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Pure Blood
Melissa Pearl
Synopsis: She now knows what she’s capable of.

But the battle is only just beginning.

Will she have the strength to win?

If Gemma's parents find out she brought Harrison back into existence, she’s dead. But she refuses to give up everything she's fought for. Harrison is worth the risk.

But her parents have other plans—dark plans that will unravel Gemma’s world.

She must watch her every step as she waits for the inevitable nightmare to catch up to her. As the danger mounts, will she have the courage to make the ultimate sacrifice and save the ones she loves?


You’ll love Pure Blood, because of its unexpected twists, gut-wrenching revelations and a love that will ultimately win.

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Golden Blood & Black Blood

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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
The Journeys of John and Julia in Chapter One: Genesis(eBook)
Synopsis: 1 cheerleader who’s dealing with her parents’ divorce + 1 geek who’s a lot cuter than he should be + 23 magical beings + 1 scary bad guy = what Tim Kring, creator of TV’s “Heroes” and “Touch,” calls a “cool new series.”

In this first book of a series about magic, friendship, and adventure, a seemingly mismatched pair of teens crack open the door to another reality.

Julia is too busy wrapping her mind around her parents’ divorce to give half a thought to her friend Kellie’s fascination with “otherworldly stuff.” Julia’s dad has taken off to start a new family on the other side of the country, and now her mom’s decided to ruin her summer, too. Instead of cheerleader camp, Julia will be stranded at her grandmother’s in the nowhere town of Cedarwood Ridge. There she finds that her usual ice-queen act won’t cut it with her childhood friend John Freeman, who’s a lot cuter than he should be and not half the geek she thought he was. Definitely a romance in the making if it weren’t for the visitations from her dead grandfather and John’s infuriatingly open response to such phenomena. And that’s not the only strange thing that’s going on, thanks to a consortium of magical beings called The Twenty-Two who are secretly watching over John and Julia and making big summer plans of their own. Including John and Julia’s future role in saving the world from their nemesis to be, a beyond-evil corporate overlord named Niem Vidalgo Oten. Not that Julia would believe any of it. John, however, would find it way cool.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Ashes of Twilight
Kassy Tayler
Synopsis:

Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to protect the royal blood line of England when astronomers spotted a comet on a collision course with Earth. Humanity would be saved by the most groundbreaking technology of the time. But after nearly 200 years of life beneath the dome, society has become complacent and the coal is running out. Plus there are those who wonder, is there life outside the dome or is the world still consumed by fire? When one of Wren's friends escapes the confines of the dome, he is burned alive and put on display as a warning to those seeking to disrupt the dome's way of life. But Alex's final words are haunting. "The sky is blue."

What happens next is a whirlwind of adventure, romance, conspiracy and the struggle to stay alive in a world where nothing is as it seems. Wren unwittingly becomes a catalyst for a revolution that destroys the dome and the only way to survive might be to embrace what the entire society has feared their entire existence.
Ashes of Twilight is the first book in a trilogy by Kassy Tayler.

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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Revenge of the Homecoming Queen
Synopsis: Read all three books of the Aspen Brooks Trilogy!

Revenge of the Homecoming Queen, Book #1
Twisted Sisters, Book #2
Spring Breakup, Book #3

Revenge of the Homecoming Queen, Book One~

I, the flawless Aspen Brooks, was born to be Homecoming Queen. I’ve prepped for it like some kids do the SAT. So can someone please tell me why the crown was given to my evil nemesis?
As if that wasn’t bad enough, somebody seems out to get me. Locker vandalism, a slashed tire, and horrendous lipstick graffiti are just a few of the ways someone is trying to get under my blemish-free skin. (And I’m not even going to mention how the biggest geek in school kissed me, and I didn’t hate it.)
But things start getting serious when girls begin disappearing. I can’t be worrying about tiaras or crushing on a geek when the detective on the case is completely clueless. I have to save the day, all while looking fabulous.

