Here are my 10 favorite books that I read last year - in no particular order...
Title: Lies Unspoken (Flawed Love #1)
Author: Lisa De Jong
I tried hard not to fall for the bad guy.
My
new roommate, Blake, is a jerk—an unemployed artist with a chip on his
shoulder. I can’t stand him unless his hands are on me. He makes me
desperate for him, and everything he makes me feel.
And then
there’s my new boss, Pierce--successful, charming, and extremely
good-looking. He goes after what he wants, but what does he see in me?
I
try to stay away, but I end up in the arms of exactly who I was hiding
from. And when I find out what’s being hidden from me, my heart twists
in ways it never should.
I thought I knew him.
I didn't.
The way he kissed me.
The way his hands traveled every inch of my skin.
I thought it meant something, but as it turns out, it was all lies unspoken.
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Title: Reborn (Shadow Falls: After Dark #1)
Author: C.C. Hunter
Return to the
beloved world of Shadow Falls, a camp that teaches supernatural teens to
harness their powers—and where a vampire named Della will discover who
she’s meant to be.
For Della Tsang, Shadow Falls isn't
just a camp: it's home. As a vampire who's never fit in with her human
family, it's the one place she can truly be herself. But when a
mysterious new guy arrives at camp, Della’s whole world is thrown into
turmoil. Chase is a vampire with secrets, who knows more than he’s
telling. But the more time she spends with him, the more she begins to
trust this attractive stranger—and feel drawn to him. But romance is the
last thing she wants—as she keeps telling Steve, the hunky shapeshifter
who won’t stop trying to win her heart. And if Della isn't careful, he
just might succeed. When a new case puts everyone she cares about in
danger, Della’s determined to do everything she can to save them . . .
even if it means teaming up with Steve and Chase, who leave her more
confused than ever. With their lives on the line, will Della and her
friends survive—with their hearts intact?
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Title: Fever (Songbird #1)
Author: Melissa Pearl
Singing in the shower takes on a whole new meaning in Melissa Pearl's first New Adult Contemporary Romance.
Ella
Simmons does not want to move across the country. But she is, because
her boyfriend has persuaded her to join him at UChicago to finish out
her college education. Never able to tell him no, she hops on a plane
and makes the trek from LA expecting to adjust to life like she's often
forced to, but things are not that simple when she hears a luscious
voice singing over her shower wall. His deep, sexy tenor makes her weak
in the knees, spreading fire through her limbs and making her question
everything about her life and relationship.
Can one voice really have that much of an impact?
Cole
Reynolds is on his way out. In his final year at UChicago, the only
thing he wants to do is finish school and get on with his life. But the
sweet voice that interrupts his morning shower turns his world upside
down. Compelled to find his shower songbird, he begins a search across
campus. The only thing to distract him from this goal is his roommate's
gorgeous girlfriend who's just arrived from LA - Ella Simmons.
Relationships are put to the ultimate test as future dreams are questioned and friendships are thrown on the line for love.
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Title: Hard As You Can (Hard Ink #2)
Author: Laura Kaye
Ever since hard-bodied,
drop-dead-charming Shane McCallan strolled into the dance club where
Crystal Dean works, he’s shown a knack for getting beneath her defenses.
For her little sister’s sake, Crystal can’t get too close. Until her
job and Shane’s mission intersect, and he reveals talents that go deeper
than she could have guessed.
Shane would never turn his back on
a friend in need, especially a former Special Forces teammate running a
dangerous, off-the-books operation. Nor can he walk away from Crystal.
The gorgeous waitress is hiding secrets she doesn't want him to uncover.
Too bad. He’s exactly the man she needs to protect her sister, her
life, and her heart. All he has to do is convince her that when
something feels this good, you hold on as hard as you can—and never let
go.
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Title: Forever, Jack (Eversea #2)
Author: Natasha Boyd
A feisty small-town girl and the Hollywood star who broke her heart
An all-consuming love threatened by fame
One last chance at FOREVER
Keri
Ann Butler's life changed on the night she met movie star, Jack
Eversea. She thought she knew a Jack that was very different to the man
adored by fans the world over. In the wake of his betrayal and
abandonment, Keri Ann has had to pick up and move forward with the life
she was supposed to live and has put off far too long.
Suddenly
Jack is back, and his explanations for why he left seem more and more
plausible, and his declarations more seductive. But being Jack's latest
tabloid accessory isn't on Keri Ann's career agenda, no matter how much
she is attracted to him. And how can she can ever trust him again?
