dare?
Lylah James - 2019
Reckless bad boy. Infamous playboy. My nemesis. And now my best friend.I know heโll never leave me hanging. He knows I'll never refuse a dare. Everywhere we go we turn heads, but itโs 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 donโt 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.๐ฐ ๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐Except this time, it's no simple dare. This could burn us to the ground."๐ฐ ๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐."
Twice Bitten
Belle Harper - 2020
From foster homes, creeps on the street and the law. Lexi is a survivor, she has spent her whole life moving from one abusive foster home to the next, until she decided to take charge of her own life. Living in abandoned buildings, couch surfing and working at a strip clubs are huge improvement on what she had before. All she needs is enough money to feed herself, finish high school and hopefully go to college. She has a plan. That is until she is caught and sent to live with a strange foster family up-state, โher new high school isnโt much better. Rafferty King was forced like Lexi to this new foster home, but he fits in better. And thatโs saying something for a total misfit. Hot as hell and getting into fights, while ignoring her existence. Whatever. Then there are the twins Ranger and Maverick, also known as โThe joker and The Loner.โ They know who she is and give her the new girl treatment she is all too familiar with. And how can a history teacher look that hot, there should be rules against that kind of thing. But there is something about Galen Donovani, that has Lexi feeling safe when he is near. While everyone else avoids him. What the hell is going on in the state of Washington. And why are there so many wolves roaming at Port Willow High! 17+ RH shifter and vampires.
Abandoned Girl
Lexie Winston - 2020
With an unreliable junkie for a mother and an unknown father, her foster family, the kind, successful, and generous Bostons, are the brightest spot in her life.But even with a foster family like Harlow's, there are some things money can't buy- like the ability to fit in with the shallow socialites who act like her lack of pedigree is contagious.Now that she's finished college and her veterinary degree, Harlow's life was supposed to take off. She was supposed to get a job and create a life away from the petty drama of the wealthy elite.But when her mother dies and a life-changing secret is revealed, Harlow finds herself flying across the country to face an uncertain future that Kai, Holden, Jaxon, Thomas, Jacinta, Declan, and Oliver are going to make sure she won't accept.
Glass Heart Savage
Lindsey Iler - 2020
๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.The elite come to play on the campus of Glass Heart Academy.๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐ซMy sister was their everything. Iโm their nothing.They waited three hundred and sixty-five days after her disappearance to acknowledge Iโm alive.Their wicked games should scare me.Except they donโt know Iโm not much different than her.๐๐๐ซ๐๐คPalmer Weston isnโt anything like her sister.Sheโs sweet and naive. There are plenty of reasons why I should keep my distance.Except whereโs the fun in that.Iโm a boy who loves his toys and Iโve kept her on the shelf long enough.It seems someone is determined on giving Palmer the same fate as her sister.Problem is Iโve never been good at sharing.{Glass Heart Savage is the first book in the Glass Heart Academy Series.}
Introductions
C.L. Stone - 2012
The only thing Sang craves is a fresh start and to be accepted as ordinary by her peers, because for her being different meant being cast out alone.When her family moves to a new school district, Sang infiltrates a group of boys nearly perfect in every way. Grateful for an influence outside of her parentsโ negativity, she quickly bonds with the boys, hoping to blend in and learn from them what it means to have a natural relationship with friends.Only the boys have secrets of their own and theyโll do anything to keep her safe from the knowledge of the mysterious Academy that they've sworn allegiance to. Bit by bit, Sang discovers that her friends are far from the normalcy she expected. Will her loyalty change when she's forced to remain in the dark, or will she accept that she's traded one house of secrets for another?Meet Kota, Victor, Silas, Nathan, Gabriel, Luke and North in a story about differences and loyalty, truth and mystery, friendships and heart-throbbing intimacy.The Academy, ever vigilant.
Evil Love
Ella Fields - 2020
Ex-girlfriend? Whatever. Point is, the Adonis loved to hate me.It wasnโt my fault heโd followed me. It wasnโt my fault heโd stared too long and stood a little too close, just daring me to accomplish my wildest dreams.And it most certainly wasnโt my fault his ex-girlfriend arrived when heโd decided to kiss me back.Then the cruelty began.Iโd thought I could handle it, so long as his lips kept gracing mine and he kept giving me more scorching firsts. Until he took it too far, and all his carefully kept secrets blew open the doors to a brand-new world. A world he was all too familiar with.Obsession became loathing and fear replaced naivety as Jude was forced to hold my hand and help me navigate a secret society rife with sin and debaucheryโthe crรจme de la crรจme of Peridot Island.If I wasnโt careful, Iโd do more than lose what remained of my heart. My first love and greatest foe wouldnโt be satisfied until heโd devoured my soul, too.
