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  • 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...
  • Forever Mine by Anna Zaires

    Forever Mine by Anna Zaires

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I fought against fate, and I won. I made a deal with the devil to keep her. It was supposed to be over. We were meant to be happy. Too bad my enemies had other plans. Note: This is the conclusion of Peter & Sara’s story. It is strongly recommended that you read Twist Me and Capture Me trilogies before embarking on this book, as there will be major spoilers for those series...
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    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  female-mc  stalking  steamy  suspense
  • 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...
  • DEFY: The Kings Of Retribution MC by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    DEFY: The Kings Of Retribution MC by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE SMALLEST OF MIRACLES CAN HAVE THE BIGGEST IMPACT Defying everything life has thrown at them Logan and Bella's love is unwavering and stronger than ever. They have everything…almost. Both long for more; Dream of creating a family of their own. Sometimes their smiles and laughter are a mask-hiding struggle, heartbreak, and pain...
  • Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job...
  • FINDING SOLACE by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    FINDING SOLACE by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A moment is all it takes to change your life forever. Reid Carter—Road Captain for The Kings of Retribution MC. He was born into the life. A world where you live and play by your own rules. Tragedy strikes, taking the life of his younger brother Noah leaving him to pick up the broken pieces. Four years later he still wanders through his existence bitter and jaded by the hand he was dealt...
  • Phoenix by Teagan Brooks

    Phoenix by Teagan Brooks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Phoenix I met the love of my life when I was 17 years old. She was my best friend, my love, my soulmate. Even at such a young age, we had a solid plan for our future. I would join the Marines after graduation. We would get married after my first deployment. When my time with Marines was up, we would start a family. But that’s not what happened...
  • Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a yacht blows up in the Newport Beach Harbor killing a California congressman, FBI Agent Beck Murray is reminded of another night ten years earlier when a mega-yacht caught fire. Then a rookie cop, he pulled popular teenage TV star Piper Nolan out of the water. He's never forgotten her terror or her rambling story, but the investigation was shut down before it even got started...
  • 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...
  • Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s hunting. He’s watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she’s gunning for a spot on the FBI’s elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago...
  • 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...
  • Driven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Driven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Unswerving: Angus Force is determined to hunt down the serial killer he’d once shot dead—or so he thought. But an anonymous source reports that Lassiter is alive. Force hasn't slept since, knowing it’s only a matter of time before “the Surgeon” strikes again. And soon, a body is found, bearing Lassiter’s same maniacal MO...
  • Blackest Red by P.T. Michelle

    Blackest Red by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times, USA Today, and International Bestselling seriesNo matter how hard I've tried to let go of Mister Black, the memories of us together torture me. They're an unforgettable reminder of a life I can't have for many reasons.Burying myself in work mostly keeps thoughts of him to a screaming minimum, until he's thrust into my life under circumstances beyond my control...
  • Montana Sanctuary by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Montana Sanctuary by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes the worst wounds can’t be seen.Lucas Everett knows that firsthand. It's why he and his former Navy SEAL brothers created the Resting Warrior Ranch.They aren’t doctors, but they can offer the healing freedom of their Montana range. And they specialize in training service and emotional support animals to help sooth even the worst emotional scars.Usually, soldiers show up at their door...
  • Broken Edge by C.D. Reiss

    Broken Edge by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You think you'd go far for love? Think again.---------She really knows how to push a man.She finds the cracks and she goes right for them. She'll travel across the world just to break me apart, piece by piece, until every last secret is exposed and every weakness revealed.I swear to God, I love her so much I'll let her do it.I'll let her do anything...
  • Stripping Bare by Kelsey Browning

    Stripping Bare by Kelsey Browning

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bad Boy... Billionaire... Baby Brother... Who is the real Jonah Steele? Video game mogul Jonah Steele may be a billionaire , but as the youngest brother in a family of alphas, his struggle to prove his worth is all-consuming. Although he saved his hometown from ruin, he can’t forgive himself for the biggest failure of his life...
  • 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...
  • Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano

    Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the black sheep of the Steele brood, Micki Steele craves one thing: the love of her family. Working as a hacker for a ruthless fixer, Micki has done things she'll never be proud of. When she flees Vegas and returns to her hometown, she brings along her boss’s secrets and plenty of danger...
  • 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...
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    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  female-mc  stalking  steamy  suspense
  • Mended by J.L. Drake

