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  • Toxic Creek by K.C. Kean

    Toxic Creek by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “It’s so nice when toxic people stop talking to you. It’s like the trash took itself out.”I had everything I ever wanted, until my life was flipped upside down. Now, I’m suddenly being forced to live in my parent’s hometown, with complete strangers. Like my heart isn’t broken enough. Could I fall any further?Yes. Yes, I could.Why might that be?The Allstars...
  • F*ckboy Psychos: A Dark & Spicy Romance by C.M. Stunich

    F*ckboy Psychos: A Dark & Spicy Romance by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Whoa, there. Stop right now. You don’t want to read this.Trust me: you really, really don’t want to read this. So back away slowly, hands up, and I won’t have to kill you.They might, though. They might be willing to warm my bed, but I wouldn’t say I trusted them. Just a bunch of psychos, really.My three f*ckboys, my three psychos.Alexei Grove...
  • Dark Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Dark Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.58 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.She's the mafia princess he was meant to stay away from. And he did.Until that one night when he was able to hide his identity and his darkness under a different kind of mask. But one taste wasn't enough...
  • Payback Princess by C.M. Stunich

    Payback Princess by C.M. Stunich

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

    Twisted Creek by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I have nothing left to give this twisted town, not a single ounce. I’ve let them beat me down, almost break me, but it’s time I fixed my ‘Grady’ jersey, and show them I will do anything to protect what is mine.Trying to survive Knight’s Creek without Xavier, Hunter, and Tobias is harder than I care to admit. I have to give it my all and try again; I have to run...
  • Deviant Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Deviant Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you more in her dark mafia, high school bully romance series.Whoever said to keep your friends close and your enemies closer… was right. Being around her is the worst kind of torture. Emmie is an obligation I can’t avoid… an oath I can’t break. And having her in my life is the last thing I want or need...
  • Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I found everything I didn’t know I needed. Accepted forgiveness I didn’t deserve.She fought for us. Killed for us. She was one of us. And there was no way I was letting her go… again. But I’m not the only one with wicked intentions for my siren. With her missing, we turn our blame to an obvious enemy. But our path of destruction could be leading us right into another trap...
  • Pocketful of Shame: A High School Bully Romance by Chloe Walsh

    Pocketful of Shame: A High School Bully Romance by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Nothing in Pocketful is as it seems." Chris Capaldi's words of warning haunt my every waking hour. I know I'm in danger, even if I can't identify the threat. Telling Sketch about the night his brother died was a mistake that could prove fatal for all of us. Secrets of this magnitude should stay buried, but it's out now and I can feel the walls closing in on me...
  • Damaged by Sheridan Anne

    Damaged by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Play with fire; you’ll get burned.Play with me; I’ll get even.Dynasty came roaring into my life, bringing four of the most incredibly delicious men I’ve ever laid my eyes on, but along with it came a life that I was never expecting.This world is filled with corruption. There are secrets and lies around every corner...
  • Reckless Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • 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...
  • Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Small town, small-minded people, small expectations, and big A-holes.Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape...
  • Roderick by Jessica Gadziala

    Roderick by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Roderick He joined the MC for many reasons. To be able to financially take care of his mother and sisters, to have fun, to let loose, to meet women. But only casually. Only for a night or two. He wasn’t ready to settle down. Until one day, when the president gives him a job. Just drop the guns, get the money, come home. Don’t f— it up. Except everything goes to hell...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  enemies-to-lovers  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  biker  book
  • Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lucien Valentine must die.It’s the thought that’s kept me going for four long years. I’ve imagined it, dreamed about it, relished in it. I want it so bad, but the question is, do I have what it takes to make it happen?Taking a life isn’t for the faint-hearted. Just ask Lucien, he knows.He’s taken me back to where it all started and I know exactly how it’s going to go...
  • The End: A Reverse Harem Bully Romance by Ruby Vincent

    The End: A Reverse Harem Bully Romance by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It doesn’t feel like the end.It feels like all of my problems are just beginning.There’s more happening in my town of Raven River than I knew.More lies. More secrets. More pain.Enemies seen and unseen are circling and not even my guardian angels can protect me.There’s a war coming and I’ll fight because this time my Angels…My Horsemen…My loves……are the ones who need saving...
  • Wicked Empire by Tracy Lorraine

