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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...
  • Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A sexy FBI suspense thriller romance Meadow The road was long, it was painful, and it was raw. It has taken me four years to come to terms with my new reality. A life in which I live with the daily reminders of a vicious attack that has left me scarred both emotionally and physically...
  • A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the fourth book of the Wall Street Journal bestselling series, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick must unlock the mystery of a mass murder, and the secrets of its silent witness… For Mercy Kilpatrick, returning to rural Oregon has meant coming to terms with her roots. Raised as a prepper, Mercy is now relying on her survivalist instincts to defend her town from the people the law can’t reach...
  • The Reign Of Kings by Candice M. Wright

    The Reign Of Kings by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Raised by a family of cops who see the world in black and white,I grew up with a defiant streak a mile long,And an immunity to gun-toting alpha males.That is until I find myself at the Carnage clubhouse,At the mercy of their Kings.Now my black and white world is a dirty shade of gray,And my immunity to alpha males has disappeared along with my underwear...
  • 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...
  • Tickle His Fancy by Samantha A. Cole

    Tickle His Fancy by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All around him, Brody ‘Egghead’ Evans’ Trident Security teammates have fallen in love and gotten their happily ever after. Ironically, they had always thought the charismatic Dominant would be the first one to fall—not the last...
  • Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker

    Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a scorching Silverstone installment that finds a former military man racing to save the woman he loves as danger closes in on them both.Former military man turned government assassin Kellan “Eagle” Trowbridge isn’t looking for love. He’d rather keep his head down at his cover job as an employee of Silverstone Towing...
  • See Her Die by Melinda Leigh

    See Her Die by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert is both hunter and hunted in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s blood-freezing thriller of murder, rage, and revenge.New sheriff Bree Taggert is called to a shooting in a campground shuttered for the winter. But she arrives to find a perplexing crime. There is no shooter, no victim, and no blood...
  • Little Girl Vanished by Denise Grover Swank

    Little Girl Vanished by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new mystery series by Denise Grover Swank, author of the USA Today, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Rose Gardner Series. James "Skeeter" Malcolm's story isn't finished yet.Disgraced, ex-detective Harper Adams is perfectly content wallowing at rock bottom...
  • Buried by Kendra Elliot

    Buried by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reporter Michael Brody is used to getting answers. The one that’s eluded him, though, for twenty long years is learning what happened to his brother Daniel the day his school bus disappeared. When the remains of the other children are discovered—and Daniel’s aren’t among them—a desperate Michael calls upon the sole survivor of the tragedy, Chris Jacobs, hoping he will finally break his silence...
  • Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann

    Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    WARNING: This is a dark romance. This book contains subject matter that may be sensitive for some readers, including rape, as well as strong language and explicit sex. 18+ only. Please read responsibly. When Cora attends her sister’s birthday party, she expects at most a hangover or a walk of shame...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  drama  kidnapping  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Where the Truth Lives by Mia Sheridan

    Where the Truth Lives by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When the director of a local mental health hospital is found murdered and mutilated, Homicide Detective Reed Davies is first on scene. What was done to the body is gruesome. Inexplicable. But Reed is dealt another curveball when he finds that the doctor who discovered the victim is someone Reed is intimately familiar with—a woman with whom he shared one passionate night weeks before.Dr...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  drama  kidnapping  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Outstanding!! Mystery, intrigue, action and an edge of your seat nail biter." "Holy Moly Mine to Protect was exciting, and suspenseful and oh so sexy." A standalone, romantic thriller novel where obsession is the name of the game. Recruited to the FBI Cas Mathews has one focus - catch the killer...
  • Miles by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Miles by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Who could ever fall in love with a cold-blooded killer like me?The answer is no one. That’s why I’m giving up trying to find a woman who wants me for more than one rowdy night. I’m determined to find a wife instead. If I buy a mail order bride, then she’ll have no choice but to stick around...
  • Saving Charlie by Jane Blythe

    Saving Charlie by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Suffering recognizes suffering.Faith Johnson is the only surviving victim of an international serial killer. She survived weeks in his torture room and when she escapes she thought the hard part of her ordeal was over. She was wrong. The hard part was only just beginning...
  • Atone by Cassandra Robbins

    Atone by Cassandra Robbins

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I don’t apologize or regret the destruction I’m about to cause. I’m at peace with what I must do… nothing can or will stand in my way. Not even the raven-haired beauty with golden eyes who haunts my dreams.No one is innocent in the story of my life. Fairy tales don’t exist!I. Make. No. Excuses.Everyone needs to atone, and I’m the man who is going to see to it...
  • Searching for Redemption by Tonya Burrows

    Searching for Redemption by Tonya Burrows

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Crazy. Dangerous. Monster.Shane Trevisano knows what the town of Steam Valley, Arizona thinks of him, and he’s happy being their bogeyman in the woods. After suffering horrific burns that left him disfigured, all the former SEAL wants is to be left alone in his remote cabin with his demons...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  crime  dark  steamy  romance  military  contemporary  mystery
  • I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here: I'm Watching YouI KNOW THEIR CRIMESStar prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop...
  • Marked for Death by Anna Blakely

