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Bulletproof (#1) ✔ by TahliePurvis
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When Franny learns why former popular boy Tyler fell from grace, she gets thrown head-first into his dangerous world but also closer to his timid heart. ***** Eighteen-year-old Tyler Madden used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, high achiever, and was set to have a successful career. But when a secret too hard to handle comes to light, he turns to underground fighting to deal with the pain. Now, he's in too deep. And when Francesca Howard befriends him at school in the hopes of figuring out what went wrong, she unknowingly gets pulled into the criminal world he's now stuck in. As the two find comfort in each other, they find themselves faced with their impending future and trying to get Tyler out alive. Content/Trigger Warning: this story contains scenes pertaining to drug use, substance abuse, and violence. [#1 in teen fiction, romance and action]
A Guide on How to Love Jules Everett by twelvewonderingstars
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❝I have here a guide on how to love Jules Everett. If you're desperate, I don't mind sharing it with you for a small fee.❞ ♔ ♔ ♔ Jules Everett had always been rather picky with love. There were too many rules set when searching for her 'ideal other half'. Hence, it wasn't a surprise when the school's troublemaker confessed to her and was rejected. Desperate for help and aching from heartbreak, Xavier Park decided to seek assistance from none other than Jules's own closest confidant and best friend, Aiko Lee. Together, equipped with nothing but a guidebook and a vast knowledge of Jules, Aiko set out to revamp Xavier into Jules's dream guy. With the fact that she knew Jules like the back of her hand, how hard could it be?
Hired To Love by JordanLynde
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Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]
One More Time (Bremmy 1) by PaceYurself
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Emmy Rhodes is tired of relationships. She spends her days drinking coffee, doing yoga, and sleeping around. It's been nine long years since high school graduation. Almost a decade since she's seen Brooks. Meet Jay Brooks, the OG boy toy. He is tall, sexy, and secretive, and Emmy just can't help herself. She's only going home for two weeks and has zero plans to rekindle an old flame, but not if Brooks can help it. It's true that old habits die hard. Find out what happens when the one who got away comes back and these two spend the night together one more time. Sex is safe || Love is not ... One More Time is an instant sex-crazed classic. It's raw and relatable, overly dramatic and funny. It will hook you so deep, you'll wish you were friends with each and every character. *Editor's Pick List July 2021* *AWARDS* 1st Place The Golden Awards 2K20 ChickLit 2nd Place The Golden Writer Awards ChickLit #1 in millennial #1 in Amazon #3 in ChickLit #1 in GossipGirl #10 in OTH ⚠️ references to sex & drugs, frequent profanity & sarcasm [[word count: 110,000]] Cover Design: Kat Pace
All I Want | ✓ by MIDNXGHTSUN
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[ COMPLETED ] Eliana Oakley and Casen Walker couldn't be further on the other's spectrum. Eliana is twenty-one years old and in her last year of college. An artist at heart, she uses that to her advantage to further her early fashion design career. A protégé under Florence Harvey, internationally known luxury designer, Eliana doesn't have much time for anything other than burying her face into her sewing machine. Casen - otherwise known as Case to his football buddies - is twenty-two and on track to the NFL as a rookie Wide Receiver, just preparing to graduate with his degree in engineering. Oh, let's not forget his minor in hoe behavior. They roll with different social cliques - there was supposed to be no chance of them meeting. Especially in their final year in college. But one faithful friends night out at a bowling alley changes everything. COPYRIGHT © MIDNXGHTSUN
Touch Me Not (Manwhore Series #1) by AprylBaker7
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A past tragedy has left Lily Holmes burdened with a devastating secret... Since the death of her twin sister, Lily can't bear to be touched. Not accidentally, not casually...and certainly not intimately. This makes it impossible for her to confess to her best friend Adam Roberts that she's in love with him. She can't give him the sort of relationship he needs, so she watches in silence while he plans his wedding with someone else. Enter Nikoli Kinkaid, the campus manwhore... Nikoli is a self-proclaimed connoisseur of women, and he wants to add Lily to his list of conquests, but she wants nothing to do with him-until he makes her an offer she can't refuse. He'll teach her to enjoy human contact again, giving her a chance to win over Adam, while Nikoli uses all his considerable charm to seduce her. But Lily raises the stakes... Lily loves cars. Her late father was a racer, and she grew up under the hood of a car and on the racetrack. Nikoli has a limited edition car she covets, so she informs him the terms of their deal also require he not sleep with anyone for six months. If he does, she'll win the car. If she surrenders and ends up in his bed, his beloved 'Cuda is his to keep. In an intricate dance of control and surrender, a reluctant friendship becomes something more. Lily begins to crave things she never believed she could, and Nikoli realizes there is more at stake than his reputation. If Lily overcomes her phobia, will she crave Adam's touch as she's starting to crave Nikoli's? Or will she only find pleasure from the touch of a semi-reformed manwhore?