****Reviews for Revenge of the Homecoming Queen****

“Meg Cabot better watch her back because Stephanie Hale is giving her a run for her money.”
~Book Divas

“They didn’t write teen books like this when I was in high school- and it’s a darned shame.”
~ FreshFiction.com

“Hale’s narration is strong with laugh-out-loud funny one-liners.”
~The Ya Ya Ya’s
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Beautiful Stranger
Zoey Dean
Synopsis: Anna decides to take an end-of-summer getaway-to get away from her drama-filled LA life. So she packs her Louis Vuitton, grabs her close friend Sam, and heads to the Big Apple. Between trips to the Met and shopping at Bendel's, the girls are living the A-List life on Anna's home turf. But their trip isn't exactly a vacation. Sam is here to spy on Eduardo and decode his recent strange behavior. Will what she discovers send her hopping on the next private jet back to Beverly Hills? And who is the beautiful stranger who appears on Anna's Upper East Side doorstep? Anna begins to wonder whether she wants to head back west again-especially since Ben seems to have moved on . . . with someone who isn't a stranger at all. When it comes to the A-List, there's drama coast to coast.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Taken by Storm
Angela Morrison
Synopsis: Publisher’s Weekly STARRED Review – “Michael awakens a passion in Leesie that she doesn’t know she possesses in this moving novel.”
Amazon Best Sellers Top 100 Teen Death & Dying Books
“Passion, pace . . . and a perfect finish.” – Boston Globe-Horn Book Winner, Tim Wynne-Jones (Blink and Caution)
Read now FREE with Kindle Unlimited!
Sexy, scuba diver Michael Walden cuts school and hitches along on his parents half-priced hurricane season scuba trip to escape witnessing a creepy jock paw at his ex. Breaking up wasn’t Michael’s idea.
 
When the scuba diving turns tragic, the only thing left back in Phoenix is a house too full of memories and the girl who broke his heart, so he washes up at his Gram’s house in “Teacup,” Washington. He’s trapped in his dead dad’s old bedroom, fighting the hurricane every time his eyes close.
 
Michael surfaces in BYU-bound, good girl, Leesie Hunt’s physics class, mesmerized by her shining, sun-bleached, blonde hair.  

Leesie, nicknamed “The Mormon Ice Queen,” pours her soul into dreams and poems in her “Most Private Chapbook.” Her lonely heart yearns to make Michael’s whole again. He needs her in a way no one ever has before.
 
When she peeks out from behind her physics book to find Michael’s eyes drowning in hers, Leesie’s own hurricane season begins. Michael sweeps her into deep water where the passion they share threatens to destroy everything Leesie ever wanted to be.

“The world spins, the stars shift,
And I can’t see anything except his smoky
Gray eyes gazing into mine. 
You scare me, whispers
from my mouth across his. 
Good, he breathes into me.
I need you to save me.”

Leesie knows her faith can rescue Michael, but as her love for him grows deeper and their relationship more stormy, Leesie isn’t sure who is doing the saving anymore.  
Readers who love tearjerkers like John Green’s popular teen romance, The Fault in our Stars and Nicholas Sparks’s books will be swept away by award-winning novelist, Angela Morrison’s breathtaking YA contemporary romance series of tragedy, love, and redemption written in a unique collage of poetry, dive log entries, and chat transcripts.

Michael and Leesie’s story continues in Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer.
 
Reviews
"One of the most breathtaking and romantic-to-the-point-you-cry books I've ever read." -The Reader

"An amazing story written with a clear, refreshing, creative voice." - Jack Weyland, LDS young adult legend (Charly)

"There are moments of yearning and transcendence that took my breath away." - Susan Fletcher (Alphabet of Dreams)

“Showcases characters’ fervent hopes and desperate needs heading for inevitable collision in its pages.” – Uma Krishnaswami, Children’s Literature

"Morrison's distinctive mix of poetry and modern dialogue bring the subjects of peer pressure, religion, and grief to the forefront in an accessible and dramatic way." - Deseret News 

Categories: Teen and Young Adult Novel; Young Adult Contemporary Romance; Popular Teen Romance Series; Scuba Diving Fiction; Tearjerkers in Kindle Store; YA/Teen Literature and Fiction - Difficult Discussions- Death and Dying; LDS Young Adult; LDS Author; Mormon Fiction
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Vampire Sunrise
Carole Nelson Douglas
Synopsis: WHEN THE STAKES ARE DEAD -- OR UNDEAD!

