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  • Even When I'm Gone by Nicole Fiorina

    Even When I'm Gone by Nicole Fiorina

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The second book in a heart-consuming series. Ollie. Forget everything you thought you knew. Hell, I don't even know myself anymore. For seven months I've been gone only to come back to be tested in every way possible. They say keep your enemies close, and my demons welcomed me back with open arms. My downfall is a necessary evil. But Mia is my endgame. Mia...
  • Cyclone by Janie Crouch

    Cyclone by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He’d protect her from any threat… But what if the biggest threat is him?   Doctor Anne Nichols is back in Oak Creek, Wyoming, only because she has no other options. Here, she was always the shy, stuttering girl, invisible to everyone.   Except Zac Mackay. The very reason she left in the first place...
  • Where the Blame Lies by Mia Sheridan

    Where the Blame Lies by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Abducted. Terrorized. Imprisoned. At nineteen-years-old, college student Josie Stratton was kidnapped by a madman and held shackled for ten months in an abandoned warehouse before she finally escaped her hellish prison...
  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The truth is out there...The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • 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:
    amnesia  dark  suspense  adult  age-gap  audiobook  billionaire  book
  • Payback Princess by C.M. Stunich

    Payback Princess by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finding out you’re the daughter of a famous serial killer isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.My father—the Seattle Slayer—is charismatic, intelligent, and charming.He’s also trying to teach me to kill people, so … his good qualities don’t seem to matter much.He’s kidnapped my boyfriend, a guy that I used to hate but grew to love.Parrish, I’m coming for you. I’ll do anything—anything—to keep you safe...
  • Identical by Ellen Hopkins

    Identical by Ellen Hopkins

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for US Congress. Everything on the surface seems fine, but underneath run very deep and damaging secrets. When the girls were 9, Daddy started to turn to his beloved Kaeleigh in ways a father never should and has been sexually abusing her for years...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  suspense  abuse  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  anti-hero
  • Almost Broken by Portia Moore

    Almost Broken by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lauren Brooks fell in love with Cal Scott at 21, married him at 22 and had her heart broken at 23 when he walked out of their marriage. At 25, though raising his daughter on her own, Lauren was finally moving on with her life. Until, she learned the reason for Cal's abandonment, the walls she’d carefully built around her collapsed.
  • On the Edge by C.D. Reiss

    On the Edge by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    You've never experienced a romance like The Edge."In Iraq, I promised you a bed of rose petals." He grabbed my hand under the table, tightening his grip as if he were falling from a precipice and our connection was the only thing saving him from certain death. "They were beautiful.""You smell like apples. Roses were wrong...
  • Beautifully Broken by Portia Moore

    Beautifully Broken by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The conclusion to the If I Break Series. Cal’s back and his arrival changes everything. Lauren knew it was coming but what she didn’t think he’d bring with him was an ultimatum. A choice. One that Lauren feels trapped under. A choice she’s unsure will make a difference but could possibly change everything. The ultimatum isn’t the only thing Cal’s got with him but answers...
  • Loving Dark Men by J.A. Huss

    Loving Dark Men by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A man lures a woman into the woods.Another ruins the life of his best friend.And yet another strings them along like puppets.Dark men.They are intriguing, and charming, and powerful.They are changing the world.They are changing themselves.They are playing with lust, and love, and fear, and loathing.Addicted to each other, to their secret, to the seduction, to the sex.It’s a crash in the making...
  • Pitch Dark by A.M. Wilson, Alex Grayson

    Pitch Dark by A.M. Wilson, Alex Grayson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One girl disappeared. After fifteen years, her cold lifeless body was found on the damp forest floor. Not an inch of her was unmarked by the horrors she endured. Alone, malnourished, abused in horrific ways; this was how she died. One girl was found walking the streets, covered in dirt and scars. She had no memory of who she was, where she came from, or what happened to her...
    Categorized as:
    amnesia  angst  dark  suspense  abuse  adult  age-gap  book
  • 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...
  • Reckless Whisper by Barbara Freethy

    Reckless Whisper by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Bree Adams has a personal secret, something she has managed to keep hidden for the past ten years-at least she always thought so… But a chance encounter on a train, and whispered words of chilling consequence change everything. Is the truth about to come out or is someone playing with her mind and her life? Nathan Bishop knew Bree when she was a street kid like him...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    angst  cheating  dark  domestic-drama  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

    You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0446616893 / 9780446616898 is located here Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her patients' privacy at all costs...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Somebody's Angel by Kallypso Masters

