Bøger af J R Rogue

"This collection cut close to my soul." -Kat Savage, USA Today bestselling author"How can you love a monster when so much was taken?"In Daddy Issues, three-time Goodreads Choice Awards nominated poet J. R. Rogue examines how fathers-absent, abusive, violent-can shape our minds and hearts during our formative years and beyond.Wading into the dark waters of familial trauma, this collection reopens wounds closed, scarred, and fresh, and is dedicated to fathers breaking cycles and mothers playing both roles.

From three-time Goodreads Choice Awards nominated poet J. R. Rogue comes a new collection of raw poetry. Focused on anxiety, depression, and the darkness we often feel deep within, I'll Be Your Manic Anxiety Queen is an unflinching poetry collection that bleeds. Submerging into the depths of who we are and all we can overcome-this collection explores themes of heartbreak, death, depression, mental health, body image issues, and the power to wake up every day when the fight feels too daunting. Read this collection when you long to know you're not alone.

"Rogue is focused, deliberate, and seasoned in her latest release that is a mix of poetry and prose...a wordsmith. Her command of the poetic language is unparalleled and sets her apart from other contemporary poets." -Alicia Cook, Bestselling author of Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately "It's going to hit you below the belt. You're going to reach for theclosest stand-in lover you can find & you're going to make a home in their body& you're going to pretend your childhood memories are hungin his chest & you skinned your kneetripping over the curve of his arm & you have always been here." In Exits, Desires, & Slow Fires Goodreads Choice Nominated poet J.R. Rogue shines bright. With heartbreaking language, the bestselling author revisits unreturned love like only she can. Unforgiving pain, wanting, longing, fierce betrayal, and sweet lies feel like a second skin in this collection about love and loss.

My love is poison. His kiss is mine. "The first time he saw me I was shattered glass, and he was a shadow. If I had stayed, he would have just faded away."It's strange how easy it is to tell our stories to a stranger's eyes. The truth about Connor Stratford and I had always been a sad tale. Over ten years of chasing, tears, lies, vows, and leaving. Two people who never loved each other at the same time, but couldn't let each other go.Now here I was telling our story over drinks midday in an airport bar with my old diary clutched in my hand. Telling some version of our story, anyway.I left him once with no goodbye. Now I was returning home to give him what he needed to move on."It's important. It's what you're thinking."I knew what his message meant, sent in the middle of the night after I woke from a fever dream. He was finally ready, and so was I. I just needed to finally give him the kiss he begged for. The one that meant goodbye.

Heartwrenching and gorgeous and so incredibly engaging. --New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling Author, Laurelin Paige "Some love affairs aren't meant for the public eye.Some love affairs won't survive the fallout." International pop star Sean das Dores has two loves in his life: his music and his long-term girlfriend Jo-though not necessarily in that order. So when he finds himself in the throes of a panic attack before a show, he chooses her over the arena of fans chanting his name. What he doesn't expect to find when he makes it home, is Jo...in bed with his uncle Apollo. "Maybe we are all looking for something that feels a little wrong.Maybe we all get off on that kind of thing." Ignoring his uncle's ominous warnings, Sean decides on a betrayal of his own: to seek comfort in the one person Apollo wants this hidden from-Calliope das Dores. But when he arrives at her lake house-just before his twenty-first birthday-he quickly learns he was the last to know of their partners' deception. "Are we really going to do this?Rebound with each other?" What starts as an act of revenge rekindles long-buried desires between the forbidden lovers. As Sean and Calliope drive across the country, their stunned exes follow-and so do the secrets they hoped would stay hidden. But all road trips, and some love affairs, have to end somewhere.