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  • Hearts On Fire by Catherine Wiltcher

    Hearts On Fire by Catherine Wiltcher

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HEARTS ON FIRE is the final book in bestselling author Catherine Wiltcher’s dark and thrilling Santiago Trilogy. My Devil He came into my life like a raging storm. The man I despised. The killer with no conscience. I fell as hard as a woman like me can fall. When he bleeds, I feel his pain. When we kiss, I taste his tragedy...
  • Storm by Serena Akeroyd

    Storm by Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    STORMYou hate me.I deserve it.The day I betrayed the love of my life was the day I lived up to every messed-up thing my haters say about me.But I’m tired of feeling like a POS.I’m tired of being broken.I’m tired of life not being worth living.It’s time now to make amends, and to earn my woman’s love back.To be the father my kid deserves,the Old Man I should always have been...
  • 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...
  • Daddy's Soul by Laylah Roberts

    Daddy's Soul by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Faith Blossom has hit rock bottom.She’s drowning.Broke, demoralised, tired, and alone, she accepts a job that could be the answer to her problems.So long as she can survive a force of nature bent on destroying everything in his path.Reuben Jones.He’s driven, loyal, stern, and unforgiving.Possessive and protective.Grumpy.And he wants to own her. Dominate and control her.Be her Daddy...
  • Pawns in the Bishop's Game by Emilia Finn

    Pawns in the Bishop's Game by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How do you protect the girl, when the most dangerous threat in her life is you? Kane Bishop is a professional enforcer, smuggler, all-around law breaker, and the latest resident of a tiny town hidden by mountains and forest. His job is to keep his kingpin boss safe and off the local law enforcement's radar...
  • 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...
  • Bound by Aleatha Romig

    Bound by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With more revealed, what does that mean for the future? From New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a brand-new dark romance trilogy bringing us back to the same dangerous underworld as WEB OF SIN. You do not need to read the Web of Sin trilogy to get caught in this new and intriguing saga, Tangled Web...
  • Forever My Saint: All The Pretty Things Trilogy Volume 3 by Monica James

    Forever My Saint: All The Pretty Things Trilogy Volume 3 by Monica James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All hope was lost until Zoey Hennessy walked back into my world, shaking it up beyond repair when she uttered two simple words. He’s alive. She speaks of her brother, my Saint, the man who lost everything to set me free. I believed he was dead. I saw it with my own two eyes. But when Zoey proves he’s alive and being held captive by a monster, I know what I have to do...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  drama  kidnapping  multi-pov
  • 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...
  • Hearts Divine by Catherine Wiltcher

    Hearts Divine by Catherine Wiltcher

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    HEARTS DIVINE is the second book in bestselling author Catherine Wiltcher’s dark and thrilling Santiago Trilogy. Eve The FBI is forcing me apart from the man who haunts my dreams. The man who stole me, broke me and made me his forever. Dante Santiago. My deepest, darkest secret...
  • Tyrant by T.M. Frazier

    Tyrant by T.M. Frazier

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    I. Remember. Everything. Only now I wish I didn t. When the fog is sucked away from my mind like smoke through a vacuum, the truth that has been beyond my reach for months finally reveals itself. But the relief I thought I would feel never comes, and I m more afraid now than I was the morning I woke up handcuffed in King s bed...
  • El Santo by M. Robinson

    El Santo by M. Robinson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I didn’t know darkness and evil lurked inside me until I had to murder in order to survive. Forced to become my own worst enemy. With so much blood on my hands, I was surprised I could still see my own skin. I killed. I tortured. I loved… I played God while I was rotting in Hell. Thriving on control and power was the only way I knew how to live. There were no other options...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  cheating  crime  dark  domestic-drama  drama
  • Lawless by T.M. Frazier

    Lawless by T.M. Frazier

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She's prim and proper. He's leather and lawless. It will never work between them. It's a lie they almost believe...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  cheating  crime  dark  domestic-drama  drama
  • Raw: Rebirth by Belle Aurora

    Raw: Rebirth by Belle Aurora

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It had been six years since my world was turned upside down. He exposed me to the darker side of life and I could never go back to the person I was. I had been through more things the average person couldn’t even relate to. If I had the chance to go back and do things differently though? Not a chance. I’d pick him a thousand times. A million times. For eternity...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  cheating  crime  dark  domestic-drama  drama
  • 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...
  • Grievous by J.M. Darhower

