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Grave Mistake by Nikki Landis
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes vengeance isn't enough.There are times when a man is forced to choose the wrong side of the law.When everything is stripped away and ruthless, cold revenge is all that remains.They call me Wraith for a reason.When people need to disappear, I'm the one that's called in.I move through the shadows and strike without mercy... -
![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... -
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Morsel by Audrey Rush
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy violent desires are harmless. My fantasy tends to scare most women away, but my daydreams never hurt anyone. When I find Mona, a mysterious artist with similar sensual needs, we indulge in roleplaying.It seems like I found my dream girl. But while we grow closer, Mona’s desires become more extreme, and my primal cravings become harder to control... -
![Pretty Poisoned by Elle Mitchell]()
Pretty Poisoned by Elle Mitchell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTeagan Townsend has never really fit in and gave up trying a long time ago. A college dropout obsessed with horror, true crime, and the occult, Teagan prefers books to people, her hookups casual, and her friendships nonexistent.Lately, her focus has been on jumpstarting her true crime podcast…which brings her to her latest obsession... -
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![Desperate Run by C.J Riggs, M.L Burns]()
Desperate Run by C.J Riggs, M.L Burns
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDraven GrimI've walked as Death among the living for seven years since losing my very heart.Now, my only obsession is the hunt until she stepped foot into my territory.Max has until the weekend's end to escape me, but even then, only death willpart us. I am the hunter known as Grim, and you, little sheep, are my preythis Halloween... -
![Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed]()
Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA neglected 12-year-old boy does nothing to report the death of his mother in order to compete in a spelling bee. A tragic coming-of-age tale of horror and drama in the setting of a hot New Orleans summer. "Original, touching coming of age." ~Jack Ketchum, author of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR "With OF FOSTER HOMES & FLIES, Lutzke is firing on all cylinders. It's a lean mean emotional machine... -
![Marked by Charisse Spiers, Clarise Tan]()
Marked by Charisse Spiers, Clarise Tan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to my fucking world. My name is Kaston Cox and I’m a criminal’s worst nightmare. Most people run from darkness, but I live in it, require it, and thrive in the night. Some call me a monster, some a lover of evil, and others, the devil himself, but they’re all wrong. I’m just a shadow in the dark. I speak for the innocent when no one else will... -
![Hollow Hellion by Jodie King]()
Hollow Hellion by Jodie King
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs the old saying goes, “Run away to the circus,” and it seems that is exactly what I have done. Except, this isn’t just any circus—it’s Oddity Carnival, reputed to be the most horrifying spectacle in the States. It turns out, I wasn’t just running away from terror—I was unwittingly walking straight back into its chilling embrace... -
![Born Mobster by Paige Dearth]()
Born Mobster by Paige Dearth
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSeven year old Tony has one...choice to live or to die.Tony Bruno just wants to fit in, but the bullies at his school are cruel and relentless. At home, he leans on his mother Teresa for strength and comfort, but she’s no match for his father, Carmen. His father, a fighter and bully himself, hates Tony. He is embarrassed by the child for not fighting back and wishes that Tony was never born... -
![Mob Sorcery 5 by K.D. Robertson]()
Mob Sorcery 5 by K.D. Robertson
Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Yakuza demigod lurks in the city, wounded but not defeated, and Vince needs to bring her down for good. He needs a team fit for slaying a god, even if he has to ask for favors from old bosses and cross boundaries to build it.Aulfair's powerful conglomerates prepare for the implosion of one of their own... -
![ANGEL TRILOGY by C.J. Bishop]()
ANGEL TRILOGY by C.J. Bishop
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings18-year-old Angel’s sudden arrival at the Phoenix throws Dane’s heart into a frenzy. But after losing out so recently with Caleb, he is in no hurry to feel the heartache again and resists his own rapidly growing feelings for the young man, unaware that what Angel needs most right now is someone he can trust and feel safe with... -
![Diesel by M. Merin]()
Diesel by M. Merin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHot on the trail of a major human trafficking ring, Diesel sinks deeper and deeper into the darkness of that world the more he unearths the digital footprints of those responsible for the kidnapping and death of members of his MC Family... -
![Sinister Legacy: An erotic horror novel by Harleigh Beck]()
Sinister Legacy: An erotic horror novel by Harleigh Beck
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeiraI was born with darkness in my veins.My name is Keira Hill. I’m the daughter of one of the country’s most notorious serial killers.I hide in plain sight. Pretending to fit in. Pretending I’m not haunted by my father’s skeletons.In two months’ time, he’s scheduled to be executed... -
![More Than Mated by Celia Kyle]()
More Than Mated by Celia Kyle
