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  • Tyrant by Sarah Bailey

    Tyrant by Sarah Bailey

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do if you killed someone?Normal people wouldn’t go running to the prodigal son of a mafia kingpin for help.I’m not exactly normal.The daughter of a gang leader embroiled in a turf war. One that has me caught in the crossfire. When you have nowhere else to turn, who better to protect you than someone your own father will never suspect...
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    age-gap  billionaire  crime  dark  organized-crime  steamy  adult  book
  • The Lady : The Oath Duet by Serena Akeroyd

    The Lady : The Oath Duet by Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’ve spent a lifetime avoiding the various factions of the mafia in NYC, yet somehow I’m in it up to my eyeballs.I should be scared.I should want to run.Yet the city quivers in fear with every designer-clad footstep I take, because the Valentinis have ascended, and I’m the Don’s Lady.It’s intoxicating. However Luciu comes with vendettas and a craving for vengeance that could get him killed...
  • Irresistible Attraction by W. Winters

    Irresistible Attraction by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes the complete heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense trilogy, Irresistible Attraction. Sometimes you meet someone, maybe meet isn’t the right word. You don’t even have say hello for this to happen. You simply pass by them and everything in your world changes forever...
  • Family Ties by Sam Mariano

    Family Ties by Sam Mariano

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Francesca Morelli.Sweet as sin, like the cupcakes she slings at the Morelli bakery. Her sweetness and killer looks are what reeled me in, but her unexpected vulnerability really sealed my fate. I don't care if there’s a war brewing between our families. I don’t care if I have to go through her evil dictator of a brother...
  • Controlling Chloe by Kate Oliver

    Controlling Chloe by Kate Oliver

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Blurb coming soon! This is Bash Gilroy's story...
  • Art of War by Monique Orgeron

    Art of War by Monique Orgeron

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    War is inevitable, but who will win? The minute Murphy Larussa stepped foot in New Orleans, her life changed forever. Murphy was meant to remain in the shadows, hidden from prying eyes, like any good bastard. She finds herself hunted by a dangerous family for a debt she has no knowledge of. Everyone wants her gone, but they underestimate her...
  • High Class by Ivy Nelson

    High Class by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I went home to answer for the death of my cousin.Then I meet Zara. A raven haired beauty with a killer smile.Turns out she's an escort and she was sent to be a distraction.Now the mayor of New York City is dead.I'm forced to take her back to Las Vegas to find out what she knows before the police try to pin it on me. My gut says Zara is innocent in all of this...
  • Bound by Deception by Stephanie Amaral

    Bound by Deception by Stephanie Amaral

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FrancescaWhile men made war, women were expected to keep the peace. I had loved a man before. I swore that would never happen again.So marrying for the sake of the family wasn’t the worst thing.That’s what I thought.I was a mafia princess afterall and serving as a trading item was my only role in this world ruled by men...
  • Deadly Truths by Rebecca Royce

    Deadly Truths by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm Everly Marrs. Eighteen months ago the Letters took me to force my father's hand and turned my world upside down. A few months after that, a man named Ben took me from them and I went through hell before I saw them again and they turned my heart inside out. In fast moments I'll never get over, I killed my father and walked away from everything--the Alliance, the Letters, my heart...
  • Smokeshow by Abbi Glines

    Smokeshow by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s a fragile thing- the whispers of truth that you hope are lies.Hughes Farm was the largest racing horse establishment in the south. The family that owned it were known to be wealthy, powerful, arrogant, and terrifying. My first encounter with them didn’t prepare me for all that was to come. I don’t think anything truly could have...
  • Whiskey Poison by Nicole Fox

    Whiskey Poison by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The stranger who saved my life is officially my new boss.Now, I’m stuck in a house with him and his BABY...Until I find a way to get both of us out.He’s a CEO.A Bratva don.My new boss...And now, my prison warden.Timofey Viktorov has no problems blackmailing me into his deal.Live in my mansion …Care for my baby …“No” is not an option...
  • The Hunted Queen by Jagger Cole

    The Hunted Queen by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s my darkest obsession. And my only salvation.Violence shattered us.But she’s the one who stomped on the pieces.Now, she thinks time, distance, and hiding from me means she’s escaped our games.She’s wrong.This time, when I catch her, I wont be letting go, no matter how hard she begs.At least, that was the plan, until I realize I’m not the only shadow hunting her.But she’s my prey...
  • Predator & Prey: The Phoenix and The Fire by Kate Stewart

    Predator & Prey: The Phoenix and The Fire by Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was drawn to darkness, and he was the abyss.Safe.It’s a liar’s word. No one is ever truly safe.Control is how I survived.I lived my life by two principles: order and excellence. My moral compass steered me out of the backwoods of Tennessee and towards the woman I was destined to become, but not without gathering a few skeletons along the way...
  • Sinful Hearts by Jagger Cole