    Grievous by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Once upon a time, there was a girl who stopped believing in fairy tales after her innocence was stolen. Morgan Myers is tired. So damn tired. Most people either push her around or brush her off, and she's not putting up with it anymore. Determined to reclaim the life that had been stolen from her, she puts her trust in the last person she ever expected to: the notorious Scar...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  crime  dangerous-mc  dark  drama  kidnapping
  • Taking Meghan: A Dark Romance by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Taking Meghan: A Dark Romance by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alexei Rastov is the most vile, evil, despicable man in the world... And my father tried to force me to marry him. Dragged down the aisle, I prayed to God, to anyone, to save me from a lifetime of cruelty and abuse. Then he came... a force of nature... Disrupting the ceremony with a storm of gunfire and death...
  • Shadow Man by Catherine Wiltcher

    Shadow Man by Catherine Wiltcher

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    SHADOW MAN is the first book in a new duet from bestselling author Catherine Wiltcher’s Santiago saga...BLURB: Cause and consequence:Two words that haunt me.When I was stolen, I learned to hate.When he saved me, I learned to fear.I ran from him, following a trail of the dead, from Miami all the way to Colombia.Now I’ve fallen into darkness again, and he’s the only one I see.But he’s a shadow man...
  • Coming for You by J.A. Huss

    Coming for You by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    James, Harper, and Sasha are products of their environment. Born into a secret organization that runs a global shadow government, and taught to kill since they were small, they find themselves both indispensable and expendable to all the people they used to trust. Twenty-eight year old James Fenici has been an assassin since he was sixteen...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Tears of Salvation (St. Monarch's Academy, #5) by Michelle Heard

    Tears of Salvation (St. Monarch's Academy, #5) by Michelle Heard

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    From USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Michelle Heard comes a new standalone, full-length romantic suspense novel.ISABELLAI was the party crasher.He was the Devil.Three months ago, I suffered a moment of insanity and had a one-night stand without even knowing who the man was.It was hot and unforgettable...
  • Unraveled by Bethany-Kris

    Unraveled by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cara Rossi’s life has been a mess ever since her identical twin was killed. She blames the mafia, its ways, and the people within the caustic culture for a painful reality that turned her world on its side. In an attempt to momentarily pause her misery, a night out puts her on a path with a man she shouldn’t get involved with simply because of his last name—Gian Guzzi...
  • 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...
  • Entangled by Bethany-Kris

    Entangled by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gian Guzzi has everything a mafia boss could want, but it comes with strings. He shouldn’t be wasting time on a redhead he can’t have, when men like him are not allowed to be affected by silly things like love. A boss’s job is never done, and Gian has far better things to worry about—what with someone wanting him dead, and someone else wanting him in prison for good...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Force by Cassandra Robbins

    Force by Cassandra Robbins

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Cassandra Robbins comes an explosive, second- chance, age- gap, standalone love story about the dangerous Disciples enforcer and his fierce, secret obsession.I’ve made two impulsive decisions in my life, and both have involved the notorious enforcer of the Disciples MC.The first, I humiliated myself by spying on him...
  • 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...
  • Broken Anchor by Ella Miles

    Broken Anchor by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m broken. He’s broken. We are broken. But sometimes you have to shatter to pick up the pieces. To start over. To overcome our enemies. And find out if we can love again. He’s my anchor, but can our love be repaired? This is the final book in the Sinful Truths series...
  • Burned by Jordan Marie

    Burned by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Librarian Note: Captured, Book 1 Ended on a Cliffhanger. This is the second part if it, plus Torch and Katie's story.Katie He is a very bad man. There is nothing good about him... Unless you count the things he does to me between the sheets. Those are good, very good. Everything else about him is bad to the core...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  cheating  crime  dark  domestic-drama  drama
  • Nikolai by Roxie Rivera

    Nikolai by Roxie Rivera

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After a brush with death as a juvenile delinquent, Vivian swore she'd never stray across that line again—but there's just one problem with her plan to stay on the right side of the law. She's completely, irrevocably and unabashedly in love with Nikolai, the Russian mob boss who saved her life...
  • Filthy Marcellos: Dante by Bethany-Kris

    Filthy Marcellos: Dante by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Dante Marcello’s life has been a carefully planned event as an heir to a Cosa Nostra throne. For as long as he can remember, he’s had one goal in mind, and that’s becoming the Don. With his father ready to step down, it’s Dante’s turn to step up. But without a wife at his side, his seat as the boss is on shaky ground. Until she shows up with an offer he wants to refuse, but can’t...
  • Possession by T.M. Frazier

    Possession by T.M. Frazier

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The story of Grim and Emma Jean continues. War is on the horizon. We've come so far. We'll have to fight for what we have. Or die trying...
  • Outlaw's Promise by Helena Newbury

