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The Keeper of Bees by Gregory Ashe
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmery Hazard has pretty much everything under control. He and his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, are more in love than ever, despite the stress of wedding preparations hanging over them. His business as a private investigator is growing. He’s even enjoying time with his growing circle of friends... -
![The Butcher of the Bay: Part II by J. Bree]()
The Butcher of the Bay: Part II by J. Bree
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMonsters have stalked me my entire life.From my father’s failing drug business to the evil men he sold me to, I have seen the worst of humanity only to find safety in the arms of the greatest monster of all.I call the Butcher of the Bay mine.Betrayed by his oldest and most loyal friend, I was stolen away from him and have once again been sold at auction... -
![Tallowwood by N.R. Walker]()
Tallowwood by N.R. Walker
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsCold cases, murder, lies, and an unimaginable truth.Sydney detective August Shaw has spent the last decade of work solving cold cases. Since the death of his boyfriend eight years ago, August works alone, lives alone, is alone — and that’s exactly how he likes it... -
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The Stars Are on Our Side by Jennifer Hartmann
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 13 ratings"You don't have to fly alone anymore," he says. "Let me rescue you."My anxiety washes away when his thumbs lightly graze the skin below my ears, back and forth, slow and tender. His voice is my safety net, his touch my solid ground. "Let me be your wings."Tabitha Brighton's name made national headlines when she was kidnapped by the infamous serial killer known as the Matchmaker... -
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![Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy]()
Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSmall 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... -
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Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and spice, unlike anything you’ve read before.Every serial killer needs a friend.Every game must have a winner.When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul... -
![Ask Me If I Care by Lani Lynn Vale]()
Ask Me If I Care by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAres saw him for the first time at a Kilgore Police Department benefit dinner. She’d gone with her dad as his plus one. Hayes Greer had gone by himself and brooded silently across the same table as her, drinking whiskey and not saying a word.It only took that one time for her to become interested... -
![Love Me by Ashley N. Rostek]()
Love Me by Ashley N. Rostek
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsColt is my comfort.He’s the first one to hold my hand when life becomes hard.Creed is my support.He always has my back, is always ready to help me battle the world or my insecurities.Keelan is my joy.He effortlessly makes me laugh and exudes a light even when days become dark.Knox is my strength.He holds me together even when I want to break... -
![Bloody Cruel Psycho by Lucy Smoke]()
Bloody Cruel Psycho by Lucy Smoke
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA life for a life … will kill the both of us in the end.Clover I know nothing of the Sickness at Eastpoint University. I know only the backroads that slip past the southern beaches and the gators that make their way onto the swamps shores. Until him. Until the killer known as Braxton Smalls finds his way into my stilted trailer on the coast of Port Charlotte... -
![Reining It In by Winter Travers]()
Reining It In by Winter Travers
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen shadowed evil finally has a face the fight really begins... -
![Obsession by Harleigh Beck]()
Obsession by Harleigh Beck
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSavannahImagine my surprise when the chance to interview the country’s most notorious man on death row lands on my table. His final confession. It’s too good of an opportunity to turn down.Robbie Hammond is old enough to be my father, a man condemned for the murder of at least fourteen women. He is dangerous, deadly. Intense in ways I can’t explain... -
![Homecoming by Kinsley Kincaid]()
Homecoming by Kinsley Kincaid
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis day was always coming.After months of being deprived of what my mind craves, I received the call to return back home.To fulfill my duty and complete my initiation.The Sinclair family is part of an infamous group embedded deep within Vail.The Exodus.And The Reckoning is upon us.No one is safe.The town hides as the streets become bare.But it doesn’t matter, because I will find you... -
![Make Me Beg by C.R. Jane, May Dawson]()
Make Me Beg by C.R. Jane, May Dawson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe monsters almost made me love them.And now I’m paying the price.But so are they.Stellan, Cain, Remington, Paxton and I are locked together in a war that I refuse to lose.They’ve taken my freedom, my money, my reputation…but they can’t take my soul.They keep forgetting I was forged in fire by a demon. Monsters don’t scare me.They think I’m trapped in their mansion with them... -
