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  • Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet

    Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet

    8 ratings
    She just wants to be loved… by the one man who is not capable of feeling it. A CUTE PSYCHO Charming and unpredictable, Vlad Kuznetsov is known as the joker of the underground world. Known to many yet known by none, he is a true social chameleon. His feigned affability might present him as inoffensive but his inner demons could unleash a bloodbath at any time...
  • Grave Mistake by Nikki Landis

    Grave Mistake by Nikki Landis

    8 ratings
    Sometimes vengeance isn't enough.There are times when a man is forced to choose the wrong side of the law.When everything is stripped away and ruthless, cold revenge is all that remains.They call me Wraith for a reason.When people need to disappear, I'm the one that's called in.I move through the shadows and strike without mercy...
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    paranormal  dark  suspense  crime  romance  contemporary  biker  horror
  • Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    18 ratings
    When Saria Boudreaux finds a dead body in the Louisiana bayou near her home, her first instinct is to go to the police. But there's a problem: it looks like the victim may have been killed by a big cat - and her brothers are all shape-shifting leopards...
  • The Fabric of our Souls by K.M. Moronova

    The Fabric of our Souls by K.M. Moronova

    14 ratings
    I’m twenty-six years old, and I want to die.So when I wake up at the hospital with my brother weeping over me, I know my life is about to change. What I didn’t expect was to get a nurse with cruel eyes and a morbid sense of humor that surpasses my own...
  • Pretty New Doll by Ker Dukey

    Pretty New Doll by Ker Dukey

    16 ratings
    Benny, broken, hurting, and aloneLost his dolly, his love, his home.Injured and searching, reborn anew,He finds himself befriended by one who’s true.Learning about the world, urges, and lust.Finding a new future, a new dolly, is a must.Then out of old pain, fresh prospects come to life,Benny’s sick mind summons him, so his hand takes the knife...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  captivity  crime  dark  insta-love  stalking  steamy  suspense
  • Doll Face: A Doll Face Novel by Sadie Grubor, V Fiorello

    Doll Face: A Doll Face Novel by Sadie Grubor, V Fiorello

    8 ratings
    Hide the sharp objects and prepare your alibi, the Doll Face Series is your newest dark delight. Most kids don't grow up wanting a dead-beat dad. Those kids don't understand how much worse it can truly be. How it feels to grow up wishing your father was a neglectful dead-beat and not a living nightmare. I did. I do. And my safest place is to hide among the monsters. So, that's what I do...
  • Lord of Bones by Aiden Pierce, R.K. Pierce

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

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

    Mating Instinct by Celia Kyle

    10 ratings
    **This is a boxed set of ALL Ridgeville books. If you own these titles individually, DO NOT purchase this book.** The shifter men and curvy, growly ladies of Ridgeville have all huddled together in one massive volume. From Maya and Alex and all the way to Grayson and Honor, they're having fun, kicking butt, and getting mated in this collection...
  • Marked by Charisse Spiers, Clarise Tan

    Marked by Charisse Spiers, Clarise Tan

    10 ratings
    Welcome to my fucking world. My name is Kaston Cox and I’m a criminal’s worst nightmare. Most people run from darkness, but I live in it, require it, and thrive in the night. Some call me a monster, some a lover of evil, and others, the devil himself, but they’re all wrong. I’m just a shadow in the dark. I speak for the innocent when no one else will...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • Periculum by Natalie Bennett, Opulent Designs

    Periculum by Natalie Bennett, Opulent Designs

    12 ratings
    Tragic and twisted fell in love... Ave Satanas, something wicked this way comes.It’s time for the reckoning to begin.Enter the Devil’s Playground wary where you tread, for demons are lurking with trickery up their sleeves.Here good and bad cease to exist, and not all will make it to the end.The price of freedom will be revealed only after bloodshed and rapture...
  • Fury by Elaina Jadin, Marie Robinson

    Fury by Elaina Jadin, Marie Robinson

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

    The Roman by Sylvain Reynard

    16 ratings
    From the New York Times and international bestselling author of Gabriel's Inferno comes the thrilling conclusion to the dark and sexy paranormal romance series, following a young art restorer and the vampyre prince she loves as they fight against a mysterious figure who holds the fate of Italy's vampyre population-and their souls-in the balance...
    Categorized as:
    dark  gothic  paranormal  steamy  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook
  • Raphael by Tillie Cole