    Sinful Hearts by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My first mistake was sleeping with the most dangerous man in New York, without him knowing who I was.My second was believing he never would...It was supposed to be easy: one night of sin with a beautiful stranger to forever cut ties with my Bratva past.But I didn’t pick a stranger. I picked him...
  • Detained by Luna Mason

    Detained by Luna Mason

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FrankieI don’t have to hide behind a mask anymore.I rule New York, and now all I have to do is finish what I started ten years ago. To destroy the man who took my life from me. No one can get in my way. That is until I am arrested for murder and have my first taste of Detective Zara O’Reilly.The woman hell bent on ruining my plans...
  • Binding Contract by Amelia Wilde

    Binding Contract by Amelia Wilde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mason Hill's empire is up in flames.He built Phoenix Enterprises from the ground up. Now it's under siege. He protected his family from the moment his parents died. Now their family tragedy is being dragged through the press. His plans for revenge have brought him to his knees.Charlotte Van Kempt faces heartbreaking betrayal...
  • The Opposite Effect by Shandi Boyes

    The Opposite Effect by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brax Anderson is the #1 bachelor on his side of Ravenshoe. With ruggedly handsome looks and an even more gorgeous heart, one flash of his killer smile has the women swarming like bees to a honeypot. His grandma, friends, and a few solid hours between the sheets with a vast variety of bunnies is what keeps his blood pumping. He is a self-proclaimed bachelor who has no intentions of settling down...
  • Black Ink: Part II by N.M. Catalano

    Black Ink: Part II by N.M. Catalano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alexander Black Ruler of an empire. An enigma. Ruthless and powerful. Someone is setting him up, threatening to destroy everything he's built. He's got one thing on his mind; keeping Gemma safe. Gemma Trudeau A pawn in a game. It's a game she has no way of winning, with players who win only one way. Elimination. Black will not lose. To him, it's no game. It's life and death...
  • Stolen Soul by Kristen Luciani

    Stolen Soul by Kristen Luciani

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He put his ring on my finger and a knife through my heart...Massimo Marrone is pure evil disguised by ripped muscles and a gorgeous face.His dark secrets and blackened heart have turned him into a monster before my eyes.And I’ve become his prey.He promised me protection and committed the worst betrayal with his lies,Breaking my heart in the process.Because Massimo is no white knight...
  • Cruel Prince by Aidèe Jaimes

    Cruel Prince by Aidèe Jaimes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I sold my soul to the Devil and he handed me over to someone far deadlier.After the death of my father, his enemies came knocking on my door. Left with no other choice, I agree to an indentured contract, selling my body to a criminal in exchange for my life.Only he never meant to keep me as his own...
  • Born into Blood by Sonja Grey

    Born into Blood by Sonja Grey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’d give my life for my family…but I won’t give hers. My family is everything, and the Bratva I help run is all I care about.Until I meet her.One look and I know she’s mine,the only woman I’ll ever want, and the only one I’ll ever have. My little kisa belongs to me, and I won’t let anything come between us…not even my own family.I’ve been taught since birth to hate the Melnikovs...
  • Darkest Sins by Neva Altaj

    Darkest Sins by Neva Altaj

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    NERAIn a night of blood and death,Fate brought us together.I thought I was saving the life of an innocent man,A man I'd never see again.I was wrong.A slight shift in the air.A glint of silver eyes in the darkness.I may not see him, but I know he's there.My angel of death,Lurking in the shadows,Watching over me.Protecting me,Before disappearing into thin air,Until we meet again...
  • Sizzling by Abbi Glines

    Sizzling by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BriarRunning. It seems that’s all I ever do. I’ve been running since I was fifteen. Some days I wonder if I’ll ever be able to stop. Would I even know how to live a normal life if I could? Doubt it. No reason to waste good time thinking on it either. Sitting around wishing for something never did anyone a favor. If you want it, then you go and get it. By any means necessary...
  • Their Destiny by Rebel Rose

    Their Destiny by Rebel Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This woman is my obsession, and my world is falling apart without her in it. I thought I was going to shatter her into a million pieces and then build her into everything that I wanted and needed and desired in a submissive. And I did. But somewhere along the way, she shattered me as well… and she’s the only one who has the power to put me back together...
  • Hit by Mallory Hart

    Hit by Mallory Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    GIUSEPPINAI was never supposed to meet him, but one fateful night had him saving my life.Now he thinks he owns me. I’m his to keep.He’s ruthless, cold, and a killer, but something draws me to him anyway.I know what he’s capable of. I know he was meant to kill me. And I know one wrong slip may make him change his mind about sparing my life.But I want to test him, push him, be a part of his world...
  • Dance for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Dance for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Down on her luck, Boadicea McGee is desperate for a job.Bills to pay, a roof to keep over her head, and vultures for parents leave her with few options. When her best friend offers her a dream opportunity, she has to weigh dreams against survival and her own morals. The pay is good, the people are nice...but working in a BDSM club just isn't her thing...
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    age-gap  crime  dark  organized-crime  steamy  abuse  adult  book
  • Unveil by Elodie Hart