![Maison De Fous by Nova Kane]()
Maison De Fous by Nova Kane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSequel to A La FolieThis is a PITCH BLACK EROTIC HORROR. Please mind the trigger warnings. Are you ready for the show to begin?Cirque Du Desir : The Dark Harvest - A Night of chaos, carnage and contentment.Coming soon to a town near you... -
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![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 ratingsSkelm 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... -
![Provoke by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood]()
Provoke by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA taste of this dark tale of obsession, beauty, and lust… FREE! Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN. I meet her in a wedding dress, walking down the aisle towards my sworn enemy. Our eyes catch from across the room. And monster that I am, I know I have to have her... -
![Dirty Love by Kenya Wright]()
Dirty Love by Kenya Wright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI’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... -
![No Rep by Lani Lynn Vale]()
No Rep by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTaos 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... -
![Marrow by Trisha Wolfe, Brynne Weaver]()
Marrow by Trisha Wolfe, Brynne Weaver
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTwo rival serial killers. One common enemy. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Jack Sorensen is the perfect serial killer. In the bright lights of his public persona he’s a respected scientist, a leader in the field of human decomposition. But in his shadowed secret life he’s a ruthless and elusive killer, unseen by the authorities who have failed to follow his faint trail of destruction... -
![Desperately Seeking Househusband by Marika Ray]()
Desperately Seeking Househusband by Marika Ray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m fake dating my ex’s brother…all on national television.GabbyI just needed a fake boyfriend to be on the reality show Desperate Househusbands with me to prove once and for all I was over my evil ex and living my best life.Too bad the only guy willing to do the job turned out to be my ex’s half-brother.Dimples are my kryptonite and he’s got two of them... -
![The Huntress and Her Hound by Annie Wild]()
The Huntress and Her Hound by Annie Wild
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI have a heinous secret, and I'll do whatever it takes to protect it... Even if it's our demise. To the world—and especially my brother—I’m a delicate flower, spending my days reading and doing absolutely no wrong. So, when my brother and his best friend ask to stay at my place in Vegas for a while, I can’t turn him down. But they have no idea of the sins I commit in this city.. -
![Devotion by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne]()
Devotion by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLegions worship at my feet, but I only bow to her.THE SPIDERI move through Layla’s world in silence, always watching.It’s incredible where you can hide a camera these days.She’s the daughter of my enemy, a threat to my flock, and I had a solidplan for her.The weight of her father’s sin was meant to fall on her shoulders.Only, the second my world bled into hers, that plan derailed... -
![Awakening the Beast by Jodie King]()
Awakening the Beast by Jodie King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWren - The night I lost him, everything I cherished turned into ashes along with that fire, swallowed by the inferno that scarred my heart and mind. I became who they call ‘The Queen of Darkness’, mimicking the love of my life, Arlo Hayes, lost in the abyss of trauma and hatred. Now, as he stands before me, the happiness I should feel wars with the despair that has settled deep within me... -
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![Reginald Bones by Lucian Bane]()
Reginald Bones by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBones is hell-bent on hiding from the world. Reginald is hell-bent on living in it. Bones vowed to never talk to women again. Reginald is falling for the one that visits their graveyard. The problem is, Reginald and Bones share the same body. And when Bones gives an inch to accommodate Reginald His dark past returns to devour them whole... -
![Divine Proportion by Cole McCade]()
Divine Proportion by Cole McCade
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings20% of monthly revenues from sales of this book from now until January 1st, 2021 will be donated to causes supporting #BlackLivesMatter and the families of victims of police violence. While Captain Anjulie Zarate y Salazar faces a crisis of loyalty at home, Malcolm Khalaji faces another crisis in Los Angeles—one that will test him to his absolute limits.And that crisis is named Yoon Eun-Ji... -
![Hard Angle by Cole McCade]()
Hard Angle by Cole McCade
