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  • Magnum: A Dark Knights MC/Dirty Angels MC Crossover by Jeanne St. James

    Magnum: A Dark Knights MC/Dirty Angels MC Crossover by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Out of the dark comes a knight she least expects. He’s the Sergeant at Arms for the Dark Knights MC. He enforces the rules and gets his hands dirty. She’s the daughter of a biker. Property of another MC. She’s young. He’s not. He’s lived a life. She’s just finding her way. She’s a bad idea. A very bad idea. One which can quickly turn allies into rivals...
  • Famished: Part One by Ellie Messe

    Famished: Part One by Ellie Messe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Moms a junkie, Dad’s not dead. After lying to me for the past twenty-one years, Mom got in too deep with her debt and had to call not-dead dad to bail her out. But wait, there’s more; not-dead dad is a biker who thinks he knows what’s best for the daughter he's never met. Agreeing to bail dear mom out for the low, low price of one grown ass adult...
  • Intertwined by Jerilee Kaye

    Intertwined by Jerilee Kaye

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The women in Brianne Montgomery’s family have a curse that compels them to marry before the age of thirty-one, and she wasn't going to be the first one to break it. Her life seemed perfect. Her parents were happily married and she had a wonderful brother who looked out for her. The only thing she hated about her life was Travis Cross—her brother’s annoying best friend...
  • Meyah by Addison Jane

    Meyah by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meyah wasn’t the same girl she used to be. She was becoming a woman. One who wasn’t afraid to speak up and stand her ground, refusing to go back to that girl who let the world walk all over her and break her down. Her love for Hamlet gave her strength. Meyah knew their relationship was never going to be easy...
    Categorized as:
    dark  forbidden-love  sad  abuse  action-adventure  adult  biker  book
  • Don't Be Afraid by C.A. Harms

    Don't Be Afraid by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beautiful, Breathtaking An Epic Love Story! Have you ever looked at someone and just knew, knew that they were put in your life for a reason? The one person that would be not only your best friend, but would be your absolute everything? That’s how I felt the first time I saw him. That one day when a few little words changed our entire lives forever… Don’t be Afraid, he said...
    Categorized as:
    dark  forbidden-love  sad  adult  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Fate Loves by Tina Saxon

    Fate Loves by Tina Saxon

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Conclusion of the romantic suspense Twist of Fate trilogy. He got down on one knee, and I said yes. Time stood still in a picture-perfect moment. I was finally going to get my happily ever after. Funny thing about moments, the next one can change everything. Aiden and I have spent our whole lives trying to untangle ourselves from an intricate web of truth and lies...
  • Scars of Yesterday by Anne Malcom

    Scars of Yesterday by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Sons of Templar MC. I'm sure you've heard of them.They're infamous. Murderers. Criminals. Outlaws. But to me, they're family. My husband wore the cut for well over a decade. For almost as long as he wore a wedding ring. Our marriage survived wars. Deaths. Blood. The cuts were deep. And they never healed quite right. But we survived. Until we didn't. He promised me forever...
    Categorized as:
    dark  sad  adult  alpha-mc  biker  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Renegade Path by Autumn Jones Lake

    Renegade Path by Autumn Jones Lake

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Lost Kings MC World Novel USA Today bestselling author Autumn Jones Lake delivers an unforgettable story of heart-wrenching first love. ROMANFrom the minute I met Juliet, I wanted to shield her from the world’s ugliness. We’d both already suffered more heartache than anyone should experience in a lifetime...
  • Enigma: The Complete Collection by Shandi Boyes

    Enigma: The Complete Collection by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Enigma: The Complete Collection is the entire story of the tumultuous relationship of Isaac and Isabelle. A sitting on the edge of your seat read that will have you enthralled until the very last word. Over 390,000 words on an enigmatic alpha male and the FBI agent assigned to his case. This is a story about two people who were never destined to fall in love...
  • IMPACT by Haley Jenner

    IMPACT by Haley Jenner

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯/ˈɪ𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘬𝘵/ a marked effect or influence My life has been severed into two distinct origins. Before. 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳. You don’t need to know too much of my life before. It’s no longer relevant to my story. The damage is mine. I’m a ghost. The shell of the girl from 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 striving to survive in the 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳. Love. Life. Friendship...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  dark  sad  abuse  adult  angst  book  contemporary
  • June First by Jennifer Hartmann

    June First by Jennifer Hartmann

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Want to know what happens to a man who barely claws his way out of a tragedy, only to fall right into the arms of the one girl in the world he can never have?Another tragedy, that’s what.When I was six years old, my father made a choice that altered the course of my entire life. Because of what he did, the only girl I ever loved became the only girl I couldn’t have...
  • Breaking Free by L.L. Collins

