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  • Forging Blade by Khloe Wren

    Forging Blade by Khloe Wren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nothing in life has ever come easily for him, and rescuing his woman is no exception. Jared “Blade” Walker’s life hasn’t been his own for a long time. Sold by his father when he was just sixteen to the head of the mob, he did what he had to in order to survive and became one of their most lethal enforcers. But now, thanks to his ties with the Charon MC, he has a chance to get some vengeance...
  • Heartless Lover by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Heartless Lover by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger…For a man like me, that thing is darkness.The darkness from my past never ended my life.It darkened my heart and flowed through my veins, fueling my hunger for revenge.That's why I accepted the job to protect her.Her: Summer Reeves.The beautiful angel who became an asset to me when she saw something she shouldn’t have seen.The job should have been simple...
  • THE COWBOY GANGSTER: The Complete 5 Books Series by CJ Bishop

    THE COWBOY GANGSTER: The Complete 5 Books Series by CJ Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Only $0.99 or FREE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED Enjoy the complete COWBOY GANGSTER series in this bundle. All 5 books included: BOOK 1 - Shot Through the Heart BOOK 2 - Gunnin' For Love BOOK 3 - Outlaws of Love BOOK 4 - Wanted Hearts BOOK 5 - Beneath the Bullets & Blood Clint “The Cowboy” Maddox is a force to be reckoned with...
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angst
  • No Greater Love by D.A. Young

    No Greater Love by D.A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alexei and Vivienne Romankov have always been the loving and supportive patriarch and matriarch of the Sullivan clan and their extended family, but how did this power couple come to be, and who or what is behind the wedge that has driven them apart for more than twenty years? Take a trip down memory lane as we discover their not-so-humble beginnings and finally learn the truth behind all the...
  • Sybil’s Protector by Ellie Masters

    Sybil’s Protector by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SYBIL Falling for my Protector might cost me my life. I was abducted and shipped out, meant to be sold. My freedom stolen. My body no longer mine. My life…over. Or so I thought. The Guardians swooped in. They saved me from a living Hell, but my life is still in danger. The men who took me want me back. They’re out there, hunting me. Once again, the Guardians step up...
  • Whistler by K.L. Savage

    Whistler by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s a whistle in the wind.And the sound doesn’t just belong to me.I became my own version of The Greatest of the Great when an injury stole my dream.I found a healthy alternative for my rage so I can still swing my bat.If someone has the unfortunate curse of being on the other end of my swing, they’ll hear a whistle before they die...
  • Tango Down by Cara Dee

    Tango Down by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Renegades #4 Romantic Suspense Enemies to Lovers Action MM“This is it, baby. Run.”The murder in Joel Hayward’s eyes wasn’t merely a reflection of the rage within. It was a promise to the men who had kidnapped his daughter. The one person—this amazing slip of a girl—who showed Joel every single day that there was good left in the world.He was running on fumes. He was desperate...
  • Bratva Knight by T.J. Maguire

    Bratva Knight by T.J. Maguire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nikolai VolkovThe funny thing about trust is it’s so hard to gain but so easy to lose. One stupid mistake cost me the only woman I’ve ever loved.Cost me her.Tatiana Andreeva.My fierce, golden-haired goddess with the face of an angel and the attitude of the fucking devil. She was my everything, and I would do whatever it took to get her back, because a life without her was a life not worth living...
  • Owned by the Bratva King by Jagger Cole

    Owned by the Bratva King by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s been mine since the second I saw her. It would be easy to say I have no business even looking at a girl like River Finn. She’s too young. Too innocent. Too much my daughter’s best friend. That is, until the gorgeous forbidden fruit becomes my business. A rival bratva kingpin wants her. I want his empire. Kidnapping her as leverage should be an easy, simple business arrangement...
  • Haven by K.A. Merikan

