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  • Millions by Pepper Winters

    Millions by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    “Love had been given and taken and now…it had been stolen. No one steals from a thief—especially from me—and I will defend what’s mine until my dying breath. It’s not a question of what I’m willing to sacrifice but who to deserve her…” Once upon a time, I stupidly believed if I could make Elder fall for me, everything would be perfect...
  • Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This book is the sixth book in the internationally bestselling Eagle Elite Series. It's an interconnected stand alone novel with no cliffhanger. Twenty-Four hours before we were to be married--I offered to shoot her. Ten hours before our wedding--I made a mockery of her dying wish. Five hours before we were going to say our vows--I promised I'd never love her...
  • The Fall of V by Jessica Gadziala

    The Fall of V by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They knew she was going to strike back for taking down her empire, for imprisoning her for years. All those years stuck in a cell gave her a lot of time to think, to plot, to plan her revenge. But they couldn't have anticipated this . * This can not be read as a standalone. ** This is also not a romance...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  drama  family  kidnapping  organized-crime  sad
  • Eulogy by Rachel Van Dyken

    Eulogy by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The next book in the internationally bestselling mafia series… All is lost. All. I don't recognize myself in the mirror anymore. My thoughts are filled with hatred and dripping with rage. I've lost my soul. She took it to the depths of Hell with her and haunts me with images of what could have been. Sixty lives are mine to take. Sixty lives stand in the way of my vengeance...
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    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  drama  family  organized-crime  sad
  • Always: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Always: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Legacy Novel A wild boy. A sly girl. Cross Donati defines trouble. He does what he wants because he’s never known anything different. He’s unapologetic, and he owns it. Catherine Marcello is every bit a good girl … on the outside. Her entire world is a legacy, and she lives it. She’s curious, and she’s exploring it. She chases bad things. He never learned to be good...
  • Rex by Serena Akeroyd

    Rex by Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rachel always thought I was wasting my life on the Sinners, but being Prez is all I’ve ever wanted to be.When she tore us apart on her journey to become someone, I let her go. I made sacrifices for her, because I knew why she had to prove herself.I just didn't realize that'd involve freezing me out for years...
  • Made by J.M. Darhower

    Made by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Corrado Moretti.The world knows the notorious Kevlar Killer, but few have ever seen what lies beneath his armor. The abused child. The neglected teenager. The broken man. He always did whatever he had to do in order to survive.It's kill or be killed.Throughout his life, he has been there in the shadows, a witness to everything from beginning to end...
  • Inferno by Catherine Doyle

    Inferno by Catherine Doyle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Romeo and Juliet meets The Godfather in the second installment of Catherine Doyle's Blood for Blood series. Sophie's life has been turned upside-down, and she's determined to set things right. But Nic, the Falcone brother who represents everything she's trying to forget, won't give up on their love - and it's Luca's knife she clutches for comfort...
  • Kiwi by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Kiwi by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tai Cooper holds many titles, but to the Kings of Retribution MC, he's known as Kiwi, Road Captain, and their brother.At eighteen, Kiwi left New Zealand- his sights set on The States. In search of a man, he has never met.His birth father...
  • Ember by Rachel Van Dyken

    Ember by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I am a Killer. A Rapist. A Monster.I know only pain and survival. That is until the Cappo's sister walked into my life. And changed everything.She's a light who makes my darkness darker, her smile makes my heart turn to ice, and I can't escape the fear her seductive looks instill--knowing it's only a matter of time before I fail--again, and take her for myself.This is the story of my redemption...
  • Debase by Rachel Van Dyken

    Debase by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken, comes the final book in the Eagle Elite Series and the first new book in the Elite Bratva Brotherhood...With blood on my hands, I held her. With death in my soul, I took from her. With the devil in my heart, I coveted her.There're many definitions of Hell. My list was exhaustive, my definitions tragic...
  • Skylar by Addison Jane

    Skylar by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Skylar thought she’d outrun her past six years ago. Growing up, her life was dictated for her and reinforced with a heavy fist. The people who were meant to love and protect her were those that caused her the most pain. So she risked everything and ran...
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    crime  dark  drama  family  friends-to-lovers  sad  suspense  abuse
  • Revere: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Revere: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Legacy Novel She was once his liar. He was once her savior. Cross Donati fills his days with the mafia, family, and responsibility. The wild boy is a distant memory. A waiting prince now sits in his place. An old debt puts the gunrunner right back into the path of his past, but he only sees his future. Every king needs a queen...
  • Beneath These Shadows by Meghan March

