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  • Thief by Tarryn Fisher

    Thief by Tarryn Fisher

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Note to SelfLove is patient; love is kind.Love doesn't boast or brag.There's no arrogance in love;it's never rude, crude, or indecent-it's not self absorbed.Love isn't easily upset.Love doesn't tally wrongs.Love trusts, hopes, and endures no matter what.Love will never become obsolete.I'll fight for her.ThiefCaleb Drake never got over his first love. Not when he got married...
  • Sabotage by Shantel Tessier

    Sabotage by Shantel Tessier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An all-new dark standalone romance from the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Shantel Tessier.COLTONRaylee Lexington Adams is my stepsister and the one woman in the world who can make my blood boil. She’s vindictive, a lot of crazy, and absolutely stunning. I hate everything about her except for when she’s on her knees begging me to use her as my own personal toy...
  • Devotion by Ivy Smoak

    Devotion by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Tick tock. One day before the wedding of her dreams, Penny is in a city that is no longer her home. Alone. Heartbroken. Lost. Could the past few years really mean so little to a man that became her world? To a man she'd do anything to protect? There is no future without him. There is no her without him.With only 24 hours until the wedding, is there enough time to repair the damage? Tick tock...
  • With This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    With This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Jesse Ward is back in the newest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling This Man series!Life is good for Jesse "The Lord" Ward. Perfect, actually. He still has the charm, he's in great shape, and he still reduces his wife, Ava, to a pool of desire with a mere look. He's in full control, just how he likes it...
  • Seducing Kaden by Siobhan Davis

    Seducing Kaden by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A student-teacher forbidden romance from USA Today bestseller Siobhan Davis. Standalone with an HEA and no cliffhanger. Kaden The woman I love will never be mine because she already belongs to another. I’ve tried everything to forget her, but it’s impossible when she occupies a starring role in my dreams...
  • Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Passion, betrayal, and heartache collide in an emotionally charged and dangerous chain of events that could unravel everything Sebastian and Talia have worked to overcome...
  • The Light to My Darkness by Ivy Smoak

    The Light to My Darkness by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    My relationship with my husband has been splashed all over the tabloids ever since we first started dating. What should I have expected when I took New York City's most eligible bachelor off the market? But no matter how long I'm with my husband, I can't shake the feeling that a stroke of luck brought me here. That I don't deserve the life around me...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  billionaire  dark  female-mc  secrets  steamy  suspense  adult
  • Whisper by Dani René

    Whisper by Dani René

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the international bestselling author comes the story of two people who find out that sometimes fate does step in and play it's part. "Lust. It drives people to do things they normally wouldn't." A whisper is a secret that keeps you safe in the dark. It may hold truth, but it may bring about pain. When Eli said goodbye to love, he never counted on Gia...
  • Truth by Aleatha Romig, Esra Çetin

    Truth by Aleatha Romig, Esra Çetin

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the thrilling sequel in the Consequences series: Truth, a game of deception, intrigue, and conspiracy where losing can be deadly.Claire survived the consequences. Through strength and compartmentalization, Claire Nichols captivated her captor...
  • Behind His Eyes - Truth by Aleatha Romig

    Behind His Eyes - Truth by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    CONSEQUENCES SERIES READING COMPANION:Book # 2.5 of the Consequences series: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the much-anticipated second companion to the suspenseful thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences.Truth is relative.By delivering the consequences, Anthony has proven he is a man of his word...
  • Eruption by Ivy Smoak

    Eruption by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    New York was supposed to be our fresh start. Our happily ever after. But James is hiding something from me.Secrets from James' past, his scheming ex, and unsupportive parents make it hard to breathe in this city that barely feels like my home.I thought I wanted to marry him. I thought he was the man of my dreams. I thought we'd be happy as soon as we got away from all the rumors...
  • This Isn't Fair, Baby by K. Webster

    This Isn't Fair, Baby by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ***This is the sixth book in the series. First five books must be read in order to fully understand this story line.*** The king in my world fell and a new one slid into place. He wasn’t just. He wasn’t FAIR. He was cruel and hateful and twisted. But I had this black king figured out. Or so I thought...
  • The Devilhouse Books: Rae by Blair Babylon

    The Devilhouse Books: Rae by Blair Babylon

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One wild quickie with a sexy stranger will change Rae’s life forever. Rae Stone is majoring in psychology so that she can open a clinic for autistic kids, but when her scholarship is yanked because she failed an impossible statistics course, she thinks she’s out of luck and doomed to return to her repressive and poverty-stricken hometown...
  • Twist Me: The Complete Trilogy by Anna Zaires

