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[Excerpt] Keeping Up Appearances by writeriz
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*Available now on Amazon and free in Kindle Unlimited. Also available in Audio.* SILVER MEDALIST IN THE READER'S FAVORITE BOOK AWARDS 2019 Three's a crowd, but four's a war. Big girl undies? Check. Speech planned? Check. Nerves of steel? Check. A single crush? ...not check...? What do you do when you find your best friend/crush kissing your other best friend on the day you were going to declare your feelings for him? You only agree to fake date your crush's rival. The King of the Bows, popular golden (play)boy, and all around douche, Xander wouldn't be my last choice for a boyfriend. Across the school, battlelines are drawn and sides are taken between the new 'it' couple of my former best friends and the excitingly scandalous pairing of me and King Douche. Xander keeps distracting me from the plan; make Jason jealous. He insists on holding my hand and kissing me and being nice. Ugh. Xander's not nice and he's not the relationship type, but he's doing a damned good job of acting both parts. He calls it 'keeping up appearances', I call it 'take one more pass at my arse and I'll break your nose'. They say all's fair in love and war, but what's so fair about falling for the wrong guy when your two best friends are on the other side of the battlelines?
the Art of Breaking Up by writeriz
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Wade Phillips shattered Lisa McGinty's heart in Year 10 for no known reason. One minute he was the perfect boy-next-door boyfriend, star goalie on the soccer team, and future head prefect. The next he was like a different person altogether, dumping Lisa and systematically making his way through every girl in our year. By Year 12, he'd made it through most of the girls in our year and was on to the year below. He'd miraculously made Head Prefect and was somehow still on the Soccer team, even though he put more effort into partying. Lisa and I were used to his sarcastic teasing, his shallow taunting, and his insincere flirting. My best friend put on a brave face in front of him, but she still felt the sting. I knew she still loved him. At least, she thought she did. I kept waiting for her to see he wasn't worth it. No one knew what happened to Wade and no one got close to him anymore. Not until a life-altering incident throws me unavoidably into his path. For one single second, I see through the armour he's built. It takes just one single second for him to see through mine. Something connects us. It turns out, Wade Phillips might be the only one who understands me. It turns out, I might be the only one who understands him. Wade Phillips might be the guy to teach me the art of breaking up, but will my heart - and Lisa's - break in the process?
the Romeo + Juliet Experiment by writeriz
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Girl + guy + three days = greatest love story ever. Yeah, right. Jess Clayton had no interest in romance. The teen cynic was convinced it was all a ruse made up to lure you into stupidity and part you from your hard-earned pennies. No matter how many people asked her out - not that there was a line or anything - she refused to date. When it came to romance, Ryan Miller had been there and done that. The re-reformed bad boy had already done his redemption romance story only to have his supposed one true love go and break his heart. He really wasn't interested in going through all that mess again. So, when the two come together for a Year 12 English camp with the express purpose of testing the legend of Romeo and Juliet falling in love in three days, nothing could possibly go wrong. After all, it was impossible to fall in love with someone in three days. Wasn't it? Wilderness + teenagers + camping = true love? Over our dead bodies.
[excerpt] Chaos & the Geek (Grace Grayson Security Book 1) by writeriz
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*now available on all retailers* Amber How do you politely refuse when the only guy to star in any of your dirty fantasies has just offered to put you up for the foreseeable future and your brother's just accepted like you were in fact still thirteen and couldn't make decisions for yourself? You don't. And, you end up with a roommate who wears a very good elegant mask over the rough and tumble, bad boy core I remember far too well. Only, it's ten years later and I'm even nerdier than I used to be. It's ten years later and I couldn't look worse. It's ten years later and I can't keep one guy. It's ten years later and my brother still teases me mercilessly in front of him. It's ten years later and Kit somehow looks even better than the guy I spent my formative years crushing on. Except, there might just be a smouldering heat in Kit's eyes that suggests he's not quite as out of my league as I thought. Just maybe, this geek is about to get a whole lot of chaos. Kit When I find out about my best mate's little sister's situation, the offer is out of my mouth before I can stop it; Hawk's like a brother to me even if Amber's never looked twice at me. I could never tell if she was scared of me or hated me. But the deal is done. She's going to bring her bedraggled self upstairs to my penthouse and live with me for as long as she needs. I see the pain she hides away, I see the lack of confidence despite how smart she is, how good. If there's something I've learned, it's that confidence makes all the difference. So, it becomes my mission to help Amber find her confidence. But I find more than confidence in her and suddenly I'm seeing my best mate's little sister completely differently. Except, there might be something in the way she smiles at me that gives me hope I'm not as far out of her league as I thought. It might just be time that this chaos gets a little geek.
[excerpt] Caden (Loving the Sykes Book 1) by writeriz
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*now available on Amazon. Free in KU* Caden I spent six years away, part of an elite unit, fighting for my life every day and trying to take my mind off the girl I'd always loved. But, when an accident sends me home, I realise it might be time to shed some secrets and tell her I love her, I've always loved her. I just have to hope I haven't waited too long. And that her three big brothers, the only family I have left, aren't the thing that finally manage to kill me. I need to make her my girl. Lucy I spent five years with my boyfriend, trying to get over him, telling myself he was just a teenage crush, I wasn't in love with him. But, the boy who left comes back a man. There's no denying that teenage crush has grown with me and I have to admit I've always loved him. I don't know if he'll ever see me as anything more than a little sister. Not with another in his heart. But, I'm willing to do whatever it takes. I've always been his girl. A STANDALONE big brother's best friend, second chance romance with a HEA.
