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  • Start a War by Elle Thorpe

    Start a War by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Do you want some Goldfish crackers, Bliss?”Those were the last words my brother said to me before he was shot execution style. A childhood code only he and I knew, and one that had a single, clear meaning behind it.Run. I’m not going anywhere. Not when his murderer is still out there...
  • Three to Fall by Elle Thorpe

    Three to Fall by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The gripping conclusion to the Saint View Slayers vs Sinners series. Kara, Hawk, Hayden, and Grayson's series concludes here...
  • Daddy Fox by Laylah Roberts

    Daddy Fox by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Assassin. Master of disguise. Criminally handsome and smart.Yep, the Fox had it all.Except someone to call his own.But he could make that happen, right? Who wouldn’t want him? He was a total catch.There were just a few tiny problems.His life was dangerous. He had enemies. And a job that he had to finish.He wasn’t entirely sure he knew how to take care of someone else...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  polyamory  reverse-harem  suspense  adult  age-gap  book
  • SAVAGES by Sheridan Anne

    SAVAGES by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wallSavages rising, watch how they fall.All of the heartache and all of the pain.Couldn't put me back together again. There’s nothing quite like the smell of a decaying body...
  • Merciless Spy by Heather Long

    Merciless Spy by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The fierce twin.The dark brother.The wild one.I don’t give a damn about labels. I never have. Not when it comes to me. But stay the hell away from my brothers. All of them. I’ve sacrificed a lot for them, and I’m more than willing to give a lot more.If my blood, sweat, tears, and life were needed, I’d give it all up. Every damn drop. For my brothers, there was nothing I wouldn’t lose.Until her...
  • These Reckless Hearts: An Enemies-to-Lovers College Romance by E.M. Moore

    These Reckless Hearts: An Enemies-to-Lovers College Romance by E.M. Moore

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Stone Jacobs must…help me. My life has always been defined by two interconnected things:I’m a Wilder.I’m a treasure hunter.What happens when both of those things are threatened? When who I am gets pulled out from under me and my greatest enemy of all destroys me even further?Lance and his mercenaries aren’t going to stop...
  • Ruthless Rebel by K.C. Kean

    Ruthless Rebel by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve awoken in another reality; one where confinement and brutality are a thing of the past. I now know freedom, I know compassion, and I know there’s something more for me in this fucked up world. Ryker, Axel, Gray, and Emmett. These men, these Ruthless Brothers, have given me strength and my instinct to run dwindles with each passing day...
  • Rebel Obsession by Elle Thorpe

    Rebel Obsession by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rebel, Fang, Vaughn, and Kian's story continues here. Blurb coming soon...
  • Fractured Fear by Ivy King

    Fractured Fear by Ivy King

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three years ago, I ran from the only life I knew.I had to.I was living with a monster.I’ve built a new life, staying hidden and keeping to myself.When I least expect it, three tempting men walk into my life and turn everything upside down, pulling me from the shadows.Zane, Rio and Asher.They have fractured the fear that has become my constant companion...
  • Darkness Series: Books 1-3 by J.L. Drake

    Darkness Series: Books 1-3 by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    *On SALE For A Limited Time! (Regular Price $5.99) The Complete Darkness Trilogy In One Box Set.* DARKNESS LURKS #1 Emily McPhee has struggled to overcome her father’s death...It’s not easy, but Emily finally has the life she wants. She’s an A student at Orange University and has a comfortable home and a great circle of friends...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  stalking  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary
  • Defied by Sarah Bailey

    Defied by Sarah Bailey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two become three. Lies, lust and betrayal. Who will fall first?It started when I chose to remain with them. The ones who took me from my life and changed all the rules. The chains binding me to my family loosened their hold. Little did I know that by taking me, Quinn and his friends began the long process of setting me free. And even as I got closer to the boys, the past always held us back...
  • Pay the Price by Sadie Hunt

    Pay the Price by Sadie Hunt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I thought they were my enemies.I was right.I invited the infamous Blackwell Beasts to live with me for one reason: find out if they killed my brother five years go.They did the time, but did they really do the crime?I thought I was prepared for anything, but deep down, I didn’t want to believe they did it...
  • Make Me Burn by C.R. Jane, May Dawson

    Make Me Burn by C.R. Jane, May Dawson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One night changes everythingOne fight gone viral can win Paxton a million dollars, endorsements, UFC recruiting.And another video gone viral could cost him it all.Because now a stalker is sending him videos from the night his mother was killed.Pax thought he’d killed her murderer. He thought he could move on...
  • Cannon by Leila James

