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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...
  • 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...
  • Saving Graves by Drew Sera

    Saving Graves by Drew Sera

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Neglected. Tortured. Abused. Unloved. I was left for dead at seventeen and learned to protect myself the only way I knew how…by not letting anyone get close to me — not anyone. Discovering Club Irons has been like finding home for the first time in my life. It’s been a beacon of light in my dark life, and it’s where I finally belong . I’m the most sought after Dom at Club Irons...
  • Brutal Fighter by Heather Long

    Brutal Fighter by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BRUTAL FIGHTER is a full length mature college/new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. The dark romance aspects of this tale continue. Please be aware some situations may be uncomfortable for readers. Trigger warnings can be found in the foreword should you require them. This is a reverse harem novel, meaning the main character has more than one love interest...
  • Here Loves a Sociopath: A Dark Bully Academy Romance by C.L. Matthews

    Here Loves a Sociopath: A Dark Bully Academy Romance by C.L. Matthews

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Here Lives a Corpse is book one of a five-book series. You do have to read all to understand. Each one ends on a cliffhanger.We all have demons, some of us know how to befriend them rather than defy them.They always speak of me… whispers of a devil with a charming smile.But they don’t know me, what truly lies beneath...
  • Canvas by N.M. Catalano

    Canvas by N.M. Catalano

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    4 inked men. 1 is very, very bad. He made me an offer. One I accepted. His friends made me another. One I shouldn’t. I really, really shouldn’t. But I’m not that girl anymore. The one I left behind, the one who does what’s expected, the one who has no choice. The one with secrets. I ran away from that life, and hope it never finds me...
  • All I Have: Part Two by Ames Mills

    All I Have: Part Two by Ames Mills

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this life, you were taught vulnerability would get you killed. Distractions led to mistakes, and mistakes led to your death. What happened when the one that made you vulnerable was also the distraction?Evie captivated us all from the beginning. All it took was one look from those big brown eyes, and we laid down everything to protect her--including our lives...
  • 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...
  • Ruthless Riot by K.C. Kean

    Ruthless Riot by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    BLURB COMING...
  • 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...
  • Three Tricks by Elizabeth Knight

    Three Tricks by Elizabeth Knight

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Remember when I said Two Tricks doesn’t work with MC gangs… Well I might have jumped the gun on that.The leaders of the Phantom Saints MC kidnapped me in order to broker a deal with Tricks. Jokes on them when they find out the truth. But that is the least of my worries right now after saving my best friend from getting taken by a rival MC...
  • A Ryan Restraint by Sadie Kincaid

    A Ryan Restraint by Sadie Kincaid

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Jessie goes for her regular gym session with Conor and he decides to shake things up with a little boxing, things get way more heated than either of them expected. Who will come out on top?This is a super spicy short story connected to the New York Ruthless series...
  • Steel & Hammer's Hellcat by Ciara St. James

    Steel & Hammer's Hellcat by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Archangel’s Warriors MC: Brothers by choice, not blood. Born to ride until they die. All they want is to ride free until lightning strikes them without warning. Consumed by desire, surrounded by danger, they find the “one” who will consume, enchant, frustrate, and ultimately love them. They only see each other...
  • The Heart of Psychos: Part One by Ames Mills

    The Heart of Psychos: Part One by Ames Mills

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I spent one amazing night with the twins, Alexey and Dmitri Orlov, heirs to the Russian Mafia throne. We made a deal. One night with no strings attached. Now they’re convinced I’m theirs.The only thing is, I don’t want to be attached. I wanted to experience what they were offering. Now I’m finding myself entangled in their lives. But they don’t come alone...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  polyamory  reverse-harem  steamy  university  adult  book
  • King of Carnage by R.E. Bond

    King of Carnage by R.E. Bond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This town knows who runs the streets.With the cops on the payroll and my family literally getting away with murder, it’s obvious.My parents built a goddamn empire.I run the local college and the racetrack with my siblings.No one crosses us, they wouldn’t dare.Everyone knows I don’t hesitate when it comes to my blade.Problem is, things are about to crumble at my feet...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  polyamory  reverse-harem  steamy  university  abuse  adult
  • Our Tricks by Elizabeth Knight

    Our Tricks by Elizabeth Knight

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The gauntlet has been thrown, lines have been drawn, and sides have been chosen. Now it’s time to see who will win.Removing Diego from power was the last obstacle to getting to Marco—or so I thought. The deeper we dive into this mess, the clearer it is that Marco has been hunting me for a long time. He’s methodical, calculating, and knows how to use every pawn at his disposal...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  polyamory  reverse-harem  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Sir's Redemption by Laylah Roberts

