Best Books by Penelope Douglas
Birthday Girl
Jordan is a beautiful and hardworking waitress who after a long day at work goes out. The day is her birthday, but her boyfriend is not answering her calls.
Jordan goes to see a show where she finds a man, a bit older than her who makes her feel important.
This man - Pike - is actually her boyfriend’s father. After knowing this fact, Jordan is shocked to the core.
Circumstances take a sharp turn when Jordan and her boyfriend get evicted from their apartment and they move to Pike’s house.
The twist in the tale appears when Jordan and Pike start liking each other.
Jordan knows that Pike listens to her, protects her, and takes good care of her but she is in a relationship with his son whose attention she craves.
If Jordan moves toward Pike, it will ruin everything.
Pike, on the other hand, is equally attracted to Jordan even when he knows he is thirty-eight and Jordan is only nineteen. And of course, he knows Jordan is in a relationship with his son.
Birthday Girl is an age-gap forbidden love saga that is nothing but a page-turner.
Punk 57
‘We were perfect together until we met’ is the phrase that best describes the storyline of Punk 57.
Punk 57 is a story about two pen-pals, Misha and Ryen, who got joined together as pen-pals in their childhood.
Since then they have been inseparable communicating with each other and telling each other about everything through letters. They have never met.
An accident occurs then and Misha stops replying to Ryen.
A boy named Masen then comes to Ryen’s school who bullies her and pisses her off in every way possible.
But Ryen doesn’t know Masen is actually Misha.
Ryen herself has not been honest in her letters.
She is popular and is a school bitch but in the letters, she has written to Misha, she has presented a humble image of herself. Ryen is basically everything that she has mentioned in her letters that she hates.
Bully
Tate and Jared were close friends since childhood.
But her best friend disappeared overnight and got replaced with a ruthless bully who doesn’t miss any chance of intimidating Tate.
Jared plays pranks on her and puts every effort to make her feel insignificant and trivial at school thus making the last two years of her high school torturous.
What hurts her most is that she doesn’t have an explanation for why he is doing so to her.
Even though Jared makes her life miserable at school in every way possible, Tate misses her old friend. She still looks into his eyes for the friend she once loved.
After spending a year at another school in another country, Tate comes back to her hometown for the final year of High school
But this time her spirit is different, she has got a new attitude. She is ready to fight back.
Corrupt (Devil’s Night Part 1)
Corrupt is about Erika Fane, who for some strange reason is called Rika.
Erika is in love with Micheal Crist who is the older brother of her ex-boyfriend, Trevor. Micheal was a hot affair back at school and he is now a professional basketball player.
Micheal behaves as if Rika doesn’t exist for her but she is in love with Micheal despite all this.
Rika believes that Micheal has always hated her.
She is in the process of going to a different city for her second year in college as she wants to go away from her mother - who is on drugs after the loss of Rika’s father - and Trevor who irritates Rika.
But there is a past attached to the story. When Rika was sixteen, Micheal invited Erika to the devil’s nights of pranks. She ended up hanging with the four horsemen, which was a group of Micheal and his three other friends - Kai, Will, and Damon.
Something awful happened on that night because of which Kai, Will, and Damon ended up in jail.
But now they are out and want revenge against Erika. Micheal already hates Rika so it is obvious he is going to side with his friends. What will happen now?
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Credence
Tiernan De Haas is the single girl child of a film producer and his starlet wife. Tiernan has all the money and wealth a person can dream of, but lacks parental love and care.
She was sent to boarding school at an early age.
Tiernan started feeling lonely and to add insult to injury, her parents’ fame followed her wherever she went.
Suddenly Tiernan’s parents pass away. She should be shocked and sad but this hasn’t had much impact on her as she has always been alone.
Tiernan is 2 months away from being eighteen. That’s when her step-uncle Jake Van Der Berg - her only living relative - becomes her guardian.
Tiernan thus ends up living in a remote place in the woods with Jake and his two sons Noah and Kaleb, that’s when things start stepping over the line.
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