    Marked for Death by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She speaks for the dead.For Dr. Maggie Carpenter, spending the day surrounded by death isn't just normal...it's her calling. As a forensic pathologist, it's her job to find justice for victims who are unable to speak for themselves. So when the sexy FBI agent she worked with a few months ago asks her to consult on a particularly disturbing case in Colorado, she can't bring herself to say no...
  • Spiders in the Grove by J.A. Redmerski

    Spiders in the Grove by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Izabel and Naeva find themselves right where they wanted to be in Mexico: captured and held in the slave compounds owned by the Ruiz family. But the two are soon separated and forced into very different—but equally dangerous—situations...
  • The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts“She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.” Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods...
  • Security Risk by Janie Crouch

    Security Risk by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Risking it all—again.Now his past is threatening both of them.Deputy Tanner Dempsey paid a high price for an undercover op gone wrong. Nobody understands a dangerous past better than Bree Daniels. Together they have to take on those real-life demons in order to stay alive. Keeping one step ahead of ruthless killers is their only option and risk is their constant companion...
  • Constant Risk by Janie Crouch

    Constant Risk by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The hunters Become the hunted. Deputy Tanner Dempsey and Bree Daniels are tasked with unraveling a deadly mystery in Dallas—one that involves transmitting live feeds of victims trapped in tanks as they fill with water. Bree’s computer genius is their only hope at solving the crime...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  crime  dark  drama  kidnapping  stalking  steamy  suspense
  • Protecting Summer by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Summer by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    At age fifteen, Sam "Mozart" Reed's life changed the day his little sister was found abused and murdered. Since her death, he's spent his life hunting for the serial killer who took his sister from him and ruined his family. Using his connections, and SEAL training, Mozart believes he's finally tracked the killer to the town of Big Bear, California...
  • Hesitate by K.E. Osborn

    Hesitate by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Family is a bond.One that can’t be broken.But what if I want to bend the rules?I wasn’t supposed to look at her that way. I’d practically grown up beside her. You shouldn’t ignite inside when you stare at your stepsister.Now she’s caught the eye of someone else.Someone more sinister than me.The problem is—he’s dangerous...
  • Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    There's a thin line between hero worship and dangerous obsession...the explosive new Eve Dallas and Roarke thrillerA crisp winter morning in New York. In a luxury apartment, the body of a woman lies stretched out on a huge bed. On the wall above, the killer has left a message in bold black ink: FOR LIEUTENANT EVE DALLAS, WITH GREAT ADMIRATION AND UNDERSTANDING...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  drama  stalking  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult
  • Maniac by Onley James

    Maniac by Onley James

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Thomas Mulvaney was just a child when an error in judgment cost him everything. He vowed then that he would do anything to atone for his mistake. And he did. He never strayed from the right path. Until Aiden.Aiden Mulvaney doesn’t exist. He’s a lie created by the father who disowned him and by Thomas Mulvaney, the only man Aiden had ever begged to love him...
  • Closer Than You Think by Karen Rose, Hillary Huber

    Closer Than You Think by Karen Rose, Hillary Huber

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    28 hours, 37 minutesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Your Back and Did You Miss Me comes the newest novel by “the queen of romantic suspense” (Crime and Punishment).Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who’s made her life a nightmare for the past year—desperate enough to run to the one place that has been her nightmare far longer...
  • Be Still My Heart by Emily McIntire, Sav R. Miller

    Be Still My Heart by Emily McIntire, Sav R. Miller

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Skelm Island, Maine has always been known for two things: lobsters and its broken lighthouse.But when corpses start showing up in the water, the isolated town becomes the face of a cryptic investigation.At the heart of which stands Lincoln Porter, a grumpy ex-SEAL whose lobstering business seems to attract more dead bodies than fish...
  • Dirty Minds: An Interracial Russian Mafia Romance by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Minds: An Interracial Russian Mafia Romance by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Follow the Lion and Mouse on a high-octane romance set along the glittering lights of Paris.  The Corsican has kidnapped Emily. Lethally passionate, Kazimir will stop at nothing to get his lover back. Meanwhile, the Corsican is finding it difficult to hold on to this cunning woman.  Paris will never be the same again...
  • Remy by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Remy by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After two confidential informants are murdered by a drug lord the DEA has spent months trying to bust, agent Avery Carmichael is ordered to go undercover.She’s going to need some help infiltrating the outlaw world, which is where the hottest, most infuriating man she’s ever met comes in. Remy Fulton is the president of the newest Savage Kings MC chapter in Rockland, Virginia...
  • Layered Lies by Kaylie Hunter

