Download or read book The Angels written by Ruby Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My parents forgot something when they ran... me. After scamming most of our town out of their life savings, my folks disappeared in the middle of the night. Forced to take me in, my estranged aunt and uncle shipped me off to Raven River Academy the first chance they got. In my town, the line between the haves and the have-nots is actually a twelve-foot gate that keep the unwanted where they belong. Nothing could unite the two factions until I set foot on campus. For the first time in our history, they all agree on one thing: I must pay for my father's sins. But why should I care? The joke is on them because I have nothing left inside. No part of me that isn't already broken. I invite them to do their worst. Until The Angels enter the game. The most dangerous gang in town has a score to settle with my family, and Cassius, Clay, Hiro, and Royal are here to collect. Raven River soon becomes a battleground of lies, deceit, and violence, and I stand at the heart of it. The gorgeous otherworldly Angels will remind me that there is one thing left that I care about... and they'll destroy it in heavenly fire. The Angels is a reverse harem high school bully romance. This is book one in the series and features language, dark themes, and sexual scenes. If you're cool with that, dive in!

Download or read book Bad Romance written by Heather Demetrios and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director—anything but scared and alone. Enter Gavin: charming, talented, adored. Controlling. Dangerous. When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it's too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she's unable to escape. Deeply affecting and unflinchingly honest, this is a story about spiraling into darkness—and emerging into the light again.

Download or read book King written by L J Woods and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's untouchable. Or so he thought. He might be the King but I won't be his pawn. - Eden - the other side of the tracks full of elite hacks. This town is as high-class as he is but it's far from a garden. Too many thorns. Way too many pricks. The Academy alone has plenty of snakes, all serving one god. Damien King. The devil himself. He's as seductive as his smirk. A sinful delight. And I should know better than to eat from this fruit. He wants to break me. Humiliate me. Make me buckle under his power. But I'm not an easy target so now I'm his biggest enemy. The leaders of the pack think they're in charge, and I'll play their game. Damien has Isaac and Christian - other royals in his kingdom, but I've got guts and I'm not afraid to play dirty. Secrets sit behind that heart-pounding gaze and I'm going to use them. Time's up class-holes. Checkmate. - KING is a full-length 85,000-word new adult/high school bully romance novel with mature themes. This enemies-to-lovers romance is recommended for readers over 18. This is NOT a standalone but if you're a fan of alpha possessive bad boys, this book is for you!

Download or read book Perfect Chemistry written by Simone Elkeles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles comes an epic love story like no other . . . First in the gripping PERFECT CHEMISTRY series, this is the next addictive read for fans of Anna Todd's AFTER series, and Caroline Kepnes's YOU. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. Forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, Brittany finds herself having to protect everything she's worked so hard for – her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend and, most importantly, the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But the closer Alex and Brittany get to each other the more they realise that sometimes appearances can be deceptive and that you have to look beneath the surface to discover the truth. 'Compelling and addictive… I've still got that "wow" feeling you get after reading a great book' Wondrousreads.com 'Perfect Chemistry is a novel to obsess about. It is a book that you should drop everything for...the most romantic love story that I have ever read.' Thebookette.com 'Captures that rush of feelings associated with first love' Thebookbag.com 'Elkeles pens plenty of tasteful, hot scenes…that keep the pages turning. The author definitely knows how to write romance.' Kirkus Review

Download or read book Heavy written by Sarah Jane Duncan and published by Heavy Hearts. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When bearing the burden becomes too much, the vile truth is all that is left.They see my smiles. Fake!They see my confidence. It's an act!They see my control. It's the mask I wear!I have secrets. BIG secrets that not even my best friend knows about.I can never tell anyone about my vile truth, but the shame and disgust I carry are becoming too much to bear. I'm struggling to hold it all together, to maintain the image I've worked so hard to build. While I still seem to be fooling my friends, there's one person that notices my world imploding.He's the new boy, and he has all the girls fanning themselves over his panty-melting looks. I won't fall for it, though, working hard to hide the real me. When the cracks in my façade grow thick and jagged, the new boy manages to push his way past my iron-clad walls seeing right into my dark, cold heart.Why had I thought I could hide my sick twisted truth? It was only a matter of time before my control would end, and the people I should be able to trust become the people I have to run from.I am Lexi West, and this is my nightmare!