    Beneath These Shadows by Meghan March

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Meghan March comes a new dangerously sexy alpha hero... The only permanent thing in my life is the ink I put on my clients. I drift from city to city, in and out of beds, from one tattoo shop to the next. Every time I start to put down roots, I rip them up. Until New Orleans. Until her. She’s everything I’m not. Full of fire and life...
  • Hadley by Addison Jane

    Hadley by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    People change, it's a fact of life. Hadley found that out the hard way after her husband came home one day with darkness in his eyes that she'd never seen before. Realizing that she couldn't allow him to drag her into the shadows, she watched him walk away, thinking she’d be free to move on with her life. But now she was on the run, seeking safety from a man she once vowed to love forever...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  drama  family  kidnapping  sad  suspense
  • To Command and Collar by Cherise Sinclair

    To Command and Collar by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Working with the FBI to capture human traffickers, Master Raoul scores an invitation to a slave auction. To his surprise, one slave is the kidnapped friend of a Shadowlands submissive. Although Kim's body is scarred, her spirit is unbroken, and he can't leave her behind. Ruining the FBI's plans, he buys her. Kimberly's freedom has come at a devastating price: the other women are still imprisoned...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  captivity  crime  dark  drama  kidnapping  slavery
  • Seeds of Iniquity by J.A. Redmerski, Kris Koscheski

    Seeds of Iniquity by J.A. Redmerski, Kris Koscheski

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Victor Faust's new Order is growing. Business is good as there is no rest for the wicked in an underground world of hardcore criminals and contract killing. Relationships among the operatives have changed little over the past year—but things are about to change now, and all six high-ranking members of the new Order will be blindsided by an unlikely enemy...
  • Thousands by Pepper Winters

    Thousands by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Love had been stolen from me for reasons entirely my fault. But then a miracle happened, and Pim gave me something I thought was lost forever. She gave me a love I’d earned. Love that ruined me. Love that made me hopelessly hers…”Once upon a time, I didn’t think I’d ever be normal. Now, I’m talking and trusting, and it’s all thanks to Elder...
  • Entice by Rachel Van Dyken

    Entice by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From #1 New York Times Bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes the third book in the bestselling Eagle Elite Series... “As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.” Chase Winter let the love of his life slip through his fingers and into the hands of his best friend and mafia boss of the Abandanato family...
  • Broken by J.L. Drake

    Broken by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My name is Savannah Miller. My father is the mayor of New York. One day after my twenty-seventh birthday I was grabbed from behind. A cloth sack was quickly pulled over my head, and I was taken from everything I’d ever known. I was beaten, starved, treated like an animal, and forced to live in a room with no windows...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  captivity  crime  dark  drama  family  forbidden-love
  • La Famiglia by Sienna Mynx

    La Famiglia by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Never question my heart, my courage, my loyalty! To my men and to this family I am all things. But to my wife I am only one. Husband." - Don Giovanni Battaglia. The year is 1992. The Battaglia family awaits the birth of the newest members to their clan. Twin boys will be born to the capo di tutti capi of the Neapolitan clans...
  • Ashes by Aleatha Romig

    Ashes by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire...” ~ Robert Frost Patrick has awakened a fire I forgot existed...
  • Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe

    Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can she accept an offer of help from a patient she’s attracted to?Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again...
  • Quintessentially Q by Pepper Winters

    Quintessentially Q by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    “All my life, I battled with the knowledge I was twisted… screwed up to want something so deliciously dark—wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight entered my world. Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence where two wrongs do make a right."Tess is Q’s completely. Q is Tess’s irrevocably...
  • Target on Our Backs by J.M. Darhower

    Target on Our Backs by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The best way to keep your word is never to give it. Not long ago, in a chapel in Vegas, I swore to love Karissa for the rest of my days. But nobody's promised an infinite number of tomorrows. Nobody's promised forever. Sometimes, all we have left is today. Carpe Diem. Seize the day. It should've been over, we should've been happy, but people are making it hard for me to live in peace...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  captivity  crime  dark  drama  family  forbidden-love
  • Reeve by Jessica Gadziala

    Reeve by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Reeve I had long since given up hope of the pursuit of genuine happiness. It wasn’t possible after all the sh*t I had been through. I had my siblings, my club, a purpose in life. It was enough. Until I came across her. She represented everything that I knew I couldn’t have - stability, a future, a way out of my past...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  drama  family  friends-to-lovers  sad  slow-burn
  • Price of Angels by Lauren Gilley

    Price of Angels by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book II in the Dartmoor Series. Holly Jessup came to Knoxville in search of the Lean Dogs MC, hoping to find a killer among them. She’s spent four months cozying up to Sgt. at Arms Michael, and it’s time to make her move. Michael McCall isn’t in the habit of accepting contract hits, but Holly isn’t the kind of girl who chases after Dogs...
  • Sufferance by K.E. Osborn