    Mended by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Savannah takes control… Tired of all the lies and deception Savannah decides that she must face things on her own. As she seeks to find out who she really is she still must deal with the fallout from her past. Her fragile hold on her new life slowly gives her the confidence to move ahead. What she really needs is right in front of her waiting for the right moment to prove his love...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  family  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Counterfeit Love by Jessica Gadziala

    Counterfeit Love by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Finch can spot a fake a mile away.Raised in the Bayou with crime in his veins, he managed to turn his talent into a career. Making money. Racking up a few enemies along the way.On the run from one of those, he starts overin a new town. Where he meets her. Full of lists and guards and attitude.Someone beautiful enough to make even blackmail seem sexy.Chris has lived through hell...
  • Empire by Sheridan Anne

    Empire by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Empire risen from blood and ash.Murder. Betrayal. Undisputable power.A sacrifice to be given. An innocent life to be lost.He made the solemn vow.The flesh of my flesh will perish in flames,but the blood will forever reign.-------All I wanted was a new life, a fresh start in Faders Bay.But fate hadn’t written my name in the stars, it was written in cold, murderous blood.Zade. Sawyer. Dalton...
  • Concealed Affliction by Harlow Stone

    Concealed Affliction by Harlow Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryder has done his best to break my armor. It’s been a slow process but he’s reminded me what it’s like to feel again. I could never thank him enough for the toe curling and life altering experiences. He’s been my light in a hurricane-but even I know the sun can’t shine all the time. I have a big decision to make and it’s not as simple as just going left or right, forward or backward...
  • The Titan Series Boxed Set by Cristin Harber

    The Titan Series Boxed Set by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Titan Series, books 1-5: Winters Heat, Garrison’s Creed, Westin’s Chase, Gambled, & Chased Winters Heat: After putting her life on the line to protect classified intelligence, military psychologist Mia Kensington is on a cross-country road trip from hell with an intrusive save-the-day hero...
  • Defender's Instinct: Cerberus Tactical K9 by Fiona Quinn

    Defender's Instinct: Cerberus Tactical K9 by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’ll take more than his battle-hardened instincts to defend her…CIA linguist Sabrin Harris’s plans for a relaxing vacation went up in smoke when twenty-six hostages disappeared just north of her grandmother’s house in Slovakia. Now, she’s been called into action. Her mission is fairly simple...
  • 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...
  • Chased by Him by Kylie Kent

    Chased by Him by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ⚠⚠This book contains scenes and discussions of non-consensual sexual acts, domestic violence, profanity, sexual content, violence and miscarraige through trauma. If any of these are triggers for you, you should consider skipping this read.⚠⚠ChasePeople take one look at me and see a pretty face.Because that’s what I want them to see...
  • 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...
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    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  family  female-mc  steamy  suspense
  • 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...
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    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult
  • The Wolf by K. Alex Walker

    The Wolf by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tayler Diaz, an oncologist working in the small town of Yearwood, North Carolina, stumbles upon Gage Wolfe's virtually lifeless body when leaving for the day after a long shift at Yearwood Medical. While phoning for help to get him into the hospital for treatment, Gage makes one last declaration that sends a chill straight to her bones: "Just let me die, love...
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    crime  suspense  steamy  stalking  alpha-mc  female-mc  dark  romance
  • Bridged by Kendra Elliot

    Bridged by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After a congressman’s tortured body is found dangling from a Portland bridge, the FBI joins the Oregon State Police to investigate the case—and FBI Special Agent Ava McLane, still recovering from a bullet wound, hunts the twisted killer alongside the man who captured her heart, police detective Mason Callahan...
  • Roamer by Janine Infante Bosco

    Roamer by Janine Infante Bosco

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Deuce: The first moment I stared into Ally’s tortured blue eyes, my subconscious knew I’d never escape her. She called to the darkest part of my soul and made it impossible to ignore the strange pull I felt towards her. Some things are just meant to be. As long as we were both breathing, my heart would do time with hers...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kray and North are like a unit, where there's one, there's the other. When the both of them take a case involving a missing agent, they become more involved than they bargained for. Vienna is willing to do anything to find her sister and bring her home safe. Anything except shacking up with the two bikers who are dead set on solving this case...
  • Lies like Rubies, Part One by Poppy Jacobson

