J.R. Rogue

In a lot of ways, I was one of the lucky ones. My high school crush liked me back. It should have been magic and fire, but it was tragic and brutal. I wrote it that way, anyway. His name was Bryan Winthrop. He was our high school basketball star. The prom king. The most beautiful boy I had ever laid eyes on. He liked me—the theatre geek who never should have caught his eye—but he loved her. It's been more than ten years since the homecoming dance. Since the night he kissed me, breaking both our hearts for the first time. After the scandal, after graduation, I left our small town and made a name for myself on Broadway, then in Hollywood. I didn't mean for the play I wrote about our high school affair to blow up. I didn't mean for it to reach all the way back to my roots, wreaking havoc, wrecking families. Bryan Winthrop and I were not friends, not lovers. But I'm back. And for one summer—if she lets us—maybe we can be.

Friends to Lovers Small Town Romance

I Like You, I Love Her

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry (2016) ﻿"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. J.R. Rogue's bestselling debut poetry collection tells the tale of a once in a lifetime love unreturned.

La Douleur Exquise: Poems

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.

I'm Not Your Paper Princess: Poems

Some love affairs aren’t meant for the public eye. Some love affairs won’t survive the fallout. Calliope das Dores is not the perfect rebound, even if her name means "muse". She is not who I should be running to. But I want her anyway. She keeps telling me my squeaky-clean image can’t handle the scandal, but this want between us is not black and white, and it never will be. I don’t care that she’s my uncle’s wife—or that she shares my last name. After finding my girlfriend in bed with my uncle at the end of my worldwide tour, the truth is clear: Calliope and I are the only family we both have left now. In the beginning, after flying to the Ozarks to tell her of our partners’ sins, I tell myself it’s just so she won’t hear it from someone who would lie to her. But my manager and best friend say I’ve wanted her since I was a kid, and now, finally, she is allowed to want me back. She says we can get over them with each other—even if it’s in secret, for a summer—but I have to promise her I won’t fall in love. It’s not part of the plan. The details in our past deny us of any future we could have had. What starts out as a rebound for both of us eventually consumes me. But the flames don’t reach her. My muse is consumed, too. But not with me.

The Rebound

Bestselling poet J.R. Rogue’s All Of My Bullshit Truths includes nine of her collections. Including three Goodreads Choice Award Nominated collections: La Douleur Exquise, Exits, Desires, & Slow Fires, and I’m Not Your Paper Princess. Previous versions of this collection included the collection Breakup Poems: Vol 1. This version does not include that collection. In its place, the collection This Witch has been added. Included works: La Douleur Exquise Tell Me Where It Hurts An Open Suitcase & New Blue Tears Rouge Le Chant Des Sirènes Apus Exits, Desires, & Slow Fires I’m Not Your Paper Princess This Witch

Collected Poems

All Of My Bullshit Truths

An undying girl. A young man destined to devour her. A town shrouded in mystery. Nicholas Hemming has been caged his entire life. But in 1992—after a fire at the nightmarish ranch he called home in California—he moves to the Ozarks with his aunt Valerie to start over. The last thing he expects to find in the cemetery bordering his new home is the red-haired girl who has haunted his dreams for years. Sorina Oleksander has lived in the grande house bordering Hart Hollow for decades, waiting to exact revenge on the being who stole from her. However, when Nicholas moves to town, she knows her days are numbered. And despite knowing his existence will be her undoing, she enrolls in the local high school to get closer to him. Foretold to be each other’s ruin, Nicholas and Sorina begin to play games in the night. But when the body of a young preacher’s daughter is found, Nicholas knows he and his new group of misfit friends have to find out who’s stealing girls in the night. Can Nicholas convince his aunt Valerie to stay away from the enigmatic Deacon who watches over the town? Can they find the creature from his nightmares before it kills again?

A Supernatural Romantic Suspense

The Girl Next Door

I'll Be Your Manic Anxiety Queen

"how I damn those lips— the ones you lied to me with. I still remember the way they felt on my skin." Poems for the Stars is a short series of personal, custom poems written for fans of J.R. Rogue's writing. Book 4 in the Letters to the Universe Series.

Vol 2

Poems for the Stars

Can we, for tonight, just be the moon? Curve into me like that cheshire grin in the sky. Press your heart into my back. Let me forget my own. Poems for the Moon: Vol 1 is a short series of personal, custom poems written for fans of J.R. Rogue's writing. This collection was previously published as Letters To The Moon.

Poems For The Moon: Vol 1

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.

Kiss Me Like You Mean It: Inspired By A True Story

Burning Muses: A Novel (Muse & Music Book 1)

The Return

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.

Kiss Me Like You Mean It

I Like You, I Hate Her

Letters to the Moon

Three-time Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Poetry, J.R. Rogue returns with her newest collection of poetry, Breakup Poems. In six sections – five devoted to the stages of grief, and a final one for her devoted group of online fans – the author examines the various emotions women go through as they mourn the loss of lovers, ranging from almost-relationships to marriage.

Breakup Poems: Vol 1

A collection of poems sharing fears, confessions, and hopeful moments as the world cries out during a time of turmoil. Each poem in this collection is in response to reader confessions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Viral: Poems

“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 the closest 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 hung in his chest & you skinned your knee tripping 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.

Poems

Exits, Desires, & Slow Fires

In a lot of ways, I was one of the fortunate ones. After my mother died and my father went to jail, I should have been an orphan. My childhood should have been all loss and abandon, but thanks to my grandparents, it was mostly love and compassion. As an adult, I’ve been blessed with a dream job in the Smoky Mountains. At least, until my boss decided to hire him to assist me at the cabin. His name is Declan O’Connell. The tall, tattooed, Irishman is the son of a literary legend—and a widower, still haunted by the death of the love of his life. So, he’s the most emotionally unavailable man I’ve ever wanted. I like him—as a little more than a friend—but he still loves her. And ever since my younger sisters showed up on my doorstep, I’ve been reminded of my roots—how some people can break hearts and build walls—reaffirming my refusal to be anyone’s second choice ever again. It’s been ten days since I left his bed. Since the morning he almost kissed me, reviving both our broken hearts in ways neither of us could deny. Declan O’Connell and I are co-workers by day, stand-in lovers by night. And after this season comes to an end—if I let myself—maybe together we can find a new beginning.

I Love You, I Need Him

I can feel it in my roots; I gave birth, in a nightmare, to unlovable things. They breed in my belly; tiny birthdays, every day. I am the undead mother to every single bit of black in this skin prison my lovers have choked on. Bestselling author J.R. Rogue returns with her second volume of poetry, Tell Me Where It Hurts, a raw, heartbreaking, and honest glimpse into the demons she has faced in her 33 years.

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