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  • Blackwing Beast by T.S. Joyce

    Blackwing Beast by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Beast wants only a few things out of life: to be left alone, to join the Blackwings so he can be left alone, and for everyone to stop expecting anything from him and leave him alone. He was king of the lion shifters once, but his fall from power came at a huge personal cost. Rumors run rampant over what really happened to his pride, but the truth has hardened Beast’s heart to stone...
  • Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily Vega must avenge her father, and as the last of the Hell Hunters, she has one mission: destroy the Galena pack. Werewolves are carefully camouflaged monsters intent on taking over the world—or at least that’s what she’s been taught—but one meeting with the werewolf she’s hunting, and Chance Dawson is changing her mind, little by little...
  • Blackwing Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Blackwing Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dustin Porter is walking a fine line between the Blackwing Crew and the Valdoro pack. He’s been sent to betray Kane, but there’s a complication, and that complication is a smart-mouthed beauty who is also vying for a coveted spot on the crew. Dustin can’t keep his attention from Emma for long, and the more he gets to know about her, the more mysterious she seems...
  • Can't Be Love by Julie Trettel

    Can't Be Love by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lily Westin has waited her entire life to find her one true mate. She has big dreams and expectations of what her perfect man will be like. A dreamer and a lover, Lily patiently waits as each of her siblings finds their mate, just waiting for the day she feels the tingle run down her spine and her happily ever after finally begins...
  • Sinful Desire by Asia Monique

    Sinful Desire by Asia Monique

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cian O'Sullivan Gianna Bianchi reminded me of everything I am not—polite and poised. The perfect mafia princess according to "old school" standards.She was the type of woman you stayed away from, the kind meant to wed the head of a family.I wanted her.I wanted to possess her.Control her.Most of all, I wanted to love her...
  • Claimed by A.K. Rose

    Claimed by A.K. Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They took… Now it’s time to destroy them from the inside out. But first I need to get him back…my son… Colt. To do that I send the two people I hold close back into The Order. Colt’s vengeful twin, Carven. And the woman I’ve fallen for…Vivienne. As I watch them disappear inside that Hell, I call for war, forcing every powerful man and woman in the city to choose a side. Mine… Or Halestrom Hale’s...
  • Four Enemies by Stephanie Brother

    Four Enemies by Stephanie Brother

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No one has ever pushed me to my limits like these four men.I’m excited when I’m given a promotion to tour manager at Club Red — until I find out I’ll be crowded into a van with four alpha-hole revue dancers, trying to keep them in line while they travel to other venues...
  • Lord of Bones by Aiden Pierce, R.K. Pierce

    Lord of Bones by Aiden Pierce, R.K. Pierce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rayven Kidnapped. Collared. Trapped. I slink through shadows and steal from the deceased. It’s my passion, until I steal from Death himself…Then it becomes my curse.I’m a prisoner in the realm of the dead, at the mercy of the beast who calls this labyrinthian castle home. The walls are alive, with shifting corridors and eyes that follow me everywhere.He’s given me three days to escape...
  • Second Rite by Geneva Lee

    Second Rite by Geneva Lee

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He wore darkness with such graceful ease…Thea Melbourne has a broken heart. A month after her world turned upside down, she’s struggling to return to the life she left behind. Her mother is in a coma, she’s selling off designer gowns to pay the bills, and her roommates seem to think she’s made of glass...
  • Fawn by Elaina Jadin, Marie Robinson

    Fawn by Elaina Jadin, Marie Robinson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Dark Mafia Shifter Romance We aren't her saviors. We're her worst nightmare. We've been called vicious monsters. Brutal. Cold. Savage. We rule the criminal underworld the same way we rule our pack—with absolute control. We take what we want and demand complete obedience. When she comes to us, she's damaged. Fragile. Wounded. And oh so tempting...
  • Fury by Elaina Jadin, Marie Robinson

    Fury by Elaina Jadin, Marie Robinson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Captured. Tormented. Haunted.Everything has been torn from me, including the men I’d begun to trust with my heart.Kade, whose fiery brutality gave my rage an outlet. Bishop, whose twisted mind uncovered my deepest truth. And Draven, whose ruthless control offered me safe refuge.Only, I discovered they aren’t men at all.They’re monsters...
  • Callum by Nyssa Kathryn

    Callum by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One wedding, one fake relationship, and a threat no one saw coming.Attending a wedding is dead last on Fiona Lock’s list of priorities. She has two options: stay home and let the family gossip mill speculate on why she isn’t there; or attend the wedding and pretend she’s just fine. The decision is obvious. Not only does she choose option B…she may have mentioned a boyfriend she doesn’t have...
  • The Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Will Cora break, or will she bend…is this the beginning, or the end?Everything Cora thought she knew about Harrow Faire was a lie.All of it.Now as the lines in the sand are drawn, as a war for the Heart of the Faire builds, she must discover how much she is willing to sacrifice to save the people she has come to think of as Family...
  • Dark Pleasures by Aja James

