Here is a list of my 10 favorite books of 2020 so far...
01
Until Harry by L.A Casey
He was my best friend, my best not-really-big-brother, and my best protector.
He was my best everything.
He was mine.
Coming home is hard for Lane. Hard because Harry, her beloved uncle, has died suddenly, but also because of him. Kale.
Kale Hunt has been her best friend since childhood. But it was never that simple. He was Lane’s reason for leaving home and moving to New York. Seeing him with someone else, in love with someone else, shouldn’t have hurt. But it did. It really, really did. So she upped sticks and left, started a new life and cut herself off from her past.
But now she’s back, and all the feelings are right there. As if she had never left.
Emotions are running high for everyone, and tragedy has a funny way of bringing people together. But is Lane reading the signs right? Are they still just friends, or is there something more?
02
Of Song and Sea (Daughters of Eville #3) by Chanda Hahn
I am Merisol, one of the adoptive daughters of Lady Eville, and to escape my past and save my friends I will make an uncertain bargain with a shady sea witch.
The deal sounds too good to be true. What could possibly go wrong?
03
Beasty (A Royal Tale #2) by Jennise K.
Two soulmates finally meet,
their hearts full and complete.
A curse by a vengeful ghost is made,
to sever the ties woven by fate.
They say we all have our own soulmates—the ones we’re destined to spend our whole lives with. But orphan Olivia Fredson has no time for that. She has an infant niece, a family business, and her college education to take care of—all on her own.
Even multibillionaire Romanov Naight is too busy to even think of one. When he’s not managing his law firm and the university in which he’s one of its governors, he prowls the night together with his pack to keep their kind safe from meddling humans.
But it takes only one night, a car crash, and a school project to change their minds.
Suddenly, Olivia finds herself in the complex world of werewolves and in a complicated relationship with Berlin’s Alpha King himself. No matter what she does, she always gravitates back to Romanov—his castle, his presence, his arms.
Little does she know that behind all the sweet caresses and hot kisses is a thousand-year old curse not even the strong Romanov can protect her from.
For how can you protect your soulmate if you yourself are the danger?
From the author of the bestselling book, Mated to the Alpha King, Jennise K delivers another gripping tale on the great lengths people go in the name of love, and the dangers of an affection gone too far with Beasty. Grab a copy now and be in for a literary treat!
04
The Forever Crew (Adamson All-Boys Academy #3) by C.M Stunich
Nah, I think the murders are a bit more remarkable, although my dad might disagree. He’s not exactly thrilled with my fake fiancé or the other four boys that make my pulse race.
With two current students dead, and three attackers on my tail, it looks like I’m next. The fact that I’m a target isn’t in question, but are the people closest to me involved somehow? Everyone’s a suspect—my family, my classmates, even my new boyfriends.
Okay, that’s it. I’m going to do it: I’m going to attend Adamson in a fucking skirt, and kick some ass.
Follow the clues, catch the bad guys, secure my future. Because, murder-mysteries aside, this is my final year of high school, and nothing lasts forever, right? Not even a forever crew.
05
My Maddie (Hades Hangmen #8) by Tillie Cole
Not even love can conquer the demons of our pasts...
Flame and Maddie have found solace and safety in one another’s arms, two fractured souls beginning to heal. But no matter how strong their love grows, it can never completely vanquish the demons of their pasts. These demons are dormant, not defeated.
Now a new enemy threatens the Hangmen, and a new revelation threatens the peace Maddie and Flame hold so dear. Flame is fighting a multitude of wars – against the club’s new foe, against the horrors of his past, and against his fears – but the fire in his blood may be the only victor.
As Flame begins to spiral into his own personal hell, it is up to Maddie to bring her husband back into her heart. To remind him that, together, they can face any obstacle standing in their way. To show him that no one and nothing can tear them apart again.
His Maddie.
Her Flame.
The fight for their forever.
