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The Reign Of Kings by Candice M. Wright
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRaised 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...Categorized as:
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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... -
Born, Madly by Trisha Wolfe
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDuet: a performance by two. But who is acting, and who is devolving? A buried past is unearthed, and Grayson Sullivan—AKA The Angel of Maine—retaliates against the system who made him, deploying psychological warfare on the woman who initially set him free. Dr... -
The Heir of Shadows: An Underestimated Novel Book 4 by Candice Wright
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere was a little girl, who had a little gun, pointed right at the center of her forehead.When she was good, she was very, very goodBecause if she was bad, she was dead... -
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Miles by Lane Hart, D.B. West
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho 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... -
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... -
Broken Hearts by Stella Hart
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI love him, and it’s killing me… I never thought this would happen, but here I am—a willing captive to the most sinfully-handsome serial killer the world has ever seen. I belong to him now, the man who is both my savior and my downfall. The man who will probably destroy me one day, just like he’s destroyed so many others before me. If I want to live, I have to be a good girl... -
Dirty Hearts by Kenya Wright
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDarkly intense and deeply erotic, we return to the Lion and Mouse. The war has ended. Kazimir hopes to spend quiet time with Emily, but there are more enemies creeping within the shadows. New dangers that threaten the couple’s happiness... -
Bleeding Hearts by Stella Hart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDexter crossed with 50 Shades: enter a world filled with dark secrets, twisted lies, and dirty desires... I’m coming for her… I’ve watched her, I’ve hunted her, and now I’m here to claim her. Celeste Riley, my pretty little angel. Soon to be my pretty little captive. She pretends she’ll never want a killer like me, but we both know that isn’t true... -
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...Categorized as:
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Make Me Burn by C.R. Jane, May Dawson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne night changes everythingOne fight gone viral can win Paxton a million dollars, endorsements, UFC recruiting.And another video gone viral could cost him it all.Because now a stalker is sending him videos from the night his mother was killed.Pax thought he’d killed her murderer. He thought he could move on... -
No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPsychic.What a joke.The only thing I can be sure of these days are the three men who have somehow battered their way past my walls and forced me to, dare I say it, start feeling things.Well…them, and my trusty trash panda partners in crime. But they've always had my heart.I must have kissed their asses real good, because instead of wanting to kill me, I think they might actually kind of like me... -
Wanna Play A Game? by Alina May
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSawyerHunting people has become boring…until she comes along. She’s full of fight and fire. Pushing her to her limits is exhilarating. I love scaring her. Hurting her. Hunting her. It makes me hard. She’s our little toy, and the game has just begun. And what a fun game it is to play.MilesSawyer kidnapped a woman and brought her to our home. He wants me to play his twisted games... -
Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree serial killers connected by an unholy thread, tangled in a twisted chase for revenge and blood. In this game of hunters, who will become the ultimate prey?***He is every sin she wants to commit. Yara West spends her day as a Medical Examiner. At nights, she dons the mask of a twisted killer to satiate the demons in her head... -
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Stolen Crush by C.M. Stunich
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFinding out you’re the daughter of a millionaire true crime novelist isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.When I was two, I was kidnapped. Kidnapped by a loving family, sure, but still kidnapped.Now, my biological mom wants me to live with her on the opposite side of the country.Her … and my new stepdad and his jerk of a son: Parrish.Wannabe tattoo artist, languorous rich boy, pouty mouth...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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Second Comes War by Lilith Vincent
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings...Categorized as:
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Savage Queen by Alisha Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSomething I never thought was capable, happened.Now I’m trying to make all these relationships work without letting my past effect my life.So I do what I do best, shove it down deep and distract myself with sex and blood.But I don’t have to worry about finding things to keep me busy because someone has come into my city, putting teenagers at risk... -
Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt takes a monster to destroy a monster. My enemies have taken Celeste. Kidnapped her to torture and kill her. I won’t stop looking for her. Won’t give up on her. I’ll destroy anyone and anything that gets in my way, and the punishment for those who have taken her will be brutal and unmerciful. She belongs with me. She belongs to me. I’m never letting go. Ever... -
Distraction by Kelly Fox
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn MM Murder Swoon RomanceFrom USA Today Bestselling Author Kelly Fox comes a uniquely unhinged Mafia romance.Look, no one's ever accused me of being sane, y'know? So when I say that I am crazy over this RICO agent, know that I mean business.Sure, I'm responsible for getting him fired from the job he's wanted his whole life, but his grandfather just died and left him 13.1 billion dollars...Categorized as:
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Dirty Minds: An Interracial Russian Mafia Romance by Kenya Wright
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollow 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... -
Surviving Doctor Vincent: The Good Doctor Trilogy Book 2 by Renea Mason, Nancy Cassidy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sequel to Curing Doctor Vincent... -
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... -
Remy by Lane Hart, D.B. West
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter 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... -
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Dead of Summer by A.J. Merlin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCamp Friends Are Forever FriendsOr so the motto of Camp Crestview says.Having been a camp counselor for the last three summers, I can handle most situations that come my way courtesy of rowdy children. This year shouldn’t be any different, even with a new counselor who’s everyone’s type and too good to be true. But even so, Kayde Lane is nothing I can’t deal with... -
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... -
Wrath by Coralee June
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI hated fire. I hated how the smoke wrapped around my naked body, stinging my skin with defiant embers. I hated the smell of burnt flesh, the ashes heavy on my tongue, my charred soul like splinters deep in my chest.She’s dead, Juliet.There’s nothing else you can do--Dragging my bleeding feet across the concrete, I walked toward the flames. Heat licked at my cheeks... -
