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  • Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly

    Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone who no longer recognizes himself. When Geoff hears that a drug called ibogaine might be able to save him from his heroin addiction, he goes to a clinic in Mexico to confront the darkest and most destructive versions of himself...
  • God's Gift To Women - Special Edition by Michael Baisden

    God's Gift To Women - Special Edition by Michael Baisden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    God's Gift To Women - Special Edition How Much Is One Night Of Passion Really Worth? A widower and father to ten-year-old Samantha, Julian wants nothing more than to settle down again with the right woman. Just when he thinks he's found her in Dr...
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    dark  adult  book  fiction  psychological  stalking  suspense  romance
  • Anita by Max Ellendale

    Anita by Max Ellendale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Doctor Anita Oliver is steadfast in her support of her patients and friends. Always reliable, always there when they need her. After a lifetime spent consulting with the FBI and working for the Seattle Police Department, Anita tumbled onto the front line of the Four Point Killer case. During those years, she helped the people she cared about through endless emotional and physical pain...
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    lgbtq  dark  wlw  mystery  mental-illness  lesbian-mc  crime  fiction
  • Lesson In Trust: Part Two by Kay Elle Parker

    Lesson In Trust: Part Two by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is this a fairytale or is it reality?From one strength to another, Callie’s relationship with her Daddies is growing exponentially. Not only has she found the kind of love she’s always dreamed of, it seems that love is contagious, connecting both Elias and Evander together as well.Balanced between her Dark Daddy and her Golden one, she finds peace in their embrace, safety in their kisses...
  • 默读 by Priest

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    lgbtq  dark  romance  mystery  fiction  contemporary  mlm  suspense
  • The Second Reality by R.R. Haywood

    The Second Reality by R.R. Haywood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What are dreams? They are the mind processing the images, memories and emotions that each of us experience. They are unique to the individual and no two persons can ever experience the same dream. Or so Doctor Charlotte Henson thought when she started treating the enigmatic and charming Michael. The Second Reality. A beautiful tale of love conquering all...
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    dark  adult  book  epic  fiction  horror  psychological  fantasy
  • Lady Killer by Cara Malone

    Lady Killer by Cara Malone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Opposites attract when a forensic investigator dying to fit in teams up with a detective with a major case of wanderlust.Maya Ross has worked hard to cultivate a tough, no-nonsense reputation as ‘one of the guys’ in a male-dominated field. As lead investigator, she’s at the peak of her career – and she can’t admit to anyone that it’s making her deeply unhappy...
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    lgbtq  dark  romance  crime  wlw  mystery  lesbian-mc  fiction
  • Treasure: Raised By Wolves, Volume Three by W.A. Hoffman

    Treasure: Raised By Wolves, Volume Three by W.A. Hoffman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gay buccaneer historical adventure/romance. The third novel in a series chronicling the adventures of Will, a disenchanted English Lord, and his beloved matelot/partner, Gaston, an exiled Frenchman, set among the buccaneers of Port Royal, Jamaica, in the 1660s...
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    dark  lgbtq  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angst  book  fiction
  • The Bell Chime by Mona Kabbani

    The Bell Chime by Mona Kabbani

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner of the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novella of 2020"Can you hear the bell chime?"A girl suffering from paralyzing night terrors finds a missing poster hanging from the door of her apartment building. On that poster is a photograph of a frighteningly familiar face.It’s her.Only, she’s never seen this photo before and something about its grin scares her...
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    dark  adult  book  fiction  horror  psychological  suspense
  • Joe Hill Collection by Joe Hill

    Joe Hill Collection by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Get four bone-chilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one e-book, including: Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, and NOSA2. Each publication of Hill is beautiful textured, deliciously scary, and greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for works of skin-crawling supernatural terror...
  • Survival by Rebecca Sherwin