    Twist Me: The Complete Trilogy by Anna Zaires

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All 3 books in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, available for the first time in one convenient, discounted bundle. Over 1000 pages of addictive, thrilling dark romance at 30% off the individual books’ prices. “Will you ever let me go?” “No, Nora,” he replies, and I can feel his smile in the darkness. “Never...
  • When Forever Changes by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    When Forever Changes by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of Inseparable comes another emotional, angsty, friends-to-lovers, second-chance romance. STANDALONE title. Gabby Looking back, I should have seen the signs. Perhaps I did, but I subconsciously chose to ignore them. From the time I was ten, when I first met Dylan, I knew he was my forever guy...
  • City of Sin by Ivy Smoak

    City of Sin by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nothing seems to be going Bee's way. She has been knocked down by her ex, her job, and the city in general. Could a blind date really be the start of the much needed change she's been hoping for? When Bee is already running late, a sexy stranger steals her cab. And once she finally arrives to the restaurant and finds out that he's her date, the night takes an unexpected turn...
  • Obsession by Shantel Tessier

    Obsession by Shantel Tessier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have lost those who I have loved. I have bled for those I hate. I have lied to those who are honest. What am I? You're a sinner dressed in white. You’re a ghost in the night. You're the demons that I fight. Who are you? Both of us were sinners. She was hell-bent on revenge, and I was determined to let her have it. She was a beautiful sin that alone would be my damnation...
  • Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard

    Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    National bestselling author Sylvain Reynard continues the story of Gabriel and Julia, two lovers bound together by their darkest desires. But those very desires may destroy them . . . Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student Julia Mitchell...
  • Chased by Him by Kylie Kent

    Chased by Him by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ⚠⚠This book contains scenes and discussions of non-consensual sexual acts, domestic violence, profanity, sexual content, violence and miscarraige through trauma. If any of these are triggers for you, you should consider skipping this read.⚠⚠ChasePeople take one look at me and see a pretty face.Because that’s what I want them to see...
  • Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series by Lili St. Germain

    Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series by Lili St. Germain

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    *LIMITED EDITION ON SALE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY - INCLUDES BONUS EXCLUSIVE NOVELLA* Lili's USA Today Bestselling series, together in one edition for the first time! Contains ALTERNATE - A Gypsy Brothers novella featuring chapters told from Jase, Elliot and Dornan's points of view. The GYPSY BROTHERS series My father was most certainly NOT an innocent man...
  • Obsessed by Aleatha Romig

    Obsessed by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everything changed the night our eyes met across the room. His green gaze upon me prickled my skin with uncustomary warmth while my peek beneath his cuff—of a riot of color on his wrist—sparked my insatiable curiosity. Tall and mysterious, Kader was a man whose secrets I longed to know...
  • Submitting to the Billionaire: A Dark Billionaire Romance by Georgia Le Carre

    Submitting to the Billionaire: A Dark Billionaire Romance by Georgia Le Carre

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nikolai Not every debt can be paid with money... When people look into my eyes they realize instantly that there is more pity to be found looking into the eyes of a cobra. I'm ruthless, heartless, and I have the Midas touch. Everything I touch turns to gold. There is not one thing I wanted that I have not ultimately conquered and made mine...
  • Resisting Mateo by Sam Mariano

    Resisting Mateo by Sam Mariano

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you dance with the devil, don't be surprised when all Hell breaks loose.BOOK FIVE in the Morelli Family series. MUST be read in order! Or a unicorn dies. (Seriously, you do not want to start with this book. It'll be kookydooks...
  • Scandalized by Livia Grant

    Scandalized by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four lives tangled by an invisible thread...Prepare to be scandalized!Nolan and Piper have a lot in common, and a complicated history that has already hit the rocks twice before. But their undeniable chemistry keeps pulling them back together, and even if she's Mistress Ice, Nolan is determined to have Piper any way he can get her -- secrets and all...
    Categorized as:
    billionaire  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • Provocation by T.K. Leigh

    Provocation by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One week. No names. No expectations.That was our agreement. We were supposed to walk away once our time in Hawaii was over. No matter what.But that was before I finally decided to take a risk and jump.And that’s precisely what being involved with Lachlan Hale is… A risk...
  • Unjustly Destroyed by Marie Skye

    Unjustly Destroyed by Marie Skye

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HIDING… From my past, my secrets, who I really am. But now, he's caught up with me. Back to destroy me, once and for all, with his smug, smiling face. He's going to ensure that I'm in pain, and I'm going to fight like Hell to stop him. I'm at my limit. I'll do anything to protect Grayson. Protect myself. Protect us. Even if it's the last Fu*king thing I do. HIDING..
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult
  • Tying the Knot by Jennifer Bene

