coming of age
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Jade Wallace by Soma Stanford
Jade, a twenty-five year old woman living in Montreal, is frustrated with her mediocre job and heterosexual love life. She needs a change. Enter Rachel, a dynamic power lesbian who introduces Jade to the world of drugs, luxury and gay sex. When their relationship ends in chaos, Jade flees Montreal to live in San Francisco. In her emotional state, Jade’s road trip across the USA includes a series of intimate encounters and spiritual awakenings. As Jade builds a life in her new city, she falls in love with a 'type-A' plastic surgeon, Dr. Mae Wong. This lesbian erotica novel is a story of wild exploration, heart-breaking loss and steamy sex. A story of soul searching across Montreal, Mexico, California and Hawaii. This is the story of Jade Wallace.
The Chrysalis by Bindu Adai
Like a richly woven bridal sari, The Chrysalis unfolds with vivid colorfulness, intricate details, and unexpected delight, along with plenty of wrinkles and creases. As Sarai traverses the fine line between honoring her Indian heritage and being true to her own Western mindset, her story unveils the kaleidoscope of human emotion from ecstasy to heartbreak to triumph, along with every nuance in between.
The Chrysalis will quickly weave a cocoon around readers, taking them on a magical carpet ride from the US to the tropical villages of Kerala, India to the romantic canals of Venice and back. But what begins with a story of a young Indian girl facing the pressures of an arranged marriage quickly crescendos into a complex and layered story about family, love, friendship, and ultimately, about life itself—a realization that Life is truly a journey… and that it is often the dead-ends and unexpected detours we experience in Life that lead us to our ultimate destination… and to our most powerful, life-transforming Truths.
My First Double Penetration by Tia Rain
I was around 19 when it happened. My sex friend, named Zack (the boy; man I gave my virginity to as well as did many other things with) called me up and asked if I wanted to come over for a group party. A party I knew would eventually lead to an out flesh fest. A party I was more than wanting to go to as long as I could have my “friend” Zack and his younger brother as my play toys for the night…
Before He Was Famous by Becky Wicks
From International Bestselling HarperCollins Author, Becky Wicks, comes a new adult romance that will leave you starstruck.
***Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and mature situations. Not intended for young adult readers.***
One guy, one girl.One in the spotlight.One in the shadows.Falling in love with your best friend isn’t always a great idea, especially when he’s Noah Lockton – the sexiest, most famous new talent on the planet. When photographer Chloe Campbell is offered the chance of a lifetime – to join her celebrity childhood friend Noah on tour as an exclusive blogger – she’s certain both have put what happened four years ago behind them. But his eyes still burn; his voice is still a jackhammer to her heartstrings; all his songs are about her. Is it possible that that night still haunts them both?The music industry is a machine, spinning hype and rumors as much as his records. It’s not just Noah’s girlfriends who’ve got it in for Chloe (there’s no stopping the Twitter-obsessed, cat-loving pop-star Courtney Lentini for starters). Pretty soon, the jealousy and media frenzy surrounding these so-called-friends takes a life-changing turn and it seems making love means making enemies at every turn. When tragedy threatens to pull the final curtain on their relationship, both Chloe and Noah must make a choice. As much as this world leaves them starstruck, is living their dream really worth living without each other?
Flither Lass by Graham Higson
The First World War has been waging for six months, and in a small English coastal fishing village, 16-year-old Amy Trott is ignored and derided by most of the villagers. She is devastated when her father, a fisherman, is lost at sea. In her denial of events she searches the shore, convinced that he will return, but instead of her father she finds an injured refugee, on who she focuses all of her attentions. The trouble is, he is German …
My Mother Sang, The Devil Danced by Madison McGrath
May contain trigger alerts for survivors of sexual abuse.
Heston Island is prospering. It has welcomed its new Princess, Gemma Heston and as she grows and discovers more about Heston Island, she is eager to follow in her father’s footsteps. Her biggest goal in life is to one day unite the prospering South with the North who has resisted change from the beginning. But to become Queen of Heston, Gemma, needs to face her sly, manipulative uncle, Russell Heston.
A fire, an escape and a death gives Russell a chance to be in control of the Island. He is cunning enough to ensure that Gemma has no way to get to the throne but will Gemma discover the truth?
Being Jane by Arabella Quinn
A New Adult / Coming of Age Romance by
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Arabella Quinn
Being Jane wasn’t easy.
No one ever noticed me. I was invisible. My life was utterly boring. Not the spoiled-brat kind of boring, but the bone weary kind of boring.
Then, out of the blue, one little phone call changed my life. Things started happening. Life got real complicated … real fast.
You’ve heard of love triangles, right? Well, there was some kind of geometry going on in my love life, but it wasn’t as simple as a triangle. More like an incongruous polygon…
Being Jane Brown was hard.
I had to tiptoe around my fragile mother. I made terrible mistakes that led to heartache and misery. But, I finally felt alive.
An epic love was mine to experience – if only I had the courage to lay my heart bare.
Erotic Adventures in Europe – The Trials And Travels Of Julia by Lana Portasi
Julia recounts the early days of her youth learing abount life, love, laughter and how to make a guy cum relentlessly. She travels across Europe, in this coming of age tale, jumping in and out of the beds of boys, girls and couples, learning firsthand the joys and pitfalls of sex and seduction.
Ray Ryan by Aiden Riley
Ray Ryan is a normal boy growing up in Nottingham, dreaming of becoming a writer, but one day his best friend makes some dangerous enemies and things begin to change. The road to happiness is a rough one, and it becomes even harder to traverse when the people you care about have lost their way. Tense and surprising, Ray Ryan tells the story of the joys and tragedies that beset one young man as he finds himself hurled violently into adulthood: a tale of loss, love and looking ahead.
Pale Stranger, New Adult Romance (PALE Series) by Mac Flynn
Trixie is a wise-cracking waitress trying to work her way through college when a late-night storm blows in a stranger. He’s not like the usual customers with his pale skin and dark clothes. Her kindness to him is rewarded with an invitation to his house in the country, and she finds herself in a sticky relationship when he returns her kindness with more than just a thank-you.