    Unveil by Elodie Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    GenI’ve made my fortune from liberation, but I’m far more comfortable with discretion.I’ve built the pre-eminent sex club in London, but I don’t play there.Not publicly, anyway. Not beyond its darkest corners.I talk the talk, but I don’t walk the walk. Not like my male co-founders do.Because I’m the immaculate one...
  • Brutally His by Blake Hensley, Zoe Blake

    Brutally His by Blake Hensley, Zoe Blake

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From our very first fiery encounter, I was tempted to fire my beautiful new assistant.Right after I punished her for that defiant slap she delivered in response to my undeniably inappropriate kiss. As Harrison Astrid, New York's formidable District Attorney, distractions were a luxury I couldn't afford...
  • Heads You Lose by Bea Paige

    Heads You Lose by Bea Paige

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beast…Beast in name. Beast in nature.Once upon a time Tales was my home.I was the second in command and the best goddamn fighter the club had ever seen.I fought. I won.Every. Damn. Time.Until one day I lost trying to protect the princess from the true monster of this f*cked-up fairy tale.She shunned me, sent me away.Now I’m back to tell her the truth, not some tale full of half-truths and lies...
  • Risk by Briana Michaels

    Risk by Briana Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mason Every move I make is scrutinized by my competitors and insufferable family. As the rebel in my social circle, I’m finally cutting the puppet strings of everyone who’s tried to control me. It’s time to let the real Mason Finch come out to play, and Leah has just entered my game.She’s my house cleaner. My fascination. My biggest risk.I play to win. She plays for fun...
  • SINS of the Rex by Emma Slate

    SINS of the Rex by Emma Slate

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THIS IS BOOK ONE OF A SERIES. THIS IS A NOVELLA. IF YOU HATE CLIFFHANGERS - SKIP THIS WHOLE SERIES COMPLETELY. It's complicated, dark, and nothing is as it seems. My name is Barrett Schaefer and I thought I knew myself. And then I met Flynn Campbell. The mystery and danger surrounding him called to me. He changed my wants, my needs, my life. Love can destroy a person. So can death...
  • Knox by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Knox by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Revenge.I'm familiar with it. You have to be when you're the firstborn son of a notorious mafia leader. Death and vengeance have been the very foundations of my life. So who in their fucking mind would be stupid enough to cross me?My brother and I have been wrongfully convicted of a crime we didn't commit. We know who is behind this...
  • The Kingpin by Piper Stone

    The Kingpin by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her father is my enemy. She is my property.When I caught her sneaking into my home, I thought Raven was just a girl doing a silly sorority dare, so I set her bare ass on fire with my belt and then taught her a much more shameful lesson.My seed was already dripping down her thighs before I learned she's my enemy's daughter.That's when I decided I would be keeping her...
  • Look But Don't Touch by Olivia Hayle

    Look But Don't Touch by Olivia Hayle

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Grant Wood. Even his name is sharp and unforgiving. I’ve disliked him since the first time we met, all those years ago.  He took one look at me and dismissed me as vapid and ignorant. The spoiled young daughter of his business associate. Sure, I’d done my best to live up to that image lately, but the judgment still stung. We had carefully avoided each other ever since. It was a perfect plan...
  • Inked Adonis by Nicole Fox

    Inked Adonis by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My BFF sent the hot stranger a voice note...Of me saying I want to climb him like a tree.And he just. Texted. Back.It's the dog's fault, really.If this untrained Great Dane I'm walking had any manners at all, I never would've ended up With my leash wrapped around the most gorgeous man I've ever seen.Lucky for me, the guy is a good sport about it...
  • Possessing Paisley by Kate Oliver

    Possessing Paisley by Kate Oliver

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paisley McKeeHe’s my best friend’s brother.He’s also overbearing, bossy, and stubborn.Obviously we hate each other.Then something happened.We said it was a one-time thing.The next morning he tells me it’s forever.He’s unhinged.But he makes me feel things I’ve never felt before.Can I believe him when he says I’m his?Kieran RocheShe’s irritating, sassy, and she hates my guts.Not at all my type...
  • Baby for the Brute: A Fake Boyfriend Romance by Penelope Bloom

    Baby for the Brute: A Fake Boyfriend Romance by Penelope Bloom

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Pretend you’re my boyfriend. Please.” She’s a stranger. Big blue eyes. Innocent. Way too pure for my dirty hands. I should tell her to run. I’m bad news. The worst kind. But I’ve never made a habit of doing the right thing. I kiss her because I want her. I want those cherry lips tangled up with mine. I want to claim her. Own her...
  • Dirty Secret by Bianca Cole

