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It Starts with Coffee by VanessaCEvans
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It started with a coffee. Don't all good love stories involve coffee in some way or another? Charlotte is a college student living what she believes is a perfect life but why isn't she happy? She has a boyfriend, Jack who she's been with since she was an early teen. She has a massive group of friends. She's doing well at school From the outside life looks perfect.. Except her boyfriend acts like a totally different person since joining the new friendship group The massive group of friends, don't seem to like her. She's not like them and they know it. She's at a college that she didn't want to go to. Studying a degree she hates, because Jack was adamant, that they go there. And why would she argue against him? He's her forever, right? Life is mediocre but love is love and she does love Jack. Until she meets Liam. He's sits with a coffee at her job, enjoying a book. What are these sparks she's feeling? It's just excitement from meeting a new friend with similar interests right? Lies. Betrayals and Loss. Everything comes to light one night forcing Charlotte to accept new realities and maybe not everything is as perfect as they seem to be.
Love Punched | COMPLETED by SkylerChase29
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❝ I'm as much a bad-boy as you're an average girl. So I suppose that answers both our questions. ❞ •♤• Lila Smith's life was a perfect routine. Until the house next door became the devil's residence. •♤• Lila was average. Or so she claimed. With a stash of hidden insults she had no problem throwing at the bad-boy Derek Greyson next door, Lila ignored him. And all her plans to remain undiscovered go to hell when she sees him at one of her fights at Blue. Sadly for her, Derek's intent on finding out who the so-called Wildcat of Ladenhill is. Derek was a badboy. He wouldn't have paid her any attention but to him, Lila was a mystery he wasn't okay with. The average girl soon became his favorite person to annoy and his target of perverted jokes. With secrets he wanted to share, Lila becomes his escape. But if he's anything, its persistent. And he wants to know who the fighter behind the purple Wildcat mask is and in the end uncovering far more than he bargained for. So he became the Wolf of Ladenhill but the Wildcat's anything but easy. And considering they're both magnets for danger, it doesn't take long before intertwined trouble gives the two a revisit from their pasts. •♤• Featured by: Teen Fiction profile under 'Head Over Heels'. (Thank you for dropping by, now click on the READ, vote, comment, follow and enjoy! Would mean a lot. And please don't copy, This is an original piece! Dual P.O.V. book! Swearing and some sexual innuendos.) TW: Violence, swearing, PTSD, sexual assault.
I Like You a Latte {Completed} by ARDewler
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"You're my favorite thing." He croaked. "You're all I have left . . . I don't know what I would do if you left me." *** A story built on coffee, awkward glances, dark pasts, too many puns, and one girl's uncanny ability to find trouble. Oh, and love. *** Beverly had always loved local coffee shops. When she stumbles upon Cynthia's, she enjoys a mocha and the adorable, awkward giant of a barista, who is covered in tattoos and would be terrifying, if not for the fact that he can hardly look her in the eye. As they grow closer, Beverly works to unravel his tricky past, whilst trying not to get involved in her roommate's suspicious antics and the sudden uprising of drugs and alcohol at her university. *** Highest Rankings: #1 in Sweet 5/14/22 -- 5/18/22 #5 in Chicklit 7/23/22 #1 in shyboy 8/7/22
Neptune by anya_jayvyn
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(SAMPLE) Available in Paperback and Kindle Unlimited. Cassie, a famous singer tossed into an arranged marriage with a powerful billionaire to save her reputation, finds herself developing an unexpectedly strong bond with her new husband and the child he's raising. ***** Cassie Castillo's reputation has seen better days. Through a series of misunderstandings and missteps, she's been labeled public enemy number one by every entertainment magazine in the country. So when she's offered a solution to her problems, she can't help but accept, even when it means tying herself to a handsome and mysterious stranger. Lucas Klein is a powerful billionaire who controls the nation's most influential media company, and he's willing to help her...if she becomes his wife. She thought that their marriage would be hell, but the longer she stays with him and his young nephew, the more she begins to question her feelings. Why does Lucas seem to understand her more than anyone else? And why does she feel such a strong connection to the child? Nothing is what Cassie thought it would be, but she'll quickly learn love can hide in the most unexpected places. ***** THE KLEINS SERIES BOOK #1 Content warning: Story contains references to parental abuse and eating disorders
My Bad Boy Protector ✔ by Zanzan112
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"He looked at me as if I was the only star in the dark night sky. And kissed me as if I was the air that filled his lungs. I loved him like I didn't to myself. He was my everything." [Description] In which an innocent and bullied girl is being abused by her stepmother and the returning bad boy can't help but notice her signs. His instinct pushes him to teach her, yes you didn't guess it, how to box. Not every story with a good girl and bad boy end happily ever after...but will theirs? Read to find out. *** Achievements : #1 in Revenge - 03/26/2020 #1 in Hope - 05/10/2019 #1 in Hoodie - 10/23/2020 #5 in Innocence - 04/23/2019 #6 in California - 06/27/2019 #27 in Teen Fiction - 08/17/2016 #10 in Good girl - 07/30/2018 *** Copyright 2015. All Rights Reserved, Zanzan112. Cover credits to @KimZahra. Thank you babe! :*
Loving the Ice Queen by amba9999
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When Barbara, aka the Ice Queen, agrees to fake-date Ryan, their relationship unexpectedly develops as they struggle to move on from their past. *** Barbara Owens is known as the Ice queen for her cold personality and ruthless business morals. When she agrees to a blind date as a favor to a friend, the last person she expects to see is Ryan Davies, and the last thing she expects to hear is a fake-dating offer. As their relationship develops and their feelings grow past friendship, their past catches up with them. Will their love be able to weather the winter storm? *** A reverse grumpy X sunshine story of love, family and healing.
