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  • Stanton Bliss by T.L. Swan

    Stanton Bliss by T.L. Swan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    We've changed. Darker, damaged and unable to conform. My husband Joshua is dealing with the past the best that he can.....as am I. Nobody else can understand the language we speak. The trauma we have been through. But with the pain comes pleasure and happiness is our gift...
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    alpha-mc  billionaire  drama  family  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  book
  • The Lady : The Oath Duet by Serena Akeroyd

    The Lady : The Oath Duet by Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’ve spent a lifetime avoiding the various factions of the mafia in NYC, yet somehow I’m in it up to my eyeballs.I should be scared.I should want to run.Yet the city quivers in fear with every designer-clad footstep I take, because the Valentinis have ascended, and I’m the Don’s Lady.It’s intoxicating. However Luciu comes with vendettas and a craving for vengeance that could get him killed...
  • Taming My Whiskey by Melissa Foster

    Taming My Whiskey by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Buckle up for a wild ride as Dixie Whiskey finds forever love in TAMING MY WHISKEY, a funny, sexy, and emotionally riveting standalone romance by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster...
  • Stanton Completely by T.L. Swan

    Stanton Completely by T.L. Swan

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The third and final piece in the Stanton puzzle Joshua and Natasha are finally as one, so in love like never before...
  • With This Woman by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    With This Woman by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Their whirlwind romance was intense, passionate, and fiery, but Jesse knew the woman he was falling for didn’t know who he really was. He tried to protect her from his past, protect himself from her leaving, but his fears were realized when Ava discovered his Manor—the heartbeat of hedonism and pleasure, the place where Jesse has lost himself for years in women and alcohol...
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    steamy  drama  family  age-gap  alpha-mc  billionaire  angst  romance
  • 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...
  • Resist by K. Bromberg

    Resist by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Driven series comes a powerful romance about reaching great heights through low depths. Who says you have to play by the rules to get what you want? Agreeing to meet Ryker Lockhart is my first mistake. Rich, handsome, and more than intriguing, he thinks blackmail will bend me to his will. But he’s wrong...
  • Atticus: Secret Lies by K.L. Donn, Sensual Graphic Designs

    Atticus: Secret Lies by K.L. Donn, Sensual Graphic Designs

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Time stands still. Lies were told. Secrets are revealed. Who will we be when the walls tumble like mortar? **WARNING** The Adair Empire is a dark and graphic romance that will push your buttons, and maybe your boundaries. Each book contains a new couple but ends with a plot cliff-hanger...
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    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  dark  family  steamy  suspense
  • Rising by Laurelin Paige

    Rising by Laurelin Paige

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The stakes have never been higher, and she's full of the devil. Edward Fasbender is my husband. Together, we brought down powerful men. Now we have a chance to start over. To be the family neither of us ever had, to leave the past in the past where it belongs. Edward has a choice to make. It will decide if we fall into the flames--or rise together...
  • Those Three Words by Alexis Winter

    Those Three Words by Alexis Winter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Those three words…
Those three delicious, naughty words instantly set my body ablaze...
  • Billionaire Undaunted: Zane by J.S. Scott

    Billionaire Undaunted: Zane by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Billionaire's Obsession: Book 9My name is Ellie Winters, and I’m one of those unfortunate women you hear about on the news—but you never think my fate will ever happen to you. Not that I blame you for believing that. Honestly, I thought the same thing, until I became a statistic, a missing person who was assumed dead. Wrong place, wrong time. Except…I’m not dead. Not yet...
  • Missing Hart by Ella Fox

    Missing Hart by Ella Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My life has been built on a mountain of secrets, lies and half truths. For a long time I wasn't able to let anyone get close to me. But then I met my Prince Charming. The man who saved me from myself, who showed me what true love was. If only I'd been honest. If only I'd been stronger. If only I could forget...
  • The Auction by Tiffany Reisz

    The Auction by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You're invited to New York City's hottest dating event: Kingsley Edge's annual King's Trust Charity Auction.New on the auction block this year is Daniel, a wealthy widower and Dominant. However, he happens to have his eyes on another first-timer in the club's auction: Anya, a strikingly beautiful virgin submissive from his native Canada.Too bad Anya hates him on sight...
  • Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NASH Parker Sawyer fell into my life like a bomb. The first sight of her hit me like an explosion, changing everything. My mind, my heart, my life. The goals I thought I had and the dreams I thought I wanted. Nothing was the same after Parker. The night I fell in love with her, I let her get away. This time, there's no escape. Parker can run but she won't get far. This time I have a plan...
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    age-gap  alpha-mc  billionaire  dark  family  steamy  suspense  adult
  • Lennon Reborn by Scarlett Cole

