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  • The Songbook of Benny Lament: A Novel by Amy Harmon

    The Songbook of Benny Lament: A Novel by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the bestselling author of What the Wind Knows and From Sand and Ash comes a powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line to be together. New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. With his father’s deep ties to the mob, the Bronx piano man has learned that love and family can get you in trouble...
  • Lion of War by Kathryn Le Veque

    Lion of War by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The heir to Lioncross Abbey Castle makes his presence known. Like all sons of de Lohr, Curtis de Lohr was born for war. As the firstborn son of the Earl of Hereford and Worcester, England’s greatest knight during the reign of Richard I, Curtis grew up knowing what was expected of him and he thrived through the pressure...
  • The Dove by Victoria Vale

    The Dove by Victoria Vale

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 2 of 2 in the Villain Duology, a Dark Regency Erotic Romance duet set in the wilds of Scotland. A quest for vengeance… Lord Adam Callahan, Earl of Hartmoor has spent the past five years destroying the Fairchild family as recompense for the ruination of his sister. Yet, it never seemed like enough … until the family’s only daughter appeared on his doorstep searching for answers...
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    alpha-mc  anti-hero  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  angst  bdsm
  • Shameless Duke by Scarlett Scott

    Shameless Duke by Scarlett Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucien, Duke of Arden, is on the brink of disaster, about to lose everything he worked so hard to attain as the leader of the Special League. When Home Office obliges him to join forces with a Pinkerton agent to keep his position, he is determined to send the fellow back to American shores faster than he can say “Yankee Doodle...
  • The Sinner's Tempting Captor by Caroline Lee

    The Sinner's Tempting Captor by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He might have killed her brother, but this sinner is now the only man who can save her. Lady Honoria Lindsay is the daughter of a duke and the sister of three-too-many dead brothers. She’s learned to armor herself against inconvenient emotions like grief with propriety and charity…until an altruistic favor to a bereaved old man offers her a way to absolve her guilt...
  • Breaking Trey by Amelia Shea

    Breaking Trey by Amelia Shea

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Former MC club girl, Dahlia Carter has her sights set on a new career path, and the opportunity couldn’t have come at a better time. Her roommate just bailed before paying next month’s rent, and her bank account registers almost a zero balance. Her only shot at survival lies in the hands of a man she can’t resist.Trey Serra is everything Dahlia is not...
  • Sutton's Secrets by Scarlett Scott

    Sutton's Secrets by Scarlett Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today and Amazon Top 100 Bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes the sizzling, emotional conclusion to The Sinful Suttons series...Logan Sutton lives in the shadowy underworld of London, rooting out evil before it can strike. He’s a nameless enigma prowling the streets to keep the innocent safe. His next mission? Seducing a beauty with ties to the villains he’s out to destroy...
  • Tempting Fate by Kerrigan Byrne

    Tempting Fate by Kerrigan Byrne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A brand-new deliciously wicked romance series from USA Today Bestselling Author Kerrigan Byrne. The Goode Girls aren't simply good; they're stunning.Disfigured in fighting pits as a lad, Gabriel Sauvageau has lived his entire life without the touch of a woman. As the brains and brawn behind London's most ferocious smuggling syndicate, he knows he doesn't deserve shy, bespectacled Felicity Goode...
  • Cocky Viscount by Annabelle Anders

    Cocky Viscount by Annabelle Anders

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when a lady breaks the rules?Felicity Brightley is the most genteel of ladies. Raised to marry the Earl of Westerley, she’s never failed to follow the dictates of society. Doing so, she’d been promised, ensured lifelong security and happiness. When her future is shattered, however, she decides it’s time she tests those rules—perhaps make up a few of her own...
  • Valiant by Adele Clee

    Valiant by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet Valiant—the third of four gentlemen who work to right injustices—in the new heart-stopping series Gentlemen of the Order.As the grandson of a marauding pirate, Evan Sloane strives to earn his moniker, Valiant. His work as an enquiry agent for the Order gives him the perfect opportunity to make amends for his ancestor’s misdeeds. But even the bold and bravely courageous have their limits...
  • Your Scarred Heart by Adele Clee