    Somebody's Angel by Kallypso Masters

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Marc d’Alessio first rescued the curvaceous and spirited Italian Angelina Giardano at the Masters at Arms Club, he never expected her to turn his safe, controlled life upside down and pull at his long-broken heartstrings. Months later, the intense fire of their attraction still rages, but something holds him back from committing to her completely...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  bdsm
  • Behind His Eyes - Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Behind His Eyes - Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the much-anticipated first companion to the suspenseful thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  suspense  abuse  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  anti-hero
  • 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’...
  • 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...
  • All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a violent storm hits Graveyard Falls, it unearths the unimaginable: skeletons of teenage girls, each dressed in white and holding a candle. It’s clear to FBI agent Beth Fields that this is the work of a long-standing killer—but could it be the one she escaped years ago? She has no memory of the man who held her captive and murdered her friend...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc
  • Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

    Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fear becomes a woman’s greatest weapon in a heart-pounding novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Little Killers. Tinsley Jensen survived the torturous clutches of an elusive masked killer dubbed the Skull, only to be held hostage by her nightmares. She’s terrified of leaving her cottage on Seahawk Island, knowing that the madman is still out there...
  • Gone by Elisabeth Naughton

    Gone by Elisabeth Naughton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Three years ago, Alec and Raegan McClane lived every parent’s worst nightmare: their one-year-old daughter, Emma, was abducted from a park when Alec turned his back for just a moment. Emma was never found, and presumed dead. The crushing trauma, plus Alec’s unbearable guilt, ended the couple’s marriage. Now a four-year-old girl matching Emma’s profile is found wandering a local park...
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    dark  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • If We Disappear Here by Mindy Hayes

    If We Disappear Here by Mindy Hayes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They are marionettes under a concrete sky.Pain shoots through Maeve Campbell’s body when she wakes cold and disoriented, locked in a neglected cement room.Her drowsy eyes sweep the cell and land on a masculine, limp body across the room. Gripping his shoulder, she rolls him to his back, face angling toward her. Only it’s not who she thinks.It’s not her husband.And they aren’t alone...
  • 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...
  • When Sinners Play by Eva Ashwood

    When Sinners Play by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sin isn’t supposed to feel this good. I never wanted to come here.The scholarship to Hawthorne University is my ticket to a better life,but I don’t fit in with these rich, privileged students.I’m the daughter of a drug addict.A girl with a half-remembered past.A foster kid who’s seen too much of the wrong side of humanity.My tattoos are my battle scars, and my heart beats for no one...
    Categorized as:
    amnesia  dark  suspense  abuse  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • In Her Father's Shadow by Quinn Avery

    In Her Father's Shadow by Quinn Avery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sienna Rivers’s aspirations for a normal childhood came crashing down the night they discovered her father was a serial killer. Once her mother’s illusion of a perfect family is destroyed, Sienna is sent to live with the only other “family” she knows...
  • A Vivacious Little Valentine by Meredith O' Reilly

    A Vivacious Little Valentine by Meredith O' Reilly

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Always on the outside looking in.At least, that's how Quinn Barkley feels, living and working at Rawhide Ranch, surrounded by men and women who have found their perfect match.Then Ryder Moore shows up, and for the first time in years, Quinn finds herself believing she can have everything she's ever dreamed of. The sweet, loving Daddy her heart needs..
  • 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...
  • Beecher by Esther E. Schmidt

    Beecher by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's a legend amongst members of the Wicked Throttle MC. Something that's rooted deep into their DNA. Once a soul finds its other half, there is no going back. Only one option; love and claim at first sight...
  • Breakdown by Jack L. Pyke

    Breakdown by Jack L. Pyke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Who’s been whispering to you, Jack?” ~ Doctor Halliday Jack Harrison has the evidence there in his hands—the DVD and notepad off D.C. Sanders that proves Gray supposedly played a part in tearing him and Jan brutally apart...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  suspense  abuse  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • 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…...
    Categorized as:
    amnesia  angst  cheating  dark  domestic-drama  suspense  abuse  adult
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    angst  cheating  dark  domestic-drama  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • Envy by Sandra Brown

    Envy by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed knows a best seller when she sees one - even if it is just a tantalizing partial manuscript submitted by a writer identified only as P.M.E., with the return address of an obscure island off the Georgia coast. Maris is intrigued enough to search for him...
  • Crazy In Love (Secrets of Suburbia) by Ivy Smoak

    Crazy In Love (Secrets of Suburbia) by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Mistletoe and holly and lights all aglow. It’s my favorite time of year. Until my husband had to go and ruin it.Christmas is officially canceled at my house now that I’ve kidnapped my husband and locked him in the basement. And not even Santa can get me out of this mess.I know what you’re thinking. That I’m crazy. But I swear I’m not...
  • Corpse Roads by J. Rose