    Raphael by Tillie Cole

    16 ratings
    They are the Fallen. A brotherhood of murderers whose nature compels them to kill. But guided by their leader, Gabriel, the Fallen have learned to use their urges to rid the world of those it is better off without. For Raphael, sex and death are intertwined. Where there is one, there must be the other. He is a lust killer, luring his victims with the face of an angel and a body built for sin...
  • If We Disappear Here by Mindy Hayes

    If We Disappear Here by Mindy Hayes

    16 ratings
    They are marionettes under a concrete sky.Pain shoots through Maeve Campbell’s body when she wakes cold and disoriented, locked in a neglected cement room.Her drowsy eyes sweep the cell and land on a masculine, limp body across the room. Gripping his shoulder, she rolls him to his back, face angling toward her. Only it’s not who she thinks.It’s not her husband.And they aren’t alone...
  • Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    Starlet: A Dark Hollywood Mafia Romance by Cora Kenborn

    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...
  • Violent Tendencies by Mallory Fox, R.E. Bond

    Violent Tendencies by Mallory Fox, R.E. Bond

    8 ratings
    Romance After Dark brings you their Bi-Annual Anthology.Coming Spring 2021,A collection of all new deliciously dark storiesWritten by deviously dark authors. It’s going to be dark.It’s going to be bloody. Not for the faint of heart. You have been warned...Announced authors include: Loxley Savage, A.J Macey, Lucy Smoke, Suki Williams, K.A. Knight, R.E. Bond, C.A Rene, Mallory Fox...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  multi-pov  organized-crime  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult
  • Beautiful Lies: A Dark Secret Society Romance (Breaking Belles) by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Beautiful Lies: A Dark Secret Society Romance (Breaking Belles) by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    8 ratings
    Twenty Beautiful Lies stand before me.I can feel one’s hatred from across the ballroom.She loathes me and all that I stand for... that’s why she will be my choice, my belle of the ball.Born into a secret society that strangles the life out of me, I have no choice but to face my demons head on.Inheritance isn’t about money or land, it’s much more twisted than that...A sinful birthright...
  • More Than Mated by Celia Kyle

    More Than Mated by Celia Kyle

    8 ratings
    Even the growliest of men need love... All FIVE bestselling Grayslake: More Than Mated novels in one volume! Follow these alpha males—and their luscious mates—from Grayslake and beyond. Where the Abrams brothers, friends, and occasionally enemies fight for their lives, their future, and their mates...
  • Vengeful Queen by Lili St. Germain

    Vengeful Queen by Lili St. Germain

    8 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Lili St. Germain continues the story of a damaged Capulet princess, as she seeks the truth about her Montague captor in a world full of secrets and lies.*****The CALIFORNIA BLOOD series, set in the criminal underbelly of San Francisco, follows two warring families who are ruled by blood, power and twisted desire.Burn in Your Blood is the second book in the series...
  • Maleficium by Natalie Bennett

    Maleficium by Natalie Bennett

    8 ratings
    Tragic and Twisted Fall Apart…Ave Satanas worship or perish.The reckoning has begun.In the Devil’s Playground morals have vanished, demons run rampant, and the death toll is rising.The price of freedom looms closer than before, simply crown the king, claim a queen, and make idle work of the damned.One will perish.Bounties will be placed...
  • The Tithing by Natasha Knight, A. Zavarelli

    The Tithing by Natasha Knight, A. Zavarelli

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

    Blood and Chaos by S.M. Soto

    12 ratings
    We thought the games were over, but they've only just begun... She was the puppet. He pulled the strings. Now the death toll is rising, what could this mean? It was all a game. Of feelings. Of pain. Death is just an illusion, or so they say. She was just a pawn on a piece of his demented board...
  • The Ghost of Ellwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    The Ghost of Ellwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    12 ratings
    “I didn't believe in ghosts. Until I met him.”As a horror novelist, Ben makes a living telling scary stories. However, he's struggling in his career and fears he's lost his touch. Not only is there a disconnect in his writing, but in his personal life as well. After his relationship goes south, he decides to start over and moves to Ivy Grove, a small town with a lot of history...
  • Love and War: Volume Two by Charisse Spiers

    Love and War: Volume Two by Charisse Spiers

    12 ratings
    I’d waited my whole life for this. Nothing and no one was going to stand in my way. From the moment Lux opened her mouth that night I wanted to be pissed at her, but with one outburst she’d given me everything I’d fucking dreamed of since I was a kid. He gave me the chance of a lifetime, despite his known reputation of sitting alone on his throne...
  • Pretty Broken Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Pretty Broken Dolls by Ker Dukey