    Sir's Redemption by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kinley Stevens was in trouble. Lying to your Dom is never a good idea. Not if you want to sit comfortably the next day. But she had no other choice. She loved being dominated in the bedroom, but Sloan was the type of guy who would take over her life if she let him. Mind you, he couldn’t do a worse job of managing her life than she was...
  • Lady of Forsyth by Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue

    Lady of Forsyth by Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Obsess. Beguile. Control. The Lords ran the South Side of Forsyth unfettered and ruthlessly.Until Story Austin returned home.You know their tale, but are you ready for the rest?The Lady of Forsyth includes the complete bonus works of the Lords: Royals of Forsyth...
  • Kings & Carnage by Sadie Hunt

    Kings & Carnage by Sadie Hunt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I didn't think I could live with them.Turns out, I can't live without them.Rock - the one who takes care of me.Oscar - the one who makes me feel seen.And Neo - the one who lights my soul on fire.They made me see who I really am.Now I may have lost them forever.*This is the conclusion of the Aventine University series featuring Neo, Oscar, Rock, and Willa...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  polyamory  reverse-harem  steamy  university  adult  book
  • Beast Brothers 4 by Stephanie Brother

    Beast Brothers 4 by Stephanie Brother

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When I imagined my first time, I never thought it would be with four men.I’m focused on school, not relationships. Men are trouble, and I have no problem resisting them — until I meet Ben and Lucas at a party. They’re dark, gorgeous, and radiating the kind of magnetism that draws me like a crackling fire on a cold night...
  • A Ryan New Year: A New York Ruthless Novella by Sadie Kincaid

    A Ryan New Year: A New York Ruthless Novella by Sadie Kincaid

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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  • Tiny Dancer by Heather Rainier

    Tiny Dancer by Heather Rainier

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The day former exotic dancer Camilla O’Neal began working at The Dancing Pony, she told co-owner Ben Lawrence and head bartender Quinten Parks that “work is work and pleasure is pleasure” and she kept the two very separate. Working with their tiny dancer brings Ben and Quinten as much pain as pleasure. After two years of secretly lusting over and loving this blonde temptress, they have a plan...
  • The Wild Interview by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane

    The Wild Interview by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have been working hard my whole life for people to take me seriously. After all, women ‘don’t belong’ in the music industry. However, when an interview goes wrong, I am offered a once in a lifetime opportunity, to manage The Wild Boys, an all-male strip show featuring bad boys with an even worse reputation. It’s now my job to fix it, if I can keep my hands to myself...
  • A Ryan Rewind by Sadie Kincaid

    A Ryan Rewind by Sadie Kincaid

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • Four Tricks by Elizabeth Knight

    Four Tricks by Elizabeth Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I took some hard hits, but now it’s time to strike back.Marco Tesoro wanted a fight, and a fight is what he’s gonna get. The guy just doesn’t know when to stop. First he sent hitmen after me. Now he blew up my mother f-ing house. No one gets to pull that kind of shit and live—a fact he’ll be finding out soon enough...
  • Caged Royal by Lily Wildhart

    Caged Royal by Lily Wildhart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The worst part about betrayal, is it never comes from your enemies.I should have known better, I should have seen the signs, but now all I'm left with is heartache and disappointment.They may think they've got the better of me, but I won't go down without a fight. Especially when it comes to the ones I love.Even if I have to protect them from themselves...
  • Drilled by Jayne Rylon

    Drilled by Jayne Rylon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The original Powertools crew is back in a brand new series!Starting over is never easy. Especially when it means leaving your friends and lovers behind.Separation anxiety gives Morgan second thoughts about defecting from Powertools, making things rocky between her and her husband Joe...
  • Grind by Jayne Rylon

    Grind by Jayne Rylon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The original Powertools crew are back in a brand new series! The crew has overcome enormous odds to live and love together, but can it survive being divided? Devon, Neil, and James know where they’re needed most is in Middletown, working on Mike and Joe’s new construction team. Because in addition to their careers, the Powertools’ intimate bond is in jeopardy...
  • Wanted by Maren Smith

    Wanted by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He had her the longest… he hurt her the most… Anna “Pony” Mitchell should be dead. Abandoned by her Menagerie sisters and shot by the only man she’s ever loved, now the hospital has declared her “unfit.” She has thirty days to prove them wrong or spend the rest of her life hospitalized. He lost his leg, his job… and almost his life...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  psychological
  • Snowed In: Volume One by Kali Noir, Victoria Sue

    Snowed In: Volume One by Kali Noir, Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Snowed in: Why choose holiday anthology is a collection of original, brand-new short stories for this holiday season...
  • 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...
  • Echoes by Steph Macca

