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Worth the Fight
VI KEELAND
Cammy and Rynny are HUGE fans of the UFC (seriously, if you like the hot fighter type, go check it out!) and so when we saw readers giving this book the thumbs up we thought, why the hell not?!
All three of us will be reading this at some point this week, and if you want to join in with us, and in the process get acquainted with the extremely alpha Nico "The Lady Killer" Hunter, then you are more than welcome!
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"I'm a chapter in my story, going through the chapters of my life as if it was written by an imaginary person, when I should be the author."
~ Elle James
WORTH THE FIGHT
Come to me Quietly (Closer to You #1)
by A.L. Jackson
Aleena Moore is content with her life. She has goals and dreams and an easy smile. She also has a secret she holds locked inside.
Jared Holt believes he doesn’t deserve to love or be loved. He destroys everything he touches. Haunted by the mistake that shattered his life, he’s fled from the memory of that pain.
Jared doesn’t know why he’s compelled to return, but finds himself drawn back to the place where it all began. The exact place where it ended. When he runs into his childhood best friend, Aleena’s older brother Christopher, he agrees to share Christopher and Aleena’s apartment while he looks for a place of his own.
Aleena is no longer the little girl Jared remembers from his past and evokes feelings in him he never wanted to feel again. Terrified of destroying her, he fights to keep her away. But her touch is something he can’t resist—the touch that sealed his fate.
Their pasts are intertwined and their futures uncertain. The only truths they know are the secrets they whisper in the night.
"I was thinking that maybe she and I did fit because she was fucking perfect and good and every kind of beautiful, and I was corrupted and impure and vile, and just maybe piecing together two people together so contrary meant we could somehow create a whole."
~ Jared Holt
Come To Me Quietly
"I see beauty and pain. Joy and sorrow. I see the good and I see the bad... and I love it all."
~ Aleena Moore
Come To Me Quietly
Lick (Stage Dive #1)
By Kylie Scott
Evelyn Thomas's plans for celebrating her twenty-first birthday in Las Vegas were big. Huge. But she sure never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the black plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man in her room, and a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King Kong. Now if she could just remember how it all happened.
One thing is certain, being married to one of the hottest rock stars on the planet is sure to be a wild ride
"'Love isn't always smooth or straightforward. It can be messy and painful,' he said. 'Doesn't mean it isn't still the most incredible thing that can ever happen to you. Doesn't mean I'm not crazy about you.'"
~ David Ferris
Lick
Autumn Rose (The Dark Heroine #2)
By Abigail Gibbs
Autumn Rose has the chance to save the world she loves. But how much will she have to sacrifice?
Autumn Rose lives in a sleepy seaside town, but buried deep under the surface of her quiet life are dark secrets. Her grandmother is dead, murdered eighteen months ago, and the vibrant London social scene in which she was brought up is a world away. Even worse, at her new school she is shunned and condemned––all because of the swirling marks on her skin that prevent her from blending in with the crowd.
Then the appearance at her school of a handsome young man—who has the same curious markings as Autumn—sends her world into turmoil. Suddenly the marks are deemed cool, and Autumn is thrust into the limelight. But her sudden popularity brings danger as her secrets threaten to come to light. And then there are her recurring dreams about a girl who is about to be seduced by a very dark prince . . . and Autumn must figure out how to save her before it is too late.
"Child, one day I will be ead, and you will have to walk alone. The day you learn to do that will be an important day. It is the day I will cease to call you 'child.'"
~ Grandmother
Autumn Rose
Used (Unlovable #1)
By Lynetta Halat
I am a slut. No worries. I've come to terms with it, and you will too. I’m not one of those girls who thinks she’s too plain, too fat, too skinny, too shy … no, I don’t have that kind of luck. I’m the girl who knows she’s just right for everyone. — Denver
A reputation as a manwhore–with–a–heart–of–gold tends to precede me. But, I don’t do girls with issues, that is until this girl. It's this girl I want to fix. This girl I want to protect. And maybe … more. — Ransom
Being in love with the same girl your entire life isn't all it's cracked up to be. She uses me in every way imaginable. How does she see me? I am her perpetual one-night stand. No strings, no attachments. Just mind-numbing sex ... for her anyway. — Greer
Feeling like the life is being choked out of her in the small town of Anaconda, Montana, Denver Dempsey craves the escape that college offers … even if that means leaving her “best friend with benefits” and looking for a new way to forget. Thinking she's found the perfect hookup in Ransom, Denver's outlook on college is bright. That is, until Greer shows up looking for a second chance, and Ransom's interest turns to hatred.
Love. Hate. Triangle.
Who's using who?
"Do you remember me telling you once that you're the only one I see? If i let you go, I'll go blond. I'll see nothing, want nothing, be nothing."
~ Greer
Used
"You know, sometimes we fight battles we have no business fighting."
~ Maggie
Used
Unravel
By Calia Read
Six months ago, I was happy. I was simply Naomi Carradine.
One month ago, I was admitted into a psych ward. Yesterday, Lachlan visited me. Kissed me. And told me that I’m starting to lose my mind.
Hours later, Max haunted my thoughts, reminding me I’m not crazy and that he needs my help.
A few minutes ago, I drifted further from reality, trying to unravel the past. And now...everyone thinks I’m insane. But, I know he's real, and I know he needs me.
Do you believe me?
"Sex.
Love.
Fucking.
Call it what you want but they are all the same. Each one requires you to give a piece of yourself that you can never get back.
But with the right person, everything will align perfectly. The world stops turning on its axis, time slows and you realize that while you’re losing a piece of yourself, you’re also gaining something in return. What they give you fits you just right."