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEven the growliest of men need love... All FIVE bestselling Grayslake: More Than Mated novels in one volume! Follow these alpha males—and their luscious mates—from Grayslake and beyond. Where the Abrams brothers, friends, and occasionally enemies fight for their lives, their future, and their mates... -
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![Maleficium by Natalie Bennett]()
Maleficium by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTragic and Twisted Fall Apart…Ave Satanas worship or perish.The reckoning has begun.In the Devil’s Playground morals have vanished, demons run rampant, and the death toll is rising.The price of freedom looms closer than before, simply crown the king, claim a queen, and make idle work of the damned.One will perish.Bounties will be placed... -
![The Roman by Sylvain Reynard]()
The Roman by Sylvain Reynard
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom the New York Times and international bestselling author of Gabriel's Inferno comes the thrilling conclusion to the dark and sexy paranormal romance series, following a young art restorer and the vampyre prince she loves as they fight against a mysterious figure who holds the fate of Italy's vampyre population-and their souls-in the balance... -
![Jantar Secreto by Raphael Montes]()
Jantar Secreto by Raphael Montes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsUm grupo de jovens deixa uma pequena cidade no Paraná para viver no Rio de Janeiro. Eles alugam um apartamento em Copacabana e fazem o possível para pagar a faculdade e manter vivos seus sonhos de sucesso na capital fluminense. Mas o dinheiro está curto e o aluguel está vencido... -
![Arising Son: Part Two: Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine]()
Arising Son: Part Two: Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRyan arrives in Empia to further investigate his bloodline. But while searching the temple and exercising his uniques powers, he meets an ancient entity: one of the Guardians, and it challenges all that he is by asking him to do a task.When the person closest to him commits the worst betrayal, the Dark becomes even more enticing... -
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Escape by Nenia Campbell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's been one year since Val beat Gavin at his own game...She buried her old life and her old name, but memories from her dark past dog her at every corner--and some of those memories have teeth. The public wants her blood. Her enemies want her life. And Val just wants to forget. So she escaped to the city, where even the hunted can blend in with steel and concrete... -
![Counts of Eight by Brynn Ford]()
Counts of Eight by Brynn Ford
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRELEASE DATE: May 31, 2020ARCs sign-up open through May 18, 2020: bit.ly/CO8ARCsAll of my choices had been stripped from me except for one.Dance or die.Three years ago, I was taken, stolen away, far from the world I knew, far from civilization. I became a slave, forced to serve one of the four families with my talent. I'd been abused, battered, tortured in isolation... -
![The Flesh Cartel, Season 3: Transformation by Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau]()
The Flesh Cartel, Season 3: Transformation by Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith a wedge at last driven between Mat and Dougie Carmichael, courtesy of Nikolai Petrovic’s expert manipulations, the brothers must each accept their new path forward: Dougie, a perfect slave, sweet and obedient and loving. Mat, a tightly reined dog, snarling and snapping but never allowed to bite. Unfortunately, no transformation, however well planned, is without its growing pains... -
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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... -
![Monsters and Mistletoe by Cassia Briar, Salem Cross]()
Monsters and Mistletoe by Cassia Briar, Salem Cross
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHot chocolate, snowflakes, jingling bells, and… monsters?That’s what Christmas has in store for you this year!Add a little spice to your holiday festivities by diving into this collection of monster-loving heroines who find love in the most unusual of places.Featuring new, original stories by:Harpie Alexa - USA Today Best Selling AuthorCassia BriarCara BryantRachel CallahanJ.E... -
![Beg For Mercy by Lucian Bane]()
Beg For Mercy by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fight is on in this installment, Mercy is holding nothing back in her endeavor to prove to Sade he can experience love and pleasure. Sade,however has other plans and his darkness is front and center in them. Meanwhile, Father Abraham is still on the loose with a score to settle with them all and no one is safe from his wrath... -
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![No Mercy by Lucian Bane]()
No Mercy by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSade and Mercy’s journey takes a dark turn in No Mercy A Darker Continuation some nightmares last only minutes. Sometimes those minutes can last a lifetime. Dark lusts and self-loathing become a merciless dance Sade can't escape. Surviving one night of horror leads him to a ledge he's never been, where terror mixes with his sadism and masochism for a whole new monster with No Mercy... -
![Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole, B.T. Urruela]()
Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole, B.T. Urruela
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEdwin Allen Mercer I want them all to read my words. And they do. Every last blood-stained sentence, they've read and praised me for. They love the gore and violence, the realness. And I get a sense of power with it all because I know a secret: the victims in my books—they’re real and have all died on my table. And maybe that’s why the last book had such awful reviews... -
