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  • All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.But that's never happened to me...I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.But fuck this case...
  • Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day...
  • Sidetracked by S.T. Abby

    Sidetracked by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable.Or at least I was...until her.****LOGANI've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling...
  • The Reign Of Kings by Candice M. Wright

    The Reign Of Kings by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Raised by a family of cops who see the world in black and white,I grew up with a defiant streak a mile long,And an immunity to gun-toting alpha males.That is until I find myself at the Carnage clubhouse,At the mercy of their Kings.Now my black and white world is a dirty shade of gray,And my immunity to alpha males has disappeared along with my underwear...
  • The Risk by S.T. Abby

    The Risk by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    They took too much.Left too little.I had nothing to lose...until him.*****************~Lana~I didn't expect him.I didn't want to fall in love.But I can't let him go.Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place.He's brilliant.He's a hero.He locks away the sick and depraved.But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.Ten years ago, they took from me...
  • Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker

    Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a scorching Silverstone installment that finds a former military man racing to save the woman he loves as danger closes in on them both.Former military man turned government assassin Kellan “Eagle” Trowbridge isn’t looking for love. He’d rather keep his head down at his cover job as an employee of Silverstone Towing...
  • Driven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Driven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Unswerving: Angus Force is determined to hunt down the serial killer he’d once shot dead—or so he thought. But an anonymous source reports that Lassiter is alive. Force hasn't slept since, knowing it’s only a matter of time before “the Surgeon” strikes again. And soon, a body is found, bearing Lassiter’s same maniacal MO...
  • Born, Madly by Trisha Wolfe

    Born, Madly by Trisha Wolfe

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Duet: a performance by two. But who is acting, and who is devolving? A buried past is unearthed, and Grayson Sullivan—AKA The Angel of Maine—retaliates against the system who made him, deploying psychological warfare on the woman who initially set him free. Dr...
  • Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Outstanding!! Mystery, intrigue, action and an edge of your seat nail biter." "Holy Moly Mine to Protect was exciting, and suspenseful and oh so sexy." A standalone, romantic thriller novel where obsession is the name of the game. Recruited to the FBI Cas Mathews has one focus - catch the killer...
  • Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Small town, small-minded people, small expectations, and big A-holes.Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  enemies-to-lovers  steamy  abuse  alpha-mc  angst  book
  • Logan by Nyssa Kathryn

    Logan by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her scars are invisible, to everyone but him. Grace Castle lived through hell, and she's never fully recovered. Nor may she ever. But she's better than she was, and now devotes her time and energy to helping other women...until someone connects her old life to her new one. Suddenly, she's forced to do something that goes against her conscience, her moral compass...her heart...
  • Broken Hearts by Stella Hart

    Broken Hearts by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I love him, and it’s killing me… I never thought this would happen, but here I am—a willing captive to the most sinfully-handsome serial killer the world has ever seen. I belong to him now, the man who is both my savior and my downfall. The man who will probably destroy me one day, just like he’s destroyed so many others before me. If I want to live, I have to be a good girl...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  stalking  steamy  adult  age-gap  book
  • Love Me by Ashley N. Rostek

    Love Me by Ashley N. Rostek

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Colt is my comfort.He’s the first one to hold my hand when life becomes hard.Creed is my support.He always has my back, is always ready to help me battle the world or my insecurities.Keelan is my joy.He effortlessly makes me laugh and exudes a light even when days become dark.Knox is my strength.He holds me together even when I want to break...
  • Dirty Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Darkly intense and deeply erotic, we return to the Lion and Mouse. The war has ended. Kazimir hopes to spend quiet time with Emily, but there are more enemies creeping within the shadows. New dangers that threaten the couple’s happiness...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
  • Bleeding Hearts by Stella Hart

    Bleeding Hearts by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dexter crossed with 50 Shades: enter a world filled with dark secrets, twisted lies, and dirty desires... I’m coming for her… I’ve watched her, I’ve hunted her, and now I’m here to claim her. Celeste Riley, my pretty little angel. Soon to be my pretty little captive. She pretends she’ll never want a killer like me, but we both know that isn’t true...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  stalking  steamy  adult  age-gap  billionaire  book
  • I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    I'm Watching You by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here: I'm Watching YouI KNOW THEIR CRIMESStar prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop...
  • No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele

