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The Idol Effect
M.C. Sakala
KATAYI SITALI you know the name, daughter of the biggest record producer in the world— yet she can’t stand the music industry. For her, she’s always looked up. Her channel Konstellations with Kat is an escape into the stars alongside her dreams of studying astronomy. Summers at the beachhouse on Kkum island were always just a family affair, until the day that the enigmatic and captivating Park twins arrived and changed everything.
SAILOR PARK is South Korea’s golden boy, known for his flawless image and mesmerizing voice. But he’s been on hiatus since a tragic scandal. Idol life has left him jaded and weary, though he keeps his struggles hidden behind a practiced smile. A master in the art of performing. But from the moment he meets Katayi, her unfiltered authenticity shatters the mask of the facade he’s built.
Katayi and Sailor have to spend the entirety of the holiday together, but everyone knows that things get uglier up close. Sailor has a secret and Katayi isn't telling the whole truth, and the matter of the fact is that things haven't been the same since that summer. They aren't the same people they used to be. But we're getting ahead of ourselves here, we have to go back to where it began, somewhere off the coast where two worlds collided.
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Product Updates + New App Version [2/5/2026]
Hi everyone, we've just released a big app update with many quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and some new features. These are all available on web as well. Please make sure your apps are updated to the latest version, 1.1.1, to see these changes! As a reminder, you can check out what we're working on and what's coming up next via the public roadmap (in the footer on web, in the more menu on the app)
Here's a list of updates:
- New Main Quest badge tiers, now viewable on the app
- ability to pin comments to your own posts, lists, and activity
- improved search on app: UI enhancements to make searching for things that are not books easier, removed the auto-populated most searched books from the search widget
- ability to track your progress in Time for audiobooks (HH:MM)
- progress bar / breakdown by status added to Plan
- estimated page count added to book page
- you can enlarge a book cover on the book screen by tapping the book cover
- rereading button (when you go to track a reread, the button says re-reading instead of reading)
- sort reviews by star rating
- filter options on Book Journey
- new search, filter, and sort options on Browse All Lists and Browse All Quests screens
- see more info about your followers and users you follow in the following/followers modals
- changed the button on the home feed "currently reading" books from "post in forum" to "go to forum" for easier access to the forum + encouraging folks to check existing posts!
We're working on monthly wrapups, reading streaks, and some prep for more stats next! We will also be making some additional enhancements to Quests (like: a book recommendations section similar to the Community Recs on book pages, stats for how many users earned each badge tier, and a feed tab like the new feed tab on book pages)
Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy
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Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.
Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered...
With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual.
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781538719107.
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Malachi (Berkeley Bred Book 1)
Grey Huffington
When souls are tied, it’s never goodbye.
A boy, I was, the day that I met you that summer evening, pulling your belongings out of the truck and into your new home. I knew it was love then.
A whole man, I was, the day that you met me at the altar and agreed to love me until death do us part.
A shell of a man, I’ve become since it did. Unable to move on, move forward, or progress in any way until I discovered that not even death was permanent enough to keep us apart.
A better man, I’m destined to be, knowing that at some capacity you’re still with me. Our love is one that never dies. It moves mountains. It calms seas. It transfers souls and shifts lifetimes knowing that there is no one else in this world made for loving me.
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“Why would I ever like you, Cyrus? You ruined my life, remember?”
Ok ngl this part was kinda cringe 🤷🏻♀️
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Never Thought I'd End Up Here
Ann Liang
From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller I Hope This Doesn't Find You, Never Thought I'd End Up Here is another hilarious and romantic romcom from Ann Liang, this time following a former model determined to get revenge on the boy who ruined her life.
Leah Zhang has spent her whole life in LA - it's all she's ever known. But after accidentally wishing her cousin ill health and a very depressing marriage at her wedding, her parents stage an intervention. She's forgotten most of her Mandarin, has zero regard for etiquette, and can't hold a conversation with her own grandparents for longer than a minute. Their solution? Send her on an intensive two-week travel program across China's most beautiful cities. To them, it's the perfect opportunity for Leah to get back to her roots. To Leah, it's simply a much-needed escape.
But before Leah can even begin to enjoy the luxurious hotels, stunning scenery, and mouth-watering cuisine, she finds that also on the trip is her former classmate and least favorite person cynical, sarcastic Cyrus, who's somehow only gotten more annoyingly handsome since they last saw each other.
While Leah might be tempted to shove him off the peak of the Yellow Mountain when nobody's looking, she can't get rid of him just yet. After all, she might never get another chance to get revenge on the boy who ruined her life.
Yet the deeper they wander into China's provinces, the deeper Leah finds herself falling in love - with the boy she once thought she despised, the home she never thought she'd call her own, and the parts of herself she thought were already lost.
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The Love Dare
Abiola Bello
Can a bet made at Notting Hill Carnival turn into true love? He’s All That meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in this trope-filled sizzling summer romance , perfect for fans of Joya Goffney and Lynn Painter.
Clumsy but popular Eva Ojo is used to men falling for her without her trying. So when her best friend dares her to talk to a guy at Notting Hill Carnival , she meets Saint.
