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  • Desire in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Desire in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bones is a man I despise.He gives Bad Blood a whole new definition.But he's not exactly what I thought he was. Maybe men can change.But it doesn't matter how I feel about him.My father would never approve. He'd never let me love a man like him...
  • 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...
  • Ruined Castles by Amo Jones

    Ruined Castles by Amo Jones

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nothing is going to make sense once you flip open this first chapter. You’re going to wonder why the fuck I made the decisions I did. Why he did what he did. I’m not going to make this easy for you. I’m going to guide you through loops that you’re going to wish I had just skipped, but I’m not going to do that either. You’re going to feel my pain, my loss, and my heart breaking in my chest...
  • Lies by Aleatha Romig

    Lies by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The twisted and intriguing storytelling that you loved in Consequences and Infidelity continues with an all-new alpha anti-hero in the dark romance series Web of Sin, by New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig. I am... That’s no longer an easy statement...
  • Sinning Like Hell by Trilina Pucci

    Sinning Like Hell by Trilina Pucci

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    USA TODAY bestselling author, Trilina Pucci brings you the finale of Sutton and Calder’s heart wrenching love story. We’ll never run away.There won’t be stars or a blue sky filled with heaven staring down on us.All we have is death and destruction.A life sentence, forced to survive within the absence of our love.Until five years later...
  • The Dictator by Penelope Sky

    The Dictator by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The only reason I'm still alive is because of the baby growing inside me. My baby saved my life. Now I'm a prisoner inside Cato's fortress. He's pissed at me, livid every time he looks at me. He refuses to sleep with me because now I'm the enemy. But I miss him...and he misses me. I only slept with Cato to save my father, but now he means something to me...
  • Vengeful Devilette by Kylie Kent

    Vengeful Devilette by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Izzy It’s funny how the things we most desire are usually the same things we’re meant to avoid. Just like Eve’s temptation with that damned apple, Mikhail Petrov is the one person I can’t seem to resist. Even though our union incites war in the streets of New York, causing more bloodshed than the city’s seen in a long time...
  • Remorseless Devilette by Kylie Kent

    Remorseless Devilette by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Izzy Sugar, spice, and everything nice. That’s what little girls are made of. Unless that little girl is me. Mafia royalty, the heir to the Donatello Family. I was eight years old when I made my first kill. My own blood, my sperm donor. That was the day I discovered I liked it. Killing. Hunting. Chasing. Winning . This latest contract is no different. Mikhail Petrov. He’s already a ghost...
  • 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...
  • Wicked Knight #1 (Knight's Ridge Empire) by Tracy Lorraine

    Wicked Knight #1 (Knight's Ridge Empire) by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance series.The truth is meant to set you free… but not my truth.Mine has sent me deeper and darker, feeding my need for revenge. I want blood for those who wronged me and my family. And my so-called truth is ripping me apart, in a way lies never could...
  • Tangled Innocence by Nicole Fox

    Tangled Innocence by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “What do you mean, ‘You gave me the wrong sperm sample’?!”But the doctor says he isn’t joking.Instead of being my sister's surrogate...I'm accidentally carrying my boss's baby.A few months ago, I agreed to be my sister's surrogate.Then she died in an unsolved accident.I swore I'd keep her child and raise it on my own.But as it turns out, there was a mix-up at the clinic...
  • Deception by Aleatha Romig

    Deception by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Infidelity - it isn't what you think" It all began in Del Mar, a chance meeting with a single rule--one week only. Or did it? Lennox ‘Nox’ Demetri and Alexandria ‘Charli’ Collins had every intention of following their agreement but rules are made to be broken. In CUNNING they are reunited with Nox setting down new rules for the game and Charli having no choice but to follow them...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  crime  dark  epic  family
  • Forbidden Crown by Jagger Cole

    Forbidden Crown by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I did a bad thing. I kissed my professor, and I liked it.A lot.Bastian Pierce is twice my age. Sinfully gorgeous. Notoriously wild.He’s temptation wrapped in leather, tattoos, and Savile Row linen. And he knows it.The problem is, so do I.Firsthand.In my defense, it was before I knew he was my professor.Before I knew the devil’s deal he’d made with my family.Consider this my confession...
  • Submitting in Vegas by Sam Mariano