    Lennon Reborn by Scarlett Cole

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lennon McCartney is not a broken man. Because being broken implies being whole once. When a horrific accident deprives him of the one thing he loves―his talent as a fierce and explosive drummer―Lennon is left with a life chained by an abusive mother, by crushing guilt over a tragic past. A life he doesn’t want.Dr. Georgia Starr is a legend...
  • Green Envy by Aleatha Romig

    Green Envy by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.” ~ EpicurusAt what age did I begin to question everything? As far back as I, Donavan Sherman, can recall, I saw the world, not through the rose-colored glasses of others—those spectacles worn by the individuals who see what surrounds them and are satisfied—but through vision hued by green...
  • Luke's Absolution by K.L. Kreig

    Luke's Absolution by K.L. Kreig

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Demons. Regrets. Absolution. Luke has lived on the wrong side of the law since he was seventeen. His hands are stained and his soul is black, but the worst sin he's committed is falling in love with his brother’s girl. Then he met her. Addy Monroe is pure, innocent and stubborn as an ox. Even though he doesn’t deserve her, Luke will stop at nothing to have her...
  • Ferrara by T.L. Swan

    Ferrara by T.L. Swan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There were three things that I wanted in life.To dance like nobody was watching.Travel the world.And fall hopelessly in love.I did all three.We met at my older brother’s house and instantly I knew that he was trouble.He kissed me, right there in the bathroom without a care in the world.And from that moment on, I was his.We were young, brave and naïve when we met...
  • Masked by Ivy Nelson

    Masked by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reva Calhoun met Noah Jasper five years ago on the night he found out his longtime girlfriend had been murdered.She was dating his sonNow she's faced with turning to him for help when Parker Jasper dumps her and kicks her out.She doesn't know it, but Noah needs her help just as much as she needs his...
  • Domination by C.D. Reiss

    Domination by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I want to just clarify a couple of things.Submission is not abdication. Submission is not resignation. It’s not weak or fragile. It doesn’t mean I break at the first sign of trouble.Well, I broke for a few weeks. When I realized I was falling in love with Jonathan and that I’d never be the same if I allowed it to continue, I broke into a million sharp little pieces...
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    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  dark  drama  steamy  suspense
  • A Ticking Time Boss by Olivia Hayle

    A Ticking Time Boss by Olivia Hayle

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The golden angel who swooped in to save me from a nightmare first date turns out to be a billionaire vulture circling the company I work for.Carter Kingsley: My savior and ruthless corporate raider hell bent on destroying the newspaper I love. Oh, and my new boss.His first order of business? Cut half the staff. I should hate him. Easy, right?Wrong...
  • Doctor Mistake by J. Saman

    Doctor Mistake by J. Saman

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He's my best friend's older brother. My boss. And now my new roommate...In the hospital, death always comes in threes. Apparently, so do mistakes.Mistake number one? My fiancé, who I just learned is cheating on me. So much for being the strong, in control doctor who's always on top of her game...Mistake number two? Knocking on the wrong door...
  • The Trouble With Love by Kat T. Masen

    The Trouble With Love by Kat T. Masen

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Let me list the reasons why we cannot be together...He is ten years older than me.He is practically family.And he is also my father’s business associate.Amelia Edwards, the daughter of mogul Lex Edwards, is beginning her adult life. Away from home, she’s studying law at Yale and has the freedom of doing whatever she pleases without her controlling father watching her every move...
  • Seduction by Nicole Edwards

    Seduction by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ashleigh Thomas might have made the biggest mistake of her life. Uprooting life as she knew it, moving back to Dallas to be closer to her family, she finds herself much closer to the one man who she had never been able to say no to...
  • Reese by Candice M. Wright

    Reese by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to the Candy shop Where poison never tasted so sweet... Being a Candy Girl is more than just a job, it’s who I am.But before I became ReeseI was known as Malice, the street kid who killed a man before disappearing without a trace.Now seven years later a serial killer is using those same streets as his hunting ground...
  • A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can you love two men at once? Is there any future in that?Brant loves me fiercely. A brilliant tech billionaire who has owned my heart for four years, he keeps proposing, and I keep turning him down. I can’t marry him, not with all of the secrets between us.Lee uses me wildly.As grouchy as he is cocky, he's interested in getting me into his bed and little more...
  • Melody by Helen Hardt