    Cannon by Leila James

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Dark College Bully RomanceShattered trust, twisted games, and ugly truths …A female initiate is unheard of at Hawthorne Hall, but after forcing the brotherhood’s hand, they had no choice but to let me stay. My plan should have been simple: Find out what happened to my cousin and best friend in the world, Will.But nothing is as it seems...
  • Rebel by S. Massery

    Rebel by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sterling Falls is a dark, gothic reverse harem romance series with enemies to lovers, romantic suspense, and new adult themes. Rebel is book 3 in the series and a continuation of the first two - it is not a standalone.Warning: the blurb contains spoilers for the previous books in the series.––War has come to Sterling Falls.The guys and I are scattered. Finding them is the first step...
  • Altered by Lead by C.M. Stunich, Tate James

    Altered by Lead by C.M. Stunich, Tate James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My life will never be the same, altered by lead, damaged but not broken.I’m becoming a new me.I won’t run any longer; this time, I’m the hunter instead of the prey.But it takes hard work, skill, and a bit of luck to catch a mob boss.I’m going to need all three to survive this.Especially when I’ve got five gorgeous a**holes for teachers—and occasional bedmates.The Blackbirch Company...
  • Sin Like The Devil by J. Rose

    Sin Like The Devil by J. Rose

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Look into the camera, Ripley.Tell us what happened in Harrowdean Manor.”Serving a three-year sentence after a violent manic episode, I own this psychiatric institute and every last patient in it. Dealing contraband to the desperate and disturbed has earned me this kingdom. To survive, I simply sacrificed my soul. They all fear me.Worship me.Hate me...
  • Wicked Surrender by Heather Long

    Wicked Surrender by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every moment of my life was planned out before birth…Family legacy dictates everything from type of education to suitability of friends to eligible marriage opportunities to the type of business I’m expected to go pursue. It’s more than just DNA, it’s also about birth order, gender, and unfortunately—the family name...
  • Watch Me Rise by K.C. Kean

    Watch Me Rise by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emerson Grove is supposed to be my fresh start, a chance at a new beginning and a better future, yet my past is a force I never saw coming. Now my head and my heart are at odds, my future is unknown, and everything I thought I knew is in disarray.Jameson, Ezra, Leo, and Jagger are ghosts from a different time, a different me. One night changed everything and I’m not the girl they once knew...
  • Watch Me Fall by K.C. Kean

    Watch Me Fall by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Emerson Grove, with our fantastic university, suburban lifestyle, and the city nearby, you’re never going to want to leave. I almost believe their slogan, until my ride drives off, leaving me on the doorstep of a pretty house to reveal a blast from the past.Leaving one lion’s den, I’ve fallen straight into another. I didn’t agree to this part. To…them...
  • 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...
  • Queen by S. Massery

    Queen by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was a thief.The guys I’m falling in love with turned me into a fighter.And when the city tried to make me disappear, I rebelled.But now I know the truth.I wasn’t meant to linger in the shadows.I am a queen.And I will take what I am due.Sterling Falls is a dark, gothic reverse harem romance series with enemies to lovers, romantic suspense, and new adult themes...
  • Derailed: A Dark Reverse Harem Romance by Sarah Bailey

    Derailed: A Dark Reverse Harem Romance by Sarah Bailey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three mixed with four. The captive became an ally. Who will break first?It started when they betrayed me. The ones who I’d come to trust. The ones I was starting to love.My world flipped upside down and nothing is as it seems. Everything was unravelling before my eyes, tearing us apart whilst pulling us closer together.I’m caught between two worlds...
  • Soulless Saint by Elena Lawson

    Soulless Saint by Elena Lawson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I barely made it out of Thorn Valley alive.My savage bestie and her lethal boyfriends are the only reason I have a second chance at life and I’m not going to waste it.When I took the scholarship to CalArts, I didn’t know Daddy would cut me off, but it doesn’t matter. I’ll get a bus pass, a job, and an apartment. Easy, right?Wrong. Enter my two shadows…Kaleb. Hot as sin and he damn well knows it...
  • Beta Team-The Saviors: Part one by Ames Mills

    Beta Team-The Saviors: Part one by Ames Mills

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Saviors.We’re the protectors. We play judge, jury, and executioner to keep people safe. We take on missions that no one in their right mind ever would, and we do this without complaint.That is until we take a mission none of us saw coming. A simple protection detail might be enough to bring us down. Our bond is tested, lines are crossed, and lives are on the line...
    Categorized as:
    reverse-harem  crime  dark  suspense  polyamory  lgbtq  romance  mlm
  • Corrupt Vow by Eva Ashwood

    Corrupt Vow by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The explosive third book in the Filthy Wicked Psychos series...Note: The blurb below contains spoilers for the previous books, so I'd recommend not reading it until you've finished Twisted Game and Beautiful Devils . You've been warned!*** I’ll do anything to protect them… even if it means walking away.The Voronin brothers didn’t just save my life...
  • Lost Royal by Lily Wildhart