    Submitting in Vegas by Sam Mariano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Over the years, I’ve watched Rafe Morelli charm every kind of beautiful woman out of her panties. Most of them are practical enough to hold onto their hearts, though; he doesn’t want those. I am the only woman around who has managed to keep her panties out of Rafe’s hands, but not her heart...
  • Empire of Ash by Jagger Cole

    Empire of Ash by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you come after a king, don’t miss.Every story has a villain.I’m hers.The monster under her bed. The shadow haunting her dreams and darkest fantasies.The man who’s bound her to him through marriage and sin.But with every punishing kiss that I steal from those lips, the deeper we fall.And as the secrets of our entwined past unravel, the more dangerous this game of ours becomes...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  billionaire  blackmail  crime  cruel-mc  dark
  • The War by S.R. Jones

    The War by S.R. Jones

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Konstantin:I took her to protect her. To keep her safe.Now she wants more.She wants to claim my heart.She says she will fight for me, for us.Trouble is, I don’t know if I have anything left to give.Cassie:He took me to keep me safe.My captor, my protector, my lover.I want more. He’s a Bratva king, and every king needs his queen.My heart is on the line, but I won’t give up the fight...
  • Reckless Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world.The moment I discovered the dark truth, it descended on my life and threatened to swallow me whole.It tore at my soul, piece by piece. But I refused to go down alone...
  • Family Ties by Sam Mariano

    Family Ties by Sam Mariano

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Francesca Morelli.Sweet as sin, like the cupcakes she slings at the Morelli bakery. Her sweetness and killer looks are what reeled me in, but her unexpected vulnerability really sealed my fate. I don't care if there’s a war brewing between our families. I don’t care if I have to go through her evil dictator of a brother...
  • Saving Hailey: by I.A. Dice

    Saving Hailey: by I.A. Dice

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HAILEYOne man. Two names. Two personalities.One captivates, the other terrifies.Under the pretense of love, he used me, searching for secrets I didn't know I had. Cuddles, kisses, and whispered sweet nothings lulled me into a false sense of security that shattered with a single flashback.Running from the threat I now know he is, I fall straight into a nightmare..
  • It Kills Me by Penelope Sky

    It Kills Me by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My father has chosen me to succeed him in the family business.But if I want the job, it comes with stipulations. And one of those stipulations is to never mix business with pleasure. AKA, don't sleep with anyone on the job. My father leads by example, and not once have I ever seen him get involved with anyone, not even his beautiful assistant. That was an easy rule to follow...until Axel...
  • 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...
  • Accidental Evils by Susan Fanetti

    Accidental Evils by Susan Fanetti

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As an enforcer for the Pagano Brothers, Tony Cioccolanti’s life is steeped in violence. For the most part, he feels no burden on his soul for the blood he spills or the pain he inflicts. He is a soldier, and blood and pain are the wages of war. Yet one terrible mistake haunts him, in his dreams and in his waking hours...
  • The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier

    The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HIS LADYA Lord is to marry after he graduates from Barrington University, an elite college for the rich. A Lady’s job is to help him fit into a world unaware of his secret society. The Lord does not get to choose who he spends the rest of his life with. But there is always an exception to the rule. And I just so happen to be his.I VOW. YOU VOW. WE VOW.I was to wed a Lord of my parents’ choosing...
  • High Class by Ivy Nelson

    High Class by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I went home to answer for the death of my cousin.Then I meet Zara. A raven haired beauty with a killer smile.Turns out she's an escort and she was sent to be a distraction.Now the mayor of New York City is dead.I'm forced to take her back to Las Vegas to find out what she knows before the police try to pin it on me. My gut says Zara is innocent in all of this...
  • Fourth a Lie by Pepper Winters

    Fourth a Lie by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “There was a truth once. Truth we shared in the dark and scribed scars upon our hearts.There was a lie once. A lie that shattered our hard-earned truth apart.”Eleanor Grace did the unbelievable. She fell for a man who trades in women, dabbles in myth, and has the morals of a cold-hearted beast. However, love isn’t enough where past sins are concerned, and only pain can follow...
  • Diamond Angel by Naomi West

    Diamond Angel by Naomi West

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Five years ago, I ran from the devil who got me pregnant.I have a son now. A boy I’d do anything to protect.But I left behind the sister I loved more than life itself.So when Ilarion Zakharov finds me again, I have an impossible choice to Do I go back with him to the world I left behind?Or do I leave my sister to drown in the mess I caused?Ilarion doesn’t make choosing easy...
  • Brutal Bloodline by M'Renee Allen