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnsettled tensions from the last case come to a head as Seong-Jae reveals his secrets — but will it be enough to repair the fractures in his relationship with Malcolm?Especially when their only promising lead on the Golden Ratio Killer's identity falls apart, along with any hope of returning home to Baltimore and to their life together.When their primary suspect turns up dead..... -
![Reaper and Ruin by Elle Thorpe]()
Reaper and Ruin by Elle Thorpe
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn explosion shatters the night. The three men I love are thrown from the bluff into the raging sea below.And one of them can’t swim.But the fall isn’t the only thing trying to kill us.Every step we take, danger stalks closer.Every breath we steal, the killer waits in the shadows.When he rips someone I love away from me, the fragile family I’ve fought to build begins to unravel... -
![Dead Man Walking by Giana Darling]()
Dead Man Walking by Giana Darling
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFrom USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Giana Darling comes a dark MC romance about a broken enforcer and the beautiful, innocent woman who shows him that light can exist even in the dark... A killer. A criminal.A psychopath.The Irish enforcer for The Fallen Men MC is everything good girls are taught to stay away from... -
![Callum's Hell by V.F. Mason]()
Callum's Hell by V.F. Mason
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe knew no chaos...until I claimed her. She was a florist. He was a serial killer. She created beauty. He created chaos. She belonged to nature. He belonged to the underworld. She was an angel. He was the devil. She wanted to escape. He trapped her instead. They played a dangerous game with their lives at stake. Where the winner took it all and the loser burned in hell... -
![With Visions of Red by Trisha Wolfe]()
With Visions of Red by Trisha Wolfe
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is a dark erotic thriller intended for adult audiences. The UNSUB has made contact. After a rapid string of grisly murders shakes the usually peaceful city of Arlington, Virginia, the sadistic killings of young women lull into a deceptive calm. Agent Sadie Bonds knows the terror isn’t over; serial killers don’t stop until caught... -
![The Endless Road to Sunshine by Nicky James]()
The Endless Road to Sunshine by Nicky James
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy name is Jason Atkinson, and I married a serial killer. My world shattered on a cold April morning when they took my husband away in cuffs.The life I knew, the man I loved, and the world I believed in was nothing but a lie. He stole my trust, my happiness, and my faith in humanity, and I’m not sure how to move on... -
![Justice for Mackenzie by Susan Stoker]()
Justice for Mackenzie by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDaxton Chambers loved being a part of the oldest and most distinguished law enforcement agency in the state of Texas…the Texas Rangers. But whoever was burying women alive in his city of San Antonio was always two steps ahead of him…and he hated it. Mackenzie Morgan lived what she considered a normal life... -
![Whips and Chains by Elle Thorpe]()
Whips and Chains by Elle Thorpe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThree…Two…One… The game has just begun.Shadows crawl across the walls of an abandoned warehouse.A knife waits on the table. A clock bleeds away the seconds.Someone isn’t leaving alive.My only chance of survival lies with the three men searching for me in the dark... -
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![Violent Promises by A.R. Breck]()
Violent Promises by A.R. Breck
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsViolent Promises is the final book in the Blackridge series!When one reckless decision and a possessive heart lead to an inescapable debt...Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d be at the mercy of a man who only wanted one thing, my death.With each passing hour, my growing despair wars with my murderous blood... -
![Reconcile by Leah Steele]()
Reconcile by Leah Steele
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI always thought it was best to keep my darkness hidden, outta sight, outta mind. But my stalker has been showing me the errors of my ways. He’s been guiding me into nurturing that side of myself, and now that it’s been set free, there’s no going back. I’ve killed three people, and with each new kill, I learn more about myself. But I crave more than the bloodshed...Categorized as:
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![BONES by Yolanda Olson]()
BONES by Yolanda Olson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContent advisory: The following book contains vivid depictions of gore, graphic sexual violence, endless mind games, will induce strangely beautiful feelings of paranoia, and lots of bad things. Really bad things. It's not recommended eating before, during, or after reading this story. Prepare for a one way trip to Hell. I'm haunted. Not by ghosts, but by a face I can't quite remember... -
![The Damnation of Leander Welles by Ashlyn Drewek]()
The Damnation of Leander Welles by Ashlyn Drewek