    14 ratings
    The final book in the Pretty Little Dolls Series. Betrayal and rage, a festering sting. Monster vs Master. Who will be king? Damaged and desperate, a solution they must find, To bring back the dolly who is one of a kind. Disloyalty and failure will not be forgiven. Seeking revenge, the monster is driven. Hungry for his affection, our master has waited...
  • Stranded by Cara Dee

    Stranded by Cara Dee

    14 ratings
    Stranded is the second book in The Auctioned Series. Before you read further, you should read Auctioned. ​ “You have my word, Gray. I will get you off this island, and I will bring you home.” ​ It was supposed to be an easy in-and-out job. Nothing Darius Quinn hadn’t done before. But this job had something none of the others did: Gray Nolan...
  • The Arrangement 14: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    The Arrangement 14: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    18 ratings
    Sean Ferro is a liar. Everything he’s ever told me melts away until only the truth remains and I don’t like what I see. Gabe tried to warn me, but I didn’t understand the depths of Sean’s corruption until he let them take me away. After everything we’ve been through, I’m crushed, but I refuse to accept this fate. Screw that, I’m not dying tonight...
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    crime  dark  organized-crime  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • Ghosted by Karina Halle

    Ghosted by Karina Halle

    6 ratings
    Ghosted is an all-new EIT novella told from Dex's POV. It should be read after Dust to Dust (after Veiled, preferably) and before Came Back Haunted.It's available in the All the Love in the World anthology on Amazon, as well as by itself in paperback, and at Nook, iBooks and Kobo...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  gothic  male-mc  paranormal  steamy  adult  book
  • Mayhem by Alexis Noelle

    Mayhem by Alexis Noelle

    6 ratings
    I had to step up, take over, Save her from herself, From him. He doesn't deserve her. But I sure as Hell don't either She's too sweet, too soft, too kind. A broken shell of the woman she once was. But now, there's more on the line, She's in too deep. And I'll be damned if I ever give up On putting her back together, Piece-by-piece, Owning every ounce of the woman, Who stole my heart...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • Redeemed by Lane Hart

    Redeemed by Lane Hart

    6 ratings
    WARNING: This is the SECOND book in the Dark Redemption series. Therefore, Exploited should be read first. Both books contain dark, dirty and dangerous situations. ~ Brede ~ For years I’ve left a path of death and destruction wherever I go, and now God’s punishing me. Time’s running out for my fallen angel, but I’ll do whatever it takes to save her...
  • Counts of Eight by Brynn Ford

    Counts of Eight by Brynn Ford

    6 ratings
    RELEASE DATE: May 31, 2020ARCs sign-up open through May 18, 2020: bit.ly/CO8ARCsAll of my choices had been stripped from me except for one.Dance or die.Three years ago, I was taken, stolen away, far from the world I knew, far from civilization. I became a slave, forced to serve one of the four families with my talent. I'd been abused, battered, tortured in isolation...
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    age-gap  crime  dark  gothic  organized-crime  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • The Flesh Cartel, Season 3: Transformation by Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau

    The Flesh Cartel, Season 3: Transformation by Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau

    6 ratings
    With a wedge at last driven between Mat and Dougie Carmichael, courtesy of Nikolai Petrovic’s expert manipulations, the brothers must each accept their new path forward: Dougie, a perfect slave, sweet and obedient and loving. Mat, a tightly reined dog, snarling and snapping but never allowed to bite. Unfortunately, no transformation, however well planned, is without its growing pains...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  dark  suspense  captivity  crime  romance  contemporary  mlm
  • BONES by Yolanda Olson

    BONES by Yolanda Olson

    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...
  • Ashes of Black Oak by Monique Edenwood

    Ashes of Black Oak by Monique Edenwood

    8 ratings
    I watch the blood as it seeps from him, pooling like crimson flame around his neck, trickling in rivulets of liquid fire onto the dense body below.The body I've touched. I've held. I've kissed. I've felt wrapped around me for so long, holding me possessively, protecting me from those who wanted me lost...
  • I am Alpha by Katherine Bogle

    I am Alpha by Katherine Bogle

    8 ratings
    They took me from my home, made me a slave—and when I wouldn’t bend, they chose to break me.But a chance encounter with a demon spells disaster for the slave trade. Released from my bonds, and set free upon the world that scorned me, I will do anything to find my brother and get my revenge.Only, four wolves, one from each clan, seem intent on pursuing me—all for their own desires...
  • Gutted by Layla Fae