    Brutal Bloodline by M'Renee Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A life for a life. That was the code they lived by. After their Don was gunned down, things changed. This was no longer a life for a life situation. A coward had tried to make a name for himself by taking on their family. It was time for the DeLucas to show their enemies just how brutally savage their bloodline could be...
  • The Closer by K.C. Crowne

    The Closer by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I never saw her coming…She appeared in my world an enigma.A lethal assassin who slips poison into the veins of her targets.And a single mother with a softness beneath her armor. Now, she's trapped within my reach.Stubbornly silent, she guards her secrets fiercely,Her dual life is a puzzle I'm determined to solve...
  • Violent Triumphs by Jessica Hawkins

    Violent Triumphs by Jessica Hawkins

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The highly anticipated conclusion to the “emotional, steamy, and dangerous” USA Today bestselling White Monarch series. I’ve become a queen to the forsaken, a leader to thieves, and the wife of a man who instills fear in all who cross his path. He was the husband I didn’t want. Now, I can’t fathom life without my king. I should’ve been ready for anything...
  • The Woman on the Exam Table by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman on the Exam Table by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was not the kind of man meant to fall in love.He was the proud enforcer of the Costa Family who perhaps enjoyed the violent, bloody parts of his job a bit too much.All that changed, though, when he was put on a job that had him crossing paths with a woman who changed everything.She was not the kind of woman to have hope.The life she found herself trapped in had very little to look forward to...
  • The Enemy by Amelia Shea

    The Enemy by Amelia Shea

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Resident bad girl, Phoebe Shaw is back after her six-month hiatus from Ghosttown. After a year of heartache, financial strain, and an assault charge, she’s ready to put the past behind her and set her sights on a fresh start...
  • Predator & Prey: The Phoenix and The Fire by Kate Stewart

    Predator & Prey: The Phoenix and The Fire by Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was drawn to darkness, and he was the abyss.Safe.It’s a liar’s word. No one is ever truly safe.Control is how I survived.I lived my life by two principles: order and excellence. My moral compass steered me out of the backwoods of Tennessee and towards the woman I was destined to become, but not without gathering a few skeletons along the way...
  • Captured by a Sinner by Michelle Heard

    Captured by a Sinner by Michelle Heard

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    After the Priesthood wipes out my family, I find myself kidnapped and held prisoner by the head of the Bratva – a man who’s as charming as he is terrifying.My days are filled with chaotic emotions and fear, and with time, I realize Viktor Vetrov wants more than just my obedience.He wants all of me, but I refuse to fall for his filthy promises of ecstasy...
  • The Woman at the Docks by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman at the Docks by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You didn’t have to be in the criminal underbelly to understand one fundamental rule: You don’t mess with the mafia...
  • The Gift by S.R. Jones

    The Gift by S.R. Jones

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Keep your friends close, and your enemies in your bed...ANDRIUSI’m the man they all fear. King of the murky world in which I live.A Bratva hitman with no mercy.Then she comes along, courtesy of a mob boss with no morals. She’s given to me.A gift...mine.To own, to keep. To do with as I please.With blonde hair, and violet eyes, and an innocence begging to be tarnished, she torments me...
  • Nathan Wolfe by Sandi Lynn

    Nathan Wolfe by Sandi Lynn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I had the perfect life jetting around the world doing a job I loved and meeting a variety of beautiful women. Women who would do anything for one night with me. I had a gift. The gift of charm and good looks. I could charm the panties off women just by staring into their eyes. I always got what I wanted with no effort. I wasn’t a committed type of man with women...
  • 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...
  • Sworn by Maria Luís

    Sworn by Maria Luís

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I bow to no man. The words are tattooed on my skin, just as they’re branded on my heart. But I never planned for Sergeant Lincoln Asher, a man as deceptive as he is cold. His dominance sets my teeth on edge . . . and my body on fire. He won’t stop until I’m his, but I’m not his to take. My secrets bind me—and blind me. I live in the shadows of New Orleans...
  • Third a Kiss by Pepper Winters

    Third a Kiss by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters, brings a new Dark Romance Series to life. This is the third book in GODDESS ISLES. “There was hate once. Hate born from dangerous attraction and fate’s cruel design. There was love once. Love destined to kill us if we didn’t surrender to our war.” Full blurb and cover to come...
  • The Tyrant by Penelope Sky