![Cruel Black Hearts by Candace Wondrak]()
Cruel Black Hearts by Candace Wondrak
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Dark Reverse Harem Romance. My name is Stella, and I am empty. I am broken. I am nothing. The only thing I enjoy about my life is my job at the Tribune. My focus in both my editorial and my personal writing involves serial killers. Even my best friend doesn’t understand my obsession with them. No one does. Until I meet them... -
![The Witch is Dead by Geneva Monroe]()
The Witch is Dead by Geneva Monroe
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Kindness always was the cruelest form of betrayal.” I said that once. I just didn’t know how brutally accurate I was. In the underworld of Oz, there are two people you don’t cross. I killed one, and now The Wizard demands I take out the other. Murder isn’t in my nature, but survival is.Aunt Em stole my fortune and put a bounty on my head to ensure she keeps it... -
![Gwendolyn vs. the Band of Barren Hearts by Mary E. Palmerin]()
Gwendolyn vs. the Band of Barren Hearts by Mary E. Palmerin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMonsters. They don't hide in your nightmares. They steal you away from the good life and prevent you from living your dreams. That's where 17-year-old Gwendolyn Fitzpatrick found herself; surrounded by wicked fiends after everything she thought she had was gone in the blink of an eye... -
![Her Vampire Rebel by Zara Zenia]()
Her Vampire Rebel by Zara Zenia
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'M KEEPING HER.The sweet psychology student with a troubled past.Her ex is stalking her, but I won't let him hurt her again.I'll finish him if he even tries.Because I love the way she submits.Her sweet soft yes, sirs. The way she gives herself over to me.I should let her go--she has her whole life ahead of her.But I can't. I'm buying her a collar and making her mine.Mine alone... -
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Caught in the Storm by M. Stratton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook Three in The Storm Series What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? Kat Snyder has spent years chasing after the man who attacked her and left her for dead. It is her one obsession and she won’t let anyone stand in her way. Now that they are getting closer to finding him she begins to doubt herself and her need for revenge... -
![Splinters of You by Anne Malcom]()
Splinters of You by Anne Malcom
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWords are my weapon.Stories wrap around my soul, choking me, capturing you.I don't work in dreams.I don't offer escapes.I cage you within my nightmares.Magnolia Grace is a horror writer, despite what the name might suggest.One of the best in the business, if you asked around.Pressure comes with that title. Expectation for the next nightmare. The next bestseller.Sickness.That's what it is... -
![Finding His Dragon by Elianne Adams]()
Finding His Dragon by Elianne Adams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter months of torment at the hands of her own clan, Charlotte is sold to a rival clan. She refuses to be claimed by a man who is known for his mistreatment of women, and so she runs. The last thing she wants, or expects to find is her mate, but that's precisely what happens. If only she could stop running long enough to take what is rightfully hers... -
![Press Play by C. Lymari]()
Press Play by C. Lymari
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI am the grand master. I set the rules, and I call the plays. You’re now my new puppet until I say The End. What I want is simple, one word: revenge. Don't think of me as your enemy, but don't mistake me for a friend. You are looking for answers, and I like to play games. Two steps forward and three steps back, be careful because I like to make little girls cry... -
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![Broken by N. Isabelle Blanco, Elena M. Reyes]()
Broken by N. Isabelle Blanco, Elena M. Reyes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook 3 in the bestselling Erotic Suspense series! Deceased. Gone. Someday to become a distant memory. They're dead and I don't feel an ounce of remorse. Instead, the relief is almost instant. No longer will I feel like scum because my heart lies with him—My Noah. The voice might've forced my hand, but in the end, I'll always choose my heart... -
![Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini]()
Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**CAUTION-------PITCH BLACK READ** My mother was the Madison Ridge Killer … and I helped her. At nine, I was given a new start—a new life. My adoptive parents did everything they could to help me forget my past, and for a while, they succeeded. But I was never normal. I never truly forgot all I saw or did.Now, twenty years later, I work in the billing department for a small city newspaper... -
![We Keep Secrets by A.J. Merlin]()
We Keep Secrets by A.J. Merlin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings were supposed to get better once no one was actively trying to kill me. Not a lot worse.With my murderous stalker dead and buried, I really should be able to enjoy getting to know my two men more intimately and focusing on how I’m going to move forward with my life.Not worrying that one of them is a murderer and that the other is way too okay with that... -
![Cirque: Act 1 by Ashleigh Giannoccaro]()
Cirque: Act 1 by Ashleigh Giannoccaro