    Dirty Secret by Bianca Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Ruthless Saints by Ella Jade

    Ruthless Saints by Ella Jade

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The last thing anyone wants is to be a dispensable member of the leading mafia family. But that’s exactly what Luciana is.As a lowly cousin and the only female offspring in the Torrio mafia family, Luciana is just the bargaining chip her uncle needs to make an alliance with the Bilotti family...
  • Wanton by Nichole Rose

    Wanton by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A life in hell was the sacrifice I made to keep my brothers alive.There's nothing I won't do to see that job through.Even if it means seducing the enemy.But I never intended to fall for Callandria Genovese.She was supposed to be a means to an end, nothing more.Now, I've got more to lose than ever.And the woman who holds the key to my future is in chains in my bedroom.I need her trust...
  • Enzo by Cala Riley

    Enzo by Cala Riley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DanicaI'm so tired of running.For the past three years, I have bounced around constantly to avoid the demons from my past.Then I moved in next to him.This was supposed to be my fresh start, yet I can't help but want to be with him and his daughter.Is it fair for me to bring them into my life knowing the dangers that await?EnzoOne look and my life irrevocably changed...
  • Black Ink by N.M. Catalano

    Black Ink by N.M. Catalano

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alexander Black Ruthless. Powerful. Dangerous. Intoxicating. Twisted. A prick. There is nothing or no one beyond his reach anywhere in the world. He uses any means to get what he wants. He wants Gemma Trudeau. For two reasons, first, to find out if she helped her husband steal three million dollars from him. The second, he wants to do very bad, very twisted things to her...
  • One Reckless Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    One Reckless Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I wanted to drown. I wanted the world to swallow me up whole and take me back to a time when everything was okay. A time when I hadn’t just buried the only father I've ever known. One where I’m not watching as my mother loses herself to her grief. One where the pain isn’t so insufferable. Everything in my world is a dull muted grey. I crave colour. Excitement. Recklessness...
  • Paved in Blood: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sonja Grey

    Paved in Blood: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sonja Grey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ll walk through hell to be with him,Even if the path is paved in blood.Roman Melnikov is a deadly man in an expensive suit.But I know what lies beneath the façade—the scars and tattoos that hint at the man he really is.He came here to find his sister, and his search leads him to my dad and his friends.We both want to take them down,and the only way to do that is together...
  • Concede by Kathy Coopmans

    Concede by Kathy Coopmans

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, I pretended to be something I’m not. Drowning the beast living inside of me in copious amounts of alcohol and women. Not that I complained.And then Victoria Hughes walks back into my life, and took me by surprise.The woman stunning me clear out of my mind the minute my mouth touched hers.After tragedy strikes and knocks her off her feet, I expected her to come to me, yet she didn’t...
  • Asher by Terry Towers

    Asher by Terry Towers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times Bestselling Author, Terry Towers, brings you her newest steamy dark romance. ASHER!She should have died that night.I should have killed her as quickly and without conscience, as I had the man I’d been assigned to ensure stopped breathing.But something stopped me.Instead, I found myself draping her over my shoulder and taking her home...
  • Reckless Obsession by Deborah Garland

    Reckless Obsession by Deborah Garland

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eoghan's Story- He's a Fixer, but she's his insatiable fix...After I pull a fast one in her Las Vegas courtroom, prosecutor Jillian Diamond gets drunk in a bar and gives me a piece of her mind. But we settle the score tangled in the sheets, where I show her I’m even better in the bedroom than the courtroom.Only, to my surprise, I’m her first...
  • Dirty Beginnings (Dirty Duet, #1 incl'd; Dirty Games Duet, #1 included; Dirty Sweet Duet, #1 included by Laurelin Paige

    Dirty Beginnings (Dirty Duet, #1 incl'd; Dirty Games Duet, #1 included; Dirty Sweet Duet, #1 included by Laurelin Paige

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dive into Laurelin Paige's Dirty Universe, with these three full-length books from the popular series, each beginning a duet featuring one of the filthy rich men of Reach Media...
  • Saved by My Stalker by Cassi Hart

    Saved by My Stalker by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    EthanI didn’t have to take on all the work I do. I could have sat in an executive suite instead of getting my hands dirty, but I prefer to take the direct approach in everything I do. Until I see her, that is … I didn’t think I was missing something from my life, and then I saw my little angel through her window and realized just how wrong I was...
  • Declan by MercyAnn Summers

    Declan by MercyAnn Summers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Declan Hughes, the MMC in this book, was first introduced in the Ends World Series. While you definitely do not need to read that series to fully understand and enjoy this book, you may want to give it a read just to familiarize yourself with some of the characters are who will inevitably make random appearances in Declan's story...
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