Worth the Chase by fleurnjardin
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Hoping for no distractions during her senior year of college, Ryan finds herself in a whirlwind romance following a one-night stand with the last person she expected: the star wide receiver of the football team. ***** Ryan Collins only has two goals: to get into medical school and avoid football players, thanks to her ex-boyfriend and their nasty breakup. But after a one-night stand, she's torn between a notorious wide receiver and the dream she's starting to question more each day. With the NFL draft quickly approaching, Carsen Blake has a lot more to worry about than just football. Managing an alcoholic mother, a stubborn coach, and his grief after his father's passing, Carsen has to convince the one girl he's liked for years that he's worth more than a one-night stand while also proving to himself that he is more than everyone's expectations. Book One of the UNC Series Content warning: This story contains an instance of mild self-harm, themes of addiction and mentions of emotional partner abuse
Camp Where The Hell Are We? | ✓ by partiallyprecarious
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Completed. ☼ " Her denial, that was like a dam holding back a flood of feeling, of sweet relief for desperate soil, holding back a flood it stood no chance against, as yet another crack formed with a strong wave that already knew it had won. On the other side Marley stood, watching her dam's inevitable, impending destruction - fearing, knowing, that quenching her aching thirst would be synonymous with drowning, would be synonymous with coming up for air, would be synonymous with surrendering to a force of nature that was beautiful in all its calm, but terrifying in all its chaos. He absentmindedly tucked a loose flyaway behind her ear. Right then. Another crack in her last line of defence. Another rolling back of a wave, gaining strength, beating against the tired concrete. Another overflow rolling above the wall, droplets racing to sink into her every vulnerable place. Another enigma - still being afraid, while watching the water, and feeling the ache " ☼ Praise for 'Camp Where The Hell Are We?' "the fact that this book isn't just a book. it's a life lesson it teaches us the importance of friendship on how to be grateful that most of us live comfortable lives this book is such a masterpiece and deserves to be more recognized" - @voidtonkin "No book has changed or influenced me as much as this. Marley has inspired me to be more kind, forgiving and mature. Aiden has taught me to look for all the small things. Gabby showed me that real friendship is standing up for the other no matter what. Every book I read is a part of who I am, and this is one of the biggest parts. Thank you." - @ah-sh-ih-k-ah "I could feel every emotion, like I was standing right there, just on the outside looking in. Couldn't sleep until I finished this." - @justwonderfulbaby "You have such a beautiful and unique way with your words, I love this story so much and it and you deserve so much recognition. It's beautiful." - @hayleysfault ☼ partiallyprecarious, 2018
The Bad Boy's Secret by Rebecca-Jade
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Meet seventeen-year-old Amelia Stark and welcome to her tragic life. Unfortunate circumstances have brought her and her twin sister, Anna, to California where living with their astray father is an inevitability. In an attempt to bring some normality back into their lives, the two attend a party where they meet arrogant and cocky (not to mention incredibly sexy) Aidan Richards. Unintentionally, Amelia spends more and more time with Aidan and slowly uncovers his secrets. Secrets that have the potential to blow up. Falling in love was never her intention and it sure as hell wasn't part of Aidan's plan either. 'The Bad Boy's Secret' has a gripping sequel; 'The Bad Boy's Decision'.