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.
Until You
Penelope Douglas - 2013
It is only appropriate for adult readers age 18+. Have you ever been so angry that hitting things felt good? Or so numb that you actually felt high? The past few years have been like that for me. Traveling between fury and indifference with no stops in between.Some people hate me for it, while others are scared of me. But none of them can hurt me, because I don't care about anything or anyone.Except Tatum.I love her so much that I hate her. We used to be friends, but I found out that I couldn't trust her or anyone else.So I hurt her. I pushed her away.But I still need her. The sight of her centers me, and I can pool all of my anger into her. Engaging her, challenging her, bullying her...they are my food, my air, and the last part of me that feels anything human.But she left. She went to France for a year, and came back a different girl.Now, when I push, she pushes back.
The Tracker Hive Academy: Year One
Avery Song - 2019
I've endured being the bad gal in the room. Iโve taken a lot of lifeโs punches on the chin. But never did I expect to be forced to attend an academy full of power-hungry delinquents. Born with powers far too great to control, I ended up homeless at eight years old. With my family gone, I lived on the streets, learning quickly that the world was just as cold as my beating heart. Because I carry all eight magic elements, enemies sought me out from every dark corner. Luckily, I was saved and taken in by Alaric Masters, headmaster of Tracker Hive Academy. My name is Jade Storm, and Iโm the youngest recruit to become a Tracker. Now that I'm eighteen, Alaric is insisting that I attend the academy. Iโll do it, but on my own terms. My only goal is to learn just how powerful I am and breeze through the next four years. I have no interest in joining any cliques, and Iโm not here to make friends. If thereโs one thing life has taught me, itโs that I work best alone. However, the Troubled Four โ Zeke, Zion, Zackery, and Zeus โ have other plans. Quadruplets who together carry all eight elements, the boys are desperate to make me submit to their trickery. Theyโre stupid to think Iโll play by anyone's rules but my own. I can handle whatever threats, traps, bullying, and schemes are thrown my way, because I'm not here to be a good student. I'm here to keep my secret safe from those who will do everything to see me perish. Game on. This is an 18+ Academy Romance.
Smile Like You Mean It
Willow Hadley - 2020
She became cold and distant, and Charlotte slowly withdrew into herself. She spent years feeling lonely and insignificant, and rarely spoke more than a few words to anyone. One night, after a traumatic incident instigated by her mother, Charlotte is arrested and taken to juvie.A year later, Charlotteโs being released from juvie for the second time. Instead of an awful group home, her social worker brings a welcome surprise: Charlotteโs long-forgotten uncle, Arthur, who is all too eager to help her after everything she's been through. When Charlotte learns that Arthur has a step-son her age, sheโs even more apprehensive. How could he not resent having a stranger thrust into his home and family?To her surprise and relief, Sebastian is kind and friendly. He and his four best friendsโGrayson, Remy, Liam, and Elliotโmake Charlotte feel welcome. They never make Charlotte feel badly about her past or her anxiety. They make her feel seen. As she gets to know the boys, she realizes they each have their own issues and demons theyโre fighting, and she forms a unique bond with their group.It doesnโt help that theyโre ridiculously attractive. How could Charlotte not fall in love with all five of them?
Dear Ava
Ilsa Madden-Mills - 2020
Once upon a time, I wanted to be part of their world--until they destroyed me.The last thing I expected was an anonymous love letter from one of them.Please. I hate every one of those rich jerks for what they did to me. The question is, which Shark is my secret admirer?Knox, the scarred quarterback.Dane, his twin brother.Or Chance, the ex who dumped me. . .Dear Ava,Your eyes are the color of the Caribbean Sea.Wait. That's stupid.What I really mean is, you look at me and I feel something REAL.It's been ten months since you were here, but I can't forget you.I've missed seeing you walk down the hall.I've missed you cheering at my football games.I've missed the smell of your hair.And then everything fell apart the night of the kegger.Don't hate me because I'm a Shark.I just want to make you mine.Still.Mature Content. Recommended for 18+.A short excerpt of Dear Ava appeared in Team Player 2. (No longer available) This all-new, full-length version is 376 pages and 100,000 words.