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  • Paint It All Red by S.T. Abby

    Paint It All Red by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Hush, little baby, don't say a word... Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together? It's time to fuck with their minds. It's time to finish it all. It's time to paint it all red... Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters. **BE WARNED: Some descriptions are vivid and can be a trigger for sensitive readers...
  • All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.But that's never happened to me...I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.But fuck this case...
  • Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day...
  • Sidetracked by S.T. Abby

    Sidetracked by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable.Or at least I was...until her.****LOGANI've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling...
  • Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Passion, betrayal, and heartache collide in an emotionally charged and dangerous chain of events that could unravel everything Sebastian and Talia have worked to overcome...
  • Convicted by Aleatha Romig

    Convicted by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the shocking third book of the Consequences series and the long-awaited, action-packed conclusion of Claire and Tony’s tumultuous relationship. Stick to your convictions. Against all odds, Claire and Tony have found their way back to one another, but it doesn’t mean a happy ever after. Not even close...
  • Dollars by Pepper Winters

    Dollars by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “I should never have asked for a night with you. This would never have happened if I’d had more willpower.” A thief met a possession and did what he did best. Now, he has to live with the consequences. Including the girl he claimed. Pimlico was stolen and sold all before her twenty-first birthday. Two years with a master who almost killed her is over. She has a new master now...
  • 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:
    age-gap  dark  multi-pov  secrets  steamy  suspense  adult  amnesia
  • UNBREAKABLE by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    UNBREAKABLE by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fear makes us stronger and we become Unbreakable. As the President of The Kings of Retribution MC, Jake Delane has dedicated his life to his family and watched his Club flourish. Seeing his brothers find strong women to stand at their sides unearthed buried feelings of loss; making the idea of never finding love again more absolute. Until a beautiful, and fierce redhead moved to town...
  • Truth by Aleatha Romig, Esra Çetin

    Truth by Aleatha Romig, Esra Çetin

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the thrilling sequel in the Consequences series: Truth, a game of deception, intrigue, and conspiracy where losing can be deadly.Claire survived the consequences. Through strength and compartmentalization, Claire Nichols captivated her captor...
  • Born, Madly by Trisha Wolfe

    Born, Madly by Trisha Wolfe

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Duet: a performance by two. But who is acting, and who is devolving? A buried past is unearthed, and Grayson Sullivan—AKA The Angel of Maine—retaliates against the system who made him, deploying psychological warfare on the woman who initially set him free. Dr...
  • Revealed: The Missing Years by Aleatha Romig

    Revealed: The Missing Years by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the thrilling continuation of a powerful series about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences. The unexpected fourth novel of the Consequences series, REVEALED: The Missing Years is..
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • Heathens by Sheridan Anne

    Heathens by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twinkle, twinkle little starHeathens coming, brand new scar.Slaughter turns to pained goodbye.Never knowing if I’ll die.A DeAngelis family war is brewing and these heathens are the vicious ringleaders, pulling the strings of their pawns for the greatest show of all—a show that will guarantee sweet, sweet victory.Only victory comes with a price...
  • Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss

    Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    INDIE I have them all now. Just the way I want them.McKay, the one who loves me deepest.Adam, the one who protects me fiercely.Donovan, the one who tells the truth.They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world.And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is.This is the family I’ve always wanted.This is the family I deserve.And I will do whatever it takes to keep them...
  • Broken Hearts by Stella Hart

    Broken Hearts by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I love him, and it’s killing me… I never thought this would happen, but here I am—a willing captive to the most sinfully-handsome serial killer the world has ever seen. I belong to him now, the man who is both my savior and my downfall. The man who will probably destroy me one day, just like he’s destroyed so many others before me. If I want to live, I have to be a good girl...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  crime  dark  organized-crime  steamy  suspense  adult  book
  • Twist Me: The Complete Trilogy by Anna Zaires

    Twist Me: The Complete Trilogy by Anna Zaires

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All 3 books in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, available for the first time in one convenient, discounted bundle. Over 1000 pages of addictive, thrilling dark romance at 30% off the individual books’ prices. “Will you ever let me go?” “No, Nora,” he replies, and I can feel his smile in the darkness. “Never...
  • The Darkest Of Light by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    The Darkest Of Light by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    As a young boy, Gabriel Martinez had his family-his entire life ripped away from him. Revenge and indignation becomes his means of survival. Several years later, a series of events lead him to his new family, The Kings of Retribution MC, where he meets Alba Jameson. Heartbreak being the final push, Alba chooses the life her sister worked so hard to give her by going off to college...
  • Blaire by Anita Gray

    Blaire by Anita Gray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Bought. Conditioned. Sold to the enemy. My name is Blaire. I'm head of security to a man who controls the Russian underworld in Europe. His name is Maksim and he's my master. He bought me ten years ago and conditioned me with brutality to worship and protect him. And I have protected him. I've slain everyone who has tried to do him harm...
  • Second Sight by Sharon Sala

