"Please, Beau? I don't want to talk about this so, please, just shut up." Beau tilts his head, surprised at first, before a wicked gleam appears in his eyes. "Make me." ** "...one of the best romantic novel developments I've read..." ~ @renegxde ; The Mono Reviews Emma is a quiet girl in a small town, filling her days with shifts at the local coffee shop so that she can one day fulfill her dream and put herself through college. Her life isn't glamorous, but hard work rarely is. Her mind is on the prize and nothing will stop her from achieving her dreams. That is, until lonely and misunderstood bad boy of the most popular band comes to town and stirs up enough crazy to last Emma a lifetime. Their deal is simple, Emma helps Beau with his image for generous pay, setting her on the fast track to accomplishing her dreams. But the most important rule isn't exactly included in the fine print: Under no circumstances is anyone to catch feelings. Shouldn't be hard, right? As Emma gets closer and closer to mysterious Beau, she finds it harder and harder to stay true to their deal. Who knew the bad boy would be so hard to resist? As she struggles not to break their number one rule, she faces another problem - he's even harder to love. Text copyright ©kjobrien™ 2020 Shimmer and Shine: An Awards 2020: 1st place in ChickLit The Sparkle Awards - 2nd Edition: 1st place in ChickLit The Oasis Awards: 1st place in ChickLit Skyfall Awards 2020: 2nd place in Romance Rose Gold Awards 2020: 2nd place in Romance The Spotlight Awards: 2nd place New Adult #1 in Women's Fiction #1in Romantic Fiction #1 in Slow Build #1 in Famous #1 in Rockstar #1 in Boyband #1 in Concert #1 in Romance Reads 2021 #1 in Small Town Girl #1 in On Tour #1 in After Dark #2 in Flirtationship #2 in Love Story #2 in Slow Burn #2 in Bands #3 in Young Adult #4 in Adult Fiction #4 in Hot #4 in Steamy #5 RocknRoll #5 in Alcoholism #5 in Flirty #5 in Witty #6 in New Adult

|Highest rank #2 in Short Story| Ambrosia "Amber" Underwood is a seventeen-year-old high school junior with warped perceptions of the world. She has no friends, only acquaintances. No boyfriend, only a vague dating arrangement with a jock. A lover of routine and a hater of change, Amber spends her nights at the old lighthouse in her dull town to battle insomnia. But when a teary-eyed Dylan Frost shows up at the lighthouse one Friday night, Amber's carefully constructed life is thrown into chaos. With his cappuccino hair and ocean eyes, Dylan starts to change everything, one song and one night at a time. ||completed | cover by @strayinspace | all rights reserved||

Eighteen year-old Zach Curtis has lost everything: his girlfriend, his job and his scholarship. Nothing in the world matters anymore, until he receives a rude awakening from a stranger. Petite and awkward, Terra Quinn is living the life with her best friend in college, or so it seems. Beneath the bubbly exterior is a haunting secret that has been hidden for too long. Things are quickly falling apart, until she meets Zach, a mysteriously stoic transfer student who, strangely, might be the one who can mend what's been broken. When fate brings them together, they are yet to discover the truth: they've met before, but they can't remember. So what will happen if they do? © 2015-2016 imperfectdreamer. All rights reserved. | Thank you for reading! :)

Charlotte's father works for the government-she's seen enough troubled children to last her a lifetime. When a picture of a boy, who'd been missing for seventeen years, surfaces in a local store...everything changes. Kidnapped just hours after his birth, Jasper's captor held him hostage in the cellar of her home for seventeen years. He is found and rescued by none other than Jack Chandler, Charlotte's father. Right away, he's slapped with a label: a lost cause. Therapists turn him away when he fails to meet ends with them. The perpetual search for his parents hits countless dead ends. Just when everyone's seemed to give up on him, Charlotte takes matters into her own hands. She makes it her goal to save him, no matter the consequences.

Love isn't always enough. --- "Ahhh this is one of the greatest books I've ever read." - @hatersarelovers "I loved this book so so so SO much! I enjoyed how real it was and all the quirks. I loved this book and although I cried way too many times, it will be one of my forever favorites." - @Xx_Lilac_Kumos_xX "Loved every single second of it." - @missydiamond "This is the best book ever. Made me cry and everything." - @luvmety "What you wrote was so inspirational and exceptional, it made me cry." - @Ashi35893 "This has been one of the best books I've read on Wattpad." - @VanniRaswant ||previously titled 'I Love You, I Love You Not' | extended summary inside | cover by @dysanic | all rights reserved||

To Piper Baker, love is a hoax simply created to brainwash us all into believing life isn't as bad as it seems. She knows better though. Piper knows not to trust in the unreliability of love but to rather focus on what she can control- the opening of her specialty bake store. But Piper is soon going to find that life is filled with surprises and when you have a mother like Anne Baker, not believing in love is not an option. When Piper's mother signs her up on a dating website, Piper is torn between sticking to her anti-love ways or embracing the possibility of a life companion. Add in the gorgeous landlord, Scott Daniels and suddenly Piper's structured life becomes all kinds of chaotic. But maybe somewhere along the line Piper may discover the true definition of love and maybe she might just become a believer in it too. [Cover made by the awesome @Enigmatic-11] Highest rating: #4 in sweet romance.

| published! under the new title MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE | Eden knows she can't love Truman, the boy with the angelic smile and devilish eyes. Why? He's her best friend Katie's older brother, who she strictly promised she'd stay away from. But when a tragic accident strikes, Truman and Eden find their way back to one another. With the promise she made her friend stuck on her mind, Eden tries her hardest to push Truman away, even when life seems stuck on keeping them together. Alex Light © All Rights Reserved. 2018. Highest rank: #2 in Teen Fiction, #1 in YA

NINI I've spent the last years running away from my past. Now, I've finally found what I need. Friends. College. I'm not looking for a boyfriend. He would just want to know more about me and I can't have that. Yet I also didn't think that the university's hockey legend, Caden West, would look at me. And he looks like he wants us to be more than friends. Do I want the same? CADEN The deal is simple. Date Nini Elway for three months and then be able to come back together with my ex. However, the more I spend time with Nini, the more I want this deal to be just a joke. Nini isn't like the girls I've dated so far, yet she's the one I can't stop thinking about. I can't give up the whole deal and just let my heart speak. Can I? book #2 of and we series

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