    Melody by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s the melody in her mind… Beautiful Brianna Steel has her life planned out. Graduate college early. Check. Work with her father in the Steel family orchard. Check. Marry Jesse Pike. No check there. Jesse has never given her a look. Finagling her way onto a rock and roll tour with Jesse and his band, Dragonlock, should help move her final goal along. At least Brianna hopes it will...
  • Burn by C.D. Reiss

    Burn by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Here's how it's going to be, Goddess.Until you surrender yourself to me fully, I will not touch you.Until the world can know you belong to me, I will not kiss you.I'm going to be inches away, at your side. I'm going to whisper in your ear and put my breath on your neck, but the heat of my skin will not feel the shudder of yours until you commit yourself to me completely and without reservation...
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    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  dark  drama  multi-pov  steamy  suspense
  • Set In Stone by Dakota Willink

    Set In Stone by Dakota Willink

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two declarations of love. And a past that won’t set them free. Alexander  I had rules. Krystina broke them. That’s just the way things were. But that didn’t mean I didn’t want to make her my wife. She exemplified the triskelion, representing my past, my present, and my future. Without her, I am nothing. But then the past returns to rear its ugly head...
  • Needing Arella by Terri Anne Browning, Sara Eirew

    Needing Arella by Terri Anne Browning, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have a stalker.Nothing new about that.I’m the latest it girl in Hollywood. Stalkers come with the territory.But this one is…different.This one is braver—and unpredictable.My sister is married to a security expert. One phone call and I could have one of the world’s best-trained bodyguards watching over me twenty-four seven.But if I do, my parents will find out, and my dad will stress...
  • True Colours by Mandy Lee

    True Colours by Mandy Lee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Reeling from the shock of discovering Dan’s true identity, Maya struggles to make the right decision. But she’s incapable of resisting the man she loves, and soon finds herself drawn back into his world - a world of intensely sexual passion. While his love and support help her to confront her fears and blossom as an artist, what she needs more than anything is the ability to trust...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  alpha-mc  age-gap  dark  female-mc  family  steamy  romance
  • Just Another Spark by Carly Phillips

    Just Another Spark by Carly Phillips

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s a rock star wanted by millions.She’s a wife willing to fight for their love. Rock star Dash Kingston is finishing the last leg of his band’s U.S. tour. Exhausted and ready to be home, he can’t wait to see his girl. Time zones, show times, and the demands of his career have made married life harder than expected. Even knowing the rock star life wouldn’t make their relationship easy...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  steamy  angst  female-mc  urban  billionaire  romance
  • A Reckless Note by Lisa Renee Jones

    A Reckless Note by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.” ― Morrissey It all started with a note, just a simple note hand written by a woman I didn't know, never even met. But in that note is perhaps every answer to every question I've ever had in my life. And because of that note, I travel thousands of miles. I look for her, but find him...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  dark  drama  steamy  suspense  adult
  • Until You: A Brother's Best Friend Standalone (Off-Limits) by Catharina Maura

    Until You: A Brother's Best Friend Standalone (Off-Limits) by Catharina Maura

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Left without a job and evicted from the house she so carefully turned into a home, Aria is offered two choices: move back in with her brother… or take the job her brother’s best friend offers her.Their lives weren’t meant to collide — but everything changes when Grayson realizes that Aria is the mysterious woman behind a wildly popular vigilante platform...
  • My Favorite Sin by Skyla Summers

    My Favorite Sin by Skyla Summers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ally Hastings is my obsession, the one girl I never should have fallen in love with.She ran away from me for a year, filled with shame, insisting our feelings for each other are wrong and we can’t give into temptation. No more sneaking around. No more stolen kisses.Now Ally is back in town, ignoring our past, trying to date other guys and move on from me...
  • What We Do in the Night by Stylo Fantome

    What We Do in the Night by Stylo Fantome

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Just five months ago, Valentine O'Dell started working at a very special kind of club - one where you can dance the night away, or live out your greatest fantasy. She's learned to lose herself to her nights, forgetting all her day time woes as she charms every man she meets. It's easy enough to do when she doesn't let her feelings get involved...
  • Being Mrs. Cane by Shanora Williams

    Being Mrs. Cane by Shanora Williams

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They say there is happiness at the end of every love story, but they never truly mention the hardships it takes to get there. With Cane, I’d been through hell and back, and now, I was going to be walking up the alter, promising my life to a man that I’d gambled everything for. Some would call me dumb. Some would deem me insane. Others would say I was a fool in love...
  • Yours Actually by Nina Levine

    Yours Actually by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The playboy and the girl next door.Best friends since forever.This was only supposed to be a wedding season as each other’s plus-one, nothing more.But Callan Black has his hands on me, his eyes on me, and has suddenly become very possessive of me.Callan is the guy I’ve crushed on since I was a teen.It’s totally unrequited.He’s got a type and I’m not it...
  • Control by C.D. Reiss

