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  • Madman's Cure by V.F. Mason

    Madman's Cure by V.F. Mason

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'm a madman...she's my cure.Once upon a time there was a devil and his bride.His hell awaited her while she tried to hide.He found her and trapped her inside.Where she had no choice but to stay at his side.Madman's Cure is book 2 of the Madman Duet and should be read after Madman's Method...
  • 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:
    age-gap  dark  stalking  steamy  suspense  adult  book  captivity
  • 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:
    age-gap  dark  stalking  steamy  suspense  adult  billionaire  book
  • Obsession by Harleigh Beck

    Obsession by Harleigh Beck

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    SavannahImagine my surprise when the chance to interview the country’s most notorious man on death row lands on my table. His final confession. It’s too good of an opportunity to turn down.Robbie Hammond is old enough to be my father, a man condemned for the murder of at least fourteen women. He is dangerous, deadly. Intense in ways I can’t explain...
  • 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...
  • 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:
    age-gap  dark  stalking  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Distraction by Kelly Fox

    Distraction by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An MM Murder Swoon RomanceFrom USA Today Bestselling Author Kelly Fox comes a uniquely unhinged Mafia romance.Look, no one's ever accused me of being sane, y'know? So when I say that I am crazy over this RICO agent, know that I mean business.Sure, I'm responsible for getting him fired from the job he's wanted his whole life, but his grandfather just died and left him 13.1 billion dollars...
  • Ominous: Book I by K.V. Rose

    Ominous: Book I by K.V. Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What is the true cost of obsession?The consequences of lust driven bone-deep?Eli and Eden are about to find out.After a quiet meeting in their private school’s library, it doesn’t take long for them to recognize the hidden darkness in one another. Surrounded by a strange disappearance, skeptical friendships, and conflicting dreams born out of nightmares, together,theyfall...
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  angst  book  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Dead of Summer by A.J. Merlin

    Dead of Summer by A.J. Merlin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Camp Friends Are Forever FriendsOr so the motto of Camp Crestview says.Having been a camp counselor for the last three summers, I can handle most situations that come my way courtesy of rowdy children. This year shouldn’t be any different, even with a new counselor who’s everyone’s type and too good to be true. But even so, Kayde Lane is nothing I can’t deal with...
  • Buried Lies by Kaylea Cross

    Buried Lies by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She left her painful past behind. Poppy Larsen is finally free. She moved to Crimson Point to make a new life for herself, full of bright possibilities. A whole new world awaits her, if she can find the courage to trust again—even her gorgeous neighbor, the town sheriff. But darkness lurks in the picturesque Oregon Coast town, concealing a deadly threat that’s closer than she ever imagined...
  • 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...
  • Marrow by Trisha Wolfe, Brynne Weaver

    Marrow by Trisha Wolfe, Brynne Weaver

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Two rival serial killers. One common enemy. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Jack Sorensen is the perfect serial killer. In the bright lights of his public persona he’s a respected scientist, a leader in the field of human decomposition. But in his shadowed secret life he’s a ruthless and elusive killer, unseen by the authorities who have failed to follow his faint trail of destruction...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  stalking  steamy  suspense  adult  book  dark-academia
  • Protect: A Dark Captive Romance by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood

    Protect: A Dark Captive Romance by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This dark tale of obsession, beauty, and lust is by Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood. She writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN. I wake up in the wreckage, ready to fight for Rue. Only she is gone, stolen away by my archenemy. I start to see red. No one touches my girl and expects to live. The deck is stacked against us. Emotions are running high...
  • Play With Me: A Splatterpunk Dark Romance by Emily Klepp, Jade Katzchen

    Play With Me: A Splatterpunk Dark Romance by Emily Klepp, Jade Katzchen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Plenty of people make jokes about what they would do if a serial killer made them their target, but how many of them would beg for their lives if faced with the inevitability of death? How many would be triggered into a trauma response out of basic instinct? None of them understand true pain until all their tears have dried up and the numbness takes over...
  • Devotion by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Devotion by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Legions worship at my feet, but I only bow to her.THE SPIDERI move through Layla’s world in silence, always watching.It’s incredible where you can hide a camera these days.She’s the daughter of my enemy, a threat to my flock, and I had a solidplan for her.The weight of her father’s sin was meant to fall on her shoulders.Only, the second my world bled into hers, that plan derailed...
  • Awakening the Beast by Jodie King

    Awakening the Beast by Jodie King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wren - The night I lost him, everything I cherished turned into ashes along with that fire, swallowed by the inferno that scarred my heart and mind. I became who they call ‘The Queen of Darkness’, mimicking the love of my life, Arlo Hayes, lost in the abyss of trauma and hatred. Now, as he stands before me, the happiness I should feel wars with the despair that has settled deep within me...
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  outlaws  stalking  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult
  • His Sinner: A Masked Stalker Romance by Harmony West