06
Varient Lost (Evelyn Maynard Trilogy #1) by Kaydence Snow
When Evelyn Maynard receives a scholarship to the exclusive Bradford Hills Institute, she’s determined to make a fresh start. The Institute is world renowned for educating and training Variants – the 18% of the population fortunate enough to have superhuman abilities. As a human, she’s lucky to be admitted.
She’s done with fake identities, running and lying but once again she finds herself surrounded by secrets.
Some she’s been keeping her whole life.
Some have been kept from her.
Some she finds herself dragged into…
Ethan, Josh, Tyler and Alec have some of the rarest Variant abilities Evelyn has ever seen. They fascinate, intrigue and attract her, but is it their abilities, their own secrets or something more that Evelyn can’t seem to stay away from? The secrets they keep could drag Evelyn so deep into their dangerous and exciting world that she’ll never be the same.
And the answers she finds could get them all killed.
07
Wolfsgate by Cat Porter
Forced to marry in a cruel game of family greed, no one counted on Brandon and Justine falling in love.
Not even Brandon and Justine.
Gripping and sensual, a deeply romantic 18th century tale of deception and revenge, and the healing of two souls hungering for love and absolution.
A fateful shipwreck leaves the young and wealthy Lord Brandon presumed dead, and his estate in England lies abandoned and ripe for the picking. Years later, his step-cousin Justine finds him alive and drug-addicted, and against his family’s wishes, boldly brings him home to reclaim his inheritance.
Dark surprises disturb Brandon at every turn—a ruined property, a traitorous, bitter family, his fiancée married to his rival. And Justine, the shy, quiet girl he grew up with is no longer a little girl, but an alluring and determined young woman. Can he trust her or is she a part of the intricate web of lies and half-truths?
As they work together to salvage what’s left of Wolfsgate and their place in society, age-old jealousies and shadowy secrets threaten at every turn, but irresistible passions run wild and prove even more powerful.
Justine is his wife, after all.
Justine and Brandon have been bound in a marriage forced upon them by their family for their own deceitful purposes. But the deep, loyal bond that grows between husband and wife isn’t part of their enemies’ plan.
In fact, it could destroy their plan.
No one counted on Brandon and Justine falling in love.
Not even Brandon and Justine.
08
Hefty by Jessa Kane
It’s a pathetic tale as old as time.
Zach, the hefty offensive lineman for Juniper High School’s football team is in love with the beautiful head cheerleader.
Jill is completely out of his league, there’s no way she could ever want him back…oh, and she’s his sister’s best friend.
But one magical night in the back row of the bus changes everything when Jill asks Zach to help her explore a budding need for intimacy…and he’s the only one she trusts enough to help.
What else is a big man to do when the incredible girl he’s loved since childhood offers her lips…and so much more?
But is winning Jill’s love really so far fetched? Or has Zach had it all along…
09
King of the Causeway (King #9.5) by T.M Frazier
A massive hurricane looms off the coast of Florida while a different kind of storm is brewing in Logan’s beach.
A mysterious newcomer is vying for the title of King of the Causeway. He’ll do anything to steal the crown, including bringing someone back from King’s past who will threaten a lot more than the title King has spent his lifetime earning.
A hurricane is coming.
And it could destroy everything.
10
Once a Myth (The Goddess Isles #1) by Pepper Winters
“There was a boy once. A boy who wasn’t strong enough to save me when I was taken.”
“There was a girl once. A girl called Tess Snow who sat with me in the dark waiting to be sold.”
“There was an owner once. An owner who bought me, entrapped me, and made me his unwilling goddess.”
Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes her book-loving boyfriend can save her when her freedom is snatched and sold. Squirreled away to an island at midnight, delivered to a man even darkness won’t touch, she’s bound by a contract.
Four men.
Four fantasies.
Four pieces of her soul.
Sullivan Sinclair is the giver of fantasies. Any wish, any desire—he is the master at quenching even the filthiest appetites. His private paradise and perfectly trained goddesses are there for one purpose: to ensure every guest is extremely well satisfied.
He bought her.
He trapped her.
She belongs to him.
