Story By Ashlee O Cryer
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Ashlee O Cryer

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Ashlee O. Cryer is a Southern-born storyteller with a lifelong love of tangled romances, small-town secrets, and characters who love too hard for their own good. With a Master’s degree in English and Creative Writing, she blends emotional depth with dark, addictive tension—crafting stories where soft hearts meet sharp edges, and love survives even the messiest truths. Raised on sweet tea, porch swings, and the kind of gossip that could power a whole county, Ashlee’s writing captures the Southern warmth she grew up in—wrapped in the kind of twists that keep readers up far too late. Her characters are real, flawed, tender, and just a little dangerous in the ways that make a romance unforgettable. When she’s not writing, Ashlee can be found running a small-town bookstore vibe from her home, sipping loaded teas from her own brand, or dreaming up her next emotionally intense love story. She believes in second chances, slow-burn tension, unapologetic heroes, and heroines who find their voice—even when the world tries to take it from them. Ashlee O. Cryer writes from the heart of the South… and she writes the kind of love stories that stay with you.
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My Best Friend Kissed Me, But Wanted Her.
Updated at Dec 30, 2025, 17:57
She’s in love with her best friend. He’s in love with her adopted sister. Feelings are strong but misguided. Lies, secrets, anger they all have a way of getting out eventually.
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Checking It Twice
Updated at Dec 28, 2025, 16:36
This Christmas, the hardest thing to resist might be each other.Hollis Reed is back in town for the holidays—and back in the orbit of Rowan Beckett, her brother’s rival teammate and the one man she never quite forgot. When work forces them together, they strike a deal: stay friends, keep things professional, and don’t repeat past mistakes.But Christmas planning leads to late nights, inside jokes, and a snowstorm that changes everything. As the lines blur and hearts get involved, Rowan must decide whether he’s willing to choose Hollis in the light—or lose her for good.Warm, witty, and undeniably spicy, Checking It Twice is a holiday hockey romance about second chances, bold choices, and the magic that happens when love finally stops playing it safe.
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His To Keep
Updated at Nov 16, 2025, 08:26
A crash stole her memory.A lie stole her truth.But only one boy ever stole her heart.When Sadie Quinn wakes in the hospital, she can’t remember the boyfriend she’s told she loves…but the quiet, brooding boy in the corner feels like someone she once did.Cassian Vale was her forbidden almost—the boy she shouldn’t have wantedand the one she ran to the night everything fell apart.Now her past is hunting her, her memories are returning in pieces, and the truth behind her accident is darker than she imagined.Two boys loved her.One betrayed her.One would burn the world for her.Only one gets to keep her.
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Jaded Anchor: The Hunter
Updated at Dec 6, 2021, 05:17
This is the third book of the Jaded Anchor Trilogy. This is a stand alone book, but if you've read the first two then you will get to see your favorites randomly throughout this book. Adira Selene Blakesley is the youngest of the Blakesley siblings, not to mention the only girl. Her life has been much like a soap opera, between all the drama her bothers had caused with their love lives. She had no plans on following in their footsteps. She planned to marry a nice man from a neighboring pack that would strengthen her own pack. She would be the one child who made her father proud. At twenty-one she had her entire future mapped out, that was until she met Theo Bryant. Theo Ansel Bryant was born into a family of wolf hunters. He had been trained his entire life to kill the monsters he believed they were. He had been warned not to fall for the innocence of their human forms. When his family moved to a small town in South Alabama in pursuit of a large wolf pack, Theo knew he would run into a wolf at some point. He hadn’t expected to be enticed by one. From their first unconventional meeting he had been under Adira's spell. The two of them shouldn’t be together, but he couldn’t stop seeing her. It was a dangerous game they were playing. Would it end up destroying them and everything they love?
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Jaded Anchor: The Wolf
Updated at Dec 6, 2021, 05:16
Alexandra Shaw always vowed to return to her hometown of Silverport, Al. She had been forced to leave at sixteen following the deaths of her parents. Six years later, Alexandra finally got the opportunity to return. She knew there was a possibility of running into her old boyfriend Rowen, but she never expected to feel so strongly attached to him. She had heard about his playboy ways, but from their first reunion at The Jaded Anchor, it was as if there was a magnetic pull between the two of them. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t resist him. Rowen Blakesley was next in line to become Alpha of the WestBeach wolf pack, but Rowan didn’t care if he became alpha. He wasn’t on great terms with his father. In fact, he had never really forgiven his father for ordering the attack on his ex-girlfriend Alexandra’s pack, killing her parents. He spent most of his time getting drunk at his bar and sleeping with different women. When Alexandra walked into his bar his entire world changed. It was as if he had been thrown back in time. The moment he held her he knew he would never be the same. Unexpected surprises tossed at the two of them will have them fighting for their love and each other. Will their relationship survive?
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Jaded Anchor: The Human
Updated at Dec 6, 2021, 05:15
This is Book Two in the Jaded Anchor Trilogy. This is a stand alone book, but if you read the first one then you will see your favorites from book one. Young single mother, Ivy Rae Sutton, meets classic bad boy, Coen, outside of The Jaded Anchor. She is enticed by his bad boy looks and his undeniable charm. He has her in his bed before she even realized she wanted him. She can tell he is hiding something, something dark. Ivy had her fair share of skeletons in her closet, so she recognizes the small secretive behaviors. Will she be able to share her past with Coen? Would he share his secret with her? Coen Eros Blakesley is the middle child. He doesn’t have the responsibilities his older brother has so he spends most of his time fighting for money and hooking up with girls. He is a bad boy in every sense of the word. The night he meets Ivy all that changes. He is drawn to her pure innocence like a moth to a flame. He must have her. She isn’t the type of person his parents would approve of, mostly because she was human. Would Ivy ever be accepting of him being a wolf? Or are the two simply doomed to be star crossed lovers?
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