Comic obsessed Saint Rowe-Falade connects with Eva and agrees to attend her upcoming birthday party, but it’s soon clear he’s not interested in her in that way.
When Eva’s friends set her the ultimate bet to get Saint to fall in love with her, Eva makes it her mission to find out all of Saint’s interests and even get a job at the comic book shop he works at. But just as Saint starts to warm to Eva, and her own feelings towards him develop, Saint finds out about the bet. Can Eva pull out the big guns and convince Saint she’s into him, or is it too late to fix the damage that’s been done?
PRAISE FOR ABIOLA BELLO'S LOVE IN WINTER
‘A screen-worthy holiday romance.’ Joya Goffney , author of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
‘Gorgeous writing, witty dialogue, a magical setting and two characters you'll fall head over heels for.’ Jennifer Niven , author of All the Bright Places
‘I devoured this delicious YA rom-com. A treat to read any time of year.’ Katherine Webber , author of Twin Crowns
‘A wonderfully warm love story.’ Candice Brathwaite , author of Cuts Both Ways
‘A warm and cosy read that pulls you into the perfect winter romance. Abiola has given us all a gift to swoon over.’ Benjamin Dean , author of The King is Dead
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One Billion Reasons
Millie Belizaire
Morgan Caplan has had one dream her entire life. When her adult services website leaks to her interviewer, it seems she can kiss her dream goodbye. That is... until a new client makes her an offer she simply can't refuse. Damien doesn't need to give her a reason to accept. There are at least a billion.Previously Published on Kindle Vella
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Call It What You Want
Alissa DeRogatis
A situationship, a heartbreak, a mistake―you can call it what you want. But was it love?
It's 2016, and Sloane Hart's senior year of college is bound to be the best one yet. Her nights consist of drinking cheap vodka and singing along to The Chainsmokers with her friends, and her days are spent writing as she prepares for the post-grad life in New York City she's always dreamed of.
The last thing she needs is for a guy to get in the way of her goals. With graduation so close, she just needs to focus on landing a job and enjoying this last year with her best friends all under one roof. But that plan becomes a little more complicated when her upstairs neighbor, Ethan Brady, enters the picture.
Ethan's pull is undeniable. He's tall, mysterious, and handsome as hell, and when Sloane is with him, the entire world slows to a halt. But Ethan's guarded past is too hurtful for him to face, and if letting Sloane in means that the walls he's built around his heart would come crumbling down, he may not be willing to let that happen.
As their chemistry and connection intensify, Sloane finds herself falling deeper and deeper, but will Ethan ever be ready to catch her?
Nostalgic, heartfelt, and profoundly cathartic, Call It What You Want is an ode to almost-love stories―the kinds with no labels, no promises, and the potential to turn your entire world upside down.
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Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.
Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered...
With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual.
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781538719107.
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Chemistry: The Chemist (The Grey List Book 1)
Grey Huffington
I am not a drug dealer.
I am not a seller…
I am not a handler…
I am not an abuser…
I am not a promoter…
I am not a smuggler…
However, I understand that I can not save the world or the people who have chosen those paths. So, making substances safer, grander, and extremely unique is my life’s work. What I have created can’t be duplicated, stepped on, or mistaken for anything else. I’ve curated one thousand eight hundred twenty-seven strands of the purest, rarest white on the market. I am not interested in or addicted to even one of them.
It is not a manufactured substance that I’ve chosen as my drug. It’s a person. A woman. A storm. What she is can’t be duplicated, stepped on, or mistaken for anything else. God curated one strand of the purest, rarest woman on the planet. Her name is Egypt Johanson. She’s faultless. She is flawless. She is pure. And, not even rehab could cure me of my addiction.
I am Chemistry.
I am a Chemist.
The Chemist.
And, I am, in fact, an addict.
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Call It What You Want
Alissa DeRogatis
A situationship, a heartbreak, a mistake―you can call it what you want. But was it love?
It's 2016, and Sloane Hart's senior year of college is bound to be the best one yet. Her nights consist of drinking cheap vodka and singing along to The Chainsmokers with her friends, and her days are spent writing as she prepares for the post-grad life in New York City she's always dreamed of.
The last thing she needs is for a guy to get in the way of her goals. With graduation so close, she just needs to focus on landing a job and enjoying this last year with her best friends all under one roof. But that plan becomes a little more complicated when her upstairs neighbor, Ethan Brady, enters the picture.
Ethan's pull is undeniable. He's tall, mysterious, and handsome as hell, and when Sloane is with him, the entire world slows to a halt. But Ethan's guarded past is too hurtful for him to face, and if letting Sloane in means that the walls he's built around his heart would come crumbling down, he may not be willing to let that happen.
As their chemistry and connection intensify, Sloane finds herself falling deeper and deeper, but will Ethan ever be ready to catch her?
Nostalgic, heartfelt, and profoundly cathartic, Call It What You Want is an ode to almost-love stories―the kinds with no labels, no promises, and the potential to turn your entire world upside down.
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