    No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Psychic.What a joke.The only thing I can be sure of these days are the three men who have somehow battered their way past my walls and forced me to, dare I say it, start feeling things.Well…them, and my trusty trash panda partners in crime. But they've always had my heart.I must have kissed their asses real good, because instead of wanting to kill me, I think they might actually kind of like me...
  • Cold Fury by Toni Anderson

    Cold Fury by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seven years ago, Hope Harper was a star defense attorney with a great life and a beautiful family—until she got the wrong defendant released, and he turned around and viciously slaughtered her husband and child. Since then, the only thing Hope cares about is locking bad guys behind bars where they can’t hurt anyone else...
  • Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three serial killers connected by an unholy thread, tangled in a twisted chase for revenge and blood. In this game of hunters, who will become the ultimate prey?***He is every sin she wants to commit. Yara West spends her day as a Medical Examiner. At nights, she dons the mask of a twisted killer to satiate the demons in her head...
  • Stolen Crush by C.M. Stunich

    Stolen Crush by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Finding out you’re the daughter of a millionaire true crime novelist isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.When I was two, I was kidnapped. Kidnapped by a loving family, sure, but still kidnapped.Now, my biological mom wants me to live with her on the opposite side of the country.Her … and my new stepdad and his jerk of a son: Parrish.Wannabe tattoo artist, languorous rich boy, pouty mouth...
  • Second Comes War by Lilith Vincent

    Second Comes War by Lilith Vincent

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ...
  • Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart

    Black Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It takes a monster to destroy a monster. My enemies have taken Celeste. Kidnapped her to torture and kill her. I won’t stop looking for her. Won’t give up on her. I’ll destroy anyone and anything that gets in my way, and the punishment for those who have taken her will be brutal and unmerciful. She belongs with me. She belongs to me. I’m never letting go. Ever...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  stalking  steamy  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Ash Kyndal inherits her Uncle Charlie’s PI firm, her only interest is in finding an out. Circus veteran, social misfit, daughter of a madman—those are shoes that fit. Card-carrying member of polite society? Not so much. But Charlie saved her once, and his staff of lost souls needs her...
  • Hesitate by K.E. Osborn

    Hesitate by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Family is a bond.One that can’t be broken.But what if I want to bend the rules?I wasn’t supposed to look at her that way. I’d practically grown up beside her. You shouldn’t ignite inside when you stare at your stepsister.Now she’s caught the eye of someone else.Someone more sinister than me.The problem is—he’s dangerous...
  • Maniac by Onley James

    Maniac by Onley James

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Thomas Mulvaney was just a child when an error in judgment cost him everything. He vowed then that he would do anything to atone for his mistake. And he did. He never strayed from the right path. Until Aiden.Aiden Mulvaney doesn’t exist. He’s a lie created by the father who disowned him and by Thomas Mulvaney, the only man Aiden had ever begged to love him...
  • Beautifully Broken Pieces by Catherine Cowles

    Beautifully Broken Pieces by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A woman who’s lost everything. Taylor is looking for peace and quiet away from the memories of all she’s lost. A small mountain town where no one knows her seems like the perfect escape. A man battling the ghosts of his past. Walker loves his life just the way it is. His town, his family, his brothers in blue. Everything simple and easy—until a chance encounter changes it all...
  • Be Still My Heart by Emily McIntire, Sav R. Miller

    Be Still My Heart by Emily McIntire, Sav R. Miller

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Skelm Island, Maine has always been known for two things: lobsters and its broken lighthouse.But when corpses start showing up in the water, the isolated town becomes the face of a cryptic investigation.At the heart of which stands Lincoln Porter, a grumpy ex-SEAL whose lobstering business seems to attract more dead bodies than fish...
  • Control: A Dark Mafia Captive Romance by Olivia Ryann