    Second Sight by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The clock is ticking… When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult’s rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  multi-pov  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • VII: Seven by Lana Sky

    VII: Seven by Lana Sky

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WHEN OBSESSION BECOMES DESIRE… Ellen Winthorp has no choice but to rely on the protection of Mischa Stepanov—the vicious mafia leader who captured and disfigured her. But the more she learns about him, the deeper she falls into a world of violence, deception and intrigue where danger lurks around every corner...
  • Carved in Ice by Ivy Smoak

    Carved in Ice by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When I was little, I dreamed my life would be a fairy tale. But it just so happens that I don't need a knight in shining armor to save me anymore. I'm made of freaking steel. It's time for answers. Time for vengeance. And time to finally unmask the notorious V. There's no going back now. See what happens in the epic conclusion of the Made of Steel series...
  • Savage Collision: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee

    Savage Collision: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The last thing I expect when I walk into The Hawkeye Club is to fall head over heels in lust. It’s supposed to be a rescue mission. I have to get my baby sister off the pole, into some clothes, and out of the grasp of the pussy peddler who somehow manipulated her into stripping...
  • Sacrificial Sinners by J. Rose

    Sacrificial Sinners by J. Rose

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    RETURN TO BLACKWOOD INSTITUTE.RUN BY THE INSANE, FOR THE INSANE.Monster. Victim. Predator. Prey.I’ve always been certain of one hard fact – I don’t deserve to live. For all the pain andsuffering I’ve inflicted, I tried to take the ultimate punishment. Anything to escape thehorror of living with my crimes.Survival wasn’t part of the bargain...
  • 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...
  • Love Hard: A Reverse Harem Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Love Hard: A Reverse Harem Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Love Hard is the explosive final book in the Black Rose Kisses series.Note: The blurb below contains spoilers, so I'd highly recommend not reading it until you've finished reading the first three books. If you haven't started the series yet, begin with Fight Dirty. Got it? Great!***With a single bullet, my heart shattered.With a single bullet, the Jackals destroyed any chance at peace...
  • Destructive Truths by Shauna Mairéad

    Destructive Truths by Shauna Mairéad

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lies, Saoirse. It was all lies.Those were the last words I heard before my attacker held me under.Left shattered by deceit, with a past I couldn’t outrun, Killybegs destroyed the girl I used to be.But here’s the thing, this queen was born to rise, and those who hurt me will pay for the sins they committed...
  • Behind The Hands That Kill by J.A. Redmerski

    Behind The Hands That Kill by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Even professional killers need vacations, but for Victor Faust, his vacation in Venezuela is about more than relaxation and time alone with Izabel Seyfried. It is a chance for him to come clean to Izabel: to tell her the truth about why he sent her to Italy with his brother, the truth behind his interest in Nora Kessler, and about his knowledge of Izabel’s child with her former captor...
  • Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart

    Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It takes a monster to destroy a monster. My enemies have taken Celeste. Kidnapped her to torture and kill her. I won’t stop looking for her. Won’t give up on her. I’ll destroy anyone and anything that gets in my way, and the punishment for those who have taken her will be brutal and unmerciful. She belongs with me. She belongs to me. I’m never letting go. Ever...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Forged in Flames by Ivy Smoak

    Forged in Flames by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I remember when I thought my life would be like the fairy tales I read about. I'd do anything to go back in time when everything was so simple. When my knight in shining armor had a face and a name. When my biggest secret was that I snuck out at night to watch the stars.I'm worried that there's a sickness in me, swallowing me whole. I don't understand what's happening to me...
  • Stolen Life by Charmaine Pauls

    Stolen Life by Charmaine Pauls

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A DIAMOND MAGNATE NOVELIan Hart stole a night of my life but he took so much more. His obsession pinned a label on me. His lust put me in an impossible situation. Now I have to choose sides. I have to decide between right and wrong. Only, no matter what choice I make, each comes with dreadful consequences. There’s only one way this can end—how every tragedy ends...
  • United Reign by Kylie Kent

    United Reign by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Mafia RomanceTheoEverything we’ve built is crashing down around me.I’m consumed by the darkness, my blood boiling with the need for revenge.My wife is the only light in my life; she’s the very reason I keep on fighting.They’re coming after me. And worse yet, they’re coming after her.But let them come…I’m waiting. We’re waiting.To send them all back to the hell they crawled out of...
  • LUCA - Her Ruthless Don: 50 Loving States, New York by Theodora Taylor

    LUCA - Her Ruthless Don: 50 Loving States, New York by Theodora Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ruthlessly Obsessed… AMBER: Everyone knows me as Amber Reynolds, the fierce and determined law student, who won’t let her blindness hold her back. My friends and colleagues encourage and applaud me, but I never feel clean. Because they don’t know who I really am… or the true reason I’m blind. You see, my father used to hurt people, until one day he kidnapped and brutalized the wrong boy...
  • Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I don’t belong with her. Born into darkness, life made me a cynic incapable of love. But then Ellie waltzed in. Innocent, optimistic, kind. She’s the opposite of what I deserve. I bought her, but she she stole my heart. Now my business is going up in flames. I have only one chance to make it right. That’s where it happens…something I can never take back...
  • Deathly: The Dillon Sisters by Brynne Asher