    Wicked Empire by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next installment of her new dark mafia, high school bully romance series.She didn’t want to believe me.She wanted to believe the threat wasn’t really there.But as the sirens ring out in the distance and she stares down into my eyes, she can no longer deny what’s right in front of her...
  • Velvet Devil by Nicole Fox

    Velvet Devil by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It's the first look on my wedding day.I turn... but my husband isn't there.Instead, I see the stranger who ruined my life.Here's the story:Six years ago, I was on the worst first date in history.A blind date with some jerk who wouldn't take no for an answer.The handsome stranger swooped in.Saved me.And sat down to finish the date.I thought it was crazy.But we had insane chemistry...
  • The Game by Callie Rose

    The Game by Callie Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book two of three in the Kings of Linwood Academy series...
  • Deviant Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Deviant Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next installment of her new dark mafia, high school bully romance series.I should have known better than to play with fire...I’d been burned by Theo Cirillo enough to know that I should have seen this coming.He loved to show me his merciless side, but I couldn’t stay away from the deviant even if I wanted to...
  • Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My life has been full of half-truths tangled in lies—I’d been to hell and back more times than I could count. But nothing could have prepared me for the fear in her voice, and then the sight of that building going up in flames. After the way I treated her, the way I hurt her, I’d earned that pain back tenfold. I deserved to lose the only bit of light in my dark, twisted life...
  • Glass Heart Broken: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Lindsey Iler

    Glass Heart Broken: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Lindsey Iler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LIES. SECRETS. MAYHEM.The campus of Glass Heart Academy will never be the same once we’re through with it.PalmerThey tried to break me, but they underestimated my strength. When Marek says things aren’t always what they seem, I don’t want to believe him. Now, I know the dark truth in his words...
  • War by Stevie J. Cole, LP Lovell

    War by Stevie J. Cole, LP Lovell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The kind of life I’ve lived, it haunts you. Stains you. Destroys you. It took everything from me. My love. My family… my transgressions were paid with Tor and Cayla’s blood and I want revenge. Blood. Death. His head in my hands.I’ve lost everything, and all that’s left to do is end the men who took them from me. Betrayal. Secrets. Vengeance.This is war...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Lost in the Wind by Calle J. Brookes

    Lost in the Wind by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She had survived. She could survive. She would survive again. After a brutal assault and cancer as a teenager, Dr. Nikkie Jean Netorre wouldn’t let herself be called a victim. Nikkie Jean wasn’t a victim. She was a survivor. Now a pediatric surgical resident at the best teaching hospital in Texas, Nikkie Jean knows there’s nothing she can’t make it through if she just keeps going...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  contemporary  mystery  fiction  book  adult  romance
  • Dare To Fall by L. Ann, Claire Marta

    Dare To Fall by L. Ann, Claire Marta

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Arabella GrayStudious. Good Girl. Liar.She's become my addiction—I feed her my pain.When the threat of losing her awakens the monster, there is no one left to save her from me.Eli TraversOutcast. Artist. Monster.I fell in love with my stepbrother—the Monster.I crave his touch and loathe his name. He took everything I gave and twisted it with hate.The past rises from the dead and stalks the living...
  • Party Crashers by Heather Long

    Party Crashers by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the moment I learned she was coming to our school, I had a gut feeling it would end in disaster. Out of all the schools in the world, why did Kaitlin Crosse have to choose ours? Her presence confused my brothers and created tension between them, but I soon realized my initial assumptions about her were completely wrong...
  • Altered by Lead by C.M. Stunich, Tate James

    Altered by Lead by C.M. Stunich, Tate James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My life will never be the same, altered by lead, damaged but not broken.I’m becoming a new me.I won’t run any longer; this time, I’m the hunter instead of the prey.But it takes hard work, skill, and a bit of luck to catch a mob boss.I’m going to need all three to survive this.Especially when I’ve got five gorgeous a**holes for teachers—and occasional bedmates.The Blackbirch Company...
  • Vicious Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu

    Vicious Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Devastation tastes a lot like ash in your mouth. It feels like looming death hanging over your bones. It sounds like the violent shattering of your soul. It has an acrid smell much like that of rotting hearts. . . But most of all, devastation looks a lot like the beautiful, fiery girl with her fake sincerity and lies...
  • Bad Boys Never Fall by S.J. Sylvis

