Hey, everyone. NC Nest here. My story "Looking for Derek" is one that's full of heart and hormones. It was my first LGBT story, and it found tens-of-thousands of enthusiastic readers. Thank you for connecting with Nick and Derek's tale and for also sharing with me your own stories of love and fear. I wrote the first draft a couple years ago, and a few questions always lingered after writing that final chapter.What went through Derek's mind during the highest highs and lowest lows? ...

Sixteen-year-old Nick Revel may have a girlfriend, but he falls in love on a summer trip with a mysterious boy named Derek. They spend the perfect day together, but when Nick can't find the courage to defend Derek against the hatred of strangers, Nick loses his first true love on the same day he found him.Nick searches for his lost love in every way imaginable, but he also keeps up appearances with his girlfriend and struggles to find his true self. Although he may not have much lu...

Nick Sebring has issues. Born feeling like an outsider in his own family, growing up under the shadow of a brother who could do anything, Nick isn't that great of a guy. But when this culminates with Nick lashing out to hurt his brother through the woman he loves, Nick turns inward and makes some decisions about the man he intends to be.And as he does this, he falls in love and truly learns the man that he's grown to be.When his love is murdered right before Nick's eyes, Ni...

*Now an original movie from Amazon Prime**The TikTok viral sensation and New York Times and USA Today bestseller*Fast-paced and sizzling with a forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance, My Fault is the first book in Mercedes Ron's Culpable trilogy. This suspenseful YA series untangles the threads of love, trauma, and secrets, perfect for fans of Ugly Love and After.Seventeen-y...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis brilliant new novel is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. By the bestselling author of The Girls and The Mountain Story.Taking place over 48 hours in the year 2024, this is the story of Rory Anne Miller, on the run with her best friend because the...

My life has always been pretty predictable. Run into burning buildings, save those in distress, be a hero. Shoot the shit with my fireman buddies, come home, and do it all again tomorrow. Little did I know that a random SOS call from a woman stuck in a plaster cast with nothing underneath (I swear I only caught a flash of skin) would throw me for a complete loop.Until I see the flighty artist again. At my mom’s engagement party. To her dad.Suddenly the unpredictable woman I...

Sophia is in trouble. Again.Maybe it’s the masks. Maybe she needs to feel something other than regret. Whatever the reason, she is either daring… or foolish… when she trades places with another submissive, and ends up spending the night in her mysterious boss’s bed.He doesn’t recognize her, but now she’s had him, she knows one taste of his dark love will never be enough.Gabriel Ryan has one firm rule: don’t sleep with employees.Even though he’s infuriated be...

I knew he was trouble.You’d think the words 'Playboy billionaire’ would have been my first warning, but I went and fell hard for Asher Young. He said he believed in me and my lingerie design business, but it turns out, it was all just a game to him.I never want to see his irritatingly-handsome face again. But how am I supposed to move on when he’s still my #1 investor?I can’t decide if I want to slap him, or kiss him senseless.Or both.Maybe it’s time...

If you walked in on your high school sweetheart and husband of ten years in a compromising position with your best friend, what would you do?Would you kick him out, serve him divorce papers, and leave the small town in North Carolina where you grew up, taking his dog with you just to spite him?Because that's what I did.I have no idea why I chose Santa Monica as the place of my rebirth, but here I am, in the land of earthquakes, mudslides, and wildfi...

It's the most wonderful time of the year ... or is it?Alora Harris is working her way up at Nelson Industries. Everything is going her way—her client list is growing and Christmas is just around the corner. Her best-laid plans end at the holiday office party. Too much alcohol mixed with a lot of pent up attraction leads to a night she'll live to regret.Adam Nelson doesn't do relationships. Family is a word that makes him cringe. But he's had his eye on Alora for some time. ...

A collection of autobiographical stories, told with brutal honesty and dark humor, from one of the top hip-hop radio hosts on SiriusXM.Taking you on a journey of heartbreak, depravity, and hilarity, Hyena deftly moves between Jude Angelini’s adult life to his childhood growing up in a factory town outside of Detroit. Exploring drugs, sex, and the human condition, these stories also captures the hardscrabble culture, language, and landscape of post-industrial Detroi...

Hell Ryders MC officer Bryce “Ripper” Knight never knew love until he met Em. Then she disappeared and he was lost. Now, years later, her cousin—a rival club leader—needs him to find her before his enemies do. Ripper has no choice but to protect her, but he’ll be damned if he lets her under his skin again. One look, though, and he can’t deny she still sets him aflame. Leaving Ripper almost destroyed Emelia “Em” Kenna, but in the midst of a bloody club war, she couldn’t choose between the t...