    Outlaw's Promise by Helena Newbury

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She was just a kid when she found me lying injured beside the road and saved my life. I promised her I'd return if she ever needed me. Twelve years later, I answer the phone and hear her voice: a biker gang's about to sell her to the highest bidder. Like hell they are! I tear the place apart and we roar off on my Harley..
  • Down Fall by Abigail Davies

    Down Fall by Abigail Davies

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life was chaotic and unpredictable; made up of a series of events—a collection of firsts. First crush. First kiss. First love. Between the murky waters, I’d found salvation. And it was all because of him—the broody alpha who appeared at the time I needed him most. He promised me things, and showed me the life I could have. But all it took was one moment to destroy everything...
  • Burned Cinder by Jagger Cole

    Burned Cinder by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The monster from under my bed is now the one in it.First of all, this is not a fairytale. There’s no Prince Charming.But there is a villain.An insidiously gorgeous devil with eyes that pierce through all my secrets, and a cold black heart pumping pure venom and conquest.But seven years after Noel Ransom scorched-earthed my life, I’ve come for my revenge.Except Noel’s come for something, too: me...
  • Celt. by London Miller

    Celt. by London Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to the Den ... Six minutes is all he needs to get a job done … Kyrnon “Celt” Murphy is one of the best thieves in the world. After all, his childhood was spent with a caravan of Irish Travelers that taught him everything he knows...
  • Tastes Like Candy by Lauren Gilley

    Tastes Like Candy by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Raised by a widower and a pack of uncles, Michelle Calloway has known only one way of life, that of the Lean Dogs MC, London chapter. When circumstances force her to flee to America, she fears her days of working alongside the club are over. But Derek Snow isn't the sort of man to let talent go to waste...
  • Scarred Regrets: A Dark Mafia Romance by Adelaide Forrest

    Scarred Regrets: A Dark Mafia Romance by Adelaide Forrest

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Broken men don’t fall in love.We linger in the darkness, consumed by the sins that define us.Irina is the sole reason my heart beats. She’s everything that matters in a world filled with evil that a woman so good and pure should never have to see.She’ll add another scar to my collection — this one engraved on my heart.When she’s taken by our enemy to use for his vengeance...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  drama  kidnapping  multi-pov
  • Concerto by Skye Warren

    Concerto by Skye Warren

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE SECOND BOOK IN THE NORTH SECURITY...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  drama  forbidden-love  multi-pov
  • Mercy by M.N. Forgy

    Mercy by M.N. Forgy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m an outlaw. I don’t fall in love and I sure as fuck don't run... Until Jillian McAdams. I fell for a law abiding Sheriff, breaking my vows to my own club, and turning her against her family of blue. An outlaw and a sheriff, it can only end in one way… Mayhem. Now we both have to pay the ultimate price for betraying our families...
  • Breathless & Bloodstained by Bethany-Kris

    Breathless & Bloodstained by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    No war is won without a few bloodstains. Tommas Rossi wants what belongs to him—he wants it bad. At thirty-years-old, he’s on course to become the youngest boss in the Chicago Outfit’s history. He just has to make it to the end alive. But being the boss of the Outfit means nothing to Tommas if a certain blue-eyed girl isn’t standing with him when the city finally crumbles...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  drama  forbidden-love  multi-pov
  • Iron & Bone by Cat Porter

    Iron & Bone by Cat Porter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A knife that cut too deep, a slash that still burns, failures piled high and flammable. I held my losses at bay with knives, with guns, my hands, my bike, my brothers, my iron will. But not my heart. No, my heart was the flame that would light the match, ignite the blaze...
  • Brothers in Arms by Penny Dee

    Brothers in Arms by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone is going to pay. But who? CADE They took someone from me. And I’m going to make them pay. In blood. But before I can do that, I have to make sure my girl is safe. And I will do whatever I have to, even break my own heart, to make sure she survives. Because she is my queen. My everything. INDY He’s changed...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  drama  multi-pov  steamy  suspense
  • Restoration by Tate James

    Restoration by Tate James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s always been about the chase. The prize. The puzzle. The Game. I became the best of the best, Hermes, because no one could catch me. No one could touch me.No one had.Until her.She’s everything I never knew I wanted.She is my life.It’s been one bad call after another in this Game. It’s cost the woman I love more than I ever wanted her to have to pay...
  • Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dirty, Dark, and Deadly, #2This is a SERIES. This is BOOK TWO.“Secrets keep the darkness alive,” Harper tells me. But that’s not how I see it at all. Secrets keep me alive. The truth is overrated. Honesty is never the best policy. And everything you know absolutely can hurt you.The contracts I fulfill are just agreements. Death is a business deal. Secrets are currency in my world...
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