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  • The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck...
  • Lying Season by Karina Halle

    Lying Season by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Amateur ghost-hunter Perry Palomino has battled ghosts, fought off skinwalkers and skirted the fine line between life and death...
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    dark  humor  steamy  action-adventure  alpha-mc  angst  audiobook  book
  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The truth is out there...The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
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    dark  humor  steamy  action-adventure  alpha-mc  angst  book  cheating
  • The Risk by S.T. Abby

    The Risk by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    They took too much.Left too little.I had nothing to lose...until him.*****************~Lana~I didn't expect him.I didn't want to fall in love.But I can't let him go.Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place.He's brilliant.He's a hero.He locks away the sick and depraved.But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.Ten years ago, they took from me...
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    crime  dark  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When the life you wanted has crumbled beneath your fingers, there’s nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and soldier on. You’ve done this before.But what happens when you no longer feel like yourself anymore? When fires spontaneously start-up around you, when you hear growling coming from underneath your bed, and you no longer recognize your face in the mirror...
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    dark  humor  steamy  action-adventure  alpha-mc  angst  audiobook  book
  • Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet

    Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She just wants to be loved… by the one man who is not capable of feeling it. A CUTE PSYCHO Charming and unpredictable, Vlad Kuznetsov is known as the joker of the underground world. Known to many yet known by none, he is a true social chameleon. His feigned affability might present him as inoffensive but his inner demons could unleash a bloodbath at any time...
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    crime  dark  humor  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap
  • A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

    A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the Hollows with the electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed Pale Demon!A Perfect BloodRitually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the I.S...
  • Psycho by Onley James

    Psycho by Onley James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    August Mulvaney has always been exceptional. As the genius son of an eccentric billionaire, his off-putting behavior is often blamed on his high IQ. They say there’s a thin line between genius and madness. August is both—a brilliant professor loved by his students and a ruthless, obsessive killer tasked with righting the wrongs of a failing justice system...
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    crime  dark  humor  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  anti-hero
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
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    crime  dark  humor  steamy  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Pretty Lost Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Pretty Lost Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From bestselling authors Ker Dukey & K Webster comes the heart-stopping, internationally bestselling crime thriller Pretty Lost Dolls which is book two in the continuation of the epic Pretty Little Dolls series.Have you ever touched another’s soul with the essence of your own and breathed them in, so they become a part of you? I have...
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    crime  dark  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • Consumed by A.K. Rose

    Consumed by A.K. Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Get ready for the epic conclusion of The Blood Ties Series. There is no place to hide now. No dark corner of this city where those who stand behind The Order can disappear. They are exposed, hunted…but they aren’t vulnerable…not yet. Protected by the most savage of us all… they bribe and scheme. But no matter how loud their threats are, they know there’s no way out of this...
  • One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

    One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 75 ratings
    You can run from the grave, but you can’t hide…Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She’s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind...
  • Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire

    Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The twelfth installment of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling Toby Daye urban fantasy series!Things are not okay.In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October "Toby" Daye's fragile self-made family is on the verge of coming apart at the seams...
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    crime  dark  humor  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
  • Stars by Tal Bauer

    Stars by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I have looked to the stars my whole life… For two years, Sasha Andreyev has been in NASA astronaut training, the final step on his lifelong dream. During that time, he and Russian President Sergey Puchkov have kept their love hidden. But as graduation nears, secrets start to slip, and Sergey makes a dangerous trip to Houston for a weekend with Sasha...
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    crime  dark  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  angst  book  celebrity
  • Dead Sky Morning by Karina Halle

    Dead Sky Morning by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    With the Experiment in Terror show finding some success, amateur ghost hunters Perry Palomino and Dex Foray embark on their most terrifying investigation yet. A tiny, fog-shrouded island in the rough strait between British Columbia and Washington State has held a dark secret for decades: It was a former leper colony where over forty souls were left to rot, die and bury each other...
  • Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Perry Palomino has fought her demons – and won – but the battle is far from over. She’s now left broken and on her own, leaving behind her life and family in Portland to focus on giving Dex Foray – and the Experiment in Terror show – a second chance. But their past mistakes continue to tease and test their relationship, as does the wild and desolate terrain of the Canadian Rockies...
  • Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward

    Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard-living ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world—to engage in the turf war with the lessers. He's got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league...
  • Bloodlines by Andrea Speed

    Bloodlines by Andrea Speed

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sequel to PreyIn a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds.The newly married Roan is struggling to balance his work with his home life as he grows increasingly distracted by his husband Paris's declining health...
  • The Quiet House by Lily Morton

    The Quiet House by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Levi Black has mostly recovered from the events of a year ago. The only lingering effects are that he’s much more well known in York than he’d like to be, and he’s a lot more cautious about walking around his house naked. However, those events brought him the capricious and fascinating Blue, so he’s not complaining...
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    crime  dark  humor  action-adventure  adult  angst  audiobook  book
  • Jon's Spooky Corpse Conundrum by A.J. Sherwood