    Breaking Free by L.L. Collins

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alexis Carson-Nichols has had what anyone would describe as an idyllic childhood. She has great parents, little brothers and sister that mean the world to her, and friends that are always there for her. As she graduates from high school and gets ready to go to college, she feels like she has the world at her fingertips. She can’t wait to experience life as a young adult...
  • The Other Brother by Dyan Layne

    The Other Brother by Dyan Layne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Things happen as they’re meant to.There’s no avoiding your destiny…Dillon Byrne always believed in fate.He would meet someone. Fall in love. Be a family.All in that order.Sometimes fate has other plans…Life changes in an instant. Love is lost.But how do you let go of the life you once had?To appreciate the magic of a brand new beginning, you have to make peace with the ending first...
  • The Biker's Cherry by Glenna Maynard

    The Biker's Cherry by Glenna Maynard

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling Author Glenna Maynard brings you another gritty age gap MC romance.The Biker's CherryNavarroI'm a prospect. The low man in the hierarchy of my club.There's nothing I want more than being a Royal Bastard but her. Kimber is off limits. Too damn young and wild for a man like me. I try to keep my distance, but no matter where I turn, there she is...
  • Sunset by Jessie Cave

    Sunset by Jessie Cave

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The debut adult novel from Jessie Cave is a spry yet reflective comedy of sisterhood, loneliness and second chances as a rootless young woman starts to piece her life back together again.Sunset is an unconventional love story about putting yourself back together when the sky has fallen in.Ruth and Hannah are sisters. They build each other up, and tear each other down...
  • Falling by E.K. Blair

    Falling by E.K. Blair

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes it takes someone else to show us what we are truly capable of becoming. Suffering from years of violent abuse, Ryan Campbell has learned how to keep people from getting too close. But when you shut yourself off, people get hurt along the way. Never caring much about others, Ryan creates a world in which he doesn’t have to feel...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  dark  sad  abuse  adult  angst  anthologies  audiobook
  • Equilibrium: A Marauders Interlude by Lina Andersson

    Equilibrium: A Marauders Interlude by Lina Andersson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes life throws you a curve ball. Sometimes they’re minor league, a mild irritation. Sometimes they’re game changers, life-altering, knock ‘em out of the park kinda big. Eliza thought she knew what track her life was on, but then life threw her one of those major league style curve balls. Roach isn’t even sure what normal is anymore, he’s been thrown so many curve balls in his life...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  dark  sad  abuse  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • MAXWELL 3: Love's Conviction by C.J. Bishop

    MAXWELL 3: Love's Conviction by C.J. Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MAXWELL, Part 3 A tender romance begins to blossom between Savannah and Maddy as darker issues arise when Cole, Gabe and Dane are clued in to Brock Coulson’s intentions to drag Caleb through a vicious court battle. Clint and Cochise return to lend a “helping” hand and Clint finds himself unexpectedly drawn to a least likely candidate for romance...
    Categorized as:
    dark  sad  adult  angst  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq
  • Surviving You by Emilia Finn

    Surviving You by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ScotchI was one of the lucky ones.I met the love of my life when I was just fourteen years old. We had all the time in the world, we were in no rush to get where we were going, and we had the world at our feet. Those were the perfect conditions for young love to grow and thrive...
  • The Nicholas Sparks Holiday Collection by Nicholas Sparks

    The Nicholas Sparks Holiday Collection by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three of Nicholas Sparks's beloved bestselling novels are now available as a boxed set. TRUE BELIEVER: A skeptical science journalist travels to a small town to investigate ghostly apparitions. When he hopelessly falls in love with a local woman, he must take a giant leap of faith...
    Categorized as:
    sad  romance  fiction  contemporary  book  adult
  • Inferno: Part 4 by T.K. Leigh

    Inferno: Part 4 by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He found me in the dark when I thought all hope was lost.He swore he loved me when I didn't think anyone ever would.He vowed to keep the shadows haunting me at bay when I felt like I was drowning in my past.But in doing so, he also kept the truth from me.It shouldn't surprise me...
  • Hot for Teacher Anthology: Nineteen Stories Filled with Love and Lust by Elle Christensen, L.J. Shen

    Hot for Teacher Anthology: Nineteen Stories Filled with Love and Lust by Elle Christensen, L.J. Shen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nineteen of today’s bestselling authors… Plus Nineteen tales of tempting teachers and seductive students… Equals One HOT anthology for an epic cause. Sexy, spicy, romantic, angsty, funny, or sweet-however you like your fantasies, these nineteen original novellas guarantee extra heat...
  • Contempt by Bethany-Kris