    Echoes by Steph Macca

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Lilydale Foundation Center… home of deadly secrets.After being framed for murder, I never thought I’d be back inside these walls again. And if I thought I’d be able to make a quiet return, I was dead wrong. My secrets have been spilled but little did I know it would be the catalyst. Monsters are creeping out of the darkness, eager for blood...
  • Just a Summer Fling by Alisha Williams

    Just a Summer Fling by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You know whats not the best way to start off the summer? Being cheated on by your high school sweetheart with your childhood best friend.So when my mom tells me she's going to be moving across the country to live with her fiance, I go with her. I have nothing holding me here anymore and no specific College I want to attend. A new start sounds good right about now...
  • Lucy's Revenge by Heather Rainier

    Lucy's Revenge by Heather Rainier

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    [Erotic Cowboy Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, voyeurism, public exhibition, HEA] Lucy Carter is striving to succeed as a self-employed licensed massage therapist and to bolster her flagging self-confidence. The ménage of her fantasies, featuring her best friends, seems to be on the back burner. Single dad Patrick Owen has been refined in the fires of betrayal...
  • Maizy The Bear Charmer by Heather Rainier

    Maizy The Bear Charmer by Heather Rainier

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Erotic Cowboy Ménage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, light foot fetish, spanking, sex toys, HEA] Maizy Owen is living her dream, working as a kindergarten teacher. Her profession gives her purpose, but her personal life is another story. Recently rejected by her fiancé, Maizy struggles to hide a part of her nature that she longs to freely express...
  • Cuffed by Measha Stone

    Cuffed by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Do you think you're the only woman in this room that loves the pain?" Sydney isn’t one to go around directing the doms she plays with. If they don’t know how hard and how long to go, she walks.  Voicing her desires isn’t even an option. As an assistant DA she’s used to asking questions, not answering them...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  suspense
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Best Year Ever by Ivy Smoak

    Best Year Ever by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My best friend Penny and I made a pact that this is going to be our best year ever. So naturally it has to come true. Truth be told, we’ve started off the semester a little shaky. Penny may have accidentally fallen in love with her professor. I know, how awkward, right? And I may have accidentally fallen in love with a complete stranger. And by accidentally I mean I stalked him. What? Sue me...
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  university  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  new-adult
  • Ruthless by Ruby Vincent

    Ruthless by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ValentinaEvergreen Academy was supposed to be my fresh start...and Somerset University my second chance.All I wanted was normal. Normal classes. Normal professors. Normal sorority.I wanted the Somerset Sallys to be like every other Greek house.I wanted the pretty, fun, sweet sisters to be genuine. I wanted the smile of their enigmatic leader not to conceal a secret...
  • All Sinner No Saint by Serena Akeroyd

    All Sinner No Saint by Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ALL SINNERI’m aptly named. I’m Lucifer in the flesh: Lucie to those who love me, B*tch to those who loathe me. I have plenty of enemies, most of them in the clubhouse where I was raised. But I’m tired of being an outsider, tired of being on the outside looking in. I want to go home. And home?Isn’t a place.It’s with four men. Four bikers who own my heart and soul, and have done since I was a kid...
    Categorized as:
    dark  polyamory  reverse-harem  steamy  adult  age-gap  biker  book
  • Secret Baby for the Bikers by Stephanie Brother

    Secret Baby for the Bikers by Stephanie Brother

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A wild night with four tattooed bikers is the worst time for my birth control to fail.Pampered and protected from the moment I was born, I walked through the gates of the Screaming Eagles MC on a dare and wobbled out the next morning after four sexy men blew my innocent mind. It should’ve ended there.I didn’t count on the baby.Everyone knows bikers and Mafia don't get along...
  • A Work in Progress by Quinn Arthurs

    A Work in Progress by Quinn Arthurs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After recently returning to her hometown, Emily—a thirty-something, divorced, mother-of-three—is determined to find some semblance of normalcy or happiness in her life. She turns her focus on her children and fighting alien invaders in her work as a science fiction author...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  polyamory  reverse-harem  steamy  university  abuse  adult
  • Teaching Abby by Becca Jameson

    Teaching Abby by Becca Jameson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s a summer internship.Never mind that the owners are hot.Never mind that there are three of them.Never mind that they are twice her age.Never mind that they have a secret “play" room in the basement.Never mind that she’s never been more intrigued in her life.She only has three months...
  • Dark Obsessions Anthology by C.M. Steele, LeAnn Ashers

    Dark Obsessions Anthology by C.M. Steele, LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’re watching. Waiting.Bound by their desires to own—the uncontrollable hunger that breaks rationality and brings forth their baser needs.To hunt. To take.Morals and humanity have no place in this game, one they’ll win at all costs.A hunter never apologizes. A man claims his woman without guilt or care for the consequences.And in this dark obsession, these demons will own your soul...
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