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"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.

"What happens when you meet your soul mate at the wrong time?What happens when you meet your soul mate, but you aren't theirs?" la douleur exquise:the exquisite pain of loving some unattainable Goodreads Choice Nominated poet J.R. Rogue's debut poetry collection tells the tale of a once-in-a-lifetime love unreturned. These heartwrenching and soul-crushing poems are confessional while also being relatable. This collection will make you feel seen in all your heartbreak. "I will write stories about how we lost each other, because that's the part I will never get over. That's the part I know best." The Exquisite Pain of the Unrequited was previously published as La Douleur Exquise, which translates to the exquisite pain.

J.R. Rogue has self-published five novels and ten poetry collections. Several of her poetry collections have become bestsellers, including Tell Me Where It Hurts, La Douleur Exquise, and Exits, Desires, & Slow Fires, two of which were also Goodreads Choice Nominees for poetry. In her latest book of poems, I'm Not Your Paper Princess, the author focuses on love, heartache, and continuously discovering old truths in new ways.

SeverinIt feels like I've been in love with Bryan Winthrop my entire life. Before he kissed me in front of the entire school. As he danced with her the night of our senior prom.After his younger brother, Ben, made me smile through my tears."It'll never work with him. He will never leave her…"It's been more than ten years since I let myself fall for the boy whose heart wasn't mine. And the Prom King's lips are finally mine to kiss."When I came back here I wasn't expecting to see you, and when I did, I felt this tumble…"But he's still keeping me in the shadows.As his younger brother breaks me open in the day.BenYou shouldn't covet whom your brother desires.Our pastor father would say he taught me better than that.But I knew over ten years ago my brother didn't deserve her.And nothing's changed since she came back into both our lives."You think what you felt for my brother back then was love, but what I felt can't be the same?"I'm still the one who makes her laugh-the one who challenges her.And he's still the one treating her like a dirty little secret."You really are a watercolor, Severin Thompson. I can read you…"You shouldn't covet whom your brother desires.This summer, I'll remind him of that.

JoI'm not bad; they just write me that way.That's what I tell myself-the lie I peddle in interviews.If they want a bad girl, I can be their bad girl.Their villain."Everyone loves a scandal. And you're the queen of scandals.."Years ago, I broke the heart of the biggest pop star in the world.And then I became the Sexiest Man Alive's biggest regret.I am not that venomous girl anymore.But I know a life-changing role when I see one."At his name, my heart stills. The man I hate and want.The bane of my existence…"Being Tristan Kane's on-screen love interest will be good for my career.And bad for my heart.For him? I aim to devastate both.TristanThe world thinks it's easy being the son of Hollywood royalty.But they don't know the burdens I wear.Or the regrets in my chest-that all say her name."We will be nothing more than co-stars. Not friends. Not anything more..."Loving Josephine Ouellette goes against my late father's wishes.Fits into my meddling manager's plans.And pisses my sister off."...forget the world, they can't have this moment.This is our story, and no one gets a say in it."But I'm tired of living in his shadow.Living for their games.I fell in love with a villain.And no one loves harder than the scorned.

Brooklyn I learned early in life to build walls around my heart.After my mother died.Before my father went to jail. "I'd give anything to make sure the people I love know it…" So when my boss hires a tall, tattooed Irishman to work alongside me, I vow to keep things professional.Especially when I find out he's a widower.But when my violent past threatens my future, I find myself closer to Declan than I planned to be. "...you want to sleep in my bed?" The walls around my heart are high…but the arms around my body are strong.And I've convinced myself he can save me from the coming storm. Declan I escaped New York for Tennessee to have a clean slate.From my vices.From my ghosts...But my new boss has the kind of eyes you can't look away from.And the kind of laugh that threatens to pull you from the dark. "It's just chemical, what you're feeling right now…" I tell myself I'm just being a good friend when I let her stay in my room.But the lies we tell ourselves are the hardest to overcome. "I thought I knew what it was like to be haunted by someone. I was wrong. I don't know shit…" My attempt at starting over has led me to my greatest fear. Love can never make me weak again.And I can't fall for a girl who looks like the sun when I'm the goddamn storm.

Don't let fear sway you. You're not your past.Seraphina Daniels feels like running--the kind of running that doesn't include a set destination. So, when her childhood friend calls in distress, she's more than prepared to leave behind her failed--and famous--relationship, her writer's block, and her impending thirtieth birthday.But upon her return to the Ozarks--a sharp contrast to New York City--she discovers that everything's changed.I think I wanted you before I even knew what it was like to want someone.The homecoming brings Sera to Chace Holloway: the man who's made a home out of the place that was once hers. Romance isn't an option, but friendship comes easily with the twenty-two-year-old songwriter--despite the attraction they both feel.He is music, and I am merely madness and melancholy.What started as an escape becomes more of a trap when the past begins to wrap around the present. As hope blooms, Sera and Chace face their biggest obstacles--what they each fear, and what old lovers desire.

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.

I'm not a song. I don't have blue eyes like the girls you sing about. I have a blue soul.Sonnet Rosewood needs a new chapter-the kind that doesn't remind her of anything she's leaving behind in the Ozarks. So, when opportunity beckons to escape to the Great Smoky Mountains for a writing retreat, she answers with a firm yes.But the arrival of a decade-old and short-lived fling at the cabin changes everything.How quickly we push past the barriers we erected between ourselves for years.Recognizing the beautiful voice of the unexpected guest reminds her of his name, Hunter Hart: the man she wrote as forgettable, who vowed to show her he was anything but if given a second chance.Maybe you want the challenge more than you want the girl.What started as Sonnet's attempt to escape her past thrusts her straight into the responsibilities of another's, making their future sound more and more like the sad songs they've been writing together. While their passion is undeniable, their happily-ever-after is not. The single father's rules leave little room for a different kind of love. And Sonnet has rules of her own-to never again wait for a man to open his heart to her.