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA boy looked in a window, to see a naughty showThrough the pane of pain, the master clown did blowThe circus is a holy tent, the keeper of my rhymeWhere I forged my chains, creating this pantomimePretending to be normal, I wait until after darkThen I paint the frown on, get a whore from the parkAt the bottom of that bed was a darling in a chestShe watched with big eyes, horror hooking her from... -
![Apathy by L.K. Reid]()
Apathy by L.K. Reid
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere were sicknesses in this world even holy water couldn't wash away.In vicious nights, beautiful monsters lay.Some with faces known, some ready to play.Unsure of a friend, unsure of a foe,Be certain of nothing you think you know,Because what once enters Winworth,never leaves again.Skylar Blackwood thought she knew what monsters looked like.But in Winworth, nothing is what it seems... -
![Brutal by A.J. Merlin]()
Brutal by A.J. Merlin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNothing bad happens at summer camp. That’s what my fellow camp counselors have convinced me of when the nights around the lake get a little eerie. But when the kids all go home and the counselors throw a party on our last night at Camp Clearwater, things change... -
![Serial, Volume Three by Lily White, Jaden Wilkes]()
Serial, Volume Three by Lily White, Jaden Wilkes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith Donovan closing in, his feelings growing for Ronnie, and the sudden realization where their paths crossed before, Jude's composure might be cracking... -
![Burn for Me by Effie Campbell]()
Burn for Me by Effie Campbell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere are three rules he lives by. Burn it all. Leave no witnesses. Don't ask questions. It was all perfect, until he took her. And now? She's his.PHOENIXI can't speak. I have no one. I live my life below the radar, burning crime scenes for the mafia. Most of my life I've managed to quash the loneliness down until it left me nothing but a hardened shell. Until I found her. Until I took her... -
![Every Soul by L.K. Collins]()
Every Soul by L.K. Collins
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis novel is NOT part of the Life . Destiny . Fate series. More to come.... When you lose the one person who grounds your existence, your whole world changes. In life, it is said that everything happens for a reason... -
![Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison]()
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Seattle Times said of Angry Candy: "Ellison's stories rattle the bars of complacency that people put around their souls . . . Razor sharp . . . piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear... -
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![Starve by A.J. Merlin]()
Starve by A.J. Merlin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAll it took was one time.One breakdown and I ended up behind the locked doors of Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium.Something is wrong here.It whispers through the cracked windows, coils beneath the floorboards, and breathes in the frozen Washington air that never truly warms, even in the summer.Something hungry.At night, the screaming starts. I’m locked in like prey, and the dark watches with hollow eyes... -
![Unholy by Kinsley Kincaid]()
Unholy by Kinsley Kincaid
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings𝐻𝑒 is the devil reincarnated.𝐻𝑒 is everything I hate.𝐻𝑒 needs to die.The Ranch, a brothel Greta owns, who also happens to be my grandmother, is all I’ve ever known.It’s all I’ve ever needed.It nurtures the side of me that society typically frowns upon, when it comes to women.Because I play differently... -
![My Sweet Dollie, You Have to Love Me by Cori Zahara]()
My Sweet Dollie, You Have to Love Me by Cori Zahara
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDollie When we first met, we were just two kids with nothing in common. Different interests and struggles put a wedge between us before we could ever be friends.Then a terrible childhood trauma bonded us, bringing us closer forever. We became each other's everything. A light in the dark that the other needed to make it through.All that changed the night my beloved parents died... -
![Borrowed by S.K. Pryntz]()
Borrowed by S.K. Pryntz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsToby never really left.They buried him. They burned the house. They did what they could to erase him, but he came back…just for me.I feel him every moment. I’m his. Every fiber of my soul screams for him. My brother. My twin.He tells me I’m beautiful when I ache. He calms the pain when my body trembles beneath him, desperate, ready to surrender to him. Only himThe others don’t understand... -
![One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith]()
One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's not what you've done that counts it's what you remember....If you could sell your conscience, could you get away with murder?Hap Thompson works the gray area between truth and lies. He works for REMtemp, taking on other people's memories. It's illegal, but usually harmless. Maybe a petty criminal wants to pass a lie detector test. Or an unfaithful spouse wants to enjoy a guiltless affair... -
![Petrified Women by Jeremy Ray]()
Petrified Women by Jeremy Ray
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSome pranks go too far. This one could be deadly.Harley has the perfect boyfriend. Why can’t her best friend see that? He’s nothing like the others, especially the one who still haunts her memories. She’s finally picked a “keeper” with Aiden.Sure, he’s a bit eccentric. His wood carving hobby is a little odd. His need for isolation while he carves his life-size female figurines is strange...
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