    Jon's Spooky Corpse Conundrum by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I’ve investigated some pretty strange cases in my life, but I have to say this is a first. A corpse—a murder victim—has gone missing during the middle of an investigation, and no one has any clue where it went. Psy is called in to clear the investigative team, make sure they’re not an accomplice...
  • Pretty New Doll by Ker Dukey

    Pretty New Doll by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Benny, broken, hurting, and aloneLost his dolly, his love, his home.Injured and searching, reborn anew,He finds himself befriended by one who’s true.Learning about the world, urges, and lust.Finding a new future, a new dolly, is a must.Then out of old pain, fresh prospects come to life,Benny’s sick mind summons him, so his hand takes the knife...
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    crime  dark  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc
  • Headcase by Onley James

    Headcase by Onley James

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Asa Mulvaney is half of a psychopathic whole. He and his twin brother live together, party together…kill together. In the Mulvaney family, murder is the family business and business is good. When an experiment separates Asa and his brother, Asa is forced to navigate the world on his own for the first time in his life...
  • GhosTV by Jordan Castillo Price

    GhosTV by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    For the past dozen years, Victor Bayne has solved numerous murders by interrogating witnesses only he can see—dead witnesses. But when his best friend Lisa goes missing from the sunny California campus of PsyTrain, the last thing he wants to find there is her spirit.Disappearing without a trace in a school full of psychics? That’s some trick...
  • Bloodbath by K.A. Merikan

    Bloodbath by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I don’t even know who I am anymore.” “All you need to know is that you’re mine.” Seth would follow Domenico to the depths of hell. He promised to always be at Domenico’s side. But hell becomes all too real when they infiltrate the world of Toro - a notoriously security-obsessed arms dealer, who has eyes and ears everywhere...
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    crime  dark  humor  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • Camp Hell by Jordan Castillo Price

    Camp Hell by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Victor Bayne honed his dubious psychic skills at one of the first psych training facilities in the country, Heliotrope Station, otherwise known as Camp Hell to the psychics who've been guests behind its razorwire fence.Vic discovered that none of the people he remembers from Camp Hell can be found online, and there’s no mention of Heliotrope Station itself, either...
  • Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Saria Boudreaux finds a dead body in the Louisiana bayou near her home, her first instinct is to go to the police. But there's a problem: it looks like the victim may have been killed by a big cat - and her brothers are all shape-shifting leopards...
  • The Woman in the Woods by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman in the Woods by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s more than secrets hiding in the woods…Silvano got the call in the middle of the night.Another set of bodies he needed to pick up and get rid of.As the mafia’s one-man crime scene clean-up crew, he was used to the long hours in the woods, digging graves for bodies that would never be found.What he wasn’t used to was being caught doing it...
  • Agent Bayne by Jordan Castillo Price

    Agent Bayne by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Victor Bayne is through with the Chicago PD. Can he handle the FPMP?After years of frustration as a PsyCop, Victor Bayne reports for duty at the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program. As a fledgeling agent, he’s ready to smoke out a few ghosts and be home each night in time for dinner...
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    crime  humor  steamy  action-adventure  adult  angst  audiobook  book
  • Periculum by Natalie Bennett, Opulent Designs

    Periculum by Natalie Bennett, Opulent Designs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tragic and twisted fell in love... Ave Satanas, something wicked this way comes.It’s time for the reckoning to begin.Enter the Devil’s Playground wary where you tread, for demons are lurking with trickery up their sleeves.Here good and bad cease to exist, and not all will make it to the end.The price of freedom will be revealed only after bloodshed and rapture...
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    crime  dark  steamy  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  anti-hero  book
  • That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire

    That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Crossroads, noun: 1. A place where two roads cross.2. A place where bargains can be made.3. See also “places to avoid.”Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings, and cousins to help her out when she’s in a pinch—until now. After fleeing from the Covenant of St...
  • Archangel's Blade by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Blade by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh is back in the shadows of a deadly, beautiful world where angels rule, vampires serve, and one female hunter must crawl out of the darkness to survive…The severed head marked by a distinctive tattoo on its cheek should have been a Guild case, but dark instincts honed over hundreds of years of life compel the vampire Dmitri to take control...
  • A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

    A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order.Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past...
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison

    The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    Rachel Morgan, sexy witch, independent bounty hunter, prowls the downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle leather-clad vamps and a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is an ancient, implacable evil that threatens her very soul...
  • NoX by Adrienne Wilder

    NoX by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A nude man invades Luca Suarez's home and protects him from creatures who cannot exist.Creatures hunting him.The stranger can't tell Luca why. He can't even tell Luca his name.He remembers nothing until the moment he sees Luca...
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    crime  dark  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc
  • The Mysterious and Amazing Blue Billings by Lily Morton

    The Mysterious and Amazing Blue Billings by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Levi Black is at a crossroads. After suffering a loss and breaking up a long-term relationship, he’s looking for a change. When he receives the news he’s inherited a house in York, he seizes the opportunity to begin a new chapter in his life. However, when he gets there, he finds a house that has never kept its occupants for very long...
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    crime  dark  humor  action-adventure  adult  angst  audiobook  book
  • No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose

    No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden’s home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms—from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive. Five years ago, State’s Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars...
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    crime  dark  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    It’s one thing to bring the woman you love back into your life. It’s another to try and keep her there. For Dex Foray, con­vinc­ing Perry Palomino to open her­self to their bur­geon­ing rela­tion­ship has been more chal­leng­ing than hunt­ing ghosts, bat­tling demons and stalk­ing Sasquatch com­bined...
  • Sinister Legacy: An erotic horror novel by Harleigh Beck

    Sinister Legacy: An erotic horror novel by Harleigh Beck

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    KeiraI was born with darkness in my veins.My name is Keira Hill. I’m the daughter of one of the country’s most notorious serial killers.I hide in plain sight. Pretending to fit in. Pretending I’m not haunted by my father’s skeletons.In two months’ time, he’s scheduled to be executed...
  • Enforced: Lords of Chaos Motorcycle Club by Nicholas Bella

    Enforced: Lords of Chaos Motorcycle Club by Nicholas Bella

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B09GHYN6V7 Mafia, Bikers, and Payback. Fabian “Burger” Murphy is a man loyal to his club and family, which for him are one and the same. He will kill for them. So, when his sister, Sofia, tells him about what happened to their little sister, Gina, regarding her date with Roman Alexander, Burger is ready to spring into action and avenge Gina’s honor...
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    crime  biker  dark  steamy  romance  mlm  organized-crime  prison
  • Spook Squad by Jordan Castillo Price

    Spook Squad by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Everyone enjoys peace and tranquility, and Victor Bayne is no exception. He goes to great lengths to maintain a harmonious home with his partner, Jacob. Although the cannery is huge, it’s grown difficult to avoid the elephant in the room…the elephant with the letters FPMP scrawled on its hide.Once Jacob surrendered his PsyCop badge, he infiltrated the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program...
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    crime  humor  steamy  action-adventure  adult  angst  audiobook  book
  • The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    She has tempted many men...but never found her equal. Until now.Though she has lived for centuries, Anya, goddess of Anarchy, has never known pleasure. Until Lucien, the incarnation of death—a warrior eternally doomed to take souls to the hereafter. He draws her like no other. And Anya will risk anything to have him...
  • Stranded by Cara Dee

    Stranded by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Stranded is the second book in The Auctioned Series. Before you read further, you should read Auctioned. ​ “You have my word, Gray. I will get you off this island, and I will bring you home.” ​ It was supposed to be an easy in-and-out job. Nothing Darius Quinn hadn’t done before. But this job had something none of the others did: Gray Nolan...
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    crime  dark  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc
  • Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans...
  • Maleficium by Natalie Bennett

    Maleficium by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tragic and Twisted Fall Apart…Ave Satanas worship or perish.The reckoning has begun.In the Devil’s Playground morals have vanished, demons run rampant, and the death toll is rising.The price of freedom looms closer than before, simply crown the king, claim a queen, and make idle work of the damned.One will perish.Bounties will be placed...
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    steamy  dark  crime  suspense  horror  new-adult  contemporary  mystery
  • Lover Unveiled by J.R. Ward

    Lover Unveiled by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Meet Sahvage: a powerful MMA fighter with a buried secret that could change the world of Caldwell forever... Sahvage has been living under the radar for centuries-and he has every intention of staying 'dead and buried.' But when a civilian female sucks him into her dangerous battle with an evil as ancient as time, his protective side overrides his common sense...
  • Lesser Evils by Andrea Speed

    Lesser Evils by Andrea Speed

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds. Until recently, Roan was ahead of the curve when it came to reining in the lion that lives inside him. Now his control is slipping at the worst possible times...
  • PsyCop Briefs: Volume 1 by Jordan Castillo Price

    PsyCop Briefs: Volume 1 by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Victor Bayne sees dead people for a living…and he sees them off the clock, too.  After all, ghosts don’t confine their appearances to a psychic medium’s work hours. From the macabre to the mundane, from titillating to tender, these PsyCop shorts feature stolen moments between the novels. Get a glimpse of Vic’s life with Jacob between cases, from both men’s viewpoints...
  • Lost in the Mind by Alice Winters

    Lost in the Mind by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After the last incident—which involved a serial killer—Chevy and Seneca are considering puppy wrangling as a new, safer profession than psychic detective work. Honestly, Seneca would prefer to focus on his new relationship with Chevy, even if he’s worried about the menacing countdown calendar leading to Chevy’s birthday...
  • The Pretty Dead Girls by Skylar Finn

    The Pretty Dead Girls by Skylar Finn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When two young girls go missing from a small Georgia town, the crime remains unsolved for nearly thirty years.When Savannah moves home to the small town of Humble, Georgia, she has no intention of getting involved in a kidnapping investigation. But when her older brother Mac becomes the main suspect, Savannah launches a secret investigation in order to clear her brother’s name...
  • Six by Paulina Ian-Kane

    Six by Paulina Ian-Kane

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Oliver “Ollie” TrumanMy purpose in life has always been one: protect my little brother. And the only way to do that is doing what my dirtbag of a father says—easier said than done—save enough money to grab our bag packs and leave those miserable days behind us...
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    dark  crime  steamy  humor  romance  mlm  contemporary  abuse
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