~ Naomi
Unravel
"Just remember that even the purest of souls have darkness in them. It might be hard to spot. Perhaps they’ve perfected the art of covering it from the world. Or maybe it’s hidden in a dark corner of their mind. But it’s there. No one in this world is scar free.”
~ Dr. Rutledge
Unravel
"Freedom has a price."
~ Naomi
Unravel
Crashed
(The Driven Trilogy)
By K. Bromberg
When life crashes down around us, how hard are we willing to fight for the one thing we can’t live without, each other?
Life is full of moments.
Big moments.
Little moments.
And none of them are inconsequential. Every single moment prepares you for that one instance that defines your life. You must overcome all your fears, confront the demons that chase you, and cleanse the poison that clings to your soul or you risk the chance of losing everything.
Mine started the minute Rylee fell out of that damn storage closet. She made me feel. Made me whole when all I thought I could ever be was incomplete. Became the lifeline I never knew I needed. Hell yes, she’s worth the fight…but how do you fight for someone you know you don’t deserve?
Love is full of ups and downs.
Heart stopping highs.
Soul shattering lows.
And none of them are insignificant.
Love is a racecourse of unexpected twists and turns that must be negotiated. You have to break down walls, learn to trust, and heal from your past in order to win. But sometimes it’s the expected that’s the hardest to hold on to.
Colton has healed and completed me, stolen my heart, and made me realize our love’s not predictable nor perfect—it’s bent. And bent’s okay.But when outside factors put our relationship to the test, what lengths will I have to go to prove to him that he’s worth the fight?
Whoever said love is patient and love is kind, never met the two of us. We know our love is worth it—have acknowledged that we were meant to be—but when our pasts crash into our future, will the repercussions make us stronger or break us apart?
"You know that's permanent, right?" he mumurs, shaking his head at me, still floored by what I'm doing.
"Yeah," I say reaching out my fingers to lace with his, "kinda like we are."
Colton and Rylee
-Crashed
"Relationships aren't easy. They're hard and can be brutal at times...but those are the times you learn the most about yourself. And when they're right," I pause, making sure his eyes are steadfast on mine, "they can be like coming home...finding the rest of your soul..."
Rylee
-Crashed
“I can’t be your spark if I can’t feel yours, so don’t you dare burn out on me.”
Rylee
-Crashed
Kismet
By A.E Woodward
Katie’s world came crashing down in an instant.
Her husband, daughter, and unborn baby. . . all gone in a flash. The life that she’d come to know, gone before she ever really got to live it.
With a broken heart, she deals the only way she knows how, by shutting it all off. No communicating, no feelings, just pure nothingness.
Alone with nothing but her own thoughts and a well meaning family, she moves back to her childhood home, a horse farm. It’s there that she finds herself healing along with the horses her family rehabilitates. But when Parker McKenzie comes back into her life she’s reminded of all that went wrong, and all that she lost.
Will Katie ever begin to heal? Or will her secrets and loss be too much for her to overcome?
Perhaps, this is her kismet
"I was meant to give you her, that was my purpose. My second chance wasn't meant for me...it was meant for you."
Katie
~ Kismet
"'I don't believe in God,' I argue.
'Me either. But I do Believe in second chances.'"
Katie and Parker
~ Kismet
"'You are mine and I am yours,' I whisper into the darkness. 'I always have been and I always will be.'"
Katie
~ Kismet
Emerge
By S.E. Hall
“You never have to be without me, Laney, never.”
He lied…my everything I ever knew, trusted, wanted…I am, in fact, without him.
On my own and out of my shell, I learn new things about life, friendship and…myself.
Like what you’ve always known may not be what you’ve always wanted.
Dane Kendrick awakened things within me that I never knew existed, unraveling and uncovering the real Laney Jo Walker. I’m a NEW adult…so is my story.
"Maybe its not about the length of time you've known someone; maybe its an instant recognition on an unconscious level. Our souls know each other."
Laney
~ Emerge
"Laney, you're that girl...the one guys make up in their head when they put all the parts together to make one perfect girl."
~ Dane
Love, in English
By Karina Halle
He’s thirty-eight. I’m twenty-three.
He speaks Spanish. I speak English.
He lives in Spain. I live in Canada.
He dresses in thousand-dollar suits. I’m covered in tattoos.
He’s married and has a five-year old daughter. I’m single and can’t commit to anyone or anything.
Until now.Because when they say you can’t choose who you fall in love with, boy ain’t that the f*#king truth.
***
To a restless dreamer like Vera Miles, it sounded like the experience of a lifetime. Instead of spending her summer interning for her astronomy major, she would fly to Spain where she’d spend a few weeks teaching conversational English to businessmen and women, all while enjoying free room and board at an isolated resort. But while Vera expected to get a tan, meet new people and stuff herself with wine and paella, she never expected to fall in love.
Mateo Casalles is unlike anyone Vera has ever known, let alone anyone she’s usually attracted to. While Vera is a pierced and tatted free spirit with a love for music and freedom, Mateo is a successful businessman from Madrid, all sharp suits and cocky Latino charm. Yet, as the weeks go on, the two grow increasingly close and their relationship changes from purely platonic to something…more.
Something that makes Vera feel alive for the first time.
Something that can never, ever be.
Or so she thinks.
"'You're going to show me how to nap?' I asked warily.
'Siesta,' he repeated and I wished the word didn't sound so sey coming from his lips. 'There is a difference.'"
Vera and Mateo
"'Love is like a thief, it robs you of all thought and logic, and all you have left is a heart that you can only pray is strong enough to survive the rest.'"
Vera
"'No, Love in Spanish is you.'"
Mateo