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Lana Choi thinks falling for cocky heartthrob Jeon Jungkook and mysterious writer Kim Taehyung is complicated. But whatever can a girl do when the boys who love her are also in love with each other -- except dive right in? ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ❁‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ❁‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ❁‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Swearing off romance before college seems like the perfect plan on paper. Although, when biotech major Lana Choi enters a world without happy-ever-afters where the princes conspire of love bombing, gaslighting, and situationships, her prospects are bleak at best. All until she meets Hymn, Lana's very own sassy cross-dressing fairy godmother, who appears with the most exquisite magical rose. Always the overachiever, she propagates the flower till she has five shots at love and sets her eyes on the grand prize -- the hottest guy in the university, Jeon Jungkook. With a new plan, nothing can stop her. But when wicked fate intervenes and all but one of her roses are stolen, love wreaks havoc on campus destroying perfect marriages, soulmates, and old friendships. Her own rose ends up in the hands of the mysterious Kim Taehyung who is already in love with someone else. Now it's up to Lana to clean up the mess, all the while not one but two perfect guys call her to their bed for the start of something that is definitely NOT a fairytale. Outrageously sexy and funny, Polyculture is an exploration of the spectrum of love. 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Copyright © 2023 Gauravaaditya Kulkarni

What if all your life was passing by you and you couldn't enjoy it, and it is all because of one man? That is the story of Maddison. Ever since she met John, her life has been in hell, constantly full of abusement vocabulary and physical. Her only goal in life is to run away from him and live in peace. Will she be able to find her happiness and find someone that will love her with no abusement? As a Marine Corps, your life is constantly is full of danger and action, but what happens if the one you love dies and leaves you small human to raise alone? James thought that the moment he found the one he'll spend the rest of his life with it will be the happiest moment for him, but after his girlfriend gave birth to his son, it took her away from him to raise their son alone. Will he be able to accomplish her dying wish to find someone to help him raise their son or he'll leave him to his parents and run away back to the military?

Aria Matthews is in love with her best friend, Lucas Miller. It is the best kept secret since Area 51 and she knows she would take it to the grave. But things start changing in her senior year of high school when another of her friends takes it upon herself to set Aria up with the captain of the football team, who, incredibly, seems to be interested in her as well. And she doesn't understand why Lucas suddenly grows a stick up his butt about the whole dating deal. Sometimes it just takes a nudge to knock down years of carefully laid plans like the blocks of a Jenga tower. And sometimes, just sometimes, deeper and darker secrets are waiting to be exposed. Content and/or trigger warning: Sexual references and mentions of sexual abuse 🥇1st place in the Hearts Awards - Teen Fiction 🥇1st place in the Inclusive Watty Awards - Teen Fiction 🥇1st place in the Massive Awards - Best Cover 🥇1st place in the Prime Awards - Young Adult 🥇1st place in the Acamia Awards - Best story 2022 🥇1st place in the 2023 Gloria Regali Awards - Best Blurb 🥇1st place in the The Lovely Valentine Awards - Teen Fiction 🥇1st place in the Ocean Blue Awards - Romance 🥇1st place in the Ocean Blue Awards - Best Prologue and Best Storyline 🥇1st place in the Quidditch Awards - Teen Fiction

Wattys 2018 Shortlist!!! *First book in a two part series* June 1952-in a world of poodle skirts, convertibles, and rock and roll... At seventeen, Isadora (Izzy) Twiss is forced to accept she has a growing problem, and no matter how much she wishes it away, it just gets bigger. Having a baby out of wedlock is unacceptable. Those who do are shunned by their families and destined to lead a life of guilt and shame. She is forced to "disappear" to a remote island where a nun led home for unwed mothers lies, surrounded by nothing but wilderness. There she meets other girls, all suffering from the same predicament. They bond together, sharing in the heartache that comes with carrying an illegitimate child. Izzy dreams that one day, no matter how far-fetched, love will be hers to have and hold. When a mysterious man arrives on the island, Izzy realizes her dream just might come true.

slow dancing love and pain in the midnight chorus of liquor-washed autumn green ... || a constellation of destructive poetry ||

Deadly St. Louis epidemics of cholera and typhoid in the mid 1800s had taken her father and changed Harriet's life. With a lot of patience and courage, she left home to establish a library in a small western town. The excitement and adventure she imagined soon met an ugly reality. "I was a victim, not the avenging killer people attached to my name."

Participating story in the 2022 Stormy Nights Reading Challenge! Popstar Insomniac Werewolf? Verity Jayne is harboring a secret buried so deep, even she doesn't know what it is. Until one day, she does. Or she thinks she does. Her family and friends worry that she's losing her mind. Either they're right... or they're lying to her. Alek Sinclair knows her secret, but he isn't telling her what it might be. Hired as her bodyguard, Alek's real mission is to watch Verity for signs that she's taking after her mother. Verity believes her mom succumbed to mental illness. The truth is far stranger-so strange that even Alek will be forced to reevaluate everything he thought he believed in. Verity wants to embrace who she's become, but if she does, Alek will have to finish his mission: ending her life before the world finds out what she really is... or what she's capable of doing.

Bad boy supreme Caleb Dawson crashes into Amy Irvine's world as a spectre that no one can see, hear, or touch, unleashing a chain of events beyond her wildest theories. Could a logical soul ever survive the burn of a supernatural touch? ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ✧‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ✧‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ✧‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ Amy's life is so predictable until days after the fall carnival ends and her school's hotshot rebel shows up in the hallway, looking like the face of death. It is as if Caleb wants everyone to be just as angry and alone as he is. But he doesn't. It is only her. Only her because nobody else can see him. Mysterious forces accompany Caleb crashing into Amy's world, swirling around the town of Sirencester, threatening to unearth secrets best kept buried. Although she risks everything known and safe in her reality and decides to help figure out what has happened to the strange boy, Amy knows it in her heart -- this is something no one can ever predict. Hauntingly irresistible and evocative, Near Touch is a love story for the fearless. 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐘𝐀 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 @YAMystery, @TeenFiction, @Romance, and many more! Copyright © 2022 Gauravaaditya Kulkarni