    Lost Royal by Lily Wildhart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nothing about my return to Echoes Cove was what I expected, but I wasn’t prepared for the darkness that’s threatening to devour us all.A stalker, patient and cunning, hunting in the shadows.Powerful forces determined to control my every move and bend me to their will.And them.Lincoln, Maverick, Finley and Easton. I’m not sure how I’ll survive them without losing myself, or my heart, along the way...
  • Pretty Vile by R.A. Smyth

    Pretty Vile by R.A. Smyth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve been dead inside for such a long time that I’d forgotten what it felt like to be alive… Until I met her. Emilia Harrison. The woman I swore to protect. The one putting cracks in my walls and threatening to undo all my hard work keeping the ghosts of my past at bay. She was only meant to be a job...
  • F*ck Yeah by Crystal North, Jaye Pratt

    F*ck Yeah by Crystal North, Jaye Pratt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tragedy draws Amelie back to Australia once again, but this time she’s not alone. It’s been decided that she needs a break, and what better way to do that then with Kalen in her homeland? You can guarantee that with Fairy Bread, kangaroos, mosquitos, and the youngest Knox brother, chaos will ensue. Add in even more secrets, lies and deceit, and Amelie’s in for one hell of a ride...
  • Play Rough: A Reverse Harem Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Play Rough: A Reverse Harem Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Play Rough is the thrilling second installment in the Black Rose Kisses series.Note: The blurb below contains spoilers for the first book, so I'd highly recommend not reading it until you've finished reading book one, Fight Dirty. Cool? Cool.***Vengeance is coming. And she’s a cold-blooded bitch.I can still hear the gunshot. Still see the blank look on Sloan’s face as he pulled the trigger...
  • Empire of Ruin by Eva Ashwood

    Empire of Ruin by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Empire of Ruin is the heart-pounding final installment in the Dirty Broken Savages series.Note: The blurb below contains spoilers, so I'd highly recommend not reading it until you're caught up on the series, starting with book one, Kings of Chaos. You've been warned!***I was a good girl once, but now I’ve got bloody hands and a broken heart...
  • Dark Child:  (Standalone New Adult Contemporary Romance - Merc's Story) by Jo Raven

    Dark Child: (Standalone New Adult Contemporary Romance - Merc's Story) by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NOT EVERY SCAR IS VISIBLE… What do you do when the girl you want can’t even remember your name? This pretty, long-legged, fiery girl who makes me weak in the knees. Of all the chicks who flirt with me, hang around me, I could have my pick, but no… I want psycho girl . One day she ignores my existence, and the next she smiles and talks to me as if she knows me, as if she wants me...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  university  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Vicious Chaos by Samantha Bee

    Vicious Chaos by Samantha Bee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I never cared if I lived or died.For eight years I lived as a mess of broken pieces that never could fit back together quite right.Eight years of training. Of building an empire. Of fighting. Of just surviving. Of letting my heart beat for revenge.Only revenge.Eight years of not really living at all.While I was living half a life, I didn’t realize all that was being built up around me.A home...
  • Hunting Games by Crystal North

    Hunting Games by Crystal North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is not a love story. I never asked to be drugged again, kidnapped again and held prisoner ‘for my own good’. By the boys who swore they’d never hurt me no less. If everything they do, have ever done, is with my best interests at heart, then they won’t mind helping me exact my plan for revenge on the ones who hurt me most: their own fathers...
  • Hunting Pretty by Sienna Blake

    Hunting Pretty by Sienna Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Watch her. Crave her. Covet her. I’m the monster in the shadows—but she’s addicted to monsters.She looks so pretty when she cries out in her sleep. I’m obsessed by her gasps when she hears me coming for her. I'm hooked on the way she fights me when I pin her down...
  • 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...
  • Queen of Fire by Steph Macca

    Queen of Fire by Steph Macca

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everything has changed.I fought against the darkness and tried to convince myself that I lived life on the edge in the grey. But I was wrong. Being in the dark was in my blood.They changed me.They may think they have ruined me but my desire for danger was a fire inside, and they just poured gasoline on it. I was always told never to play with fire or I'd get burnt...
  • Max and Frankie by Elizabeth Dear

    Max and Frankie by Elizabeth Dear

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One cold December night, I let myself enjoy a beautiful stranger I’d met in the cage at my Family’s seedy fight club.Afterwards, I kissed him goodbye and sent him away, content to cling to memories of the out-of-towner who’d pleased me so thoroughly.Except that beautiful butterfly wasn’t who he claimed to be, and our lives would soon intertwine in a much more permanent way...
  • Evading Darkness by K.M. Baker