    Haven by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    — Not the same river, not the same man. —After seven years away, Seth and Domenico are back in Sicily with one goal in mind.Revenge.The man who’d hounded their family is still alive, and as untouchable as he’s always been. While they wait for the right moment to strike, reality clashes with fond memories of home...
  • Gilded Agony by K.A. Merikan

    Gilded Agony by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “We are two halves of the same rotten apple.”Deep in the Amazonian jungle, there is a mansion with a rose garden and a hen house where juicy tomatoes are the perfect shade of red, and marble countertops glisten.Inside, where even the shadows don’t reach, something is rotting, and the perfect facade can only hold the stench for so long...
  • Infallible by Charlene Namdhari

    Infallible by Charlene Namdhari

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***THIS STANDALONE LOVE TRIANGLE, IS BEST ENJOYED WHEN YOU DON'T READ ANY REVIEWS OR SPOILERS BEFOREHAND. GOING IN WITH AN OPEN MIND IS BEST.***(Book 3 features Rayden and better understood after reading Book 1)"Sometimes the wrong choices take us to the right places."My Past:I was eighteen when I first gave away my heart. A love so profound, I didn't understand it...
  • Just a Bit Heartless by Alessandra Hazard

    Just a Bit Heartless by Alessandra Hazard

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Jordan Gates isn’t easily flustered—or easily scared.When his boss asks him to accompany him to Italy for a family wedding, Jordan agrees. He’ll get paid handsomely for his trouble.There’s a catch, though. Several catches.1. He’s there as bait: Jordan has to pose as his boss’s real boyfriend, who looks a lot like Jordan.2. Someone in his boss’s mafioso family wants to murder them.3...
  • Bulletproof by Reese Knightley

    Bulletproof by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It all started with a glimpse.- A chance encounter left an impression and Wolfgang Brandt was hooked. When Caleb turns eighteen in two months, Wolf is going to be at that birthday party come hell or high water. He doesn’t care if he has to fly across the world to be there. But then things go south and Wolf is left reeling when Caleb goes missing...
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    captivity  crime  dark  kidnapping  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  action-adventure
  • Torian by Eden Summers

    Torian by Eden Summers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From International bestselling author, Eden Summers, comes a seductive forbidden romance destined to leave you breathless. I fell for the enemy.A man whose actions resemble the devil so closely it frightens me.We were meant to hate each other.To despise and detest.But his appeal is so much greater than the playboy smile and body built for sin.What I'm doing is wrong.What I'm feeling is immoral...
  • Dragon by K. Webster

    Dragon by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a new motorcycle club dark standalone MM romance novel!They created this monster when they took me as a teen.Abused me, tortured me, psychologically ruined me.I was once innocent, fragile, and good.Now I’m older and everything wicked.The worst of the worst...
  • Savior by Eden Summers

    Savior by Eden Summers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was stolen. Hidden. Trapped in a hell beyond salvation. Until him. Luca. The man who changed everything with his soothing words and vows of protection. I shouldn't trust him. What he promises is something I gave up on long ago. And yet here I am, falling under the spell of a reality I crave. I want him to save me. I need it...
  • Captured: Red Horsemen #1 by Raven Amor

    Captured: Red Horsemen #1 by Raven Amor

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    RaeFor years I’ve run.When I finally listened to my mother's last words to go to her hometown, I never planned on staying.I hadn’t survived this long by being foolish.I had rules for a reason.Never stay in one place too long.No friends or attachments.Only, I never expected to meet him.Ice, as cold as his name until he looked at me.Those ice blue eyes would burn across my skin.I broke my own rules...
  • On the Double by Cara Dee

    On the Double by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Renegades #3 • Romantic Suspense • Action • MMM“It’s a fine line between not revealing your arsenal and creating disorder by showing your strength.”Funny how calm you could feel when someone had ripped the heart out of your chest.River and Reese Tenley had grown up on the fringes of society, spending most of their adult years as private military contractors in places nobody else wanted to go...
  • Domesticated Beast by Onley James