    The Tyrant by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I've fallen in love with Cato, and I'm not afraid to say it.He doesn't need to say it back. I know how he feels.Even if he doesn't have the balls to admit it.Our daughter will be here soon, and our lives will change forever...
  • Black Skies Riviera by Catherine Wiltcher

    Black Skies Riviera by Catherine Wiltcher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From International Bestselling and Amazon All-Star author Catherine Wiltcher comes a new mafia standalone romance.She’s a debt no sinner can pay… They call this place the Billionaires' Playground.
I, Aiden Knight, staked my claim the minute I arrived.Now my casino is the hottest church in town,
And vice is the only confession required.
Issa Dubova is the queen of cloudy diamonds. An innocent...
  • Never Look Back by A.L. Jackson

    Never Look Back by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From NYT and USA Today bestselling author A.L. Jackson comes an enemies-to-lovers, small-town, second-chance romance… Logan Lawson won me in a bet.The second I saw him sitting at the illegal card table, I knew I was in trouble. Years ago, he sealed my fate and condemned me to a life I didn’t want to lead. Yet he’s filled with untamed fury and thirsting for vengeance...
  • Immaculate Corruption by Nicole Fox

    Immaculate Corruption by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE TRUTH WILL SET ME FREE—UNLESS HE KILLS ME FIRST.Dima Romanoff knows everything now.All my sins.All my scars.All the skeletons in my closet.The only thing I have left is our baby in my arms…And one last shot at freedom.But Dima is coming for me.I can’t run fast enough or far enough.And when he catches up to us…He’ll take everything I have to give...
  • Sweet Mercy by Nina West

    Sweet Mercy by Nina West

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One visit to my father in prison—convicted for a murder he didn’t commit—and I’ve attracted the attention of the last man I’d ever want knowing that I exist. Gabriel Easton. Son of an infamous crime boss. Pretentious liar. Merciless womanizer. A scoundrel to the core. Worse, he has figured out how desperate I am to protect my father from brutality behind bars...
  • Reign of a King by Rina Kent

    Reign of a King by Rina Kent

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Nothing is fair in war. Jonathan King is every bit his last name.Powerful.Untouchable.Corrupted.He’s also my dead sister’s husband and way older than me.When I first met him as a clueless child, I thought he was a god.Now, I have to confront that god to protect my business from his ruthless grip.Little did I know that declaring a war on the king will cost me everything...
  • Into the Blackness by Norma Jeanne Karlsson

    Into the Blackness by Norma Jeanne Karlsson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cease being everything you’re trained to be in order to find who you’re meant to be…with. Nick Cooper is many things in life. He’s a vicious enforcer for a crime family. He’s a monster that tortures with a smirk tattooed on his lips. He’s an olive-skinned god, mysterious and captivating. He’s the best undercover field agent in the Domestic Crime Agency. He’s my partner for the next year...
  • Tangled Promise by Ella Miles

    Tangled Promise by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I can’t keep my promises. I’ve made too many, to too many people. All the promises have tangled into a web of sin and truths. But there is one thing I’m certain of… I have to end this—us. This is Book 4 in the Sinful Truths series...
  • Fallen Love by Ella Miles

    Fallen Love by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve fallen in love, then out. In… Out… Now, I’m more confused than ever. I always thought falling in love would be easy. It would feel right when I fell for the right woman. With Siren, does it feel so right, yet so wrong? This is Book 5 in the Sinful Truths series...
  • Night Hawke by Gwyn McNamee

    Night Hawke by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Second Generation Hawke Family PrequelTwo nights. No names. No expectations. A lifetime of consequences.Graduating from law school means finally stepping into my destined role in the Hawke empire.But before I head home to NOLA to settle into the family's multi-billion-dollar business, I need one night to celebrate.Ideally with the redhead who won’t stop eye-fucking me from across the bar...
  • Redemption by Monique Orgeron

    Redemption by Monique Orgeron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is there a road to redemption? Her coming into my life was a miracle. She saved me. But she also came in like rolling thunder to my lightning strikes. Opinionated, aggressive, argumentative, and fuck did it make me react. She is the first woman to ever call me on my bullshit, causing my blood to boil like no other. The problem is, she sees right through me...
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