    Lies like Rubies, Part One by Poppy Jacobson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The dangerous mafia world is no place to raise a child. Nobody knows that better than me.When my abusive ex returns from exile to snatch our four-year-old daughter away from me, I’m on my own against him, until three men with their own agendas show up and consume my life.Dante, a violent and unpredictable arms trafficker, promises protection for my daughter in exchange for my body and my tears...
  • 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...
  • Black Velvet by Linnea May

    Black Velvet by Linnea May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Linnea May brings you the riveting tale of a dark billionaire, an ethereal beauty – and their twisted game of seduction. She is paid to lie and seduce – but I don’t want her insincere moans and fake smiles. My investment in the elusive Velvet Rooms holds a promise for more. And I always get what I want. Always . No man ever made her scream and beg for release...
  • Sabian: by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Sabian: by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Best Selling Author, Ali Parker... I’m an unlucky guy. Shit just has a way of kicking me when I’m down. When the girl of my dreams comes back to New York City and doesn’t refrain from seeking me out, I know it’s only a matter of time before the other shoe drops and shit hits the fan. Someone is hunting Lost Breed members and they’re not being shy about it...
  • Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Ash Kyndal inherits her Uncle Charlie’s PI firm, her only interest is in finding an out. Circus veteran, social misfit, daughter of a madman—those are shoes that fit. Card-carrying member of polite society? Not so much. But Charlie saved her once, and his staff of lost souls needs her...
  • 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...
  • Four Score by Lili St. Germain

    Four Score by Lili St. Germain

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Love and hate aren’t all that different. Two sides of the same coin, the yin and the yang. Once upon a time, Jason Ross loved me. And now that he knows what I’ve done, I see the love and the hate warring within him. I see the way he looks at me. The way he wonders how I could do the things I’ve done. I hear it in the way he begs me to stop, to leave this life and run away with him...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  crime  dark  family  female-mc  steamy  suspense
  • Shattered Rhythm by R.B. Hilliard

    Shattered Rhythm by R.B. Hilliard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Chaz Jones’ life hasn’t been easy. Meltdown’s newest drummer doesn’t give a damn about anything except for his kit, his sticks and his throne. Music offers him a way out and he takes it, only to discover it isn’t enough. Nothing is ever enough. … Until Olivia Olivia Marshall had her dream job, her dream boyfriend, and her dream life...
  • Pretty Sinner by B.B. Hamel

    Pretty Sinner by B.B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He stalked me. He stole me.He made me fall in love with a devil.Kaspar Baskin oozes power and charm. He’s a handsome monster in designer clothes.Ten years ago, he murdered my best friend. Now he wants to force me to marry him.The man’s a psychopath if he thinks I’ll give him what he wants.He has dark plans and I’m one of his pawns. He wants to murder an Oligarch and prove himself to me...
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    crime  dark  female-mc  stalking  steamy  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Ruining Him by Kylie Kent

    Ruining Him by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    JoshEmily came crashing back into my life, bringing with her everything I was missing.But she’s not the same girl I knew years ago. Gone is the girl who was always happy and eager to please everyone. The one who didn’t let life get her down.She’s conquered her demons but they still haunt her whenever she closes her eyes. Her screams tear through the darkness night after night...
  • 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...
  • Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zoe knows the secrets, now they're coming for her.The enemy will stop at nothing to get to Zoe and the military secrets that could change everything. What Zoe knows is getting people killed. Is she next?Gage is a hardened Marine special forces operative with only one soft spot: Zoe.Her desperate screams echoing from inside her home switch his instincts from lover to guardian...
  • Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thorn Has Met His MatchRetired Navy Seal, turned Iniquus security operative, Thorn Iverson is heading home from Brussels when the call comes in.A U.S. military scientist's daughter, Juliette, was snatched from the streets of France, and she’s in immediate danger.Juliette is desperate.Juliette is fighting for her life...
  • Shattered by Control by B.B. Hamel

    Shattered by Control by B.B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You're my wife, you will sleep in my bed. When a brutal shooting forces me onto the sidelines of a raging mafia war, I need a discreet physical therapist to help get me back in the game.That’s how gorgeous Mirella Falconet stumbles into my life.I offer her the world: money, power, whatever she wants, so long as she keeps her mouth shut and does her job...
  • 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...
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