    Domesticated Beast by Onley James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    JAVIER DE LA FUENTE is a criminal, an ex-con with a long line of offenses, atoning for his sins by rescuing abused animals and advocating for child victims. But that doesn’t mean he’s a saint. Javier learned years ago that what’s right and what’s legal aren’t always the same thing. BOWIE BAKER is a ballet dancer, a soloist doing his best to get ahead in his LA dance company...
  • Guns n' Boys: Black Lies (Book 10) (gay dark mafia romance) by K.A. Merikan

    Guns n' Boys: Black Lies (Book 10) (gay dark mafia romance) by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "That man is not your fairytale ending." Griffith has spent two of the most amazing years with his boyfriend Mark, who is undoubtedly The One. Mark is everything Griffith could want in a man. Sexy, kind, always there for him, showering him with gifts and anticipating his needs...
  • Love & Power by Elizabeth Knight

    Love & Power by Elizabeth Knight

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love is what started this whole thing. A man who loved two women. A mother who sacrificed herself for her daughter. A daughter who will stop at nothing to take down those who killed and threatened the ones she loves. I’ve been told all my life that love was a weakness in our world. That couldn’t be further from the truth, but that’s only half of what I need to finish the job...
  • Enforced: Lords of Chaos Motorcycle Club by Nicholas Bella

    Enforced: Lords of Chaos Motorcycle Club by Nicholas Bella

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B09GHYN6V7 Mafia, Bikers, and Payback. Fabian “Burger” Murphy is a man loyal to his club and family, which for him are one and the same. He will kill for them. So, when his sister, Sofia, tells him about what happened to their little sister, Gina, regarding her date with Roman Alexander, Burger is ready to spring into action and avenge Gina’s honor...
  • Stranded by Cara Dee

    Stranded by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Stranded is the second book in The Auctioned Series. Before you read further, you should read Auctioned. ​ “You have my word, Gray. I will get you off this island, and I will bring you home.” ​ It was supposed to be an easy in-and-out job. Nothing Darius Quinn hadn’t done before. But this job had something none of the others did: Gray Nolan...
  • Seduced by a Sinner by Leighton Greene

    Seduced by a Sinner by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s innocent. He’s chaste. He’s promised to God. And he’s more temptation than I can handle.I’m supposed to guard the Boss's husband, but I just can’t keep my eyes off his best friend, Aidan O’Leary.Watching him.Wanting him.Knowing I can never have him.Aidan is pure in body and soul. He’s about to be ordained as a priest. Me? I’m going to burn for the things I’ve done...
  • A Dangerous Game by T.J. Hamel

    A Dangerous Game by T.J. Hamel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everything has changed. Carter now knows the truth. The man he thought was his master is really his rescuer. His brother's best friend. An American Hero in disguise. His heart is broken. His mind is in chaos. And the man he hates - and also maybe kind of still loves - isn't going anywhere anytime soon. To maintain the operation and save thousands of lives, Nathan and Carter have to work together...
  • Enemy Combatant by Cara Dee

    Enemy Combatant by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Renegades #2 • Romantic Suspense • Stockholm Syndrome • Hurt Comfort • Action • MM“The best intelligence is the knowledge that your enemy doesn’t know you have.”Crew Finlay’s ego had taken a hit or two. He couldn’t lie. As a Marine, he’d been one of the best. As a private military contractor, he’d…messed up a bit. Or failed spectacularly. Whatever...
  • Solemn Vow by Measha Stone

    Solemn Vow by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s being blackmailed. Ordinarily, that wouldn't be my concern. But since it's her, someone will have to pay...
  • Protecting His Runaway by Measha Stone

    Protecting His Runaway by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After she uncovers her wealthy father's ties to a prominent Chicago crime family, twenty-four-year-old Addison St. Claire flees to a small town in Michigan where she hopes to start a new life. Things are not that simple, though, and she is quickly tracked down by a stern, handsome police detective who makes it clear that Addison will be coming with him whether she likes it or not...
  • Beloved by the Boss by Leighton Greene