    Sufferance by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    We were destined. But time and fate are not on our side. My president—her blood brother. My patch—so close I can taste it. Yet, I have to choose. Is there really a choice? My club or the girl. This woman shines brightly. She's adored, worshiped, and cherished by everyone, not only me. I'm just the unlucky prospect who fell for her. But we're complicated...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  family  organized-crime  sad  suspense
  • Forbidden to Love: A Stand-alone Dark Mafia Second Chance Forbidden Romance by Siobhan Davis, Regina Wamba

    Forbidden to Love: A Stand-alone Dark Mafia Second Chance Forbidden Romance by Siobhan Davis, Regina Wamba

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A new stand-alone dark mafia romance from USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Siobhan Davis.Natalia Mazzone has grown up knowing she is promised to a made man. As the only daughter of one of New York’s most powerful mafia dons, she knows she can’t refuse. It’s her duty, and she would never dishonor her beloved father.But the man she’s promised to is a monster...
  • Mafiosa by Catherine Doyle

    Mafiosa by Catherine Doyle

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A blood war rages on the streets of Chicago. Protected by an infamous Mafia family, Sophie is living a dangerous lie...
  • Love's Cruel Redemption by C.L. Stone

    Love's Cruel Redemption by C.L. Stone

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From USA TODAY Bestselling Author, C. L. Stone, read Love's Cruel Redemption, the much-anticipated twelfth book in The Academy Ghost Bird Series.Sang’s life was on pause after the dramatic break with her real family. Now she’s back in the game, returning to Ashley Waters to appear like a normal student. However, returning to school hasn’t made her life any easier...
  • Rewrite the Stars by Charleigh Rose

    Rewrite the Stars by Charleigh Rose

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Evangeline Thorne is privileged. Beautiful and popular, if not a little jaded. A chance encounter with a green-eyed stuntman sets off a chain of events that turns her perfect, little world upside down. Short on options and desperate for adventure, she joins the traveling carnival for the summer...
  • The Truth About Us by Aly Martinez

    The Truth About Us by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Truth: Penn Walker entered my life like a summer storm—dark, ominous, and filled with thunder. After witnessing my husband’s murder, I didn’t have much of a heart left to offer a man. But Penn took it all. Every jagged shard. Every broken bit.Even the dirty and twisted pieces that I wish never existed. Lie: I didn’t need him to save me.Lie: I knew exactly who he was...
  • Shattered by J.L. Drake

    Shattered by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After witnessing the murder of her lover and the heartbreaking loss of their unborn child, Savannah wants to end it all. Then she is given a second chance at love. Sadly, even when life hands you second chances it doesn’t always follow that things will work out the way you want them to. Some lies can just be too painful to move on from. What’s worse than being Broken? Shattered.
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    alpha-mc  angst  captivity  crime  dark  drama  family  kidnapping
  • Property of Drex #2 by C.M. Owens

    Property of Drex #2 by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    *This is the conclusion of Drex and Eve's story, but there will be other books in the series featuring other couples.*What’so the most selfless thing you’ve ever done? What price tag would you put on the ability to save the ones you love?They say the worst decisions are made by the desperate or the fools. I was desperate enough to make a foolish decision to save my family. The cost? Me...
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    alpha-mc  angst  captivity  crime  dark  drama  family  forbidden-love
  • Wire by LP Lovell, Stevie J Cole

    Wire by LP Lovell, Stevie J Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tor Jude and I managed to salvage something beautiful from the war torn rubble of our lives, a blissful happiness that we paid for in blood. We fought our way here, leaving pieces of ourselves along the way. I thought this was the happily ever after in our twisted fairy tale, but I was wrong. Jude I may be free by definition...
  • Redemption by J.M. Darhower

    Redemption by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In this thrilling and sexy follow-up to Sempre, two young lovers struggle to keep their relationship intact after they become deeply enmeshed in the dangerous mafia-run crime ring they once tried to overthrow.Haven Antonelli and Carmine DeMarco have been through a lot. Haven was taken in by Carmine’s father, and with his family’s help, she escaped a gruesome fate...
  • Nolan by Jane Henry

    Nolan by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s my nemesis.My prisoner.I‘ll make her beg for mercy.I’ll make her scream my name.I’ll make her mine.Sheena Hurston’s been a thorn in my side for years.But when she tries to bring my family to ruin, I’m done playing games.She will pay for what she’s done.No one comes before my family.Sheena belongs to me...
  • Blood & Rust by Cat Porter

