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Vicious Hate
2019
Thandiwe Mpofu
Devastation tastes a lot like ash in your mouth. It feels like looming death hanging over your bones. It sounds like the violent shattering of your soul. It has an acrid smell much like that of rotting hearts. . . But most of all, devastation looks a lot like the beautiful, fiery girl with her fake sincerity and lies. Now, she thinks we are somehow an option that she can discard at any fucking time. Does it surprise you then, sweetheart, that I would show you what real hate is? Isn’t it a tragedy after all? To wish on a star that has fallen from grace? Because baby, that’s what you are to me now. A beautiful tragedy that I desperately want to make atone for all her sins. I guess we were two mismatched, vicious and tragic souls flourishing in hate, headed straight for the sweet experience of deep devastation.
Broken Hate
2020
Thandiwe Mpofu
What’s wrong Baby Blue? Did you mistake his forced sincerity for love? Every kiss will fade in time. Every memory will fade in time. Every smile, every teardrop, every wound—it’ll all dry up—in time. But every lie? That shit only gets bigger and more devastating with time. In time... I’lol learn to let him go, but not without leaving my bitter mark on him like he carelessly ruined my soul with his cold, rough touch. In time I’ll learn to forgive this that have wronged me as savagely as they did. In time I’ll rise from the ashes and sour. In time the Blue Boys will learn to take me seriously come hell or high water. But for right now, we’re in the final blue act, playing for hateful truths—our audience of two faced snakes cheering for the hate and the breaking. Resentment, toxic anger, lies and betrayal are the rules of the game. The price? A bitter ending. What will break? My hate or your heart? Because baby, love means absolutely nothing when it falls on broken, shattered souls like ours.
Dragon Marked
2015
Jaymin Eve
There are supernatural prisons hidden across the globe. Contained within these fortresses are some of the deadliest criminals from the five supernatural races: vampire, shifter, fey, magic users and demi-fey. Jessa Lebron, twenty-two, has spent her entire life in Stratford, Connecticut, one of the gateway towns adjoining these prisons which protect the fortified borders. She’s a wolf shifter, and her father leads the town council. She learns that much of her life has been hidden from her, secrets which threaten to tear apart the very fabric of her world. Especially the biggest secret of them all. She is dragon marked. Jessa only knows what she’s been told about the dragon marked, that they are dangerous and must be eliminated to prevent the rise of the dragon king, the powerful warmonger who had his head removed a thousand years ago. So now Jessa's on the biggest hit list of all. Dragon mark hunters are lethal and her only hope to evade detection is to keep the energy contained. As more secrets unfold she finds herself locked up in Vanguard, the notorious American supernatural prison. Thankfully she’s not alone. Braxton, the dragon-shifter has her back. Together they must survive long enough to free themselves and the other dragon marked. Because it’s time for the dragon marked to rise.
Bitter
2020
Eden Beck
The first problem with Bleakwood Academy for Boys is The Brotherhood. Vicious. Ruthless. Untouchable. They are the gods of these hallways, the rest of us mere mortals. The second problem is me. Mostly, because I’m a girl. It was never my intention to lie my way into an all-boys boarding school, but here I am—and now that I’m here, I intend to stay. No matter the cost. Jasper. Heath. Beck. These boys, this Brotherhood, are as impossibly handsome as they are vile. From the day I arrive at Bleakwood they’re determined to break me. To them it’s a game, a right of passage. But to me, it’s my life. I thought my biggest challenge at this school was going to be hiding the fact that I’m a girl, but I was wrong. My biggest challenge is finding a way to leave Bleakwood in something other than a body bag. These boys might call themselves a Brotherhood, but I know what they really are. And what they are is wicked. Bitter is a full-length bully romance novel with multiple love interests. It’s the first book in the Wicked Brotherhood trilogy, a contemporary enemies-to-lovers series where the main character has no intent to choose between the men who inevitably end up falling for her...after they’ve paid their penitence, of course.
Hateful
2020
Eden Beck
I thought I was finished with The Wicked Brotherhood. But it seems The Wicked Brotherhood isn’t finished with me. And they aren’t the only ones. I survived my first semester at Bleakwood. Barely. Now I just have to do it again. From the moment I step back into these hallowed halls, it’s clear that it’s not going to be any easier the second time around. Not when it isn’t just The Brotherhood who suddenly has it out for me. Ever since I arrived at Bleakwood Academy for Boys, someone has been trying to use me, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise when Dean Robin—or Headmistress Robin, depending on who you’re talking to—is the next to jump in line. What she’s asking me to do will put me and quite possibly the whole future of Bleakwood in jeopardy, but I have no choice but to help her or she’ll expose me for what I really am. If Jasper and The Brotherhood don’t do it first. Hateful is a full-length bully romance novel with multiple love interests. It’s the second book in the Wicked Brotherhood trilogy, a contemporary enemies-to-lovers series where the main character has no intent to choose between the men who inevitably end up falling for her...after they’ve paid their penitence, of course.
Wretched
2021
Eden Beck
The Wicked Brotherhood is no longer invincible. But neither am I. I have been betrayed so many times at Bleakwood Academy for Boys. First, by The Brotherhood. Jasper. Heath. Beck. Second, by the head of the nearby girls’ school. Headmistress Robin pretended to be my friend, but she might turn out to be my greatest enemy of all. Things should be simpler now that I no longer have to pretend to be someone other than myself, but nothing could be further from the truth. Bleakwood is under investigation. With the threat of closure hanging over us, I find myself tangled in a complicated web of yet more lies and secrets—lies and secrets that could determine the fate of this school and everyone in it, myself included. With the future of Bleakwood in the balance, I soon find that the next great betrayal isn’t going to come from outside, from anyone else. The next betrayal, the greatest betrayal of all, is going to come from me. Wretched is a full-length reverse harem bully romance with multiple love interests. It’s the third book in the Wicked Brotherhood trilogy, a contemporary enemies-to-lovers series where the main character has no intent to choose between the men who inevitably end up falling for her...after they’ve paid their penitence, of course.
Shatter Me
2011
Tahereh Mafi
I have a curse I have a gift I am a monster I'm more than human My touch is lethal My touch is power I am their weapon I will fight back Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
Twilight
2005
Stephenie Meyer
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight is a love story with bite.
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