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The New Girl: A Pacific High School Bully Romance (Pacific High Series Book 1)
Ashley Rose - 2020
My mom thinks sunshine, the beach and fresh air is just what I need. Which would be great if I didn’t also mean having to be The New Girl at Pacific High. Because apparently, that role comes with a target on my back. Hunter West is the king of the school, the popular, rich and spoiled bad boy who also happens to be drop dead gorgeous. They warned me about him and said that he won’t stop until he gets what he wants. And he wants me. But he’s the baddest of bad boys, and he seems dead set on becoming my worst nightmare. You see, he’s never had anyone say no before. Until he met me. But I don't like bullies. But he's not taking no for an answer. If he thinks he can change my mind, he’s got another thing coming. WARNING: The New Girl is the first book in the Pacific High Series. It is a young adult/new adult romance that at times deals with real-life gritty themes, sexual content and cursing. But if you want teen angst, heart pounding drama, and lust-filled romance, then this bad boy romance series will be right up your alley.
Bully Bait: A Dark High School Bully Mini-Romance (Centennial High Book 1)
Ashlea Ryan - 2020
Defending my best friends seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Until it caught me in the sights of the Wolf Pack, the oh-so-gorgeous star basketball elites of Centennial High and their Alpha. Their leader, Warwick Harris, also known as War mowed down anyone foolish enough to cross their path. Like a sheep to the slaughter, I went willingly blind to the fact the wolf didn't plan on slaughtering but devouring me instead. Centennial High Series Bully Bait Bully Tricks Bully Frenzy This book is intended for mature audiences 18+ due to mature themes and languages. It is book one in a series and does end on a cliffhanger.
Cruel Boys
Mina Thorne - 2019
I was the new girl. A charity case who needed the scholarship at Blossom High to keep me out of juvenile hall. From the moment I saw my new school I knew I would never fit in. My plan was to survive my senior year and escape after graduation, unnoticed. But the elites at Blossom High had different plans for me. Sugar Royale decided I was her new target. She wanted to break me and watch me crumble until I ran from them, shattered with no place to go. What she didn't count on was how hard I'd been fighting my whole life. None of them imagined I would hit back twice as hard, and if I went down, I would go down swinging. Even if it meant losing myself in the arms of her brutal brother. Even if it meant stealing her arrogant, bullying boyfriends one by one until she was left with nothing. I'd do whatever it took to get even...even if it meant falling in love with cruelest boy of all.
Her Shame
Eden Beck - 2021
Until I got here.Warren. Chase. Sterling. Ridgecrest Reform Academy was basically built for boys like them.And, apparently now, girls like me. Girls with a past. Girls with a secret.A secret, it seems, that someone at Ridgecrest already knows--and whoever it is plans on using it against me.One misguided word from me, and suddenly keeping my secret isn’t my only problem. Not when I’ve angered the three boys who’ve run this school from the moment they stepped inside it.I might as well have painted a target on my back, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.Bullied.Blackmailed.Broken.These are the things that have already happened to me, and I’ve only just arrived.This is only the beginning.I didn’t think things could get worse than being thrown into a school for delinquents, but I was wrong.It can get so, so much worse.I’ve made sure of that.Her Shame is a full-length reverse harem bully romance with multiple love interests. It’s the first book in The Forgotten Elites trilogy, a contemporary enemies-to-lovers series where the main character has no intent to choose between the boys she loves to hate.
Rival
Ketley Allison - 2020
Recommended for readers 17 and over. It is NOT a standalone and ends on a cliffhanger with a happy-for-now (but a happily ever after will happen … in the end.)
Unwritten
Hattie Jude - 2021
But it doesn’t work. Secrets have a way of following me wherever I go.And the new people in my life might be even worse than the ones I left behind.Raf Barron is toxic, but I can't seem to stop wanting him.In a world where everything is about appearance, there’s no one I can trust. Friendships are murky, lust is mistaken for love, and decency is not even a consideration.Welcome to Longlake.I already want to leave.Unwritten is a dark romance, the first book in The Longlake Duet.
Her Challengers
Taylor Blaine - 2019
That’s all anyone sees. Frail like a flower.They want to crush me.Destroy my dreams. Trample who I am.But they don’t see my strength. They don’t know the anger and pride bucking to get out.When the three Jameson cousins come after me, they’re expecting an easy conquer. What they get will flip their world head over heels.I won’t accept a challenge sitting down.I'm a fighter and this might be the most important fight of my life.***Bad Boys of Jameson High is a high school bully romance/reverse harem trilogy with mystery, suspense, and action wrapped up over 400 pages of intense attraction.***We all want to be the strong, kick ass girl. Gray doesn't want - she is. And the cousins just might be her matches.
Rich Boys vs. Poor Boys
Devon Hartford - 2019
Turns out they'll throw me to the wolves like so much trash and I'll never see it coming.I was dumb enough to let them use me for their dirty schemes and wicked games, but still they betrayed me. Ripped my heart out and shredded it in their cruel claws.If it wasn't for those three beautifully vicious Rich Boys standing by my side in my darkest hour, I'd be going to prison.Actual prison.Tried as an adult because I just turned sixteen.Because of me, a war is brewing between the Rich Boys and the Poor Boys and I'm caught in the middle. It would be insane for me to stay all four years.But I can't leave.I ran away from my shattered past to get here.There's no going back now.* * * Rich Boys vs. Poor Boys is a full-length reverse harem high school bully romance with an HEA at the end of the series. This is book 1. Like in real life, the teenagers in this story frequently use graphic language, some underage drinking does occur, and there are some consensual sexual situations.
