Annalise sees the world as though she is looking at it from afar. As if it's just a meaningless painting in a museum that she is observing. Admiring the beautiful strokes and the imperfections that somehow manage to make it even more intriguing. The last thing she would ever expect is someone reaching out from the painting and pulling her inside. The colors feeling as though she can practically taste them on her tongue. Suddenly being indulged by something she once saw as so two dimensional. Something that she once thought had no soul, no form of beauty beneath the surface. Only being able to see a pretty frame and gorgeous yet seemingly meaningless brush strokes. A life hidden in plain sight. Highest ranks: #1 in library #7 in fictional characters #1 in cute #6 in high school #1 in slowburn #4 in teen romance

Laura Laurier was spontaneous. She was a passenger on the ride of life, uncaring or unaware of the turns she took. She just followed wherever the road led her. Until one fateful drive, where giving up control cost her nearly everything. After refusing to drive on a trip home from dinner with her parents, Laura's father stepped into the driver's seat and drove down a path that he and her mother would never come back from. Now, forced by the pitfalls of life to move in with her Aunt June, Uncle Tim, and cousin Allen in Bennington, Vermont, Laura has taken the wheel and refuses to give it up ever again. At her new school, Laura is determined to start over. In order to pretend like her past never happened, no one can know why she needed to move to Bennington. Jesse Ashford was always in control. In the ride of life, he jumped in the driver's seat to speed down his path, trying his best to outrun his past. Once a close friend of Allen and his friend group, Jesse has since pulled back and stuck to himself. Outrunning their pasts led to them running into each other and when Laura and Jesse's roads cross, Laura tries to steer clear of him. However, Jesse is drawn to the mystery that surrounds the new girl in town. Now, Laura has to decide if she can remain in control while opening up to Jesse, or if the only way to escape her past is to stay in her own lane. *Complete*

Cora Daniels is new on the job. She's searching for self-fulfilment as a psychiatrist on the High Risk ward of Blueridge Psychiatric Asylum. But after taking over the peculiar case of the impenetrable Tzar, a man who is a closed book to all that try to pry him open, things take a turn for the unexpected. He's egotistical, cunning and unstable; everything Cora strives to fix in a person. She's harsh, stern and strait-laced; a fun challenge in his eyes. However, when the Tzar begins to reveal himself, his life outside of Blueridge peaks Cora's interest. Can she resist what she knows is no good for her? Or will he drag her into the shadows? {ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀɪɴs: sᴍᴜᴛ, sᴡᴇᴀʀɪɴɢ, ᴀssᴀᴜʟᴛ/ᴀʙᴜsᴇ, ᴇᴛᴄ.}

[2024 Wattys Shortlist] Road trips are more fun with criminals, right? Nisha Kapoor desperately wants to escape the rut she's in, but her dull surroundings do nothing to change that. She finds herself looking forward to hearing her neighbors fighting through the walls just to get a little excitement into her dreary life. That is until she gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery that goes terribly wrong. Before she knows it, she becomes the hostage of a handsome criminal who turns her entire existence upside down as they travel across the country to get his next target-- her parents. #1 in Comedy #1 in Funny #2 in roadtrip #3 in hilarious #5 in Violent MATURE: Depictions of sex, violence, profanity, and various other mature themes.

a kinda cliche grumpy x sunshine (i'm living my fantasies through this book) Sera Wynn meets a man one thriller night whom she couldn't really stop thinking about. After being offered an internship opportunity at the place he owns and manages, she's determined to get to know him better and befriend him through the course of her time there. Quiet and distant, Rowan seems unapproachable at first. But no one seems to be immune to Sera's bright smile and bubbly attitude. Tropes: grumpy x sunshine, fake dating, slight age gap (fmc is above 18)

Heliophilia (n.) desire to stay in the sun; love of sunlight To be loved is to be known. Arabella Dawson Has never had anybody constant in her life. From parents always being away at work to one shitty friend, she doesn't know how to exist when people are looking. Flint Camero Has never needed anybody but himself. From a dead mother to an unpredictable father, he's doesn't know how to let people in. That all changes when he meets a burning ray of sunshine. Shitty at descriptions. But try please 🙏 Book 1 in the sun series

After the death of her parents, Eden does everything she can to recover from the blow. Little does she know that Cade, the boy she meets during the very first week, will be her route to redemption. She misplaces her heart and soul in an old home and he struggles with his own demons but finds room for her to heal. She's the talented dancer and he's the skilled guitarist but their passion might just be the only thing holding them together. It's the most well-known formula for disaster and they can't help but get drawn into each other.