    Deathly: The Dillon Sisters by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I’m a fraud. Or an imposter. I’m certainly a hypocrite. I offer advice for a living. Encourage my patients to make wise decisions—help them help themselves to walk through life stronger, healthier, happier. Isn’t that the goal? To live our best lives? If only I practiced what I preach. I wasn’t always like this. Every move I make lately is the opposite of smart...
  • Engage by Drew Elyse

    Engage by Drew Elyse

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once a Disciple, forever a Disciple. They came for her in the night. When she wakes, she’s in a cell. She has no idea if it will help, but it is the only option she has: She tells them she belongs to the Savage Disciples MC. A Disciple will fight like a savage when it counts. Years ago, he lost everything. Now, the club is the only thing Jager allows himself to care about...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook
  • Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There was a time when my debt was the only link we had. There was a time when I couldn’t tell him how much I loved him and he couldn’t tell me. There was a time when I thought I could never have enough money. Now, everything is different. Nicholas Crawford is a stranger who is becoming more strange with every moment. I used to think I could make a life with him, but now I’m not so sure...
  • Wreak Havoc: A Reverse Harem Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Wreak Havoc: A Reverse Harem Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Wreak Havoc is the third installment in the Black Rose Kisses series...
  • Beyond the Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Beyond the Consequences by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes more of the suspenseful romantic thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, choices and consequences. Secrets and deception As the pieces of their puzzle come together, Anthony and Claire Rawlings continue to defy the odds. Together they overcame an incomprehensible beginning. Apart they endured unimaginable heartache...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  anthologies
  • 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...
  • Play Rough: A Reverse Harem Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Play Rough: A Reverse Harem Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Play Rough is the thrilling second installment in the Black Rose Kisses series.Note: The blurb below contains spoilers for the first book, so I'd highly recommend not reading it until you've finished reading book one, Fight Dirty. Cool? Cool.***Vengeance is coming. And she’s a cold-blooded bitch.I can still hear the gunshot. Still see the blank look on Sloan’s face as he pulled the trigger...
  • 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...
  • Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Tortured Skye is not a standalone and is best enjoyed after reading Savage Collision***Falling in love with Gabe Anderson was as easy as breathing. Fighting my feelings for my brother’s best friend was agonizingly hard. I never imagined giving in to my desire for him would cause such a destructive ripple effect...
  • Delectable Lies by Shauna Mairéad

    Delectable Lies by Shauna Mairéad

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never feed your fears, Saoirse, because if you do, they will eat you alive.Those were the last words my mother uttered before the masked men arrived.She begged me to run, to save myself from the past she kept hidden.But here's the thing, the past doesn't stay buried forever, and somebody has to pay the price for the choices she made.All the King's horses and all the King's men..
  • Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I see is red.Blood.Pain.Rage.It consumes me.The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul.I only have one purpose. End him and take back what’s mine. Love isn’t always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin...
  • 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...
  • Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Cora Kenborn comes a dark and twisted enemies to lovers retelling of Anastasia. They call me America’s Sweetheart. Hollywood royalty. The last of an era. Sole survivor of LA’s most infamous crime. I’m not any of those things. He forced me into the spotlight. The liar with a perfect smile and cold blue eyes. But Alexandra Romanov’s fate won’t be mine...
  • 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:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  dark  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult
  • Primal Pursuit: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Bella J.

    Primal Pursuit: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Bella J.

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Davian Stark is beautiful, twisted, cruel.And he’s going to die.By my hand.He’s one of the Elites of the Dark Sovereign.A bloodthirsty Mafia Assassin.And a hunter fueled by his need for the chase.If I want to get close to him, I have to give him something to hunt.Me.He made a mistake by letting me survive my family’s massacre. I've trained, fed my hate, and now, I'm ready to strike...
  • Reviving Izabel by J.A. Redmerski

    Reviving Izabel by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Determined to live a dark life in the company of the assassin who freed her from bondage, Sarai sets out on her own to settle a score with an evil sadist. Unskilled and untrained in the art of killing, the events that unfold leave her hanging precariously on the edge of death when nothing goes as planned...
  • XV: by Lana Sky

    XV: by Lana Sky

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WHEN HATE BECOMES OBSESSION… Mistaken for her beautiful half-sister, Ellen Winthorp is taken captive by a madman who declares that she will be his "fifteen": the fifteenth victim of a vicious mafia blood feud. Armed with only her instincts, Ellen must resist her captor for as long as she can—which is easier said than done the more she's exposed to the complex man beneath the beast...
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