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Ring. Sister. Piano (Book 4 of The Powder Trail) by obliviablack
Ring. Sister. Piano (Book 4 of The Powder Trail)
obliviablack
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  • Parts 64
Jack Cade has spent the past seven months avenging his dead ex-girlfriend - organizing riots, hunting slavers, even committing the worst of all Oxford crimes: setting fire to the Bodleian Library. Now he's discovered that the woman whose death drove him over the edge has been alive all this time, shacked up with his worst enemy. Can he forgive her? Can he persuade her to forgive him? Can he help her in her quest to take on the scariest woman he's ever met - Myrrha Crake, the ageless, deathless leader of the Wylies? All he has is the mysterious shopping list given to him by the mother goddess of the demon race, the one headed 'How to save Ellini from her past': Ring. Sister. Piano. Trying to find these items - trying to make Ellini invincible - will take him into the demon realms, into his past, and into his worst nightmares. Ring. Sister. Piano is the fourth book in the epic fantasy romance The Powder Trail, a series where the past and the present meet, part and reunite with explosive consequences. Cover design by the awesome @AnnamitaMuscaria
Let's Get Physical by Pollyf79
Let's Get Physical
Pollyf79
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  • Parts 9
Louisa Watson has always been pretty pleased with her life, but lately she's been feeling distinctly dissatisfied. Her job bores her, she's misplaced her sex drive and she's feeling a bit . . . Lost. After her sister gets engaged, Lou starts to realise she wants what Abby has: a happy relationship. And a chance encounter with an old friend leads her to move to the west coast for a summer job - which just happens to be the same town where her lifelong celebrity crush athlete-turned-radio-D.J. is also going to be hanging out. Surely it's fate? Lou and Brody Maxwell must be meant to be together. Right? Unfortunately Brody doesn't really see it that way. In fact, he's got it into his head that she's actually his stalker. And Lou finds herself struggling to prove him wrong! So what happens when the man of your dreams thinks you're the woman of his nightmares? Let's wait and see . . .
Love In Lavender And Lace  by writergirl81
Love In Lavender And Lace
writergirl81
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  • Parts 25
Talia Mason is a down on her luck young woman whose life has been riddled with darkness and tragedy. Lady Nova Barrington is the one of London's elite nobles, whom seems to have everything she could want. Except someone who truly understands her. Talia responds to an advertisement that Lady Barrington has placed for a ladies maid. Despite having no prior training, Nova agrees to hire Talia. And while the two are complete opposites, they begin to form a strong and deep bond, which slowly progresses into romance. However, one of Nova's closest friends discovers the two are sharing a secret romance, and accuses Talia of manipulating Nova and begins spreading rumors about the two. At first, Nova thinks perhaps it's best to end her relationship with Talia, but when tragedy strikes, Nova realizes that she must choose between Talia and her pampered lifestyle and friends. WARNING THIS STORY MENTIONS DEATH, ALCOHOLISM, SOME MINOR SEXUAL CONTENT BETWEEN TWO WOMEN AND DEALS WITH PREJUDICE AGAINST GAY PEOPLE.
Unbreakable- A World To Come AU by writergirl81
Unbreakable- A World To Come AU
writergirl81
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  • Parts 17
Tallie Monroe has a lifetime of disappointments. From jobs, to dating to losing friends, she feels like she's destined for a life of misery. Abigail Winters has recently broken up with her girlfriend of five years. Devastated, alone and hurting, she tries to find a fresh start in a new city. When Tallie discovers her new neighbor, the two form an unbreakable bond, realizing that their happiness is within their own control. Until the day comes when the two are nearly torn apart by tragedy and must fight for their love. WARNING THIS STORY MENTIONS DRINKING, MINOR SEXUAL CONTENT BETWEEN WOMEN AND VIOLENCE.
My Life in Letters by EMMcNulty
My Life in Letters
EMMcNulty
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  • Parts 78
Cover by the amazing @LNRoberts1 It's 1983 and high school sophomore, Anne Kelly's home life is coming apart at the seams. What's more, her friends are hanging with the popular crowd, and Anne doesn't feel she fits in. She gradually becomes fixated with a shy junior on the swim team named Gavin Maloney, but her friends think he's a total loser. However, Anne only becomes more interested in Gavin, and she decides to take a prank her friends played on him a step further. She begins writing him letters, not the stupid anonymous notes her friends put in his locker to taunt him, but real letters. Gavin has lost his mom to cancer and his father has gone missing. He now lives with his grandfather who is in a deteriorating state of Alzheimer's disease. It's a secret that Gavin must keep. Nobody can know or they will separate Gavin from his grandfather and put them both in state run homes. Gavin's plan is to stay invisible. Once he turns 18, he'll be a legal adult and nobody will be able to separate him from his grandfather. He just has to hold out one more year. But it isn't easy. Everyone needs friends, and now this Anne girl has singled him out. Part of him aches for human contact, and he's not immune to her quirky sense of humor, but she might be totally insane. She's practically stalking him, and if he befriends her, she might find out about his grandfather and ruin his plan. But what if he just wrote her back?
A New Dawn by words_for_food
A New Dawn
words_for_food
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  • Parts 58
Briar Chiem has only ever had choices in her life. Her parents made sure of that, and she knows for a fact it has everything to do with her terrible, hypocritical grandfather. At least that's what her dad's bestselling book series makes him out to be anyway. And when they visit him for the summer to make amends, she sees for herself what he's really like and the choices set before her. Idris Laxamana has some choices to make, too: get lost in The Quiet Nights series or listen to his family tell him he's a disappointment. The choice is obvious, but when he meets Briar, he's not so sure anymore. And the more they read her father's series, the more they start to realize just how closely their choices and the subsequent outcomes can parallel art.