    Contempt by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How much is too much? Five years—that was the deal. Renzo Zulla gave up five years of his life to repay a debt to an organization that only wanted to break him before they could make him. Their way, their rules. He doesn’t move without their okay, even if his latest job puts him right in front of her. But the five years are almost up, and he knows exactly where he’s going first...
  • Scar by Jolie Vines

    Scar by Jolie Vines

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    TBC. This is Scar's story...
    Categorized as:
    dark  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  found-family  insta-love
  • Differently Normal by Tammy Robinson

    Differently Normal by Tammy Robinson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every family has its issues. For Maddy, life is all about routine. It has to be, to keep her autistic sister happy and healthy. With just Maddy and her mother as Bee’s full time carers, there’s no time in Maddy’s life for complications like friends, let alone a boyfriend...
  • Ghost by Mary Kennedy

    Ghost by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eric "Ghost" Stanton has spent half his life as an elite military man, but when fate steps in forcing him to leave the life he loves, he decides to create a different kind of family with his brothers. Their love of the road, riding, women, and drinking will help them form a new brotherhood. But just because she's a bitch, fate interferes again and drops Grace in his lap...
    Categorized as:
    dark  sad  action-adventure  adult  biker  book  contemporary  crime
  • My Favorite Sin by Skyla Summers

    My Favorite Sin by Skyla Summers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ally Hastings is my obsession, the one girl I never should have fallen in love with.She ran away from me for a year, filled with shame, insisting our feelings for each other are wrong and we can’t give into temptation. No more sneaking around. No more stolen kisses.Now Ally is back in town, ignoring our past, trying to date other guys and move on from me...
  • This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers

    This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Subtitled The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together...
  • Finding Me by Judith Keim

    Finding Me by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sheena Sullivan Morelli and her sisters, Darcy and Regan, receive the unexpected news that their Uncle Gavin Sullivan, the black sheep of the family, has left them a hotel on the Gulf coast of Florida. The gift comes with a twist. They must live together for one year at the hotel and prepare the hotel to receive guests within a year...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  sad  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction  humor
  • Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney

    Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m not yours and you’re not mine. That’s what I say to his dreaming face as I watch the shadows of his dark eyelashes dance by the light of a Tilley lamp.It’s not the first lie I’ve told myself. When I was sixteen, I wanted to fly...
  • A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel

    A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Told in letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors’ reports, and instant messages, the heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia. From: Melinda Skye To: Readers Subject: Jesse Hi! I can’t believe it. What a surprise from Jesse...
  • MAXWELL 2: Trial By Fire by C.J. Bishop

    MAXWELL 2: Trial By Fire by C.J. Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    MAXWELL, Part 2 As the trial becomes an emotional battle ground – within the courtroom and without – Max struggles to maintain his resolve to resist his heart. But as it becomes more and more evident that Horatio’s heartbreak over losing Max isn’t healing, but in fact growing worse, Max begins to question the choices he made so long ago...
    Categorized as:
    dark  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  friends-to-lovers  lgbtq
  • On the Rocks by Gillian Jones, Book Covers Ashbee Designs

    On the Rocks by Gillian Jones, Book Covers Ashbee Designs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Braunwyn Four years ago losing the love of my life almost destroyed me. Years of being labeled and looked upon with disdain by everyone in my hometown almost wrecked me. Four years ago I became a mother and together we were enough...Until I met him. He wanted to rebuild my broken–I just didn’t know how to let him...
  • Dying Wish by Margaret McHeyzer

    Dying Wish by Margaret McHeyzer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have three major loves in my life: my family, my best friend Becky, and ballet. Elijah Turner is quickly becoming the fourth.He's been around as long as I can remember. But now he's much more than just the annoying guy at school.My life was working out perfectly...until it got turned upside down...
  • Forged: The Trial by Fire Series by Cole Denton

    Forged: The Trial by Fire Series by Cole Denton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when you wake up one day to discover that you’ve been on autopilot your entire life? My life has always been more downs than ups. Good things rarely knocked on my door. But hard knocks never failed to kick my ass. Nothing good would ever happen to me. Or so I thought. In college I discovered women, and never looked back. But even though I was never alone, I was always lonely...
    Categorized as:
    dark  coming-of-age  romance  steamy  mlm  lgbtq  contemporary  abuse
  • Prosper by Paula Marinaro

    Prosper by Paula Marinaro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Prosper Worthington is a decorated war hero, a convicted felon, and the ex-cellmate and road companion of his best friend, Jack Winston. Different as two men can be, Prosper is rough, hot-headed, focused, and driven. He’s also had more than enough of Jack’s spur-of-the-moment decisions, faulty reasoning, and Peter Pan-like existence...
  • Glass Heart Hero by Lindsey Iler