Cash Plays by Cordelia Kingsbridge
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe 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... -
Salvation by Cassie Hargrove, Story Brooks
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt started with an Obsession… We knew from the moment we saw her that she would be ours, and we used all of our means of Seduction to prove it to her... However, with our way of life comes trouble. It didn’t matter how much Devotion we had, it wasn’t enough to keep her safe, and now we’re here. We’re fighting for our lives and everything we never knew we’d have... -
Third Comes Vengeance by Lilith Vincent
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings...Categorized as:
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Protect: A Dark Captive Romance by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis dark tale of obsession, beauty, and lust is by Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood. She writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN. I wake up in the wreckage, ready to fight for Rue. Only she is gone, stolen away by my archenemy. I start to see red. No one touches my girl and expects to live. The deck is stacked against us. Emotions are running high... -
Rogue by Sinclair Kelly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSecrets are kind of my thing.Or at least they were. Now my lies are catching up to me, and the stakes are higher than ever.The men who unexpectedly claimed me are breaking down every wall I have, exposing vulnerabilities and opening old wounds. But now is not the time for weakness. Not when someone is out to get us and enemies are around every corner... -
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... -
Stitch by Emmaleigh Loader
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAdley: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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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... -
Cherish by Olivia Ryann
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis dark and twisted tale of ownership will make your blood run hot. Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN. Something has shifted and changed in me. I have left Katherine behind, and stepped fully into the blossom of Fiore. But while I am undergoing that transformation, Monster too senses a sea change within... -
Loving Doctor Vincent by Renea Mason
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe final installment of the Good Doctor Trilogy. After becoming entwined the Society’s web of deceit, Elaine Watkins has to decide who she can trust... -
In the Shadows by J.A. Owenby
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you finally meet the monster hiding under your bed.One, two, I’m coming for you.She’s my obsession.Three, four, kneel on the floor.I want to possess her in every way.Five, six, I’m up to my old tricks.She knows me as The Portland Serial K!ll3r.Seven, eight, lay in wait.Little does she know I’m watching her.Nine, ten, never to be seen again.Welcome to your worst nightmare, Little Lamb... -
Wicked Games: A Prequel Dark Horror Romance Novella by P.H. Nix, Celeste Night
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA black envelope with silver filigree, a house long abandoned by residents, and a tragedy covered up in the bayou. What did these three things have in common?HarperWhen I received an invitation to the House of Horrors at the once beautiful Toussaint Manor, unease had filled every fiber of my being. And like the dumbass I was, I still went... -
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... -
Possession by L.K. Shaw
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter relocating to Washington, D.C. to avoid an overzealous secret admirer, Dr. Madeline Parrish wants to learn all that the city has to offer. When a friend invites her to explore the dark pleasures at the exclusive BDSM club, Black Light, Madeline meets two enigmatic Doms, with whom she spends one explosive night... -
Pandemonium by Katie May
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsELLIEFor so long, secrets have ripped us apart.But slowly and surely, I’m learning to put my trust in the five dangerous men who’ve captured my heart.Shocking revelations prove just how deadly the Paragons of Prosperity truly are.By taking the Paragons on, I must decide what I’m willing to give up to destroy them once and for all... -
Santiago's Conquest by V.F. Mason
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆. 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒓.Power. Money. Status.Whatever I want, I get.And if something stands in my way?I conquer and destroy it.I’m a monster with no redeeming qualities.A hunter who seeks his prey so viciously nothing can stop me.My prey hides in the shadows thinking it might save him from my wrath.It won't... -
Don't Be Scared by A.J. Merlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEvery town has a history.Ours is just a little darker than most.For years I’ve celebrated Halloween and Hollow Bridge’s history with everyone else who lives here. Parades, festivals, and insane Halloween parties have always been a staple for us. Some bad behavior is expected, given what we’re celebrating.But murder has never been on the table before... -
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Sick Bargain by Nordika Night
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAm I running from death… or racing towards it?Remiel Sauder has reached his breaking point. With no other choice, he leads his lifelong tormentor to Vile House, hoping to scare him off and increase his chances of survival. Vile House is well known, but he’s about to learn how deep their secrets and mysteries are rooted in the town’s history... -
Summer and Smoke by Coralee June
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSummer Bright is just a name on a tombstone. A whispered mystery on the long-forgotten Woodbury Lane. Her ghost teases me with fear and perfection. She knows I’m not strong enough to do what I should’ve done years ago. The Bullets are united once more, bonded by their demand for blood. There’s a vulnerability in their friendship, though. Gavriel craves control. Blaise fears losing me... -
Make Me Lie by C.R. Jane, May Dawson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe world knows me as the Demon’s Daughter.He’s a famous serial killer. And I may have been his accomplice.But no one knows for sure except for me.The dangerous, cruel men of the Sphinx secret society intend to uncover my secrets…and break me.Stellan, my childhood crush who lost his sister to the Demon...Categorized as:
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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... -
Vile Wicked Eyes by Candace Wondrak
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy name is Stella. I used to be empty, broken, a shell of a person watching as days passed me by.But then I found out the truth. What I’d done. What I wanted to do again. My three killers took me and shook my world upside-down, stopping only when I faced the fact that I was just like them.A brute. A monster. A beast with an innate craving to make others bleed... -
A Promise of Torment by Mallory Fox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlood hides carnal desires. Power is overrated.Killing for family, tainted with nothing but love...My emotions are supposed to be dead.I was never meant to feel this. Pain. Anger. Rage. Feelings erode me from the inside.They make me weak. They make him more powerful.But I can't lose.Dante is my sweetness in hell. My father has me where he wants me. And my boys...well they think I'm all but lost...
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