#sneakpeek Damned trilogy by writeriz
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*Full available on Amazon. Free in KU.* The devil always collects. And, so does his son. Drake Most guys like their dads. Most guys aren't the son of the literal devil. When Daddy Dearest tells me its unseemly for the last living son of the Lord of Hell to be unmarried, I hate to think who he has in mind. Until, I remember I'm technically already married. Yeah, she's human, and I was all of eight at the time. But, still counts. Now I just need to get my wife to Hell for a meet and greet with Pops and send her back home. Except, our marriage won't technically be legit until it's consummated. And I don't kno that I want to send her home... Wren Most girls live normal lives. Most girls aren't married to the devil's son. There is something weirdly familiar about the new guy next door, but I can't place it. Then a weird little demon thing turns up in my room to tell me a prince of Hell wishes for an audience with me. Oh, yeah. And apparently - while I'm not even eighteen yet - he's my husband? So, I find myself stuck in Hell with a husband. And I guess I don't hate it as much as I thought I would. There's always something going on and things to discover. And soon, I don't know that I want to go home.
[Excerpt] Safety in the Friendzone (the Friendzone Book 1) by writeriz
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*full available on Amazon. Free in KU.* Charley and Zane had been best friends since he'd found the broken board in the fence between their houses at the age of four. Sleep overs in the backyard had turned into sleepovers in his treehouse into sleepovers in one of their rooms when they both decided sleeping closer to a toilet was actually great. Zane and Charley were just friends until his girlfriend dumps him and there's the beginnings of a spark. But they've grown a little apart in recent years and neither of them think the other would possibly ever be interested in anything more. So Charley fakes a crush and it's Zane to the rescue in helping her follow her heart. After all, there's safety in the friendzone.
[Excerpt] Popped (Popped Book 1) by writeriz
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*full available on Amazon. Free in KU.* Paige is Mitcham College's Silver Spoon; she can have any guy she wants. Or can she? When her friends bet she can't get a bad boy to fall for her, she agrees to the wager. Enter Bash Baker; Mitcham College's cherry popper. He's the most egotistical, stereotypical jerk in the whole school. Either Bash's fragile male ego is popped by the formal, or Paige has to give Mia's nerdy cousin his first French kiss. Bash is Mitcham College's Cherry Popper; he's popped more cherries than Casanova in all of Venice*. But there's one cherry his mates bet he'll never get. Enter Paige Nicholls; the school's 'it' girl. Never one to shy away from a bet, Bash agrees to his mate's wager. Either Paige's cherry is popped by the formal, or Bash gives up his title to the nerdy band geek in the year below them. It's War of the Romance as Paige and Bash try to seduce the other one without falling for the ruse themselves. Usual tactics don't seem to be working, so the two of them might need to switch things up. Otherwise they might find they're the one who's popped. *possible exaggeration. This rom-com parody is not recommended for younger readers due to mature content. Please be aware that this story is set in Australia and therefore uses Australian syntax and grammar.
[Excerpt] The Stand-In: my life as an understudy by writeriz
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*full version available on Amazon - free in KU* He's a semi-famous rockstar I'm Nerdy McNerdleton Elijah Sweet: born rock god, gorgeous, sinful Ella Cowan: beautiful, confidant, popular Chloe Cowan: wait...who? Born for the express purpose of being the understudy for my older sister, I've learnt that life goes faster if I just go along with the madness. Until the madness involves me, the School Formal, my sister's hair-brained scheme to win over the hottest boy in school, and a misunderstanding that I'm the one interested in him. Suddenly, my quiet existence isn't so quiet anymore and the bright neon light that heralds my eighteenth birthday and freedom is overshadowed by one that follows a boy who's going to be the next big thing. But I am so not interested... Am I? Please be aware that this story is set in Australia and therefore uses Australian English, grammar and syntax.
[Excerpt] [Bad Boy's Guide to...] Being Not Good (Bad Boy's Guide Book 1) by writeriz
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*full available on Amazon - free in Kindle Unlimited* If you don't like a smattering of serious on a bed of parody, clichéd characters, and over the top situations that know exactly what they are, then this book is definitely not for you. What do you get when you introduce Deapool's personality to Giselle's? If you answered a love story for the ages, you wouldn't be totally wrong... But, you wouldn't be totally right, either. With a heroine who won't let a stupid little thing like being too good get in the way of showing her stupid ex what's what and a hero who wants no part of being the male lead in a romance novel, these two opposites find themselves in an unconventional partnership. When peppy-go-lucky Avery eventually wears down bad-to-the-bone Davin's defences, he agrees to help her trash her reputation. And, if Davin can help her pass math while he's at it, all the better. So, it's goodbye to Little Miss Goody-Two-Shoes, and hello to a whole new Avery. Davin was only supposed to be Avery's mistake - the guy that everyone would eventually call her 'little phase' - and he figured it would be good for a laugh when he looked back on it. But, the more they're together, the less either of them feel it's a mistake. Now, if only one of them could mention that to the other and ease all that angst-ridden tension... A laugh-out-loud modern-day fairy-tale in dual POV for those who know life never quite goes according to plan. The first book in a new standalone series: Bad Boy's Guide to... ND: Davin does have a proclivity to drop the f-bomb.