    Beloved by the Boss by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    M/M Mafia Romance It’s good to be the Boss. That’s what I thought my whole life.Now I am the Boss. I’ll shoulder that responsibility with my beloved husband beside me. As long as I have Finch, I can handle whatever life throws at me.But what they say is true: Be careful what you wish for.My Family has been decimated. My allies are few. I’m holding onto power by a thread...
  • The Soldier by S.R. Jones

    The Soldier by S.R. Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In love, as in war, there can be only one victor.I wasn’t born a monster—they made me one.I wasn’t born a king—I claimed the right to be one.I was born a soldier—a fighter, a warrior. Waging war is in my very soul, bone deep and blood-soaked.There’s a new conflict on the horizon, time for me to defend my Bratva crown.Time for me to reap cruel vengeance on those who wronged me...
  • The Bratva's Stolen Bride: A Bratva Captive Romance by Jagger Cole

    The Bratva's Stolen Bride: A Bratva Captive Romance by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Here comes the bride. My bride.She just doesn’t know it yet…I've carved my name into this world by taking what I want. Born into the streets and raised on brutality and violence, it was the Bratva that took me and made me a man.I decided years ago that there was no room for beauty or goodness in my life...
  • King's Hostage by Piper Stone

    King's Hostage by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    : a dark mafia romance (merciless...
  • Devil by Silvia Violet

    Devil by Silvia Violet

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Dark Mafia Romance Devil is a mobster with a dangerous secret... There's a cop who hates him. A cop he caught and released. A cop he can't get out of his mind after the one forbidden night they shared...
  • Possessing Eden by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Possessing Eden by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They say you Reap what you sow and now I’m in over my head.Unable to bear my abusive marriage one second longer… I go on the run with my infant son without a penny to my name. When I’m offered a job to spy on the most notorious crime family in the city, I jump on it. Willing to sell my soul to keep my son fed and safe. But Jude catches me in the act and becomes completely obsessed with me...
  • Savage by Brooke Blaine, Ella Frank

    Savage by Brooke Blaine, Ella Frank

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Who are we? Nobody really knows. We’re the seven most powerful heirs to empires, ruling Manhattan from our thrones on Park Avenue. By day, we’re the elite, untouchable, and more connected than you could ever imagine. By night, we revel in the darkness of our secrets, pulling strings that make the city bow to our whims.Ruthless.Dangerous.We’re the Park Avenue Kings...
  • Kept by Him by Measha Stone

    Kept by Him by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My family took something from the Russian mob. Now they've taken something back.Me.I was given to Micah Ivanov as a bride to keep the peace between the two most powerful mafia dynasties in Chicago. But my future husband doesn't plan to let this be a marriage in name only.He's going to take me to his bed whether I like it or not, starting tonight.I know he's going to be rough...
  • Keres by Sadie Kincaid

    Keres by Sadie Kincaid

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Are you ready for the next explosive instalment of the Chicago Ruthless series. The Moretti's might think they have it all, but there's one more Moretti out there who wants to take it from them...She was born in captivity and raised in hell. While her siblings lived in a golden palace and slept on feather pillows, Keres Sideris fought to survive horror and fear and pain...
  • Taste of Fear by Davidson King

    Taste of Fear by Davidson King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ciro Navarro has never had it easy, but he learned to survive. Nightmares of a past he cannot erase plague him but thankfully, much of his horrible life is in the rearview mirror. He lives in the present, focusing on his found family, lifelong friends, and the job that fulfills him. Ciro’s circle is small but tight; if you’re in it, you are his world...
  • Coveted: A Dark Italian Mafia Second Chance Romance by Kristen Luciani

    Coveted: A Dark Italian Mafia Second Chance Romance by Kristen Luciani

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Follow her, watch her, track her every movement. But do not, under any circumstances, touch her.” Those were my father’s orders. I agreed to play his game, to be his pawn, Biding my time until I saw her. In that second, my plan to cripple his empire crumbled. How ironic that he led me to her,Tempting me with that sweet, forbidden fruit, Not knowing she would cause his demise...
  • Ruthless Savior by Julia Sykes

