
JaneAfterDark finished a book
18w

Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldnât solve or save everything. It couldnât save their marriage. Yasmen wasnât prepared for how her life fell apart, but she is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, theyâre always drawn back to each other, and now theyâre beginning to wonder if theyâre truly ready to let go of everything they once had. Soon, one stolen kiss leads to anotherâŚand then more. It's hot. It's illicit. It's all goodâuntil old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better, the second time around?

JaneAfterDark is re-reading...
18w

Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Anaâs quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, tooâbut on his own terms. Shocked yet thrilled by Greyâs singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of successâhis multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving familyâGrey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Greyâs secrets and explores her own dark desires. Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever. This book is intended for mature audiences.

JaneAfterDark is interested in reading...
23w

Can't Get Enough
Kennedy Ryan
Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry's rarefied air. Your vision board? Sheâs probably living it. Sheâs a woman with goals, dreams, ambitionsâalways striving upward. And in the midst of everything, she's facing her toughest challenge caring for an aging parent. Who has time for romance? From her experience, there's a low ROI on relationships. She hasn't met the man who can keep up with her anyway. Until...him. Tech mogul Maverick Bell is a dilemma wrapped in an exquisitely tailored suit and knee-melting charm. From their first charged glance at the summer's hottest party, Hendrix feels like sheâs met her match. Only he canât be. Mav may be the first to make her feel this seen and desired and appreciated, but heâs the last one she can have. Forbidden fruit is the juiciest, and this man is off limits if she plans to stay the course sheâs set for herself. But when Maverick gives chaseâpursuing her, spoiling her, understanding herâis it time to let herself have something more?

JaneAfterDark is interested in reading...
23w

This Could Be Us
Kennedy Ryan
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. Sheâs a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion. But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She's too busy keeping a roof over her daughters' heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise. But then an unlikely man enters the pictureâthe forbidden one, the one she shouldn't want but can't seem to resist. She's lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself? After all she's lost . . .and found . . .can she be brave enough to make room for what could be?

JaneAfterDark started reading...
23w

Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldnât solve or save everything. It couldnât save their marriage. Yasmen wasnât prepared for how her life fell apart, but she is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, theyâre always drawn back to each other, and now theyâre beginning to wonder if theyâre truly ready to let go of everything they once had. Soon, one stolen kiss leads to anotherâŚand then more. It's hot. It's illicit. It's all goodâuntil old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better, the second time around?

JaneAfterDark is interested in reading...
44w

Twisted Love
Ana Huang
He has a heart of ice...but for her, he'd burn the world. Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he canât escape. Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart. But when heâs forced to look after his best friendâs sister, he starts to feel something in his chest: A crack. A melt. A fire that could end his world as he knew it. *** Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she canât remember. But despite her broken past, sheâs never stopped seeing the beauty in the worldâŚincluding the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldnât want. Her brotherâs best friend. Her neighbor. Her savior and her downfall. Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happenâbut when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them bothâŚand everything they hold dear. Twisted Love is a brotherâs best friend/opposites attract romance with a hint of suspense. It's book one in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone. WARNING: This book contains a possessive, morally gray alphahole; explicit sexual content, and profanity. No cheating or menage, but if you're looking for a traditionally sweet, loveable hero, this is not the book for you. Recommended for 18+.

JaneAfterDark is interested in reading...
44w

The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summerâthey have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

JaneAfterDark is interested in reading...
44w

The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding... six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.

JaneAfterDark DNF'd a book
44w

Manacled
SenLinYu
Harry Potter is dead. In the aftermath of the war, in order to strengthen the might of the magical world, Voldemort enacts a repopulation effort. Hermione Granger has an Order secret, lost but hidden in her mind, so she is sent as an enslaved surrogate to the High Reeve, to be bred and monitored until her mind can be cracked. Fanfiction for Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling. Words: 370,256

JaneAfterDark TBR'd a book
46w

The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding... six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.