Download or read book In Ruins written by K G Reuss and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was my best friend before he was my enemy. I'm a nobody at Black Falls High. When the school's mean queen forces me to my knees in front of the student body, everything changes. Now, I'm back on my former best friend's radar. And this time, he has his new crew and "no" isn't part of their vocabulary. When a night out puts me in a compromising position, I'm at their mercy. If they don't keep my secret, it could destroy more than my friendship. They own me. And my former best friend is making it his mission to ruin me. But not if I ruin them first. In Ruins is a #whychoose romance with four hot-as-fire guys. Due to dark content, this book is recommended for eighteen and older.

Download or read book Cruel Prince written by Ashley Jade and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to their kingdom...I never thought I'd step foot in Royal Manor again. But four years later, here I am...back to finish my senior year at Royal Hearts Academy.And forced to face Jace Covington. My first friend. First crush. First kiss. The one I left behind.Only-he isn't the same boy I gave my heart to.This new Jace is as cruel as he is gorgeous.And he's determined to make my life a living hell. Along with the rest of his glorified family and crew of tyrants.They expect me to worship the ground they walk on like everyone else, but I'd rather eat dirt.If Jace Covington wants me gone...he'll have to try harder. Because I've never been the kind of girl to play by the rules.WARNING: Royal Hearts Academy is a New Adult/High School series of standalones filled with drama, a touch of angst, and boys who are bad to the bone.This series is recommended for mature readers due to graphic language and sexual content.

Download or read book Reading the Romance written by Janice A. Radway and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. Evans defends her customers' choice of entertainment; reading romances, she tells Radway, is no more harmful than watching sports on television. "We read books so we won't cry" is the poignant explanation one woman offers for her reading habit. Indeed, Radway found that while the women she studied devote themselves to nurturing their families, these wives and mothers receive insufficient devotion or nurturance in return. In romances the women find not only escape from the demanding and often tiresome routines of their lives but also a hero who supplies the tenderness and admiring attention that they have learned not to expect. The heroines admired by Radway's group defy the expected stereotypes; they are strong, independent, and intelligent. That such characters often find themselves to be victims of male aggression and almost always resign themselves to accepting conventional roles in life has less to do, Radway argues, with the women readers' fantasies and choices than with their need to deal with a fear of masculine dominance. These romance readers resent not only the limited choices in their own lives but the patronizing atitude that men especially express toward their reading tastes. In fact, women read romances both to protest and to escape temporarily the narrowly defined role prescribed for them by a patriarchal culture. Paradoxically, the books that they read make conventional roles for women seem desirable. It is this complex relationship between culture, text, and woman reader that Radway urges feminists to address. Romance readers, she argues, should be encouraged to deliver their protests in the arena of actual social relations rather than to act them out in the solitude of the imagination. In a new introduction, Janice Radway places the book within the context of current scholarship and offers both an explanation and critique of the study's limitations.

Download or read book Turmoil written by J L Weil and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call themselves the Elite-four boys from the wealthiest and most prominent families in Elmwood, which somehow gives them the right to be righteous A-holes.Gorgeous.Arrogant.No regard for rules.And Brock Taylor is the worst of them all.I wish I had known that before I slept with him. A night I just want to forget.But Brock won't let me.They aren't just high school boys. They're four guys with an agenda, and I'm out of my element. Trigger warnings: sexual assault, drugs, drinking, swearing.

Download or read book The High Book of the Grail written by and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid translation of one of the earliest and most important Grail romances.

Download or read book Thorn written by Tracy Lorraine and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Meet Me There written by Judy Corry and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark Chemistry lab. A fake British accent. It's all fun and games until somebody falls in love.When sixteen-year-old, Ashlyn Brooks, runs into a sweet British guy in the dark Chemistry lab, she has no idea she's actually sitting in the pitch black room with her longtime rival, Luke Davenport. She also doesn't know that she's stepped into another one of the football captain's pranks. It isn't long before she's sharing things she's never told anyone, and starting to fall for the mysterious guy with a sexy accent who seems to understand her in a way no one ever has before.When Luke's mom dies the summer before his senior year, he turns to pranking Ashlyn to keep his mind off his loss. But the more he gets to know her, the more he regrets using his fake British accent in the first place. Soon Luke is walking the thin line of keeping his lies a secret and wishing he could tell her that the boy she's falling for is really him.MEET ME THERE is a standalone novel in The Ridgewater High series. Perfect for readers who enjoy sweet YA romance with ballad-worthy chemistry, passionate kisses and endearing characters.