    Bad Boys Never Fall by S.J. Sylvis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Isaiah:We were destined to burn from the second I laid eyes on her.Within every dark corner of St. Mary’s Boarding School, watchful eyes tracked our every move. My guilty conscience whispered unjust excuses in my ear anytime we touched. Our futures suddenly became unclear, and the already blurred lines became blurrier.A past we didn’t know existed turned our walls of self-preservation to rubble...
  • Throttle's Seduction by Chiah Wilder

    Throttle's Seduction by Chiah Wilder

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Throttle, Road Captain of the Insurgents Motorcycle Club, likes his women willing, stacked, and no strings attached. His life and needs are simple: riding his Harley, bedding as many women as can fit in his bed, and scorching his throat with whiskey. The tall, rugged outlaw is a magnet for women who love life on the wild and dangerous side...
  • The Scent of Roses: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sienna Blake, Romacdesigns

    The Scent of Roses: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sienna Blake, Romacdesigns

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sequel to Love Sprung From Hate, Dark Romeo 1. The game becomes more deadly as the lies get bigger. Risks will be taken, loyalties will be tested, but will Roman and Julianna take the biggest risk of all…giving into their hearts? Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this is a retelling for mature audiences. Don’t enter the Underworld if you’re scared of the dark...
  • Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three serial killers connected by an unholy thread, tangled in a twisted chase for revenge and blood. In this game of hunters, who will become the ultimate prey?***He is every sin she wants to commit. Yara West spends her day as a Medical Examiner. At nights, she dons the mask of a twisted killer to satiate the demons in her head...
  • Wild Girl by Eva Ashwood

    Wild Girl by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bishop, Kace, and Misael promised to protect me.But after what they did, can I protect them?In the aftermath of a single gunshot, my life seems to be splitting apart at the seams. Nathaniel can never discover what my boys did, but keeping it hidden from him may be harder than we hope.Especially since I'm still being pulled between two loyalties, two halves of myself. Between duty and love...
  • The Forever Crew by C.M. Stunich

    The Forever Crew by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The secret is out.I’m officially dating the entire Student Council, but that’s not the only thing that’s outside the norm at Adamson All-Boys Academy.Nah, I think the murders are a bit more remarkable, although my dad might disagree. He’s not exactly thrilled with my fake fiancé or the other four boys that make my pulse race...
  • Come / Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Come / Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***THIS IS A TWO-BOOK BUNDLE*** COME – Dirty, Dark, and Deadly Book One THIS IS BOOK ONE OF A SERIES. THIS IS A NOVELLA. YOU WILL GET MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS IN THIS BOOK. IF YOU HATE THAT - SKIP THIS WHOLE SERIES COMPLETELY. (It's twisty, complicated, dark, dirty, and ALL the main characters are killers.) My name is James Fenici and you will never see me coming...
  • Reaper by Rachel Leigh

    Reaper by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call me the reaper.Saying I have no soul. A heart that’s charred black. I tell them it’s true,because it is. I’ve been hiding in the shadows.Stealing secrets, destroying the lives of those who deserve it. But there’s one story to be told before this book closes. My story. Don’t be fooled, it’s not a fairytale. I’m no prince.And I certainly don’t want a princess...
  • Black Light: Suspicion by Measha Stone

    Black Light: Suspicion by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I have my own suspicions about you, Sophie.”   Sophie Nelson knows her kinky interests are no more than fantasy, definitely not something that’ll ever happen in the real world. So the sexual playground Black Light is the best place to turn. A safe place to play. Until Scott. Detective Scott Russo knows better than to get sexually involved with his partner...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  suspense  adult  billionaire  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Fate Hates by Tina Saxon

    Fate Hates by Tina Saxon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Of all the times to crave a man's touch, now is not it.Between being handcuffed to a bed post for trespassing, and the stare down from the sexy-as-sin bodyguard sent in to find answers, I'm certain my body must be confusing fear with lust.I was on a mission to find my mother's killer, not a man, but my body seems to think now is a good time to pursue its search for Mr. Right.He's not Mr. Right...
  • Viper's Touch by E.C. Land

    Viper's Touch by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I swore I'd never let another woman look into my heart, but Jade didn't need to see to know the type of man I am.ViperAfter being framed and ending up in prison, I was done with women. I wanted nothing to do with them. A woman was the reason I landed in jail in the first place, so I wasn't ever going to let another put me in so much risk again...
  • Pocketful of You by Chloe Walsh