Taken By The Bully: A Dark Bully Romance
Roisin . - 2019
Jason Dixon. The most popular bully asshole in high school... and now he's all grown up. How could I have known crossing him would be the last concious descision I'd get to make for myself? How could I have known the second I did that, was the same second I became a slave to Jason's every whim and desire. I didn't have a choice. No, really, I didn't have a choice. And the best part about it all? At some point, I stopped caring about that. Taken by the Bully is a quick romance short read, full of OTT insta-hate to insta-love, with a bit of dark depravity thrown in for good measure. Triggers? Yup. Jealous possessive hero? Yup. (Although hero is a subjective word). HEA? You bet.
The Initiation
Melissa Adams - 2019
Beverly Hills Prep Academy is one of the top prep schools in the country: it will open all kind of doors for new transfer student Ayla.The school for the rich and famous is ruled by the A-Class: the smartest and brightest students at BHPA.The A-Class is ruled by the A-Team: three hot guys all by the name of Alex.Alex Richmond is the A-Team leader and he rules BHPA with an iron first.What happens when he feels rejected by Ayla?Things get dangerously complicated when his A-Team brothers show interest in the new girl.Ayla feels attracted and repulsed at the same time by the three alpha males and a dangerous game of love, hate and betrayal begins.Trouble is: who knows all the rules?Who’ll get hurt in the process?Add an ex nerd turned hottie who would do anything to be initiated into the A-Team, a jealous and vengeful ex girlfriend and cheerleader captain and all the pressure of a really tough school and this promises to be a hell of a year for Ayla.This is a high school, LIGHT bully romance: possible trigger warnings are mild gang violence, underage (21) drinking and drug misuse.
Hiding from Monsters
K.J. Thomas - 2020
Not even close.When I tried to break things off I lost everything and everyone. My parents are gone, and now I’m forced to move across the country, to the unknown.Straight into the arms of Asher Mancini.ObsessiveRelentlessCruelEvilDeadlyAsher,I never planned on finishing my senior year at Blackwood Academy… until Avery Stone showed up.I don’t need to finish up the year I lost. My future is already decided, I’m in charge of the East Coast. Everyone respects and bows at my feet. I may be only 19, but age is only a number, when your life is in my hands.Avery doesn’t realize who she’s up against. She thinks of me as a monster, maybe I am. One thing is for certain, I’ll never let her go.***This is not your average love story, this is a dark romance intended only for mature readers. TRIGGER warnings apply.***
The Story of Killian & Liri
Glenna Maynard - 2019
The harder he fights his pull to her the harder he falls. She’s too good for him and he knows it, but he can’t stay away. He’s a bad boy who likes his women as fast as the car he races, but Liri Hart is under his skin and in his veins. No matter how hard he tries to push her away, she keeps coming back for more, hoping she can be the one to change him. They say you never get over your first love. One thing is for sure. Neither of them will ever be the same again. This is the story of Killian & Liri.
Wicked Saint
Veronica Eden - 2020
After one kiss, the king of the school hunts me down like I’m a conquest to win. He’ll have to fight harder than that, because I’m no one’s trophy.They all want a piece of me, but I will not bend or break for them.LUCASNo one refuses the king.One case of mistaken identity and a hasty kiss turned my world upside down.The new girl refused me. Not only that, she threw down the gauntlet. That won’t stand. No one ever says no to me. This school is mine and she’ll learn her place as a loyal follower or her life is going up in flames.I’ll make her say yes. She’ll be screaming it before I’m finished breaking her.Warning: Wicked saint is a dark new adult high school bully romance intended for readers 18+. This book is part of a series but can be enjoyed as a standalone. This mature new adult romance contains dubious situations and intense sexual/violent content that some readers might find triggering or offensive. Please proceed with caution.
Untouched
Jaxson Kidman - 2019
Now I’m the new girl. My mother’s in rehab and the last person I expect to see takes me in so I don’t end up on the street. Except… BAY FALLS HIGH is like nothing I know. Rich. Power hungry. A$$holes around every corner. Liars. Cheaters. And if that wasn’t enough… I have three of the hottest and baddest guys in school after me. I didn’t mean to see what I saw to get their attention. And I swear to them I won’t say a word. But they don’t believe me. I’m not a prize. I’m a toy. I know once I’m broken they’ll leave me alone… … but maybe for the first time in my life I’m done with being broken. Plus, when I find out what they really want from me, I realize that maybe I can be the bitch calling the shots.
Hell's Belle
Ruby Vincent - 2020
Not that my parents want to hear it.Every three years, the young eligible men and women in my community gather in Citrine Cove to party, flirt, and leave the island with a fiancé on their arm.Falling in love optional.The last thing I want is to participate in this sham. Especially not alongside the boy who tricked me. The boy who dumped me. And the boy who tortured me.Love is not in the cards for me, but so much of my life is out of my control. Why should this be any different?Preston, Nathan, and Carter are breaking down my walls. Breaking my rules. Making the girl who hates fairy tales believe in a happily ever after. Every day with them they drag me deeper into their depths, singing that siren song I can’t resist.Unfortunately, my life belongs to only one man……and he’ll kill to keep it that way.