    Corpse Roads by J. Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In therapy, they tell you to use your senses.List the things you know. Sermons recited with malice. A blood-soaked ritual. The sting of tears and gasping sobs of the dying. Rotting flesh. I grew up in a cage, tortured by the Lord Almighty's most twisted servant. Death and despair became my close companions as I watched years of slaughter at Pastor Michaels’ hand. Eighteen girls. Dead...
    Categorized as:
    amnesia  angst  dark  suspense  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Bells by K.G. Reuss

    Bells by K.G. Reuss

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Before I found a love I was willing to die for, I had to survive one I had to kill for.Chapel Crest wasn’t a place of solace. It was made for suffering.I would know.I’d been locked inside ever since my mother tossed me away like I didn't matter.In my suffering though, I found her.Isabella.The girl who made me believe I mattered.The girl I gave everything to.The girl I loved...
  • Wishing Well by Lily White

    Wishing Well by Lily White

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The perfect timing of a fairy tale is tied to its tragedy…Journalist, Meadow Graham, is invited to interview death row inmate, Vincent Mercier. Given three days to hear his sordid confession, Meadow seeks to learn why a wealthy hotel owner killed four people, including her twin sister...
  • Diamonds in the Rough: A Diamond Magnate Novel by Charmaine Pauls

    Diamonds in the Rough: A Diamond Magnate Novel by Charmaine Pauls

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A DARK MAFIA ROMANCEGirls like me, we know how to survive.We each have our own little ways, but we acquire those skills at the same tender age.If you ask me how many times a person can die, I’ll tell you many times. As many times as a man stabs you in the stomach with betrayal and wrings out your heart with lies.Girls like me, we live.We don’t get a choice.We step over the cliff and fall...
  • Darkness Lurks by J.L. Drake

    Darkness Lurks by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily McPhee has struggled to overcome her father’s death... It’s not easy, but Emily finally has the life she wants. She’s an A student at Orange University and has a comfortable home and a great circle of friends. She’s also in love with handsome Orange PD officer Seth Connors. He doesn’t seem to return her feelings, though, so she tells herself his friendship is enough...
  • Memories of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

    Memories of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The girl I met when we were nine is now the woman who said “yes” to being my wife.But Josie’s not planning our wedding; she’s too consumed by things that happened over a century ago.She has terrible dreams and unrelenting visions of the unspeakable. I believe her, but I don’t understand her.If I can’t understand her, I can’t stop her.If I can’t stop her, I can’t save us...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  betrayal  book  contemporary
  • When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair—and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred...
  • Mean Streak by Sandra Brown

    Mean Streak by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, "Does the end justify the means?" and turns it on its head.Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina...
  • Backlash by Jack L. Pyke

    Backlash by Jack L. Pyke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Novel (126,000 words)Genres: Thriller, Gay, Romance, BDSMIn the aftermath of Jack Harrison’s release from the psychiatric unit, Gray Raoul’s first instinct is to take brutal revenge on the one responsible for financing Jack’s and Jan’s torturous psychological reconditioning. However, that person is a plays the game dangerously well, knows exactly how to manipulate everyone in Gray’s life...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  suspense  abuse  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • This is me... by Sarah Ann Walker

    This is me... by Sarah Ann Walker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The tragic conclusion to 'I am HER...' Finally... She has a name. She has a past and she has a history. She knows who she is. And she knows who she wanted to be. She knows the way to all she ever wanted, but she knows she can't change the past that destroyed her. "I swear I'm here, but I'm not. I swear I can feel, but I don't. I swear I hear people, but I'm all alone...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  female-author  fiction
  • Savage Love: A Dark Romance by Jane Henry

    Savage Love: A Dark Romance by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Jane Henry concludes the Savage Island duet with a fast-paced, high-stakes novel of survival, suspense, and heart-breaking passion. The island took everything from me. It won't take her. They created a monster. A savage. They're about to see exactly what that means. Because Harper Lake is mine...
  • Battle Tested by Janie Crouch

    Battle Tested by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Someone WAS always watching her…   Everywhere she went, Rosalyn Mellinger had eyes on her. The Watcher followed her everywhere. It seemed hopeless, inescapable…especially when she met Steve Drackett on vacation. Another person to be hurt by her stalker. But Rosalyn didn't know Steve was part of Omega Sector—there was literally no one better to protect her, if she'd just open up to him...
  • The Bright and Hungry Future of Hawks by John Wiltshire

    The Bright and Hungry Future of Hawks by John Wiltshire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The FINAL book in the addictive, best-selling "More Heat Than The Sun" M/M Thriller seriesBen and Nikolas know that if they were to compare recollections of their life together, they’d remember things very differently. Ben never asks about their time together in the Department, because he doesn’t want to hear Nikolas lie...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  dark  angst  romance  mlm  contemporary  military  crime
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