    Your Scarred Heart by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An enquiry agent hiding from her past.When Miss Honora Wild meets her first client, she fears there has been a dreadful mistake. Having escaped from a domineering father, she shouldn’t have to work for a man suspected of murder, one whose mood matches his frightening facial scar. She shouldn’t have to venture to his clifftop castle to prove the devil is innocent of the crime...
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    crime  forced-proximity  kind-mc  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  book
  • No Life for a Lady by Adele Clee

    No Life for a Lady by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After almost a year spent playing chaperone to Mr Daventry’s female enquiry agents, Miss Trimble knows she must find a new position. All his agents are married, and so what other reason could he have for calling her to his office late at night? Except her employer is a master matchmaker, a man who has discovered her true identity, knows her real name and her darkest secret...
  • Lawless God by Lola King

    Lawless God by Lola King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I sent a psychopath to prison. Now he's out and back for revenge.They call me Kayla ‘The Ruthless’ King. The Queen of the North Shore and leader of the Kings’ Crew.Because of the sacrifices I’ve made and the merciless way I run my crew, the North Shore belongs to me.In our town, you can only thrive if you're the worst of the worst...
  • Dark Angel by Adele Clee

    Dark Angel by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet the Dark Angel—the last of four gentlemen who work to right injustices—in the new heart-stopping series Gentlemen of the Order.Having witnessed his parents’ murder as a boy of eight, Dante D’Angelo has spent his adult years hunting the culprit. Working as an enquiry agent for the Order enables him to conduct his own secret investigations...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  crime  dark  kind-mc  steamy  suspense  adult  assassins
  • Mine at Midnight by Adele Clee

    Mine at Midnight by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Miss Eliza Dutton discovers her first case for the Order involves helping a lord who has a gambling habit, her instinct is to refuse. The fact her father lost his fortune and his life at a gaming hell is the reason she despises Lord Roxburgh. But Eliza is given an ultimatum: help the handsome rogue or find work elsewhere...
  • Wanted Hearts by CJ Bishop

    Wanted Hearts by CJ Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you fight a demon from the past...hell-bent on destroying all that you love? Shattered by Clint’s final cold declaration — I don’t miss you. I don’t want you. I don’t love you — Axel struggles to make it from one day to the next beneath the crushing weight of his broken heart, knowing he must move on and let the cowboy go...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  steamy  abuse  adult  animals  book
  • Kiss Her Goodbye: The Complete Series by Rebecca Royce

    Kiss Her Goodbye: The Complete Series by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'm Everly Marrs, and my life has been a whirlwind of chaos and revelation. The men who kidnapped me, known as The Letters, upended everything I believed in. They showed me a world beyond my control, one where I'm not just a victim but a player in their dangerous games. From the day they took me, my neatly outlined plans for a future in social work, for love, for a normal life, all vanished...
  • Sacrificed: Heart Beyond the Spires by Bey Deckard

    Sacrificed: Heart Beyond the Spires by Bey Deckard

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Novel (127,090 words)Genre(s): Historical Fantasy, Erotic Action/Adventure, Polyamory, LGBT+/GSMReunited once more, the crew of Baal’s Heart must make the long and treacherous journey south to the towering spires of the Devil’s Isles...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  anti-hero  dark  outlaws  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Dealing With Discipline by Golden Angel

    Dealing With Discipline by Golden Angel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the second book in the Domestic Discipline Quartet. Eleanor Villiers, now Lady Hyde and originally a reluctant wife to Lord Edwin, has realized that she has fallen in love with her husband without the reassurance that he loves her back...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  arranged-marriage  dark  steamy  adult  angels  book  fiction
  • Pushing Limits by Emma Creed