    Ruthless Savior by Julia Sykes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My pretty little captive thinks she can run from me. She doesn't understand how ruthless I truly am... Guarding my lovely hostage has become my obsession. I protect Marisol from the vicious men in my brutal cartel, including myself. I've kept the promise I made to my boss on the night of her capture: No one touches her...
  • Secrets Kill by Laurel Night

    Secrets Kill by Laurel Night

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone has secrets, but sometimes… secrets kill.I didn’t know I had a sister until I walked into a crime scene and saw my own lifeless face staring back at me. Horrified, I still did my job and collected evidence to nail the men responsible...
  • TORMENTED by Alexi Ferreira

    TORMENTED by Alexi Ferreira

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    JADE I was minding my own business, simply working until Alexey the boss for the Bratva Mafia decided to take me. Having run away from a violent man before, I made a promise to myself this wouldn't happen again, but he doesn’t give me a choice...
  • Ryzen by Eve Riley

    Ryzen by Eve Riley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    True evil lurks in the darkness…Recruited at eighteen by the CIA, Ryzen is one of the best snipers in the world. Now, he’s working with the Federal Protection Agency to aid them in their fight to track down the vile people who perpetuate crimes against children. Always hidden behind his dark sunglasses, Ry is a mystery to everyone and he prefers it that way...
  • War of the Wicked by Davidson King

    War of the Wicked by Davidson King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucifer’s Landing is full of unscrupulous people: five families desperate to own every inch. For years, under the watchful and most powerful eye, there has been peace. With the murder of the most powerful man, it’s as if the gates of Hell have opened.Dante Scavo is trying to fill his father’s shoes, find the person responsible for killing him, and stop Lucifer’s Landing from becoming a war zone...
  • Mad Dog by Ophelia Bell

    Mad Dog by Ophelia Bell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Not even the king of Los Angeles’s underground can stop me from loving Celeste.Arturo Flores could make me disappear with a snap of his fingers, and nearly did. Limping away from a beatdown when I was seventeen didn’t change the fact that his daughter was worth the pain. Running into her in my tattoo shop twelve years later, she still makes my blood run hot with a glance...
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    dark  lgbtq  mlm  organized-crime  crime  romance  contemporary  steamy
  • Hook by Gianni Holmes

    Hook by Gianni Holmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    KITDodging bullets and jumping from two story buildings are things I’d only ever seen in movies.Never would I have expected that this would become my life.I keep deadly secrets for the man I love.I’ll follow him across countries to have his back.Why am I willing to risk everything for him?Because of the look in his eyes when I purr for him.SULLYWorking with Kit is my greatest joy...
  • Juno by Ana Night

    Juno by Ana Night

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Juno doesn’t do relationships and he’s content with that, right until Rome walks through the front door of the tattoo shop Juno works at. Rome is a dangerous man to want, but Juno didn’t join the Salvation Kings because he was afraid to go after what he wants. He’s always looking for a new adventure and being with Rome seems to be the kind that’ll never end...
  • Lancelot by Silvia Violet

    Lancelot by Silvia Violet

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Men like me don't spend a lot of time at the library, so I've never had a reason to suspect cardigan-wearing, uptight librarians would push all my buttons. Then I met Julian. I wanted to hate him. He's my opposite in every way. I'm impulsive, and there's no rule I won't break. Persnickety Julian follows every rule. But when I make demands and he stands his ground, I know he will be mine...
  • Savage by Brea Alepoú

    Savage by Brea Alepoú

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blood, Sweat, and Tears.There is nothing in life more satisfying than seeing someone desperately clinging to life as their final moment ticks away. At least that’s how I’ve lived my life until now.As the crow of the Laureati family, it’s my job to clean up their messes. I’ve always stayed focused and have never had a weakness that my enemies could exploit. It’s what makes me effective...
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