    Blood & Rust by Cat Porter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The bad boy. The fuck up. The thief. That was me. Once a king, Now a wanderer. I'd thrown the best parts of me away, over and over again. I was reckless. Still am. I'd been exiled. Twice. I did my time. I've cleaned up. Well, sort of. I got plans. Yeah, good ones. Then I ran into her. A bolt of lightning Startling Unsettling Breathtaking Out of reach...
  • The Woman in the Back Room by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman in the Back Room by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He hadn’t planned on being a part of the Family.Life had thrown a curve at him at a young age that made him reevaluate his path in life.And he chose out.But when tragedy strikes, awakening the need for revenge, he finds himself wanting back in. To the Family. The life. The people.Including a woman he never could have seen coming, one he never would have thought he’d want in his life...
  • Pure White Rose by Fawn Bailey

    Pure White Rose by Fawn Bailey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "I will punish you for every step you take away from me." She's finally mine, but she won't admit it. My little rose thinks she can still run away from me. She should know better by now. I'm ready to do whatever it takes to stop her from getting away. Hurt her. She'll have the bruises to show for it. F*ck her. Until she never wants another man. Punish her...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  captivity  crime  dark  kidnapping  slavery  suspense
  • Maddox by Megan O'Brien

    Maddox by Megan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve never known what it’s like to have a dream that’s really mine. To live a life without fear. Being the niece of the most ruthless mob boss in Las Vegas has made any sort of freedom impossible. Francesca Rossi has spent much of her life balancing the weight of running the family bakery with avoiding her uncle’s life of violence and corruption...
  • Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones

    Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The next heart-racing Lilah Love story is coming. This installment to Lilah's series is a standalone. Women are dying. The killer wants to play a game with Lilah Love. Lilah doesn't play games, she doesn't submit to demands...
  • This is Who I Am by Cherise Sinclair

    This is Who I Am by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When trying to save a woman from slavers, Master Sam screwed up. Royally. Now Linda wants nothing to do with him. Or with BDSM. She won’t even admit she’s a masochist. As a dominant and sadist, he can give her what she needs, and when an opportunity arises, he slips into her life, intending to make amends...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  drama  family  kidnapping  slavery
  • Murder Girl by Lisa Renee Jones

    Murder Girl by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones returns with the second book in her electrifying series featuring Lilah Love, an FBI profiler who doesn’t fight her dark side—she embraces it.It’s Lilah Love’s job to inhabit a killer’s mind. The unapologetically tough FBI profiler is very comfortable there. But her latest case is making her head spin...
  • Where the Snow Falls by London Miller, Bethany-Kris

    Where the Snow Falls by London Miller, Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Blood always leaves the brightest stains where the snow falls. Fresh out of lockup, Kazimir Markovic is focused on two things only—having Violet Gallucci back at his side, and putting his father in the ground. With his plans already in motion the very second he’s free, Kaz goes after what’s most important. Violet first. Vasily second. The Russians are out for blood...
  • Where the Wind Whispers by Bethany-Kris, London Miller

    Where the Wind Whispers by Bethany-Kris, London Miller

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There is death where the wind whispers. Left for dead by his own father on a snowy sidewalk, Kazimir Markovic finally understands what true betrayal really means, and just how far one will go to keep a secret. He only needs to survive, to make it home alive to his wife, and then everyone else will know what it means, too...
  • Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    * You do not need to read the OG Henchmen to read this new series *Joining the MC had never been a question.Raised by an ex-cage-fighting member, Niro hadn’t seen any future for himself that didn’t involve bikes, guns, violence, and the brotherhood he’d learned to revere above all else. But joining the Henchmen meant he couldn’t have the only other thing in life he wanted.Andi...
  • Sergio: a Dark Mafia Romance by Natasha Knight

    Sergio: a Dark Mafia Romance by Natasha Knight

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m the first-born son of the mafia king. The favorite. Destined to rule, I’m a dangerous man, a ruthless one. But in my world, you have to be. Then Natalie stumbles into my life. Wrong place. Wrong time. Twice, fate put her in my path. Twice, fate placed the innocent lamb at the mercy of the monster. I gave her a chance to walk away. Told her it would be better for her if she did...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  drama  family  forbidden-love  kidnapping
  • Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter

    Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The mayhem continues for the Knight's Legion MC…Storm. My protector. I need his darkness, like he needs my light. After surviving an abusive relationship, I swore off men. Until the President of the Knight’s Legion MC crashes into my life, holding me captive with his haunted gray eyes. Storm is a force to be reckoned with and I welcome the chaos— it makes me feel alive. He owns me. Body and soul...
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