    Layered Lies by Kaylie Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two years after her son was abducted, Kelsey Harrison rebuilds a new life for herself. She opens a store, makes new friends, and settles into a peaceful existence. At least, that’s what she hopes the world believes.Behind closed doors, Kelsey hunts her enemies, living a life of lies. She hasn’t forgotten, hasn’t forgiven. She searches for answers still...
  • Dirty Love by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Love by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’d found God in her eyes and a prayer in the subtle way she moaned. I found my soul, the spirit of humanity between her thighs. Devilish temptress or holy angel, I would have her all to myself. Nothing could happen to her, ever. Not one scratch. Not one frown on her face. I would kill to make her happy. * * * * * From Harlem to Prague, Moscow to St. Petersburg...
  • Six Degrees of Separation by Taylor V. Donovan

    Six Degrees of Separation by Taylor V. Donovan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Note from the author:By Degrees is an ensemble serial with continuing story lines. Six Degrees of Separation is the second installment, and it must be read after Six Degrees of Lust. Thanks.In the sequel to Six Degrees of Lust, F.B.I. team leader Samuel Shaughnessy and bar manager Machlan O’Bannon are exploring a new phase in their non-relationship...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  drama  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • Buried Lies by Kaylea Cross

    Buried Lies by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She left her painful past behind. Poppy Larsen is finally free. She moved to Crimson Point to make a new life for herself, full of bright possibilities. A whole new world awaits her, if she can find the courage to trust again—even her gorgeous neighbor, the town sheriff. But darkness lurks in the picturesque Oregon Coast town, concealing a deadly threat that’s closer than she ever imagined...
  • The Annihilator by RuNyx

    The Annihilator by RuNyx

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The highly anticipated fifth book in the bestselling Dark Verse series.𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?She lives in the shadows. He rules them.She's the moon, and he the dark night encompassing her. She's surrounded by demons, and he's the biggest devil of them all. And she's his...
  • For You by Kristen Ashley

    For You by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004S81POK.Lieutenant Alexander Colton and February Owens were high school sweethearts. Everyone in their small town knew from the moment they met they were meant for each other. But something happened and Feb broke Colt’s heart then she turned wild and tragedy struck...
  • A Merciful Truth by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Truth by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Raised by a family of survivalists, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick can take on any challenge—even the hostile reception to her homecoming. But she’s not the only one causing chaos in the rural community of Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. At first believed to be teenage pranks, a series of fires takes a deadly turn with the murder of two sheriff’s deputies...
  • No Rep by Lani Lynn Vale

    No Rep by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Taos was tired.Tired of everything that came with living. Not to the point where he was suicidal or anything, but tired enough that he just didn’t give a crap anymore.He’d seen all the ugliness this world had to offer due to his job as a police officer for way too many damn years of his less than stellar life...
  • Vigilante by Jessica Gadziala

    Vigilante by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    * A new stand-alone dark romance from bestselling author Jessica Gadziala. * I’m a bad guy. I do bad things. But I do them for the right reasons. That’s why I can sleep easy at night even with the smell of fresh blood still in my nostrils. One more scumbag off the streets. One more righting of a wrong. That was all my life was about...
  • Cash Plays by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Cash Plays by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Seven of Spades is back with a vengeance—the vigilante serial killer has resumed their murderous crusade, eluding the police at every turn. But a bloodthirsty killer isn’t the only threat facing Sin City. A devious saboteur is wreaking havoc in Las Vegas’s criminal underworld, and the entire city seems to be barreling toward an all-out gang war...
  • Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nothing is deeper than the desire they can’t fight—or deadlier than the evil they can’t escape. They were only supposed to have a professional relationship, but FBI agent Kyle McKenzie has been fantasizing about his sexy partner, Cadence Hollow, from the moment they first moment. It takes the darkest case of their careers to finally bring their hidden desire bubbling to the surface...
  • Bloodthirsty by Cassandra Featherstone

    Bloodthirsty by Cassandra Featherstone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Forgive me.”Those were Professor Arnaud’s final words before I sliced through his neck. His was the first head I took, but it wouldn’t be the last.Severing my connections to l’Academie d’Invisible was harder, but eventually, I escaped and built a reputation of my own.Infamy suits me, and the harsh lessons of my childhood have served me well. I’m untouchable, undetectable, and untraceable...
  • Corrupting Ivy by Ann-Marie Davis

    Corrupting Ivy by Ann-Marie Davis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I wanted to stay hidden… anonymous.  But fate had other plans. After stumbling upon a grim scene that threw me into the spotlight, my life is turned upside down, and I’m no longer safe. Then he walked in. The one everyone warned me about.He's rumored to have more demons than Hell.But the devil can be oh so tempting… WARNING: This book is a DARK/ANTI HERO romance...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  steamy  drama  romance  horror  contemporary  mlm
  • Stitch by Emmaleigh Loader

    Stitch by Emmaleigh Loader

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adley:Nobody thinks that a pretty woman holds dark secrets, but then again, the world only sees what we allow it to.I was raised by very bad people.I learned to do very bad things—things that others would see as depraved.I was fine living my life in the shadows, going unseen…Until he stepped from the abyss...
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