Riley knew how to take care of himself. He wasn't good at much, but he could do that and do it well. Cycling through violence and neglect from his father, he didn't have much of a choice. When the abuse turns extreme and Riley can no longer take care of himself, he's forced to rely on the mother who abandoned him when he was five, who also has another family and doesn't appear too pleased about having him back in her life. Physically and emotionally, Riley tries to heal, only to be repeatedly knocked back down. When it comes to his mom, is there even a relationship to salvage? How many chances are too many? And at what point should he just give up and stay down like his father told him? Awesome cover art by _munroe

"We shouldn't do this...you're my best friend." "I don't want to be just friends anymore. I want to set our friendship on fire and burn it all." Aiden's heart wars with his head. Hunter has always been his best friend and his safe place. But now, every time he's near his friend, Hunter. Hunter's touch sets him on fire, and that heat is impossible to ignore. On the other hand, Hunter doesn't care. He's done playing it safe. As their friendship teeters on the edge of ruin, Aiden must decide: is the risk of losing Hunter worth the chance of having him completely? Or will the flames they ignite consume them both? Friendship on fire has never been this reckless-or this irresistible.

When Rowan Carter shifts for the first time at twelve, she discovers she's not human-and runs. For four years, she survives alone with only her wolf for company, hiding from a world she doesn't understand. Then she's found. In a werewolf society where female wolves are rare and fiercely protected, an unclaimed rogue female is unheard of. Forced into a pack she never asked for, Rowan must learn to navigate pack life, ancient traditions, and the people determined to keep her safe. The problem? Freedom is all she's ever known, and she's not sure she's willing to give it up.

What if you were only a number? That is all the boy with the aqua eyes has ever been. A string of numbers marked on his wrist, ending in 117. He's not treated like a boy. He is a product worth killing for. A weapon designed in a secret laboratory. An asset with an ability people would kill to control. He is 6,221 days old and has never seen the outside world. He has no understanding of family. No concept of home. No identity beyond the number burned into his skin. That all changes the day Riven Thatcher is hired to break into a top-secret laboratory and steal files from a man rich enough to own the law and corrupt enough to make Riven feel downright charitable. Riven Thatcher is not a man you want to cross. He is sharp-tongued, disciplined, and dangerous enough that testing him once is usually where people run out of chances. Stealing from the wealthy and corrupt is what he does best. They hire people to keep thieves out. Riven is the one hired to get in. Get out. And vanish without a trace. He lives by two rules: never trust anyone, and never get attached. Then he comes face to face with a barefoot seventeen-year-old boy in white lab clothes, a barcode on his arm, and aqua eyes so vivid they make him impossible to hide. Riven has no intention of taking him. But the boy has other ideas. With a single touch, Subject 117 plants one thought inside Riven's mind. Take me with you. By the time Riven escapes, he has no idea why he brought the boy along. He only knows he has just stolen something far more dangerous than files, and far more valuable than money. Now Riven is at the center of a deadly chase, hunted by people who will do anything to get their weapon back. And as the mystery surrounding Subject 117 begins to unravel, Riven starts to realize the boy he never meant to save may be changing him just as much as Riven is changing him. Because Riven has spent his life believing he is better alone. But the boy with no name may teach him that family is not a

Dylan Ryman is a silver spoon-fed multi-billionaire acting out until he crosses the line with Andy Burrie, a quick-witted college student who refuses to back down. Demanding the right thing from Dylan and learning about his past might just call for a different approach, one that toes the line of blackmail. Things get complicated when Dylan's father, the manipulative and controlling owner of Hicaliber, interferes with Dylan's future and meddles in his relationships. Can Andy teach a messed up rich guy a lesson or two? Or will he end up being sucked into bad situations by the Rymans who play dangerous games of their own?

Finished; September 13th 2019 #10 abuse #10 teenfiction #8 stepdad #6 hope #3 badboys #3 broken #1 escape #1 goodgirl #1 hate #1 stepbrother #1 youngadult #1 school Reading List Featured - Teen Fiction ~ Despite all the fear, panic and the voice inside her, Hayden Kendricks still sent that one message to Parker Graham, the university girl offering her a room. After one year of hell, nightmares and pain, she's completely done. She's desperate for a room on the other side of the country with one simple demand; that her host is a female. So when she ends up being a he, what does Hayden do? During the wait to switch place, she grows quite attached to the care, kindness, humor, simplicity and courage the five boys show her. She grows attached to the stubbornness and love that feed their will not to give up on including her in everything. So what happens when the paralyzing book of her nightmares once more opens and is read out loud for not only her, but now, also those five boys? Easy. She tries running away again. But... She underestimates the love that those boys have towards her, because they're willing to do everything and anything, except letting her go. Except letting her remain broken. They're gonna do everything and anything, to Fix Her. And who knows? Maybe, despite the lies, the broken hearts, tears, and that one man behind everything, things can get better? Maybe, the strong love of five boys, each one different from the other, can force its way through the thick walls around Her? Or maybe... Fear will end up being stronger than love?

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Arden Landry wakes up in an alley believing he is fifteen years old, only to discover he is twenty-four and missing nine years of his life. His older brother, Ayven, has spent six years blaming Arden for the choices that brought dangerous people to their family's door. But the Arden who comes home bleeding and terrified remembers none of it. He only remembers loving Ayven, trusting him, and looking up to him. As a police investigation unfolds and secrets from Arden's missing years resurface, the brothers are forced into an impossible question: how do you forgive someone who does not remember becoming the person who hurt you? Before I Became Him is an emotional brotherhood drama about grief, memory, blame, protection, and finding a way forward when the past belongs to a stranger wearing your face.

Bronwyn Larson has spent her whole life not depending on her mother, a constantly recovering addict, until the moment her life was literally torn apart when an EF4 tornado ripped through their trailer park and her mom is found dead, miles away after the storm. Suddenly, her estranged father is a part of her life, a prominent state senator who's been absent since Bronwyn was born, a product of her parents' secretive affair. After living alone with her mother in a trailer for seventeen years, Bronwyn now has a stepmother and four new siblings, including an older brother and sister who seem skeptical, if not actually disproving, of Bronwyn living with them. While staying with them in their vacation lake house an hour away from what she called home, Bronwyn is hit with the bombshell that her mother's death is being treated as suspicious, with injuries inconsistent of being killed during the tornado. Estranged from everyone she knows, except her estranged new family, Bronwyn doesn't know who trust or who to believe about her mother's death. Torn between her life as the daughter of a single drug addict and the middle child of a well-respected senator, all while learning more about the mother she thought she knew, Bronwyn is forced to navigate through this new unfamiliar life alone, with this gut feeling she has. That her mother's killer isn't unfamiliar. 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐘 18th 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐏𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

"We fought an uphill battle. One we had no hope of winning." ~~~ Felicity-Flick as most call her-Carter, has learned a thing or two in her 12 years of life. How to deal with drunk parents without waking the neighbors, how to smoke a cigarette without burning your fingers, and how to be abandoned by your siblings without losing your mind. All skills acquired through heartbreak and survival. Cigarette smoke filled lungs, late night talks on rooftops, make up most of who Flick is. But when her fractured family begins to mend itself, Flick is faced with a new chapter in her life that involves the very people she never wanted to see again. Started: January 10th 2021 Finished: December 2nd 2021