    Pocketful of You by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Nothing in Pocketful is as it seems."
 Evil is lurking all around us and Sketch and I cannot escape the secrets of our past. A past that, up until now, neither one of us knew existed. Torn apart by our cruel, vindictive fathers, we face our biggest challenge yet; staying alive.
 Pocketful of You is the third in a four-book series. Therefore, the storyline continues into the fourth book...
  • Vandal: An MM Bully Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Vandal: An MM Bully Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have a secret. A deep and painful secret that has been feasting on my insides. Clawing at my heart and lacerating it in a slow and painful agony. If Wyatt thinks that he can just walk into my life and rattle things up,he’s got another thing coming.He’s nothing to me.Scum.Dirt.As good as dead.You see, I have a secret, but so does he...
  • Fragile Things by Samantha Lovelock

    Fragile Things by Samantha Lovelock

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Poe Halliday was an accident. A chance meeting that changed my life forever.My mother didn't have secrets; her secrets had her. After she disappeared, I had nothing.Or so I thought.When the invitation arrived, the opportunity to learn about my mother's past was too great to pass up. Heading west to meet an aunt I had never heard of, I knew I was taking a risk, but I craved answers...
  • Twisted Games by Elena Lawson

    Twisted Games by Elena Lawson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Twisted Games is a full-length dark enemies-to-lovers reverse harem romance, meaning the main character will have more than one love interest. It is book three in the Boys of Briar Hall series and should be read after Wicked Trials...
  • Leith by Jane Henry

    Leith by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cairstina Reilly was locked in silence when I found her.When I ravaged my way through weak men to save her.When I killed for her.Now our fates are tangled together in a web of lies, danger, and betrayal.I have to take her hostage.Drag her from her silent, private world,And force her into mine...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Pocketful of Blame by Chloe Walsh

    Pocketful of Blame by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Capaldi twins. Chris and Sketch. As different as night and day. One my best friend. One my lover. Inseparable since childhood, I always assumed that we would grow up, escape our sleepy hometown of Pocketful, and live out a life of adventure together, away from our powerful fathers and the lure of money...
  • Heathen: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Heathen: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve done very bad things. I’m not a good man. There’s skeletons in my closet And blood on my hands.I should be reaching for that sliver of light. But deep in the darkness lies the loyalty of my friends. Along with the secrets we’ve buried. It’s become comfortable and safe and all I really know. It’s all that I deserve. Yet, there’s someone who thinks I’m worthy of conviction...
  • F*ck Her: Knox Academy - Term Three by Jaye Pratt, Jaye Pratt

    F*ck Her: Knox Academy - Term Three by Jaye Pratt, Jaye Pratt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As Amelie navigates the secret world of The Order, she must contend with school, new responsibilities, even more mysteries, and balancing her four relationships.How much can a girl handle before she bends?Quite a lot it would seem.But when old threats resurface out of the woodwork, Amelie may have no choice but to bend…otherwise this time, she may just break.***This book carries an 18+ warning...
  • Broken Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu, Thandie

    Broken Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu, Thandie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What’s wrong Baby Blue? Did you mistake his forced sincerity for love?Every kiss will fade in time.Every memory will fade in time.Every smile, every teardrop, every wound—it’ll all dry up—in time.But every lie? That shit only gets bigger and more devastating with time.In time..
  • Dying for Love by Rita Herron

    Dying for Love by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everything she believes is a lie. Amelia Nettleton has struggled to overcome her childhood trauma and finally has a chance to lead a normal life—a life with a husband and a family. But a recurring nightmare haunts her: she dreams of a baby crying for its mother…a baby that may be hers, and was stolen from her...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray

    Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My entire world was turned upside down the day my mum died. I feared what my life would become when an aunt I never knew about came swooping in and threw me into the unknown. She was rich. I couldn’t even afford a pack of gum. We were complete opposites, yet I wanted a fresh start in life, and she was promising to give me that. I just had to live with her for a year, until I graduated college...
  • Sinful Hearts by Jagger Cole

    Sinful Hearts by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My first mistake was sleeping with the most dangerous man in New York, without him knowing who I was.My second was believing he never would...It was supposed to be easy: one night of sin with a beautiful stranger to forever cut ties with my Bratva past.But I didn’t pick a stranger. I picked him...
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