    His Sinner: A Masked Stalker Romance by Harmony West

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s her saint . . . now she’ll be his sinner.SaintBriar is more than my muse—she’s my soulmate.She just doesn’t know it yet.After a writing retreat in seclusion with me, she’ll never want to leave. And if she does? Perhaps I simply won’t let her.After all, what’s a saint without his sinner?BriarMy masked stalker is forcing me to stay with him in his Gothic manor...
  • The Survivor by Jessica Gadziala

    The Survivor by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    - Mari -True crime girlies weren’t supposed to become victims.Mari hoped that by consuming anything and everything murder and mystery, she would never find herself the star of some true crime podcast one day...
  • Don't Be Scared by A.J. Merlin

    Don't Be Scared by A.J. Merlin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Every town has a history.Ours is just a little darker than most.For years I’ve celebrated Halloween and Hollow Bridge’s history with everyone else who lives here. Parades, festivals, and insane Halloween parties have always been a staple for us. Some bad behavior is expected, given what we’re celebrating.But murder has never been on the table before...
  • Damaged: The Dillon Sisters by Layla Frost

    Damaged: The Dillon Sisters by Layla Frost

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I’m effed up. A hot mess. Haunted.Damaged.But he doesn’t think so.He thinks my imperfectness is what makes me perfect. He loves my flaws. My quirks.My scars.He wants to protect me. See me happy. Make me alive. He wants to give me everything I need, no matter how twisted and wrong and depraved.He needs me to need him.Which makes me wonder…Is he damaged, too?Warning: Recommended for readers 18+...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  stalking  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • Taken by Cynthia Eden

    Taken by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s latest novel, the Last Option Search Team (LOST) returns— and for one agent, the hunt for a serial killer just got very personal . . . HE SWORE TO PROTECT HER . . . Bailey Jones somehow survived her harrowing abduction by the infamous Death Angel...
  • The Danger You Know by Lily White, Ada Sinclair

    The Danger You Know by Lily White, Ada Sinclair

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You’ll judge me.Hate me and tell me I’m wrong.Refuse to see how my darkness is what she needs.While I don’t particularly care about your feelings in the matter, and while I pursue her despite the wedding bells that rang for another, only I can see how she is drowning beneath mediocrity.How many times must I remind her?It can’t matter that I am the person who ruined her life...
  • Lunatic by Onley James

    Lunatic by Onley James

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Every psychopath in the Mulvaney family has a role to play. Archer Mulvaney is the gambler, a drunken reprobate making his living as a high-stakes poker player. Very few people know the real Archer, not even his brothers. But there is one man who knows far too much.Mackenzie Shepherd spends his days photographing endangered wildlife...
  • Vile Wicked Eyes by Candace Wondrak

    Vile Wicked Eyes by Candace Wondrak

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Stella. I used to be empty, broken, a shell of a person watching as days passed me by.But then I found out the truth. What I’d done. What I wanted to do again. My three killers took me and shook my world upside-down, stopping only when I faced the fact that I was just like them.A brute. A monster. A beast with an innate craving to make others bleed...
  • A Promise of Torment by Mallory Fox

    A Promise of Torment by Mallory Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blood hides carnal desires. Power is overrated.Killing for family, tainted with nothing but love...My emotions are supposed to be dead.I was never meant to feel this. Pain. Anger. Rage. Feelings erode me from the inside.They make me weak. They make him more powerful.But I can't lose.Dante is my sweetness in hell. My father has me where he wants me. And my boys...well they think I'm all but lost...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  book  coming-of-age
  • Violent Promises by A.R. Breck

    Violent Promises by A.R. Breck

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Violent Promises is the final book in the Blackridge series!When one reckless decision and a possessive heart lead to an inescapable debt...Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d be at the mercy of a man who only wanted one thing, my death.With each passing hour, my growing despair wars with my murderous blood...
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • Cold Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance  (Heartbreaker Prequel) by Stella Hart

    Cold Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance (Heartbreaker Prequel) by Stella Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A FREE peek into the lives of the Heartbreaker and his future captive! Dexter crossed with 50 Shades: enter a world filled with dark secrets, twisted lies, and dirty desires.... I’ll kill to have her. The world is a dark place filled with even darker monsters. Most of them hide in plain sight, walking around right under your nose. I’m one of them. By day I’m calm, friendly, approachable...
    Categorized as:
    dark  stalking  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • Reconcile by Leah Steele

    Reconcile by Leah Steele

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I always thought it was best to keep my darkness hidden, outta sight, outta mind. But my stalker has been showing me the errors of my ways. He’s been guiding me into nurturing that side of myself, and now that it’s been set free, there’s no going back. I’ve killed three people, and with each new kill, I learn more about myself. But I crave more than the bloodshed...
  • BONES by Yolanda Olson

    BONES by Yolanda Olson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Content advisory: The following book contains vivid depictions of gore, graphic sexual violence, endless mind games, will induce strangely beautiful feelings of paranoia, and lots of bad things. Really bad things. It's not recommended eating before, during, or after reading this story. Prepare for a one way trip to Hell. I'm haunted. Not by ghosts, but by a face I can't quite remember...
  • Raven by Leah Steele