Werewolf mobsters and vampires run Vegas, but that's yesterday's news for Delilah Street, paranormal investigator. What's truly fearsome is her bloody discovery of an undead evil rooted in ancient Egypt. Now, with her lover Ric fighting for life after a grim battle, the chips are down.

But Delilah is a born winner who has never let a little danger throw off her game, and she's been learning fast since she came to Sin City. Her affinity for silver is making mirror-walking a real breeze, and being forced to accept the albino rock star sorcerer Snow's Brimstone Kiss has ramped up her powers to a startling new level. With the help of her trusty uber-wolfhound Quicksilver, not to mention the orange demon parking valet Manny, Delilah is determined to solve even more paranormal secrets, and hopefully save the few innocents left in town. But can Delilah win her high-stakes gamble for life and love against ancient gods and lethal supernatural odds?
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Cameo
Tanille Edwards
Synopsis: New Pop R & B Song "Baby Comeback to Me" by Tanille are included. Download Instructions Are Inside! Cameo by Tanille is your next sinful beach read. Be 17 again! This page turning who done it is packed with mystery, drama, and steam. Nia is a high school beauty who discovers she's being stalked by someone in a secret underground society. Everyone is suspect. The pressure is mounting and problems are stacking up. Who is behind all of this? Which one of her friends is connected with this secret society? And why?
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Once Upon an Ever After
Angela N. Blount
Synopsis: Set after the events of Blount's debut memoir, Once Upon A Road Trip, this short story anthology focuses on the unusual courtship of Angeli and Vincent.

When Angeli left Minnesota on a post-high school road trip, all she wanted was to see the East Coast and finally meet some of her online friends. She didn't expect to end up in a long-distance relationship with a computer-savvy Southern boy. Yet Vincent seems determined to defy the odds. To prove his intentions, he sets off on his own quest to visit Angeli and win her family's approval. But along the way he’ll have to contend with her offbeat friends, trigger-happy father, and a few questionable run-ins with Northern hospitality.

South meets North this time around, and "normal" isn't anywhere on the map.

With a thousand miles and radically different upbringings between them, can Angeli and Vincent forge a forever-worthy bond? Or are the roadblocks they face too much for either of them to overcome?
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Aversion (The Mentalist Series Book 1)
Synopsis: For Gemma Green’s first time, things should have been straightforward. Find your subject, hold their gaze and push a thought into their head to save them from future disaster – Aversion complete. A pretty simple process given that the subject was to have no recollection of the experience. But Russ Tanner doesn’t seem to want to forget. In fact the more she tries to avoid him, the more he pushes to get to know her. Gemma knows she has a problem but is she facing the side effects of a failed Aversion or has the school’s tennis champ really fallen for her?
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Sentient (The Mentalist Series Book 2)
Synopsis: Mastering her Progressive Empath abilities isn’t going as well as Gemma hoped. In fact, months after finding out what she really is, she still has no clue what this truly means. All she can do is wait to see if any new abilities will eventually manifest. Things aren’t going great with Russ either. Unsure of how to handle her Sentient Link with him, she tries to integrate herself in his busy social life but struggles to adjust to her new circumstances.

When she is plagued by recurring nightmares, Gemma realises things are changing and knows she has to do something, fast. The arrival of two sets of strangers in town, both offering the much needed assistance she needs to unearth her powers, escalates the situation even further. Gemma attempts to decipher whose intentions are genuine, but does she have enough time to figure out who has her best interest at heart?
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Avoidables 1-3
Rachel Medhurst
Synopsis: Avoidables have defects ranging from looks to unexplained gifts. Some of us are half breeds. Dragons and animals were known to have bred with the human race thousands of years ago. We all live in cities, usually divided in two. The Perfects live on the Upper Side, while the Avoidables inhabit the Lower Side. We've been consumed by hate for a race that rejects us so heartlessly. We've become dangerous. All we want is the Perfects to love and respect us.