    Control by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    What you’re breaking isn’t some little, meaningless coupling. We aren’t some casual fuck, and we never were. Not from the first night. Not from the first time I laid eyes on you. You were built for me. I denied it as long as I could, but we were meant to be together. You are the sea under my sky. We’re bound at the horizon...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  dark  drama  multi-pov  steamy  adult
  • Remembering Passion: Sinclair Duet by Aleatha Romig

    Remembering Passion: Sinclair Duet by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Damien Sinclair is a force of nature, the beauty of a sunset over the ocean while capable of devastating hurricane-strength winds. At one time, he’d held my heart in his hands. That was until the day I walked away.I didn’t leave him because I didn’t love him. It was that loving him was too much, an all-encompassing affair. In his presence, I failed to exist...
  • Rook: Billionnaire, bad boy suspense romance by Jo Raven

    Rook: Billionnaire, bad boy suspense romance by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pain turns me on Danger lights me up But she sets me on fire It’s my turn to fight the shady Organization that’s dug its goddamn claws into every business in my town. Setting up my trap while keeping my friends safe is a challenge—and my private life shouldn’t interfere with my mission. Except it does...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  dark  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  adult
  • The Billionaire's Big Bold Wonder by Nichole Rose

    The Billionaire's Big Bold Wonder by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  billionaire  drama  multi-pov  steamy  adult  book
  • Womanizer by Katy Evans

    Womanizer by Katy Evans

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    You've seen the headlines: Womanizing billionaire player! Watch out! Stay away! We were just two strangers. Facing a forbidden attraction, a chemical connection. Neither of us expected or wanted it to amount to more. But I had never been drawn to a guy the way I was drawn to this one: my brother's best friend, and CEO of the company where I interned...
  • Mercy by Sara Cate

    Mercy by Sara Cate

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    I don’t want to hurt him—I just want to punish him. ⁠⁠It’s bad enough being the only female owner of the Salacious Players’ Club, but I’m also the only one without a kink, or so I thought. ⁠⁠Imagine my surprise when the kink quiz suggests that I’m not so vanilla after all. ⁠⁠In fact, I’m a lot more like Emerson Grant than I thought.⁠Just one problem—I have no idea how to be a Domme...
  • faire l'amour by Jessica Gadziala

    faire l'amour by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s a woman who has never done anything like this before… Disaster had her world uprooted, her plans for her life going in a direction she could have never seen coming. Shackled with a debt she has no way to pay off, she makes a decision she never could have seen herself making. One contract. Three months. Complete financial freedom...
  • Forgiving Gia by Gina Whitney

    Forgiving Gia by Gina Whitney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abel Gunner is a rock-star with legendary skills both in and out of the bedroom. He swore he wouldn't fall for another woman after being schemed and manipulated by an ex-lover. He kept that vow until he met Gia Mastro. The Dom inside of him awoke the moment he set eyes upon the submissive beauty. His dark soul hungered for her submission and affection...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  adult  book
  • Glacier by Violet Blaze

    Glacier by Violet Blaze

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    His real name might be Saint, but he's a monster. His heart—if he even has one—is coated in ice. Dark. Like the blood under his fingernails. Saint “Glacier” Nordin is the enforcer for the Alpha Wolves Motorcycle Club and sin for sin, he's an outlaw among outlaws...
  • Sexy As Sin by Julie Kriss

    Sexy As Sin by Julie Kriss

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Second chances burn hotter The assignment should be a fashion stylist’s dream. Dane Scotland—brilliant programmer, millionaire, partner in my brother’s company—is going to a big-money meeting, and he needs to look the part. The problem? Dane doesn’t want a makeover. He’s grumpy and reclusive, and his wardrobe consists of two pairs of old jeans. He doesn’t want me anywhere near him...
  • Unveil by Elodie Hart

    Unveil by Elodie Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    GenI’ve made my fortune from liberation, but I’m far more comfortable with discretion.I’ve built the pre-eminent sex club in London, but I don’t play there.Not publicly, anyway. Not beyond its darkest corners.I talk the talk, but I don’t walk the walk. Not like my male co-founders do.Because I’m the immaculate one...
  • Don't Come by Jessica Gadziala

    Don't Come by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Dom I’m not broken, tortured, or scarred, some cliched, overdone and sensationalized misconception about this lifestyle… and the men in it who control their submissives with a strong hand. I’m just a Dom. Just a man who gets off on a woman who entrusts me with her submission...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  dark  multi-pov  steamy  adult
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