    Control: A Dark Mafia Captive Romance by Olivia Ryann

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This dark and twisted tale of ownership will make your blood run hot. Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN. I wake up terrified, humiliated, and chained to a wall. The shackles around my wrists mean only one thing. He owns me now. With his dark glares and barked orders, he is dangerous...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  steamy  abuse  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc
  • Provoke by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood

    Provoke by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A taste of this dark tale of obsession, beauty, and lust… FREE! Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN. I meet her in a wedding dress, walking down the aisle towards my sworn enemy. Our eyes catch from across the room. And monster that I am, I know I have to have her...
  • Remy by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Remy by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After two confidential informants are murdered by a drug lord the DEA has spent months trying to bust, agent Avery Carmichael is ordered to go undercover.She’s going to need some help infiltrating the outlaw world, which is where the hottest, most infuriating man she’s ever met comes in. Remy Fulton is the president of the newest Savage Kings MC chapter in Rockland, Virginia...
  • Dirty Love by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Love by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’d found God in her eyes and a prayer in the subtle way she moaned. I found my soul, the spirit of humanity between her thighs. Devilish temptress or holy angel, I would have her all to myself. Nothing could happen to her, ever. Not one scratch. Not one frown on her face. I would kill to make her happy. * * * * * From Harlem to Prague, Moscow to St. Petersburg...
  • The Annihilator by RuNyx

    The Annihilator by RuNyx

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The highly anticipated fifth book in the bestselling Dark Verse series.𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?She lives in the shadows. He rules them.She's the moon, and he the dark night encompassing her. She's surrounded by demons, and he's the biggest devil of them all. And she's his...
  • The Mercenary and the Mortician by Alexandra St. Pierre

    The Mercenary and the Mortician by Alexandra St. Pierre

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do a mercenary and a mortician have in common?Dead. Freaking. Bodies.___Callum Walker kills people for a living. Although he doesn’t get a say in who his boss puts on his list, he likes to hunt people who hurt children in his spare time...
  • For You by Kristen Ashley

    For You by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004S81POK.Lieutenant Alexander Colton and February Owens were high school sweethearts. Everyone in their small town knew from the moment they met they were meant for each other. But something happened and Feb broke Colt’s heart then she turned wild and tragedy struck...
  • Dirty Kisses by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Kisses by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I knew one thing. He was the boss. He walked like one, like he owned the ground his feet stepped on. Like he owned the air that we all breathed in. Like he could eat up the universe, if he wanted to. Someone killed Rumi, the Russian Mafia's top washer in New York. Kazimir, the head of the Bratva, has come to NY to find the murderer...
  • Wrath by Coralee June

    Wrath by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I hated fire. I hated how the smoke wrapped around my naked body, stinging my skin with defiant embers. I hated the smell of burnt flesh, the ashes heavy on my tongue, my charred soul like splinters deep in my chest.She’s dead, Juliet.There’s nothing else you can do--Dragging my bleeding feet across the concrete, I walked toward the flames. Heat licked at my cheeks...
  • Vigilante by Jessica Gadziala

    Vigilante by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    * A new stand-alone dark romance from bestselling author Jessica Gadziala. * I’m a bad guy. I do bad things. But I do them for the right reasons. That’s why I can sleep easy at night even with the smell of fresh blood still in my nostrils. One more scumbag off the streets. One more righting of a wrong. That was all my life was about...
  • The Gift by Kate Anslinger

    The Gift by Kate Anslinger

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    AMAZON BEST SELLER One look in a criminal’s eyes and she witnesses their crimes. Grace McKenna is not your average police officer. She is haunted by the unsettling images she sees when she locks eyes with a criminal, her vision flooded with clues that force her to solve cases on her own. A sullen boy, a tormented woman, a breathless man, a thousand pieces of shattered green glass...
  • Cash Plays by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Cash Plays by Cordelia Kingsbridge