Learning to Live by amba9999
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Sapphire loves boxing, food and cats. Being a triplet with two brothers, she learned quickly how to stand up for herself and deal with boys. Hunter is the town's resident bad boy, at least according to Sapphire's best friend. The first time Sapphire sees him, he was beating up a guy to within an inch of his life in the school hallway. So she should be terrified when she finds herself alone with him behind the school gym. Except Sapphire sees beyond what others see in Hunter. Their relationship develops as Sapphire accepts hunter's unexpected offer. But life keeps throwing sucker punches that even Sapphire and Hunter can't dodge.
Not Just A Love Story by _angelawrites
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Lauren Campbell is a sweet, simple girl with a bubbly personality. She tries to accept her imperfections and enjoys the little pleasures in life. "She is bright like glitter and bubbly like champagne. She makes the room warm. She is the sunshine." Ethan Kingston is one of the richest billionaire in the world. He is a workaholic. He walks with an aura of arrogance around him. He doesn't give a damn about anyone. Well, his grandfather is an exception. "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; And oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." ****** What happens when these polar opposites are thrown together into an arranged marriage. Will Lauren melt his cold heart with her love or will Ethan freeze her heart to ice? Join the journey of Lauren Campbell and Ethan Kingston's Loveless arranged marriage. It's definitely not going to be just a love story when there are many unresolved disputes, misunderstandings and buried love for the people once loved. **WARNING : Slight mentions of self harm/suicide**
Destroying a Monster (Xavier) by NerdyCheerleader
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!All rights reserved! When Aubrey moved to a small town, no one warned her about him. She didn't know that he was dangerous. She wasn't told the small town stories. So when she runs into Xavier one day she has no idea who she is dealing with. Xavier is the leader of a motorcycle club that has terrified his small town since his parents were killed. He is ruthless and has made a point to shut off all emotions. Aubrey refuses to believe anyone is that bad. She refuses to fear him and in doing so, puts herself in a dangerous position. Now it is up to Xavier to decide weather to leave her to take care of her self or give in and go against his nature to be the hero. Thank you @honey_sprinkles for the cover!! Heavy editing on seconds half of story!!!!!
The Astoria by ItsTheQuietGirls
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Astoria Wendall-Jones is the picture of perfection. A pretty, poised, event planner who specialises in big parties despite having little time for anything resembling a social life for herself. When she inherits The Astoria, the old movie theatre she's named after, she doesn't realise she is inheriting a giant pain in her arse along with it. Thomas "Tommy" Moore is everything she isn't. Carefree and laid back to the point of being horizontal. He is never worried, never in a hurry and never happier than when he is teasing prim and proper Azzy. As they try to agree a plan to revitalise The Astoria, and despite the many obstacles thrown in their path, they find concealed letters that reveal the historic love story that unfolded inside it's walls and in turn discover love can be found in the most unexpected of places. Open Novella Content prompt: 99. It's always what/who you least expected that blows your mind away. Based on the JAM festival prompt: You inherit a movie theatre - or half of one anyway. You share ownership with the nephew of your deceased relative's best friend. Your first "business meeting" is not auspicious but something about this guy makes you want to give him a chance.