    Dark Pleasures by Aja James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Devlin Sinclair, the New England Dark Ones’ Hunter, is on a mission to track down the elusive and mysterious Medusa, perhaps the ultimate nemesis the Pure and Dark Ones have been battling in recent years. But he can’t do it alone. Grace Darling has isolated herself from the world since a very young age, after her parents’ death and because of her own social disability...
  • Reign: A Romance Anthology by Nina Levine, Penny Dee

    Reign: A Romance Anthology by Nina Levine, Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say that power changes a person.Love changes them more.Long may they reign...You find them in the boardroom. The throne room. The bedroom.They burn brighter than the rest.They wield power as easily as they breathe.They stop at nothing to get what they want.Royalty, CEOs, mafia kings, demons, and more...
  • Dirty Hearts: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance by Khardine Gray

    Dirty Hearts: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance by Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sexy, delightfully devilish, seductive second chance Mafia Romance. Be prepared to take a walk on the dark side. Claudius Rule  #1 of being mafia boss- Trust no one. Rule # 2- Keep your friends and enemies damn close. In the underground world,  friends and enemies could be the same thing...
  • Thief by S. Massery

    Thief by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I wasn’t supposed to be at Olympus that night.And I definitely wasn’t supposed to witness a murder – or be caught by the killers.Hades, Apollo, and Ares run the mysterious, masked fight club, and they wield more power in this town than I could dream of holding. They destroy my life with one decree: Kora Sinclair doesn’t exist...
  • Rising Queen by Alisha Williams

    Rising Queen by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Men fear me, women envy me."My name is Harlow McKaven andmy life has been hell since the moment I was born. But after being tricked and held captive against my will, I have finally snapped. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, something frightening and bloodthirsty was born.After burning the demons who locked me away, I took control of my own destiny...
  • Through The Woods by Shannon Myers

    Through The Woods by Shannon Myers

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once there was a princess...Forced to run from her drug-dealing boyfriend, Neve ends up injured and alone in the middle of the Colorado wilderness. She never planned on being rescued by seven bikers and brought to their clubhouse. While the other bikers welcome a female presence, their leader, Charm, is not impressed...
  • The Tithing by Natasha Knight, A. Zavarelli

    The Tithing by Natasha Knight, A. Zavarelli

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An ancient curse. Two families bound. A forbidden love.When the Wildbloods presented their daughters to me on the night of the Tithing, they knew what was to come for the chosen girl. The crescent moon that marked Willow made her mine. I had no choice but to take her. Destiny determined our fates long before we were born, laying our roles out for us. A Sacrifice would be made. A Tithe paid...
  • The Penitent by Natasha Knight, A. Zavarelli

    The Penitent by Natasha Knight, A. Zavarelli

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A cruel fate. Two souls condemned. An impossible love.I knew he’d choose me before he came to our door on the night of the Tithing. I bore the mark that would make me his. It was my ancestor who spoke the words that bound us together, and his demon-god who promised protection for the price of blood.My blood.I was prepared to be that sacrifice if it would keep my family safe...
  • The Marriage Merger: Engagement Edition by Aja Foxx

    The Marriage Merger: Engagement Edition by Aja Foxx

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My Dear Syros, By the time you get this letter, I will be gone. Please don't look for me. My decision to end our engagement wasn't an easy one, but it's one that I have to make. More than anything in the world, I want you to be happy, but I also deserve the same happiness. You can blame the broken engagement on me. I'm certain my father will...
  • Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

    Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The conclusion to the Cat and Mouse Duet is here...The DiamondDeath walks alongside me,But the reaper is no match for me.I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem.They won't keep me forever.I no longer recognize the person I've become,And I'm fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night...
  • Reina del Inframundo: Un Oscuro Romance de la Mafia by Lee Savino, Stasia Black

    Reina del Inframundo: Un Oscuro Romance de la Mafia by Lee Savino, Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The King of the Underworld saved me from the streets, Treated me like a princess, And locked me in a tower. Then he turned into a beast. There's a darkness in him. I've seen it face to face. He says I'm his light. But if our love is going to last, I'm going to have to be more than his princess. I need to become a Queen. The final chapter in Marcus and Cora's story...
  • To Crown A Beast by R. Scarlett

    To Crown A Beast by R. Scarlett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She tasted his sweetness, his power, and his love, and it destroyed him.That iron heart has turned to ashes, leaving only a heartless beast.One she vows to tame.One she vows to save.Before he rips her own heart out...
  • Bratva Prince by T.J. Maguire

