Books like Broken Beauty by Jaclin Marie

Belinda is an erotic romance by Anne Rice that examines mature relationships, intertwining suspense and romance around teenage girls and middle-aged men, presenting a provocative narrative.

A raw, experimental narrative that follows a young woman navigating adolescent challenges in an American high school setting.

In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children's education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book's "deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader."Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.

Ivy Clark pursues a last-ditch modeling job in the cozy island town of Greenbrier, South Carolina, hoping to revive her career and reconcile with her stepmother.

A form-shifting narrative of a collector's return to traumatic pasts, challenging the discourse around art, love, life, and death in Acker's 'Great Expectations'.

xiv, 295 p. ; 22 cm

Brody Singer falls for Abby Dunn, a novelist who looks eerily like a woman he lost. While Abby seeks to move on from past heartbreak, Brody’s lingering attraction forces both into a tangled romance.