    Evading Darkness by K.M. Baker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When they say the past always finds a way to catch up to you, they aren't lying.I spent years on the run, trying to hide from my father and our society. I was careful and never stayed in the same place for very long, but when I landed in Braxton Falls, I couldn't leave.I fell in love, made my first real friend in years, and let my guard down...
  • Green Light by Jescie Hall

    Green Light by Jescie Hall

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From Amazon's bestselling author Jescie Hall comes a new dark college romance about one man's online obsession with his new stepsister.K1ngK0br@: I fell for your lies, and you sucked me into your twisted game. You made me crave your taste, hungered for your full attention. I gave you everything, only for you to go ghost. You hollowed my heart, sending me into a spiral of self-destruction...
  • Dear Cassius by Alice Winters

    Dear Cassius by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dear Cassius,Do you feel me watching you? When Cassius starts his junior year of college, he has no idea how different it will be. The only thing he’s worried about is getting through college and his unrequited love for his best friend.Initially, Cassius thinks nothing of the picture with a strange note slipped under the windshield wiper of his car, but it ends up changing his entire life...
  • Unbreakable by K.A. Knight

    Unbreakable by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We thought it was over. We were wrong. My father is alive, and he wants his research back—me. However, I am not a scared little girl anymore, and he will learn to fear the person he created with his twisted experiments.He thought he won. He believed he ruined us. He should know better...because I’m Unbreakable.*Unbreakable is the second and final book in the Pretty Liars duet...
  • You Will Bow by Rachel Leigh

    You Will Bow by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My first year at college has been anything but ordinary. After spending so much energy trying to protect my secret, I failed to realize it’s not the past I need to fear—It’s my future that’s at stake. I’ve finally found someone who doesn’t judge me for my sins and stays by my side while I trudge through the shadowy corners of my past.The only problem is, his friends have other plans...
  • Revenge by Jessica Gadziala

    Revenge by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Thayer He took everything from me. My friends. My family. My club. My freedom. I planned to get it all back. I didn't need any distractions. Yet there she was anyway... Sera He took the only thing that mattered to me. I would do just about anything to get it back. Even if that meant relying on some outlaw biker fresh out of prison with slim to no hope of succeeding in his plan...
  • Poison Flower by Steffanie Holmes

    Poison Flower by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beware the wrath of a broken blind girl.Victor. Torsten. Cassius – the jock, the artist, the stepbrother.They made me theirs – body, heart, and soul.They got inside my head.They broke down my defenses and made me trust them… maybe even love them.They betrayed me.They think they’re untouchable,but they forget that I’m one of them...
  • How Sinners Fight: A Dark College Bully Romance by Eva Ashwood

    How Sinners Fight: A Dark College Bully Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There are secrets buried inside of me.From scars I don't remember getting to memories that creep at the edges of my mind, I know there are answers just out of my reach.I'm missing something. Something important.I thought the Sinners had my back, but am I right about that? Or are they just playing me again?Among the privileged elite of Hawthorne University, not knowing who to trust can be deadly...
  • What Sinners Love: A Dark Reverse Harem College Romance by Eva Ashwood

    What Sinners Love: A Dark Reverse Harem College Romance by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What Sinners Love is the explosive final book in the Sinners of Hawthorne University series!Note: The blurb below contains spoilers for the first two books, so I'd highly recommend not reading it until you've finished both When Sinners Play and How Sinners Fight.***All it took to blow my world apart was a single word.A name.Sabrina...
  • Sapphire Scars by Nicole Fox

    Sapphire Scars by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He’s my ex’s brother.A terrifying mob boss with a past too dark to share.And when he finds out I’m pregnant, he becomes something else, too:The husband I never asked for.Kolya Uvarov crashed into my life at a funeral and saved me from a mega-creep.Classic meet-cute, right?Not exactly—because it was his brother we were burying.A.k.a., my ex-boyfriend.A.k.a...
  • Shattered Secrets by Kris Butler

    Shattered Secrets by Kris Butler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They had tried to come for me. They thought I was still weak, damaged. Someone had tried to kill me...again. I was getting tired of this. They hadn’t been prepared for me to build relationships, to no longer be alone. They continued to underestimate me. I loved proving them wrong. Secrets threaten to shake me, to break me and as I uncover more of my past, each step leads me closer to the Council...
  • Her Saints by Sarah Bale

    Her Saints by Sarah Bale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hurt…I’m the girl with a broken heart. I’ve spent years making sure no one got too close to me, but one night changed everything. The men that I love have sent me away, where they say I’ll be safe. They couldn’t protect me from getting hurt and it gutted them.Lonely…I should be ecstatic. The money I earned from working at the club ensures that I’ll be taken care of my senior year at college...
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