    Pushing Limits by Emma Creed

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Join these dark, dirty, and corrupt cowboys on the Carson's ranch. Where boundaries are pushed, laws are broken and limits get tested... I’m the quiet one,The one who everyone assumes is dead inside.But they're wrong.If you're dead inside you can’t feel pain…And pain is what consumes me.I’ve experienced love.I’ve suffered from it.And I’ve lost it...
  • Claimed By The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Claimed By The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "You're ours now, lass. We're claiming ye." My mind and body are weakened by the curse of my magic. My three sisters have mated with Berserker warriors, but I am too frail to be a bride. One night, three warriors break into my home. They steal me away. Now we're on the run from the pack. These warriors tell me I belong to them, and that they'll never let me go...
  • The Millionaire Marquess by Scarlett Scott

    The Millionaire Marquess by Scarlett Scott

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A daring housekeeper meets her match in a sinfully seductive marquess in this scorching-hot addition to the Unexpected Lords series from USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Scott.Ruthless businessman. Coldhearted cynic. Jaded rake.The Marquess of Greymoor has possessed a great many titles in his life, but there is none he despises more than the one he unexpectedly inherited as a lad...
  • Love Wild and Fair by Bertrice Small

    Love Wild and Fair by Bertrice Small

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Love For All Time She is Catriona, Countess of Glenkirk, the dazzling green-eyed beauty whose silken sensuality fires the passion of men's very souls -- making her a pawn in a dangerous game of royal intrigue. wife to a count, unwilling mistress to the king, she has the undying live of the most courageous lord in all of scotland. .
  • Dark Side of the Sun by Addison Cain

    Dark Side of the Sun by Addison Cain

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Arabella, the Baroness of Iliffe, knows her life is nearing its end. For years the young widow has been hunted across England, running from her past, thrust onward into desolate wastes until there is nowhere else to hide. With the little time she has left, her desperation has driven her into the arms of an extremely sinister man who desires more than just her company...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  anti-hero  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult
  • The Taming of a Scandal by Kathleen Ayers

    The Taming of a Scandal by Kathleen Ayers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lady Phaedra is the Disastrous BarringtonSister of the Duke of Averell, Phaedra has always been a bit wild and bold, even for a Barrington. While her sisters painted or gardened, Phaedra was learning to fence, run a gambling hell and now she’s taken up knife throwing. Everyone in London, indeed all of England, is holding their collective breath in anticipation of Phaedra’s impending scandal...
  • Evading by K.L. Kreig

    Evading by K.L. Kreig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Let me obliterate each and every last beast that's holding that beautiful mind captive, Giselle." It's no secret Detective Mike Thatcher wasn't a fan of the blood drinkers. They stole his life, his woman, his future when they kidnapped his college sweetheart. So of course Fate paired him with the one thing he'd spent the past eleven years hating...a vampire. But Giselle isn't just any vampire...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  steamy  suspense  adult  book  female-mc  fiction
  • Vampire's Embrace: A Vampire Queen Series Novel by Joey W. Hill

    Vampire's Embrace: A Vampire Queen Series Novel by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nina's twin sister Sher has been groomed to be an Inherited Servant since she was six years old. At twenty-eight, she will be given to a vampire of the Council's choosing and serve him up to 300 years...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  bdsm  book  fiction
  • Markham Hall Series Bundle by Sierra Simone

    Markham Hall Series Bundle by Sierra Simone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Yorkshire, 1879 I am alone. When Ivy Leavold is left destitute by her brother’s death, she is taken in by her cousin’s brooding, tortured widower--Julian Markham. Handsome and possessive, it’s not long before Ivy falls for him. But Mr. Markham has dark secrets, secrets that may put Ivy in danger... I am afraid...
  • Pirates, Passion and Plunder: seventeen wicked tales by Victoria Vale, Lee Savino

    Pirates, Passion and Plunder: seventeen wicked tales by Victoria Vale, Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warning : Bodices will be ripped! What's a lady to do when she's boarded by ruthless brigands and barbarous buccaneers, kidnapped on the lawless High Seas? Stripped to the skin by piercing eyes. Captive and claimed by rough, strong hands. She knows it's forbidden but how can she resist... a pirate's pleasure. Prepare for hair-raising shenanigans. Pirates make their own rules...
  • The Sheikh King's Ward by Leslie North