    Tying the Knot by Jennifer Bene

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Over two years after the trauma of her kidnapping, and the auction that brought them together, Thalia and James are finally getting their happily ever after! Celebrating their love is a piece of wedding cake, but with the help of their wild and crazy friends from Purgatory, it’s destined to be a wedding day no one will forget...
  • Black Lies by Alessandra Torre

    Black Lies by Alessandra Torre

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Can you love two men at once? Is there any future in that?Brant loves me fiercely. A brilliant tech billionaire who has spent the last four years pursuing me, he's the man I should marry, yet I keep turning down his proposals.Lee... I don't know what to say about Lee. I pursue him recklessly, and he uses me in ways that would make a nun swear. He isn't in love with me yet, but he will be...
  • The Ending I Want by Samantha Towle

    The Ending I Want by Samantha Towle

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Taylor Shaw had the perfect life—until she was sixteen. That was when everything changed. From that moment on, life went from bad to worse…to the worst.After recovering from a brain tumor, months later, she suffers the tragic loss of her whole family.Since that fateful day, she’s been coasting through life.Now, the brain tumor has returned, and Taylor decides she’s had enough...
  • Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Out of the past six years of my life, I only remember about half of it. After a dozen doctors and thousands in medical bills, I was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder--one that causes me to lose track of time. Sometimes it’s hours, days or even weeks with no recollection of anything. The good thing is it's been almost two years since I had my last ‘black out’...
  • Bound for Nirvana: by Kendra Leigh

    Bound for Nirvana: by Kendra Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The bonds of their love saw them through the ravaging storm to the promise of peace and the chance to breathe … Angel once believed her soul belonged to the Devil. Now she willingly gives every part of her—mind, body and soul—to the man whose love mends her a little more each day. Ethan knows Hell is no place for an angel, especially not his Angel...
  • Fearless by Maren Smith

    Fearless by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He was the last thing she thought she needed, but she was everything he wanted. Abused and alone, Kitty had no idea how far she’d have to flee after she finally got the courage to run. She never would have guessed she’d end up halfway around the world, or in the home — much less the arms — of dominant Australian whip-master, Noah Carver...
    Categorized as:
    billionaire  dark  female-mc  steamy  suspense  adult  book  captivity
  • Forged in Flames by Ivy Smoak

    Forged in Flames by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I remember when I thought my life would be like the fairy tales I read about. I'd do anything to go back in time when everything was so simple. When my knight in shining armor had a face and a name. When my biggest secret was that I snuck out at night to watch the stars.I'm worried that there's a sickness in me, swallowing me whole. I don't understand what's happening to me...
  • Cosa Nostra by Nicci Harris

    Cosa Nostra by Nicci Harris

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "I love you, Max Butcher." Those words are dangerous. Just about as dangerous as the world I was born into. As dangerous as the ruthless bastards that I call family.They hurt her.My. Little. Ballerina. . . My piece of purity.They hurt her. . .I wanted to keep the world beautiful for her.I failed.So I should let her go. For her own safety and my sanity.But she crawled into my bed...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  dark  female-mc  steamy  suspense  adult
  • United Reign by Kylie Kent

    United Reign by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Mafia RomanceTheoEverything we’ve built is crashing down around me.I’m consumed by the darkness, my blood boiling with the need for revenge.My wife is the only light in my life; she’s the very reason I keep on fighting.They’re coming after me. And worse yet, they’re coming after her.But let them come…I’m waiting. We’re waiting.To send them all back to the hell they crawled out of...
  • Worship by Trilina Pucci

    Worship by Trilina Pucci

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book Two, in A Sinful Series, brings you an intense, taboo love story, and an even hotter ALPHA. Meet Luca King— broody, powerful and a man who’s never refused. There are only two reasons a man falls to his knees: prayer and ..... And I sure as hell don’t pray. But for this woman, I’d fall on my knees to worship every single, gorgeous part of her body...
  • LUCA - Her Ruthless Don: 50 Loving States, New York by Theodora Taylor

    LUCA - Her Ruthless Don: 50 Loving States, New York by Theodora Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ruthlessly Obsessed… AMBER: Everyone knows me as Amber Reynolds, the fierce and determined law student, who won’t let her blindness hold her back. My friends and colleagues encourage and applaud me, but I never feel clean. Because they don’t know who I really am… or the true reason I’m blind. You see, my father used to hurt people, until one day he kidnapped and brutalized the wrong boy...
  • Addiction by Ivy Smoak, Айви Смоук

    Addiction by Ivy Smoak, Айви Смоук

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Temptation has quickly turned into addiction. Penny fell hard for her mysterious professor, but secrets have torn them apart. After all, scandalous affairs are meant to go down in flames.Now that he's not speaking to her, she feels numb. And what hurts the most is that he appears to be completely fine...
  • Shattered Pieces by Portia Moore