Jack
knows he let the only 'real' thing that ever happened to him slip
through his fingers. And his hands have been tied to try and stop it.
Until Now.
Jack is now fighting to save his relationship with
Keri Ann, even as his crazy life threatens to tear them apart. Again.
The question is, can he convince her she can have it all? And have him?
Forever?
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Title: Sweet (True Believers #2)
Author: Erin McCarthy
Jessica Sweet thought
going away to college would finally make her free of her parents’
constant judgments and insistence she play chastity club role model for
their church events, but if anything, the freedom has made her realize
she can’t go home and be a hypocrite anymore. Tired of dodging their
questions, she stays at school over the summer and lands in an
unexpected crash pad: Riley Mann’s house.
Sarcastic, cocky, and
full of opinions, Riley is also sexy personified with tattoos and biceps
earned from working as a roofer all day. Not the right guy for her
even if Jessica was looking for a relationship, which she is definitely
not. But Jessica knows that Riley hides the burden of having to raise
his younger brothers behind that grin and as she helps him get his house
in order for a custody hearing, they begin to fall hard for each other,
and she is forced to question what she’s hiding herself.
Jessica
has never had a problem getting naked with a guy, but when it comes to
showing Riley how she truly feels inside, her fear of rejection may just
ruin the best thing—the best guy—to ever happen to her…
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Title: One Tiny Lie (Ten Tiny Breaths #2)
Author: K.A. Tucker
Livie has always been
the stable one of the two Cleary sisters, handling her parents' tragic
death and Kacey's self-destructive phase with strength and maturity. But
underneath that exterior is a little girl hanging onto the last words
her father ever spoke to her. “Make me proud,” he had said. She promised
she would...and she’s done her best over the past seven years with
every choice, with every word, with every action.
Livie walks
into Princeton with a solid plan, and she’s dead set on delivering on
it: Rock her classes, set herself up for medical school, and meet a
good, respectable guy that she’s going to someday marry. What isn’t part
of her plan are Jell-O shots, a lovable, party animal roommate she
can’t say ‘no’ to, and Ashton, the gorgeous captain of the men’s rowing
team. Definitely him. He’s an arrogant ass who makes Livie’s usually
non-existent temper flare and everything she doesn’t want in a guy.
Worse, he’s best friends and roommates with Connor, who happens to fits
Livie’s criteria perfectly. So why does she keep thinking about Ashton?
As
Livie finds herself facing mediocre grades, career aspirations she no
longer thinks she can handle, and feelings for Ashton that she shouldn’t
have, she’s forced to let go of her last promise to her father and,
with it, the only identity that she knows.
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Title: Go With Me (With Me #2)
Author: Elyssa Patrick
I, Daphne Fox, have a few things to confess:
1. I hate Nick Brady. Loathe. Abhor. Can’t stand him 95% of the time.
2. That other 5%? I’m not talking about that at all.
3. People think I’m lucky for surviving the car crash. I disagree.
4. Nick is the only guy who makes my nightmares go away.
5. I won’t love him, though. Love is not worth the pain.
I, Nick Brady, have a few confessions of my own:
1. I don’t hate Daphne Fox. At all.
2. I find her scar sexy. Just like the rest of her.
3. I may be her older brother’s best friend, but that’s not going to stop me.
4. I love her.
5. And I’m going to do everything I can to have her.
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Title: Blue Notes
Author: Carrie Lofty
After being bounced from
foster family to foster family, Keeley, a talented pianist, is ready to
start over as a junior at Tulane. But when she plays a small concert
that attracts the attention of Jude, a brooding playboy and heir to an
enormous fortune in the wake of his parents’ tragic death, suddenly
Keeley’s life is thrown off balance once again.
Jude is the first
person to confront her about the pain behind her music, and she
struggles with whether or not to let him into her life, or to keep
protecting herself from the hurt that relationships have caused her in
the past. But Keeley’s about to learn that the melancholy young
billionaire who appears to have everything he wants can open her eyes to
exactly what she needs…
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Title: Best Kind of Broken (Finding Fate #1)
Author: Chelsea Fine
Pixie and Levi haven't
spoken in nearly a year when they find themselves working―and living―at
the same inn in the middle of nowhere. Once upon a time, they were
childhood friends. But that was before everything went to hell. And now
things are... awkward.
All they want to do is avoid each other,
and their past, for as long as possible. But now that they're forced to
share a bathroom, and therefore a shower, keeping their
distance from one another becomes less difficult than keeping their
hands off each other. Welcome to the hallway of awkward tension and
sexual frustration, folks. Get comfy. It’s going to be a long summer.