    Survival by Rebecca Sherwin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With intertwining memories and a world of deceit and betrayal yet to be exposed, Survival, book #1 in the Twisted series, is an intense, compelling page-turner, seen through the eyes of Skye 'the Skillet' Jones. With no friends, no family and a life of loneliness ahead, Skye was looking for a reason to fight. To live. To survive...
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    dark  adult  book  fiction  psychological  sports  suspense  romance
  • I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison by Dr. Harper

    I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison by Dr. Harper

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The highly anticipated sequel to I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School ShooterI've counseled the most chilling criminals... A young inmate who fell in love with a pedophile. A man who intentionally infected strangers with HIV. A patient with an extremely unusual addiction. A sociopath who wanted to have a conscience...
  • Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett

    Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Novel Award“I read Skin Lane with one eye closed out of sheer animal terror. Then, unimaginably, it brought me to tears; what a work of art—so unexpected and heartbreaking and lovely.”—Armistead Maupin“A powerful and complex story of sexual obsession. . . . A profoundly original meditation on thwarted desire...
  • Strange Angels by Kathe Koja

    Strange Angels by Kathe Koja

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Grant, an ambitious photographer, is possessed by a young mental patient's strange drawings and becomes the disturbed young artist's confidant and guardian in a relationship that pushes Grant's own sanity to the edge. Reprint. LJ...
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    dark  lgbtq  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  literary-fiction
  • Relationship Material by Jenya Keefe

    Relationship Material by Jenya Keefe

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's not always possible to meet in the middle. Registered nurse Evan Doyle doesn’t consider himself fit for more than occasional hookups. He has a good life, but the emotional aftermath of a horrific crime makes him feel too damaged to date. So when his sister’s hot bestie, Malcolm Umbertini, comes on to him, he turns him down flat...
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    dark  lgbtq  abuse  adult  angst  animals  audiobook  book
  • Simon Says by Elaine Marie Alphin

    Simon Says by Elaine Marie Alphin

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aspiring young artist, Charles Weston has enrolled in a private arts high school solely to meet the "famous" Graeme Brandt, a student whose recently published novel touched a chord deep within Charles.But Graeme is not at all what Charles expected, and soon the two teen prodigies are drawn into a clash of wills that threatens to destroy them both...
  • Scarred Souls by Nick Kove

    Scarred Souls by Nick Kove

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can two scarred souls make each other whole? 
 Damian 
I’ve never given thoughts to any relationship with anyone. All I want is to start medical school and keep full focus on my education. At least, that’s what I used to want. Meeting Josh one rainy night changes everything...
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    dark  lgbtq  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mental-illness  mlm
  • Painting Fire on the Air by J.P. Barnaby

    Painting Fire on the Air by J.P. Barnaby

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THIS VERSION IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE"A Survivor Story""From her perch on a shelf above my bed, the doll accuses me with lifeless eyes of failing Juliette in the most heinous way imaginable, forcing me to crave the bite of his whip and the steel in his voice to drown out the ache in my chest...
  • The Virgin Master by Jordan Brewer

    The Virgin Master by Jordan Brewer

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a future time when the economy has completely collapsed and slavery and debtor's prisons are used as stop-gap methods by the tottering government to reduce the drain on resources, large corporations and the poor are all that remain...
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    dark  lgbtq  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book  dystopia  fiction
  • One in Four by Lucinda Berry

    One in Four by Lucinda Berry

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a reality show about former child stars overcoming addiction culminates in murder, their therapist must take a closer look into their lives—and her own, from USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry.Dr. Laurel Harlow can’t believe she’s agreed to do a reality TV show. But her years as a chemical dependency counselor and personal history with the show’s director make her the obvious choice...
  • Don't Murder Me: A Dark Thriller by John Meany

    Don't Murder Me: A Dark Thriller by John Meany

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The year is 2001. On her way out of work on a frigid October night, two inebriated thugs assault pregnant Ashley Ferguson as she goes to get in her car. She is knocked unconscious and is taken to the field behind the shopping center where 23-year-old Ashley is brutally raped...
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    dark  contemporary  fiction  psychological  book  adult
  • Never Go There by Rebecca Tinnelly