    Raven by Leah Steele

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secrets are revealed, and I’ve never felt so betrayed. We had a plan, a good fucking plan, and with one explosion it all went to shit. Only, it wasn’t the bomb I set off that left destruction in its wake, it was the truth about my men. They've been hiding details about my life, and until they decide to share every last truth, they're choosing to live life on the edge of my blade...
  • Deadly Temptation by Holly Bloom

    Deadly Temptation by Holly Bloom

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if the killer you’re hunting is the person you’re falling for?Everyone thinks Ivy Penrose is dead, but they couldn't be more wrong.After the Killers Club saved my life, they trained me to become a ruthless assassin. Now I’m ready to make the men who wronged me pay...
  • Married to the Vampire King by Jay Castle

    Married to the Vampire King by Jay Castle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ETHANThe bad news is that the vampires and witches of this city are all going to kill each other. Meaning that everyone I care about is pretty much doomed. The good news is, I have a plan to stop it. Step one: Marry Nathaniel Bailey, the leader of the city’s vampires...
  • Bathed in Blood by Callie Moss

    Bathed in Blood by Callie Moss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of For the Love of Layla comes the first standalone in the Dark Desires & Sinful Sweethearts series… Bathed in Blood.People are awful and circumstances, positions, perspectives are always changing. Life is constantly evolving and devolving, rapidly. In the blink of an eye, everything you thought you had, thought you were, is gone...
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  outlaws  suspense  romance  horror  abuse  splatterpunk
  • Painting with Blood by Dolores Lane

    Painting with Blood by Dolores Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 2024 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝗼𝐧.After escaping a dark and poisonous past, Jane Meyer, a sweet and talented professional painter, crosses paths with James Ambrose, a charming and smart Homicide sergeant for the Hunterville Police Department. It quickly becomes clear that theirs is a beautiful love story, written in the stars...
  • The Phantom's Vice by Mindy Paige

    The Phantom's Vice by Mindy Paige

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the FBI’s most wanted criminal leaves his DNA at a crime scene, Brett Evangeline is sure she’s finally going to bring the masked assassin to justice. The brand-new FBI agent can’t believe her luck—both in getting assigned to this case and her findings—but what she doesn’t realize is that, in the criminal underworld of Moriton, luck does not fortune the kind or the good...
  • Zero by Mandy Muse

    Zero by Mandy Muse

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Nightmare before Christmas retelling...
  • Madman's Method by V.F. Mason

    Madman's Method by V.F. Mason

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once upon a time a sinner, a priest and a madman played a dangerous game... She is a sinner. He is a serial killer. She demanded vengeance. He demanded her. She vowed to avenge. He vowed to destroy. She created a web of lies. He wore a mask of deceit. She wanted to escape. He captured her instead. There are no rules in this twisted game of theirs. But there is a winner who claims the sinner...
  • Deadly Match by K.A. Knight, Ivy Fox

    Deadly Match by K.A. Knight, Ivy Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He was my demon when I was a child.A hellish force protecting me from the evil that hid in the dark and preyed on the weak.But I’m not that innocent girl anymore.And he’s no longer my savior.Filled with such cruelty, such madness, my survival instincts tell me I should run the other way...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  stalking  steamy  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  anti-hero
  • Vicious by A.J. Merlin

    Vicious by A.J. Merlin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One, two, he’s coming for youThree, four, better run some moreI never would have accepted his help if I’d known what he’d do.When the stranger who got me out of a mess in Springwood turns the town into a slaughterhouse in my name, I do the only thing I can do.I run.Not far enough, though, because I can feel him in Akron, looking for me. But he wants to take me home, and I can’t go back...
  • The Reaper by Garry Michael

    The Reaper by Garry Michael

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I chose to live my life in the shadows, and one day it could get me killed.”Obliterate.Extinguish.Repeat.Serving justice was my specialty. I was a ruthless monster, a fierce hunter, a mad sadist, and the list went on. But one thing I wasn’t… hunted...
  • Under Your Scars: A Dark Romance Novel by Ariel N. Anderson

    Under Your Scars: A Dark Romance Novel by Ariel N. Anderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "If you're so concerned about my humanity, Elena, then reach into my soul and find it, because I'm not sure I have any left." According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills. What do they call me after fifty-two? They call me the Silencer...
  • Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are by Harleigh Beck

    Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are by Harleigh Beck

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One year ago, on a rainy night, I made a horrible mistake.A mistake that would haunt my every waking moment.I accidentally killed Nate, the star quarterback.Or so I thought.Now he’s back from the dead.Nothing will quench his thirst for revenge.Not until my broken pieces lie scattered by his feet and he’s inhaled my last breath.The only way out is in a body bag...
  • Beyond Time by Lee McCormick

    Beyond Time by Lee McCormick

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How many times will we kill each other? How many times can we fall in love? SETH I always thought my world would begin and end with Jayce Walker. When a sleep study offers us life-changing money, we jump at the opportunity. There’s only one I don’t have insomnia. Bluffing my way in is easy, but getting there and losing everything that’s ever mattered is a nightmare I can’t escape.Jayce is gone...
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