    Bratva Prince by T.J. Maguire

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A hard, dominating Bratva PrinceA fearless, crazy Cartel PrincessAleksandr VolkovI've lived my life with rigid control.A tight vice on myself and my emotions.Scars from my past have left me broken. Riddled with guilt and anguish.When my baby sister was kidnapped, I feared the worst. That she'd suffered the same fate as our mother...
  • After Twilight by Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan

    After Twilight by Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three of romance's hottest bestselling authors -- Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, and Ronda Thompson -- invite you to explore the dark side, to taste the forbidden, to dive into danger with heroes who fire the blood and lay claim to the soul in these striking tales of sensual passion. A man hunts for a woman...
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    dark  gothic  steamy  adult  anthologies  contemporary  fiction  magic
  • Warrant by Kathy Coopmans

    Warrant by Kathy Coopmans

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every wrongdoing warrants a consequence. In my case, I’ve decided to settle the score with death.Especially when, what brought this on, what stirred up my crazy, was the vicious attack on an innocent young girl.Worse, one that ended in her death. Years, I’ve been plotting to take out the men I used to call my brothers.The men who double-crossed me by brutally murdering my sister...
  • Parasight by E.S. Carter

    Parasight by E.S. Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I am drowning in darkness.  My limbs submerged in inky tar, my lungs asphyxiated by the stench of death's hold.  My eyes see nothing but black.  Yet I see him.  And I am not scared.  I should be. Don't look into my eyes, for my demons will eat you alive.  My devil inside will feast on your soft flesh. His jagged teeth will tear the meat from your bones and drink the light from your soul...
    Categorized as:
    dark  multi-pov  organized-crime  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Fae's Torment by Atlas Rose, Kim Faulks

    Fae's Torment by Atlas Rose, Kim Faulks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hate. Retribution. Revenge.It burns in my veins and keeps me awake at night, hunting Crown City’s streets like the ones who took from me.But it’s not these streets where I want to spill blood. It’s over there, across the bridge. Where the shadows of this world cloak their sick, foul secrets…and where they trade magic for mortal lives. I can’t get across there. Can’t walk in their world...
  • Court of Heathens by K.A. Knight

    Court of Heathens by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There are many things that go bump in the night, and I am one of them.Witches are supposed to be good, powerful, and omniscient, but unluckily for me, I seem to lack all of those qualities.I have been battling the darkness that lives within me since birth, destined to eradicate goodness from our world, but one day, I have no choice but to embrace who and what I am...
  • Perfect Sin by Kimberly Carrillo, K.D. Carrillo

    Perfect Sin by Kimberly Carrillo, K.D. Carrillo

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can't run from your problems. A fact we learned at the end of a gun. Not unlike most of my life's lessons.Raven falls back in the clutches of her father, and in order to save her I'll have to make a deal with the devil incarnate, Damien Blackthorne.Once I learn the secrets of my past, I'll have to decide, am I a monster or her dark prince? For her I'll give everything...
  • The Bargain by Delta James

    The Bargain by Delta James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Devil knows ... when his mate is lyingI thought I could betray the Devil of Galway. I was wrong.For two years I was undercover as the lover to the most powerful man in Ireland. The night my betrayal became known he believed I had died. Now I’m back and I need his help. I thought I could make a deal with the Devil. I should have known better...
  • Queens of Hell House: A Kildale Academy Novel by Dakota Wilde

    Queens of Hell House: A Kildale Academy Novel by Dakota Wilde

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Seven Deadly Sins are here to stay...Demons, witches, and who knows what else... they're all real. And they're living on the island of Possession that houses Kildale Academy. This second book picks up where Hell House left off. “Where is he?” I mumble, noticing a blurry Lukas whose dark and distorted features look devastated as he bleeds all over his shirt...
  • Gutted by Layla Fae

    Gutted by Layla Fae

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s time to pay, and I am the price.The night’s coming to an end. We all know what it means. The only thing worth living for will be ripped out of my hands.They agreed on what would happen. It’s me against the three, and it seems I will get my goal, after all.We come together for one last time before our fates untangle forever...
  • Burn With Me by D.L. Darby

    Burn With Me by D.L. Darby

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ginny: I’m torn between fantasy and reality.On my first night working at an exclusive adult club—a club where we have to wear masks to conceal our identities—my stranger comes to life...
  • Winter's Arrow by Lexi C. Foss

    Winter's Arrow by Lexi C. Foss

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    True love is a myth.A trick.A way to subdue the heroine and take everything from her. Winter SnowMy "true love" conspired with my stepmother to have me killed and stole my throne.But they failed.I've been in hiding and refining my vengeance. I'm no longer the damsel they mistook me for once upon a time. I'm coming for them. And my kingdom, too...
  • Midnight Queen by Kayleigh King

