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Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from TikTok sensation, Ana Huang!He'll do anything to have her . . . including lie.Charming, deadly and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman.He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him.She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can't refuse.Every monster has their weakness. She's his.His obsession. His addiction. His only exception.***Sweet, shy and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship. But when a threat from her past drives her into the arms - and house - of the most dangerous man she's ever met, she's tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.Because despite Christian's cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she's with him.Passionate. Protected. Truly wanted.Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies . . . and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything.Twisted Lies is a steamy fake dating romance. It's the fourth and final book in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.Warning: The story contains explicit content, violence, profanity, and topics that may be sensitive to some readers. Please see inside the book for a detailed list.

Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from TikTok sensation, Ana Huang!Read Twisted Hate now for a steamy enemies to lovers romance.He hates her . . . almost as much as he wants her.Gorgeous, cocky, and fast on his way to becoming a hotshot doctor, Josh Chen has never met a woman he couldn't charm - except for Jules f**king Ambrose.The beautiful redhead has been a thorn in his side since they met, but she also consumes his thoughts in a way no woman ever has.When their animosity explodes into one unforgettable night, he proposes a solution that'll get her out of his system once and for all: an enemies with benefits arrangement with simple rules.No jealousy.No strings attached.And absolutely no falling in love.***Outgoing and ambitious, Jules Ambrose is a former party girl who's focused on one thing: passing the attorney's bar exam.The last thing she needs is to get involved with a doctor who puts the SUFFER in insufferable . . . no matter how good-looking he is.But the more she gets to know him, the more she realizes there's more than meets the eye to the man she's hated for so long.Her best friend's brother.Her nemesis.And her only salvation.Theirs is a match made in hell, and when the demons from their past catch up with them, they're faced with truths that could either save them . . . or destroy everything they've worked for.Twisted Hate is a steamy enemies with benefits/enemies to lovers romance. It's book three in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.Warning: It contains explicit content and profanity. Recommended for 18+

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.They don’t know what I’m capable of…An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!

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Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.From the Trade Paperback edition.

This Is Not A Romance, But It Is About Love Two Kids Meet In A Hospital Gaming Room In 1987. One Is Visiting Her Sister, The Other Is Recovering From A Car Crash. The Days And Months Are Long There. Their Love Of Video Games Becomes A Shared World -- Of Joy, Escape And Fierce Competition. But All Too Soon That Time Is Over, Fades From View. When The Pair Spot Each Other Eight Years Later In A Crowded Train Station, They Are Catapulted Back To That Moment. The Spark Is Immediate, And Together They Get To Work On What They Love - Making Games To Delight, Challenge And Immerse Players, Finding An Intimacy In Digital Worlds That Eludes Them In Their Real Lives. Their Collaborations Make Them Superstars. This Is The Story Of The Perfect Worlds Sadie And Sam Build, The Imperfect World They Live In, And Of Everything That Comes After Success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy. Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Takes Us On A Dazzling Imaginative Quest As It Examines The Nature Of Identity, Creativity, Disability, Failure, The Redemptive Possibilities In Play And, Above All, Our Need To Connect: To Be Loved And To Love.

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Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA.A competitive figure skater since she was five years old, a full college scholarship thanks to her place on the Maple Hills skating team, and a schedule that would make even the most driven person weep, Stassie comes to win.No exceptions.Nathan Hawkins has never had a problem he couldn’t solve. As captain of the Maple Hills Titans, he knows the responsibility of keeping the hockey team on the ice rests on his shoulders.When a misunderstanding results in the two teams sharing a rink, and Anastasia’s partner gets hurt in the aftermath, Nate finds himself swapping his stick for tights, and one scary coach for an even scarier one.The pair find themselves stuck together in more ways than one, but it’s fine, because Anastasia doesn’t even like hockey players…right?

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros.Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of dragon riders.But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways graduate or die