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Bonded In Truth by AnaleighRites
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Jade and Zaiere are best friends whose love for each other runs deep. After years of healing from their own personal heartbreaks, the lines between friends and lovers become blurred and they dive right in without any inhibitions. However, the bliss of their budding relationship is cut short when the past comes back to haunt Zaiere. Sometimes the truth hurts more than a lie. Will the truth bring them closer to their happily ever after or will fate have its own way?
Safety Net by gabtopia
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After years of hiding in the shadows, Saija meets Demetrius and decides to change her life. Follow their story that is filled with lies, gangs, and chivalrous love. TW// self harm. Yes, I know the original chapters of this book need so much work, as I am rewriting it in the drafts, but the story is still there! Just a heads up.
The Story Of Us(Original) by AWryneckWrites
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A trophy wife with a dark past, Rue Medina would do 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 for love. When she is abandoned by Mr. Perfect, she turns to journaling to revisit her past in hopes to find what about her makes the people she loves run for the hills. When an old flame reappears, Rue jumps at the chance to escape her spiraling love life and dark impulses with two weeks of meaningless sex and fun, too blinded passion to notice there is something off about her old friend Fallon. The hopeless romantic soon to learn some things are better left in the past. WC: 115,465 Fall Awards Short List: Literary Fiction. #2 Literary Fiction 2/14/22 #3 Wattpad After Dark 3/1/22 #8 In steamy 10/2/21 #5 In unreliable Narrator 9/30/21 #3 in Lit Fic 10/2/21 #6 The Fall Awards 2021 10/2/21 #7 Black Main Character 10/2/21 #20 Wattpad After Dark 10/2/21 _________________________________________ 🇼 🇦 🇷 🇳 🇮 🇳 🇬 : Read Author's note for content and Trigger Warnings
It Takes A Village  by tianawritesthings
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Six college freshman are peered up for a group project forming a deep bond that turns into friendship, love, chaos, and tragedy.
Link Up ✔️ by KimberlyWesley
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Rayvn, a freshman in college, has the bar set high when it comes to dating. Those around her are only interested in linking up, that is, just hooking up. Finding the right guy in the midst of bad dates, ghosting and stalkers is becoming a challenge. Will she meet the man of her dreams or just link up? 🏆Amby in Young Adult 2023🏆 #1 Mizzou #5 Sneaky link
Girls Who Dreamt of Castles by Seekeroflight
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"I know we dreamt of these things, but now it seems like your standards are too high." Adira Archibong wants to be a supermodel, but as she steps into a world of money, fame, and detrayal, she learns that the only people she can trust are her friends. ***** Adira Archibong is starting out in the Nigerian modelling industry, but quickly loses her agent when she refuses to go nude for a shoot. Then she's approached by Benjamin, a modeling executive, who brings her into his agency, but also wants to date her. Soon she and Benjamin are a couple, but as time goes on she learns more about him and the secrets he keeps. There are lies surrounding all men in Adira's life. As a model, the only people she can trust are her friends. But will they be enough to save her? (Content and/or Trigger Warning: Sexual assault)
Hawthorne Heights by madandbougie
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Winner of the Watty's 2017 Awards ✿ Destruction is a form of creation; buildings crumbled as he walked past. Khari Spence, trapped in a city steeped in hatred, longs to embrace his true self even if it means risking everything. He finds a fragile refuge in an old apartment with peeling wallpaper and blank journal pages -- and hopefully in a girl. Milo Locke, disillusioned with the hollow lure of materialism, seeks to rid the ideologies her parents forced onto her. When their worlds collide, will they help each other heal from past wounds, or will their secrets tear them apart?
The Princess and the Writer by HibaChivue
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AWESOME COVER BY @undecided_extroverts. Anne is a girl who struggles with being brave and standing up for herself. Though she has a great support system in her friends, she hates that she is weak and cowardly, unable to stand up for herself. Her only escape is her writing, in which she creates her own world where she is the brave hero, and her tormentors the villains. Little does she know that words - her words - can build and destroy. How does she discover this? By getting dragged into the very world she created...
Ivy of Our Hearts by TAJoseph
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Trapped in the woodlands, Ivy's only hope of going home is to escape the faerie who enchants her into loving him, blinding her to what he is--monstrous. *** A dark fortress of trees twisted and crippled by time, the Clearwater, Connecticut, woods is no place for two teenage girls. The legends claim it's haunted. Fed up with being kept inside after dark, fearing the monster will take them, sixteen-year-old Ivy Farewell and her best friend Margaret set out to prove everyone wrong--that the ghost of Clearwater isn't a ghost. And the voice that has been calling to Ivy after dark is simply a trick of the wind. But the woods are deeper than Ivy imagined, each turn bringing them farther from home. When they end up lost their only hope is in each other. All seems undone when Ivy falls ill with a fever, until a stranger persuades them back to his cabin. Under his spell, Ivy falls into a deep and complicated love, a love so treacherous it blinds her to what he truly is--a monster. Copyright © 2023 T.A. Joseph All rights reserved cover by @xenomorphius