    Never Go There by Rebecca Tinnelly

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What if you found out that you'd been married to a stranger? 'Never go there, Nuala. Please, never go there.'Nuala knows nothing of her husband James's past. He made her swear that she would never contact his family and never, EVER visit the place he was from.But now James is dead, and Nuala is alone. Grieving and desperate, she decides to ignore his warning...
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    dark  fiction  psychological  thriller  suspense  book  adult
  • The Image by Jean de Berg, Catherine Robbe-Grillet

    The Image by Jean de Berg, Catherine Robbe-Grillet

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Originally published in France in 1958 and immediately banned, this novel concerns the sexual games of domination and punishment that take place between two women to which only the narrator has access...
  • Incorrect Eyes by Andromeda Ruins

    Incorrect Eyes by Andromeda Ruins

    Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Be Not Afraid Those three words have haunted me my entire life, and now I'm close. I know I am. I'm close to finding out the truth behind the words, the truth behind the Seraphim.The closer I get to uncovering the truth, to proving that the Seraphim are real, the further my mind slips. I can't sleep - can't dream - without seeing them...
  • Notice by Heather Lewis, Allan Gurganus

    Notice by Heather Lewis, Allan Gurganus

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As a young adult, she started to turn tricks in the parking lot of the local bar. Not because she needed the money, but because the money made explicit what sex had always been for her, a loveless transaction...
  • Premonitions by Jamie Schultz

    Premonitions by Jamie Schultz

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TWO MILLION DOLLARS...   It’s the kind of score Karyn Ames has always dreamed of—enough to set her crew up pretty well and, more important, enough to keep her safely stocked on a very rare, very expensive black market drug...
  • We Disappear: A Novel by Scott Heim

    We Disappear: A Novel by Scott Heim

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “We Disappear is a mystery concerning the identity of a teenage boy and the people he draws into his web of half-truths. . . . It’s not hyperbole to suggest that We Disappear is the eeriest Kansas-set story since Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood...
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    dark  lgbtq  adult  book  contemporary  crime  family  fiction
  • Sock by Penn Jillette

    Sock by Penn Jillette

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Twisting the buddy cop story upside down and inside out, Penn Jillette has created the most distinctive narrator to come along in fiction in many years: a sock monkey called Dickie. The sock monkey belongs to a New York City police diver who discovers the body of an old lover in the murky waters of the Hudson River and sets off with her best friend to find her killer...
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    dark  lgbtq  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Bitch Goddess Notebook by Martha O'Connor

    The Bitch Goddess Notebook by Martha O'Connor

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Set in a small-town high school in Illinois in 1988, three misfit girls join forces with devastating consequences. Rennie, the stunningly attractive straight-A student, finds herself way out of her depth when she embarks on an affair with her married teacher. Cherry builds a shrine to Princess Diana in her bedroom while nursing her hippy mother through her coke-fuelled rages...
  • Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb

    Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A vivid, brutal, razor-sharp debut about a woman who carves out her share of the American Dream by living as a man 1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine privilege...
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    dark  lgbtq  20th-century  adult  book  crime  family  fiction
  • How It Feels by Brendan Cowell

    How It Feels by Brendan Cowell

    Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was."An old friend, a best friend, a first love and the dreamer Neil Cronk who connects them all...Four schoolfriends are on the verge of adulthood and the next 12 hours will change the course of their lives... Friendships will be broken, virginity lost, love unleashed and secrets buried...
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    dark  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  psychological  romance
  • The Eighth Girl by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

    The Eighth Girl by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

    Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One woman, many personas. But which one is telling the truth?Alexa Wú is a brilliant yet darkly self-aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a series of alternate personalities. Only three people know about their existence: her therapist Daniel; her stepmother Anna; and her enigmatic best friend Ella...
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