    Midnight Queen by Kayleigh King

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This isn’t a fairytale.My Prince Charming is a dark king. A ruthless ruler. A corrupt business man. A vampire.For centuries he’s reigned alone. But I’m here now and I’m coming for my throne.I’m no longer the princess in the tower. Or the damsel in distress. I’ve been traded and treated like a pawn. It’s time they learn they’re dealing with a Queen...
  • Tempting Ecstasy (The Guardians of the Realms) by Setta Jay

    Tempting Ecstasy (The Guardians of the Realms) by Setta Jay

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Conn has spent the millennia of his life fighting alongside his brethren as a Guardian of the Realms. He’s never allowed himself to imagine that he would be gifted a mate but her scent is inside him now. The intoxicating lure incites his wolf to track and claim her in a sexual frenzy she can never deny. Dacia has spent the years of her life guarding her family's secrets...
  • Own to Obsess by Zoey Ellis

    Own to Obsess by Zoey Ellis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She owns his obsession - but will it destroy her?KardosWild and uncontrolled, Kardos faces his new circumstance with an unbound fury, but discovers that some things are not within his control.His undiluted obsession consumes him, until he is forced to see that the only thing he truly needs, he may no longer own...
  • Tower by Measha Stone

    Tower by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Azalea meets Peter Titon, she’s sure it was a one-time chance meeting. But when her overprotective mother leaves for a work trip, and the men left behind to protect her fail—she’s taken by Peter in the dark of night with no explanation. Peter isn’t one to explain his motives, and taking Azalea is no exception. He takes what he wants...
  • See No Evil by Jewel Killian

    See No Evil by Jewel Killian

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A sane witch would never summon the immortal Demon Lords of Blackwood.Not if she expects to keep breathingEveryone knows thatSo imagine my surprise when, in a reckless and drunken effort to avenge my sister’s death, I summon a revenge demon.Only it’s not a lowly minion who shows up...
  • Pretty Little Psycho by M. Violet

    Pretty Little Psycho by M. Violet

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With every breath, they claim another piece of me… I’d always been that girl. The one who got passed around like a party favor. I drank too much and woke up with regret in the morning.But Tenebrose Academy was supposed to be my chance to start over. To reinvent myself. Until I meet them—Riot, Atlas, and Valentin—the three depraved psychos of Raven’s Gate...
  • In the Shadows by Montana Fyre

    In the Shadows by Montana Fyre

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The gatekeepers of the New York underworld have met their match, but this mafia princess isn't going to bow to them without a fight...I was raised to be a mafia queen.I spent years learning the family business.I trained to become the ruthless leader my family needs me to be. But it was all for nothing. On my eighteenth birthday, my father told me I would be marrying our enemy...
  • Triple Threat by K. Webster

    Triple Threat by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m a prisoner in a prestigious world.A perfect princess locked in a tower.My father will never let me go.Not that I could leave. I would never abandon my little sister. Hope comes in the form of a devilishly handsome man with dark eyes and darker secrets.With each encounter, I’m lured deeper into the labyrinth. The danger lurking beneath his surface calls to me, even as it warns me away...
  • G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students. by Jaye Pratt

    G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students. by Jaye Pratt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The G.O.D.S are trained from birth, as weapons for an Organisation called Olympia. Team Hades- Genetically engineered to be the best, lost one of their own a long time ago, losing her changed them. They no longer had a heart to protect. Making them into deadly weapons.When Jolie turns up, they're thrown into a spin of mixed emotions, ones they were never trained to master...
  • Moonlit Thorns by P. Rayne

    Moonlit Thorns by P. Rayne

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    No one knows what happens up at Midnight Manor.The home of the Voss brothers sits like a sentinel looking down on our small town, remaining a mystery. The four brooding billionaires rarely leave the confines of the iron gates, fueling rumors that have existed for decades...
  • The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake

    The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This island alone boasts more ghost stories than all of Louisiana combined.And I'm one of them. In the Louisiana swamplands, ghost stories are as much a part of childhood as chasing fireflies and crawfishing. They never much scared me, though, nor the possibility of evil out to do me harm. Until the night I watched shadows come to life and butcher everything I loved...
  • Hunting the Reaper by C.A. Rene, R.E. Bond

    Hunting the Reaper by C.A. Rene, R.E. Bond

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She fled in the dead of night,Where will she run?No stone left unturned,Who will feel my wrath?A few steps behind her every move,How many more will suffer?Her punishment will be severe,When will she be aware?With each swing of her scythe,Why does it make me writhe?When Selene left us in pursuit of her sister,She had no idea what she let loose...
  • Eat Your Heart Out by Eden O'Neill

    Eat Your Heart Out by Eden O'Neill

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cold.Cruel.Coward.Ares “Wolf” Mallick ripped my heart out. He ground it into mush and didn’t even grant me the courtesy of a goodbye. He just left me. He left and said our relationship, fake or otherwise, meant nothing to him.I made a mistake last semester, and it had nothing to do with our phony arrangement. I let him hurt me, and I refuse to make that mistake again...
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