Follow Hope, Purple and Jason on their individual journeys.

Hope uncovers a great secret about herself when she meets Jason, a Perfect that brings out the best in her.

Purple tries to rescue a kidnaped Hope, but soon realises that she's in better company than they knew. When he meets Alia, he's determined not to follow his best friends footsteps in love.

Jason needs to prove himself. Avoidables view him as the Perfect mummy's boy, but he will find a way to show Hope that he is perfect for her.

'This is a bundled serial.'
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
STORM FALL
Tracy Banghart
Synopsis: In the action-packed sequel to Rebel Wing, Aris battles for life and love . . . and not everyone will survive.

Aris Haan gave up everything to join the Atalantan Military: her family, her boyfriend, even her identity. In the end, though, it didn’t matter that she was a war hero. When the all-male Military discovered that she was actually a woman, she was sent home and erased from history.

Now she has a chance to go back to the battlefield—as herself. But as hard as it was to be a soldier in disguise, it’s even more difficult now. The men in her unit undermine her at every turn. The Safaran army has spies everywhere, perhaps even on Aris’s stationpoint. And she’s falling for her mysterious superior officer, Milek. But their relationship is forbidden, just stolen moments between training sessions and missions. There’s no room for love in war.

Then Aris discovers that Safara’s leaders have set their sights on her, Atalanta’s hero. And she must find them before they find her . . .
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Jacmuir: Trust Stained Lies
Angeline M. Bishop
Synopsis: Oastomin, a university freshman and the newest Crimson Knight, consents to rigorous training so he can follow in his father’s footsteps and be accepted among his peers. A few months into his preparation, his dad, King Natro of Jacmuir, dies. Oastomin soon discovers his father’s power came at the high price of a long buried secret.

Seventeen year old Maia has a daily habit of pushing the “gray” boundary between right and wrong, but when she secretly rallies college-aged young men to undermine her father’s petitions for an alliance, her parents deliver a harsh punishment. Maia is forced to leave home but she decides to use her eviction as the perfect time to learn the secrets of the Crimson Knights.

Oastomin and Maia must decide if they are willing to sacrifice their principles in order to preserve their way of life. They will discover if it’s possible to slide across a moral line and openly challenge their parents’ expectations, while trying not to be held accountable for their powerful fathers’ mistakes.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Lonely Reader Looking For Love (Cupid's Daughter #1)
Synopsis: In the wake of Manifold’s attack, Rose Gardens, aka Star Girl, is desperate to get her life back to normal. That means spending time with her wonderful boyfriend Ben Royal, attending classes at Century City University and occasionally saving the day.

But what Rose wants is drastically different from what she gets.

Soon Star Girl finds herself in the crosshairs of an upstart super villain wannabe who’s on a devastating rampage through Century City.

Before Star Girl even has a chance to fight back, she finds herself swept up in a mystery involving one of her teammates that could have disastrous implications for her secret identity.

Once again, Rose finds herself torn between two men: her boyfriend, the man she loves, and her teammate, the man who’s secret could sweep her off her feet or destroy her life completely.


Other books in the Star Girl series
DATING THE VILLAIN (Book 1)
DATING THE HERO (Book 2)
DATING DISASTER (Book 3)
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Lonely, But Afraid to Love (Cupid's Daughter #3)
Synopsis: Emma is finally getting a date with Milo!

Unfortunately, True Love may have other plans.

Becky Sayers is feeling desperately alone. Almost despondent over the fact she hasn’t found her True Love. Can Emma help her before it’s too late?

*******

Emma Valentine is just your average ordinary twenty-four year old Manhattanite, living in an apartment that makes a shoebox look spacious, barely making a living working as the cutest barista at the Grind House and, oh yeah, she’s also Cupid’s Daughter.

That’s right. Cupid. As in the guy responsible for helping everyone find their True Love.

Cupid’s Daughter is a short story style series. Each issue is approximately 10,000 words or 30 pages and designed to be read in under an hour, so they're perfect for when you're waiting at appointments or have a few extra minutes to spare.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance

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