    Glass Heart Hero by Lindsey Iler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Loyalty. Corruption. Family.A gauntlet rooted in love and jealousy may be the destruction of the students at Glass Heart Academy.DelaneyParts of me were stolen in the confines of a dark room. No matter how hard I fought, I got nowhere. The damage has already been done.Now I find myself in the arms of an unexpected boy...
  • Break by Angel Devlin, Tracy Lorraine

    Break by Angel Devlin, Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    sad  dark  contemporary  workplace  romance  new-adult  fiction  book
  • Unfortunately Francine by Joan Vassar

    Unfortunately Francine by Joan Vassar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Georgia, 1995–A gentle push from her sister causes Francine Adams to agree to one date with the handsome, Jalal Dorsey. When his ex-girlfriend makes an appearance, a perfect evening takes a turn for the worse. Blinded by humiliation and desperate to put distance between herself and the drama, Francine flees the upscale eatery...
  • MAXWELL 1: Not Without Guilt by C.J. Bishop

    MAXWELL 1: Not Without Guilt by C.J. Bishop

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MAXWELL, Part 1 While Abel faces trial for the death of Devlin’s brother – Craig Grant – Max and Horatio struggle with memories of the past, and what they still mean to one another. Holding the key that will free their hearts from the chains that have bound them for two decades, Horatio must hide it away and keep it secret now that “new” hearts are involved...
    Categorized as:
    dark  sad  adult  angst  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq
  • Committed by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Committed by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A LOST IN OBLIVION Outtake - Simon & Margo With the crash and burn of Simon Kagan's singing career, things have been a little off between him and Margo Reece. The passion is there--it's always there--but he wants to make sure she knows just how invested and committed he is to making her happy. Even if that means breaking out a ring and convincing her to wear one...
  • Entwined by E.C. Land

    Entwined by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MitchI lost the love of my life ten years ago, and now I'm being thrust into a marriage I never wanted.I agreed to help find a prominent Irishwoman, but in doing so I didn't realize the magnitude of what I was agreeing todo. I was to marry a complete stranger. This woman is a mafia princess, who happens to be my boss's wife's sister...
  • Just Me by L.A. Fiore

    Just Me by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lark O'Bannion learned early that life isn't really like a fairy tale. Parents don't always love their children unconditionally, damsels, or even terrified and lonely little girls, are usually left to deal with their distress alone, Prince Charming rarely, if ever, comes riding to the rescue, and happily-ever-afters are a lovely concept but, in reality, are few and far between...
  • Heathers the Musical by Laurence O'Keefe, Kevin Murphy

    Heathers the Musical by Laurence O'Keefe, Kevin Murphy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Heathers The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D...
  • The Arrangement 4: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    The Arrangement 4: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    THE SERIES WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDVolume 4 in the Arrangement Serials by NY Times Bestselling Author H.M. WardAvery finds out too late that her heart isn’t cut out to be a call girl. She’s too attracted to Sean. Avery doesn’t just want Sean’s body, she wants his heart. When he sent her away, Avery was devastated...
  • Buried Alive by Stacey Marie Brown

    Buried Alive by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nine years after a tragic accident, Hannah “Brennley” Evans has returned home to the snowy mountains of Whistler, Canada. This is the very place that destroyed her, where her whole world ended, and the reason she now goes by Hannah Jennings. Struggling with his own tragic past, Rhys Axton, an infamous sexy snowboarding champion, wants nothing more than to be the next Olympic hopeful...
  • Forget the Stars by Kelsey Kingsley

    Forget the Stars by Kelsey Kingsley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "You're my best friend.""You're mine.""I'm yours." Guitarist Chad Wilcox's life isn't going according to plan. At thirty, he never thought he'd still be unmarried and living with his parents. And with the added stress of his poor health, he's convinced the only thing within his control is the success he's found as a rock star...
  • faire l'amour by Jessica Gadziala

    faire l'amour by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s a woman who has never done anything like this before… Disaster had her world uprooted, her plans for her life going in a direction she could have never seen coming. Shackled with a debt she has no way to pay off, she makes a decision she never could have seen herself making. One contract. Three months. Complete financial freedom...
  • Rush by Deborah Bladon

    Rush by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I met Case Abbott when I was stepping out of the shower.I had a towel wrapped around me.He had his phone in his hand ready to call the police.I thought sneaking into my older brother’s Manhattan apartment to surprise him was a great idea. Except, I was the one who was surprised. Not only was my brother out of town, but he didn’t own the apartment...
  • Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "If I'm going down, I might as well pick my poison. I pick you." *** A Cobalt Bay Billionaires story. *** She couldn’t be sure whether he was her predator or protector... but she was doomed to love him either way. *** It was a summer they will never forget...
    Categorized as:
    dark  sad  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  drama
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