    The Sheikh King's Ward by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When King Bashar Halabi finds out he’s guardian to a recently orphaned girl, he welcomes her into his palace. But he’s stunned when the “girl” turns out to be a twenty-seven-year-old American beauty, Fiona Nadide.According to a secret stipulation in her father’s will, Fiona will not obtain her inheritance and be free from guardianship unless she marries before her 28th birthday...
  • To Protect a Princess by Jess Michaels

    To Protect a Princess by Jess Michaels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A royal new series from 10-Time USA Today Bestselling Author Jess Michaels. All of Society is atwitter about the arrival of the Royal Family of Athawick, a small island country with important ties on a tour to celebrate the coronation of a new king. Or at least…that is the reason on the surface for their Season in London...
  • Renegade Love by Donna Fletcher

    Renegade Love by Donna Fletcher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rosa’s friend warned her not to look at Esteban Cesare that he was evil and once she looked upon evil she was doomed. But she felt sorry for the handsome ranchero. He had finally returned after having been abducted sixteen years ago by renegades and no one but his family welcomed him home. Rosa didn’t heed her friend’s warning. She looked upon him... and sealed her fate...
  • Her Beautiful Bastard by Victoria Vale

    Her Beautiful Bastard by Victoria Vale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A kiss neither will ever forget … a forbidden attraction that can’t be denied … After a disastrous first Season, Lydia Darling abandons all hope of love and marriage. A simple country girl, she does not belong amongst the debutantes of the ton...
  • Siren by Measha Stone

    Siren by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My father demands I give up my dreams to follow the path he’s set for me, but I want more.And I won’t settle.In exchange for a small favor, my aunt helps get me started on a new path. My path. But I should have known life isn’t that easy. One of my father’s most trusted men catches up with me, and he’s brought a friend.I’m off limits, the boss’ daughter, but that doesn’t stop Bastian or Garrick...
  • Dusk's Devotion by V.L. Locey

    Dusk's Devotion by V.L. Locey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can love warm the hearts of two enemies facing the wrath of a Wyoming winter storm?Kyle Abbott is slowly discovering that being midway through his thirties and being married to your job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. There has to be more to life than random hookups, horses, and cattle...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  crime  steamy  forced-proximity  romance  mlm  western  lgbtq
  • Unexpected Temptation by Mink

    Unexpected Temptation by Mink

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love pops up in unexpected places in this collection from MINK. Even though temptation might not be foreseen, love takes control and brings these alpha heroes to their knees for the women they adore. This collection features Unexpected Queen, Unexpected Love, Unexpected Devotion, Sweet Psycho, and the brand new story Sweet Obsession (the highly-requested story for Ocean!)...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  suspense  romance  historical  holidays  fiction  book  adult
  • Wraith by Kathleen Kelly

    Wraith by Kathleen Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You think you can take what’s mine, and there’ll be no repercussions?I will hunt you.I will torture you.I will make you tell me your secrets, then dispose of you.My daughter is my most precious possession.I will make them regret the day they came near her.I will destroy the Harbingers of Death MC and the Petrov family. They will regret ever having touched what I protect...
  • The Man Who Loved Cole Flores by K.A. Merikan

    The Man Who Loved Cole Flores by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You want revenge? Dig two graves.Ten years ago, a vicious gang called the Gotham Boys descended on a homestead in the mountains like a pack of wolves, leaving nothing behind but death and destruction.Ned O’Leary was the only one to survive the ordeal.He lost hope for revenge long ago, but its flame erupts in his heart when the gang is spotted again...
  • The Following Sea by Marsha Canham

    The Following Sea by Marsha Canham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    3rd in Canham's Pirate Wolf trilogy. This time the story focuses on Gabriel Dante, taking up where The Iron Rose left off as he sails away from battle with horrendous wounds and half a crew on board a captured ship. On his way home to the safety of Pigeon Cay, Dante crosses paths with a strange ship sailing in circles, showing no signs of life on her deserted decks...
  • More than Tempted by Adele Clee

    More than Tempted by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She has loved him secretly for years.Miss Helen Langley felt the first pangs of love seven years ago when her brother’s best friend examined her sprained ankle. She has suffered in silence ever since. A lady might engage in mild flirtation, but Nicholas St. Clair is considered part of her family and acts like a brother...
  • Her Villain by S.M. LaViolette