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Seven of Spades is back with a vengeance—the vigilante serial killer has resumed their murderous crusade, eluding the police at every turn. But a bloodthirsty killer isn’t the only threat facing Sin City. A devious saboteur is wreaking havoc in Las Vegas’s criminal underworld, and the entire city seems to be barreling toward an all-out gang war...
  • Death is Not Enough by Karen Rose

    Death is Not Enough by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The past comes back to haunt a high-profile defense attorney in the newest book in the Baltimore series from the New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Darkness and Monster in the Closet.In his work as a defense attorney in Baltimore, Thorne has always been noble to a fault--specializing in helping young people in trouble just as someone did for him when he was younger...
  • Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nothing is deeper than the desire they can’t fight—or deadlier than the evil they can’t escape. They were only supposed to have a professional relationship, but FBI agent Kyle McKenzie has been fantasizing about his sexy partner, Cadence Hollow, from the moment they first moment. It takes the darkest case of their careers to finally bring their hidden desire bubbling to the surface...
  • Fallen by Rebecca Zanetti

    Fallen by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Too quiet. A talented hacker who got caught, Brigid Banaghan is now forced to work with a secret Deep Ops unit. But she won’t reveal any more to these renegade Feds than she has to. Especially not to Raider Tanaka, her control freak of a bodyguard and handler. It’s enough that his body is tensed for action and his heated gaze is always on her . . .   Too sharp...
  • Third Comes Vengeance by Lilith Vincent

    Third Comes Vengeance by Lilith Vincent

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ...
  • Three for a Girl by Louise Collins

    Three for a Girl by Louise Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If they can get through the first case, they’ll get through any—that’s what Chad tells himself. But juggling his career and his relationship isn’t easy.The monstrous part of Romeo gnaws away under the surface. His dark moments leave Chad uncomfortable, and when they accumulate into an attack, it leaves Chad shaken...
  • Stitch by Emmaleigh Loader

    Stitch by Emmaleigh Loader

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adley:Nobody thinks that a pretty woman holds dark secrets, but then again, the world only sees what we allow it to.I was raised by very bad people.I learned to do very bad things—things that others would see as depraved.I was fine living my life in the shadows, going unseen…Until he stepped from the abyss...
  • Unhinged by Onley James

    Unhinged by Onley James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Adam Mulvaney lives a double life. By day, he’s the spoiled youngest son of an eccentric billionaire. By night, he’s an unrepentant killer, one of seven psychopaths raised to right the wrongs of a justice system that keeps failing.Noah Holt has spent years dreaming of vengeance for the death of his father, but when faced with his killer, he learns a daunting truth he can’t escape...
  • Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Cora Kenborn comes a dark and twisted enemies to lovers retelling of Anastasia. They call me America’s Sweetheart. Hollywood royalty. The last of an era. Sole survivor of LA’s most infamous crime. I’m not any of those things. He forced me into the spotlight. The liar with a perfect smile and cold blue eyes. But Alexandra Romanov’s fate won’t be mine...
  • Cherish by Olivia Ryann

    Cherish by Olivia Ryann

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This dark and twisted tale of ownership will make your blood run hot. Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN. Something has shifted and changed in me. I have left Katherine behind, and stepped fully into the blossom of Fiore. But while I am undergoing that transformation, Monster too senses a sea change within...
  • In the Shadows by J.A. Owenby

    In the Shadows by J.A. Owenby

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you finally meet the monster hiding under your bed.One, two, I’m coming for you.She’s my obsession.Three, four, kneel on the floor.I want to possess her in every way.Five, six, I’m up to my old tricks.She knows me as The Portland Serial K!ll3r.Seven, eight, lay in wait.Little does she know I’m watching her.Nine, ten, never to be seen again.Welcome to your worst nightmare, Little Lamb...
  • Dead Man Walking by Giana Darling

    Dead Man Walking by Giana Darling

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Giana Darling comes a dark MC romance about a broken enforcer and the beautiful, innocent woman who shows him that light can exist even in the dark... A killer. A criminal.A psychopath.The Irish enforcer for The Fallen Men MC is everything good girls are taught to stay away from...
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