    Shattered Pieces by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is book 4 in the IF I Break Series. It is strongly suggested to start at book 1 which is currently free. When you're heartbroken, it lies beneath everything that you do. It's in all of who you are. Foreshadows who you'll be. It hides underneath your smile, rests between your laugh, revels in your tears and taunts your every thought. You wish it away but are too terrified to let it go...
  • Caught Up in You by Roni Loren

    Caught Up in You by Roni Loren

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The girl who has spent her life running is about to be caught . . . by love. After a shaky past, Kelsey LeBreck’s future is looking good. She’s been saving money for culinary school with her earnings from The Ranch, a private BDSM resort. Even better, she’s landed a day job where she can practice baking and flirt with her favorite customer...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  billionaire  female-mc  steamy  suspense  adult  bdsm  book
  • Beyond the Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Beyond the Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes more of the suspenseful romantic thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, choices and consequences. Secrets and deception As the pieces of their puzzle come together, Anthony and Claire Rawlings continue to defy the odds. Together they overcame an incomprehensible beginning. Apart they endured unimaginable heartache...
  • Turn  (Gentry Generations) by Cora Brent

    Turn (Gentry Generations) by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    CASSIE I'm determined to leave my mistakes in the past. These days I'm back in school, I'm surrounded by my wonderful, crazy family and I'm working for my dad. Then Curtis Mulligan happens. A supposedly reformed gang member from the rundown prison town where my folks grew up, Curtis looks like he was built for mayhem. We have nothing in common...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  female-mc  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Dirty Red by Tarryn Fisher

    Dirty Red by Tarryn Fisher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Dear Opportunist, You thought you could take him from me, but you lost. Now, that he's mine I'll do anything to keep him. Do you doubt me? I have everything that was supposed to be yours. In case you were wondering; he doesn't ever think about you anymore. I won't let him go....ever. Dirty RedLeah Smith finally has everything she has ever wanted. Except she doesn't...
  • Marked Steel by M.J. Fields

    Marked Steel by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    TrisWhen a spring flower blooms too early, it often wilts while others blossom during their proper season.That’s me in a nutshell, and what eventually landed me in the nuthouse. Through necessity, I found a new passion, one that helps mask the darkness by thrusting me into the spotlight. Each show is a session, ending in a kiss meant for revenge...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  dark  insta-love  steamy  suspense  adult
  • Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Tortured Skye is not a standalone and is best enjoyed after reading Savage Collision***Falling in love with Gabe Anderson was as easy as breathing. Fighting my feelings for my brother’s best friend was agonizingly hard. I never imagined giving in to my desire for him would cause such a destructive ripple effect...
  • Ruthless by Dani René

    Ruthless by Dani René

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m an asshole. And I make no apologies for it. My life has been spent drenched in the blood of my enemies. Our family legacy, left only to me when my brother walked away. Women are pawns in a game for pleasure. Nothing more. Until her. Madison Parker. I’m enthralled. Captivated. But my past is far too dark. Pushing her away is my only option...
  • Learn for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Learn for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One day she was there; the next she was gone.Zeke mourned the loss of his blue-haired angel, missed the sound of her voice and the touch of her hand on his. She'd been there while his broken body tried to heal, had soothed him when the pain was consuming, bewitched him with her laugh and ever-present smile.Nothing could happen between them, he'd known that from the start...
  • The Sinister Silhouette by Alex Grayson, JW Photography

    The Sinister Silhouette by Alex Grayson, JW Photography

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Luca….”She whispers my name at night, filling my dreams with her haunting beauty. Her tormented amber eyes beg me for something I don’t understand, and her agonizing pain becomes my own.For years, she’s come to me, calling my name.For years, I’ve never known who she was.Until now…...
  • Bang by E.K. Blair, איי. קיי. בלייר

    Bang by E.K. Blair, איי. קיי. בלייר

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    They say when you take revenge against another you lose a part of your innocence. But I’m not innocent. I haven’t been for a very long time. My innocence was stolen from me. Taken was the life I was supposed to have. The soul I was born with. The ruby heart embedded in a life full of hopes and dreams.Gone.Vanished.I never even had a choice. I mourn that life. Mourn the what-ifs. Until now...
  • Indulge by E.B. Walters

    Indulge by E.B. Walters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sexy, emotional conclusion to the Bestseller Impulse: Infinitus Billionaire... His world is filled with decadent pleasure and luxury. And Lex Fitzgerald wants to give it all to Jillian Finnegan, the stuntwoman he meant to use to close a business deal, until their intense sexual chemistry translated into delicious, naughty, and mind-numbing passion...
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