Download or read book Hate So Bad written by Nina Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll never survive here, Princess. You're weak. You can't fight. You...don't...belong. I thought the hardest part of moving would be grieving my greatest loss. I thought wrong. Dropped into a savage school with no rules where violence was king, I stood out like a sore thumb. But even if I ditched the button-down shirts and fancy loafers, how could I fit in when my new peers stared at me with cold eyes and darkened souls? These students practically begged me to speak so they could show me their pain. All of which faded to nothing when I laid eyes on the beautifully cruel Colton Theroux. His derisive look declared I was lacking from our first connection. And when I refused to back down after a heated confrontation, he declared war. What followed was a game of hate that left me painfully exposed and raw. His beautiful knowing eyes followed me wherever I went. His sexy smirk drove me insane. He wanted me gone, but with every cruel turn, I was only more determined to stay. For he didn't understand, none of them did - the pretty princess they saw was nothing but a shell covering a soul just as dark and withered as theirs. Hate me or love me, I would never back down again. Will hate bring them together...or push them apart? Buy Hate So Bad today to find out! ♥♥♥ Hate So Bad is a hot high school bully romance. If you like romance with a little darkness, a little sugar, and a lot of spice, then this is the book for you. It's also book one of a trilogy (book 1-2 tell Finn and Colt's story - book 2 coming soon). ★★★Author's Note - This book contains strong language, violence, and sexual situations some may find triggering.

Download or read book Resurrection written by Siobhan Davis and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new dark romance from the USA Today bestselling author of the Rydeville Elite series. Everything changed the night my dad died. The night I met Saint, Galen, Caz, and Theo. Those manipulative a-holes set out to ruin me after our hot night together, but they didn't realize you can't destroy something that's already broken. And it only works if the victim cares. Which I don't. Because I've been in hell for years, and nothing penetrates the steel walls I've erected. Until The Sainthood decides I belong to them and cracks appear in my veneer. Their cruel games, harsh words, and rough touch awakens something inside me, and now, I'm in trouble. They draw me deeper into their dangerous world, until I'm in the middle of all the violence and gang warfare, tangled up in all the secrets and lies, and there's no turning back. Because they own me. And nothing has ever felt so right. I'm exactly where I should be. But with enemies on all sides, survival becomes a deadly game with no guarantees. And, sometimes, saints become sinners. Due to mature content, this book is recommended to readers aged eighteen and over. This is a full-length 95k-word dark romance novel with enemies-to-lovers/bullying themes. Please read the note at the start of the book. Cannot be read as a standalone and ends with a cliffhanger. Book 1 of 3.

Download or read book Boys of Brayshaw High written by Meagan Brandy and published by MB Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simply UNPUTDOWNABLE ... all the feels cranked up to eleven. Five stars for this delicious page-turner!" - BB Easton, bestselling author of the Netflix adaption Sex/Life In the world of morally corrupt teenagers, only the strongest survive... From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Meagan Brandy comes an enemies-to-lovers, New Adult romance full of morally corrupt and power-driven teenagers. "Girls like you aren't exactly welcomed at a place like this, so keep your head down and look the other way." Those were the exact words of my social worker when she dropped me in my newest hellhole, a place for "troubled teens". I didn't listen, and now I'm on their radar. They expect me to play along in their games of hierarchy, to fall in line in the social order they've deemed me fit. Too bad for them, I don't follow rules. Too bad for me, they're determined to make sure I do. Inconceivably attractive and treated like kings...these are the boys of Brayshaw High. And I'm the girl who got in their way.

Download or read book Studies and Romances written by Henry Schütz Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book America written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Jesuit review of faith and culture," Nov. 13, 2017-