    Her Villain by S.M. LaViolette

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She deserves a hero. How unfortunate that he can only ever be her villain…. David Remington is…lacking. Lacking empathy. Emotion.In fact, it’s what he lacks that makes him such an efficient agent of the Crown. He can carry out any mission—no matter how dark—ruthlessly. Coldly.Until he met her.Calliope Fowler is most inconvenient. Beautiful. Smart...
  • A Taste of Shine by Addison Cain

    A Taste of Shine by Addison Cain

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Prohibition. Gangsters. Moonshine. A badass heroine and a hero who’s alpha enough to make you swoon. You won't be able to put this book down! ” He’s in love at first sight. The new girl in town is nothing but trouble. And deep in trouble in every possible way. Chicago’s reigning kingpin wants Charlotte back under his wing. Radcliff’s right-hand-man wants her in his bed...
  • The Missing Marquess of Althorn by Chasity Bowlin, Dragonblade Publishing

    The Missing Marquess of Althorn by Chasity Bowlin, Dragonblade Publishing

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Betrothed to Marcus Balfour, Marquess Althorn since infancy, the entirety of Miss Jane Barrett’s life has been planned for her by others. Through an overheard argument, Jane discovers at a very tender age that her betrothed is opposed to the match. The knowledge wounds her deeply and sews the first seeds of rebellion in her...
  • Demons by Abbi Glines

    Demons by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The evil of the world was pretty cut and dry. I did my best to do good, be good, and make a positive mark on the world. The emotions that Thatcher stirred inside me couldn’t be labeled good. Now that I knew how exciting, tempting, and addicting the darkness could be, I wasn’t sure I would have the strength to stay away.ThatcherThere wasn’t a moment in my life that I didn’t feel detached...
  • Given To The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Given To The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Captured to be a prize in the brutal Berserker Games...My life changed forever when the Berserkers took me. These fearsome warriors must find women to keep their lethal rage at bay...and I am an ideal mate.The Alphas decree that all warriors must compete in a series of Highland Games for my hand. Of all the giant warriors, two have caught my eye, but I have no choice...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  angst  book
  • Highlander Unchained by Donna Fletcher

    Highlander Unchained by Donna Fletcher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The infamous warrior Cree is paraded before the village Dowell and though shackled and wounded he walks with arrogant pride, meeting all the curious and fearful stares of the villagers with a fierceness that has them quickly turning their heads away... all but one woman. Dawn cannot keep her eyes off the captured warrior, though tales of his exploits suggests he’s more devil than man...
  • Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin

    Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Bennett Sharp is on the run. Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man. Except Priest Farrell. The unfaithful, stormy-eyed libertine hunts her with terrifying possessiveness. Nothing will stop him from coming for her. Not his unforgivable betrayal. Not when she's captured by the ice-cold pirate hunter, Lord Ashley Cutler. She must escape Ashley's prison and Priest's deceit...
  • Warrior by Violette Dubrinsky

    Warrior by Violette Dubrinsky

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Outspoken, loyal, and skilled with the sword, Princess Jaisyn St. Ives of Lytheria is no princess of fairytales. After the unexpected death of her father, Jaisyn takes control of the kingdom, expecting to be called upon to defend her claim to a throne previously held by men...
  • Vaughn by Emma Lang

    Vaughn by Emma Lang

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A con man. A rancher’s daughter. A wildfire out of control. Elizabeth Graham spends her days running the business side of the Circle Eight ranch. Her knack for numbers and organization lent themselves to her position in the family. She has just turned twenty-one and doubts she will find a man to spend her life with...
  • My Fair Viscount by Jess Michaels

    My Fair Viscount by Jess Michaels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new scandal sheet from USA Today Bestseller Jess Michaels!!! Raised in the rookeries, David Shaw has just inherited his father's fortune...and his title. With his rough manners, he will certainly never be accepted by Society, but his cousin offers a solution. One David doesn't like. Miss Rose Higgins has a successful reputation as a comportment teacher to ladies of the Upper Ten Thousand...
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