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe proposal is simple. The execution? Not so much...The day Bennett Reeve meets Leander Welles is the day his life changes forever. A ruthless lawyer to some of Chicago’s most despicable criminals, Bennett has seen it all — until he lays eyes on the enigmatic millionaire.By combining their wicked brilliance and unlimited resources, the world is theirs for the taking... -
![Mayhem and Minnie by Veronica Lancet]()
Mayhem and Minnie by Veronica Lancet
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s a neurotic serial killer. She’s the woman he cannot kill.Marlowe Spencer-Astor is in a slump. He hasn’t killed a single soul in one hundred seventy four days. Not even therapy could solve his murderous problem, though he promised his mother he’d try.But then he sees a homeless girl by the side of the road. Minnie. She’s naked, dirty and smelly–everything that triggers his OCD... -
![Thots and Prayers by Tylor Paige]()
Thots and Prayers by Tylor Paige
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen their car breaks down in the small religious town of Ricefield, Constantine gets mistaken for a man of faith. If they want a mechanic to work on the vehicle, he has to step in to replace their last minister who’s fallen ill... -
![Painting with Blood by Dolores Lane]()
Painting with Blood by Dolores Lane
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 2024 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝗼𝐧.After escaping a dark and poisonous past, Jane Meyer, a sweet and talented professional painter, crosses paths with James Ambrose, a charming and smart Homicide sergeant for the Hunterville Police Department. It quickly becomes clear that theirs is a beautiful love story, written in the stars... -
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![His Reluctant Savior by Courtney W. Dixon]()
His Reluctant Savior by Courtney W. Dixon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPLEASE READ THE BLURB AND WARNINGS IF YOU'RE SENSITIVE TO TRIGGERS!I have a second chance to right wrongs, even if it means I’ll lose my family and life.Sid VirgilFBI analyst Dalton Reed’s name is on my hit list, but I know I won’t do it. Though I haven’t seen Dalton in twenty-seven years, we have a history together. He saved my life many years ago, and he doesn’t even realize it... -
![Arson's Captive by V.F. Mason]()
Arson's Captive by V.F. Mason
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnce upon a time she became mine. Mine to keep. She was a healer. He was a serial killer. She helped people. He destroyed them. She was a beautiful angel. He was a vicious monster. She wanted to run away. He captured her instead. She promised to never surrender. He guaranteed that she would. Two lives, the hunter and the prey, forever entwined together... -
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![Vicious by A.J. Merlin]()
Vicious by A.J. Merlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne, two, he’s coming for youThree, four, better run some moreI never would have accepted his help if I’d known what he’d do.When the stranger who got me out of a mess in Springwood turns the town into a slaughterhouse in my name, I do the only thing I can do.I run.Not far enough, though, because I can feel him in Akron, looking for me. But he wants to take me home, and I can’t go back... -
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![Vices and Vows by Candice M. Wright]()
Vices and Vows by Candice M. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNova Romano is an anomaly.She’s playing a role she didn’t choose, living a life that was never hers to begin with.A tapestry of deceit and carefully interwoven lies protect her, But when everything unravels, the truth comes with a heavy price tag. She’ll have to marry a man who despises women, Or sell her soul to a monster like me...Categorized as:
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![Kill Song by Heather Long, Blake Blessing]()
Kill Song by Heather Long, Blake Blessing
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOpen Case FileMemoHonor my father.There are four types of serial killers.Hedonistic.Power/control.Mission-oriented.Visionary.Not all serial killers are caught. At any given point, there could be as many as fifty serial killers active at a time.Fifty.I’m looking for one.He’s male, likely in his forties or fifties now. He’s been killing successfully for more than three decades... -
![Micaden's Madness by V.F. Mason]()
Micaden's Madness by V.F. Mason
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf madness has a name...it's hers. She is an artist seeking solace. He is a serial killer seeking vengeance. She doesn't remember. He remembers it all. She is broken. He is obsessed. She wants truth. He wants revenge. One of them is guilty. One of them is innocent. Both of them want to win. And for that one of them has to die... -
![No Escape From War by Cynthia Eden]()
No Escape From War by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRevenge. Oh, it was going to be sweet.Warren “War” Channing finally has the chance to nail his beautiful, lying ex. And, no, he doesn’t mean “nail” in the down and dirty sexual way…War means he has the opportunity to send the lovely and infuriating Rose Shadow to jail. Turned out, the woman who had shattered his heart beneath her high heeled shoes was wanted for murder...
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