    Gutted by Layla Fae

    8 ratings
    It’s time to pay, and I am the price.The night’s coming to an end. We all know what it means. The only thing worth living for will be ripped out of my hands.They agreed on what would happen. It’s me against the three, and it seems I will get my goal, after all.We come together for one last time before our fates untangle forever...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  steamy  age-gap  multi-pov  crime  gothic  suspense
  • Beg For Mercy by Lucian Bane

    Beg For Mercy by Lucian Bane

    10 ratings
    The fight is on in this installment, Mercy is holding nothing back in her endeavor to prove to Sade he can experience love and pleasure. Sade,however has other plans and his darkness is front and center in them. Meanwhile, Father Abraham is still on the loose with a score to settle with them all and no one is safe from his wrath...
  • Owned by the Lost Boys by A.J. Merlin

    Owned by the Lost Boys by A.J. Merlin

    10 ratings
    They say they saved my life, even though I never saw them do it. Cyril, Isaac, Asher, Ezra, and Arlo call themselves the Lost Boys, and they’re just one branch of a ‘family’ that rules everything in the city I grew up in. They’re the bad guys, in every sense of the word, and they don’t care who knows it...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  retellings  stalking  steamy  adult  book
  • The Blood We Crave: Part One by Monty Jay

    The Blood We Crave: Part One by Monty Jay

    10 ratings
    My secrets are infested with infatuation. His cravings are dripping in blood. Is it love? Or is it something much darker… An obsession. Death found me as a young girl. Latching onto the core of my soul. No one knows what that horrid night did to me. What kind of monster it flourished inside me...
  • Death's Bloom by Lily Mayne

    Death's Bloom by Lily Mayne

    12 ratings
    He’s the most perfect man I’ve ever met, but something is… wrong.I don’t see it at first. All I see is the gorgeous man with dark eyes and long hair and that unusual blue beard. The piercings and the tattoos, the beautiful smile. All I can focus on is the way he touches me, the sound of his voice in my ear, the perfect life he draws me into.I hide it from him at first...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  paranormal  retellings  spooky  steamy  adult  angst
  • The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake

    The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake

    14 ratings
    This island alone boasts more ghost stories than all of Louisiana combined.And I'm one of them. In the Louisiana swamplands, ghost stories are as much a part of childhood as chasing fireflies and crawfishing. They never much scared me, though, nor the possibility of evil out to do me harm. Until the night I watched shadows come to life and butcher everything I loved...
  • Cemetery Tours by Jacqueline E. Smith

    Cemetery Tours by Jacqueline E. Smith

    6 ratings
    Some secrets are best kept laid to rest.At least, that's as far as Michael Sinclair is concerned. At twenty-seven, he has spent his entire life pretending that the ghosts he encounters on a daily basis do not exist. Now, if only the dead would let him rest in peace.Unfortunately, that doesn't seem likely, especially after Kate Avery and her ailing brother, Gavin, move in next door...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  male-mc  paranormal  suspense  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Snuffed: by Bonny Capps

    Snuffed: by Bonny Capps

    6 ratings
    WARNING: This book is not just dark - it’s horrific, depraved and disturbing. If you do not enjoy books containing blood, guts, taboo and more – this book is not for you. Death would have been simple. I don't have that option anymore. In order to survive him, I must be what he craves. *The SNUFF sequel will be published in two parts. This is part one, and part two will be releasing Fall 2016...
  • Her Vampire Rebel by Zara Zenia

    Her Vampire Rebel by Zara Zenia

    6 ratings
    I'M KEEPING HER.The sweet psychology student with a troubled past.Her ex is stalking her, but I won't let him hurt her again.I'll finish him if he even tries.Because I love the way she submits.Her sweet soft yes, sirs. The way she gives herself over to me.I should let her go--she has her whole life ahead of her.But I can't. I'm buying her a collar and making her mine.Mine alone...
  • Ultimate Kill by Kristine Mason

    Ultimate Kill by Kristine Mason

    6 ratings
    When the past collides with the present, the only way to ensure the future lies in the ultimate kill… Naomi McCall is a woman of many secrets. Her family has been murdered and she’s been forced into hiding. No one knows her past or her real name, not even the man she loves...
  • Caught in the Storm by M. Stratton

    Caught in the Storm by M. Stratton

    6 ratings
    Book Three in The Storm Series What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? Kat Snyder has spent years chasing after the man who attacked her and left her for dead. It is her one obsession and she won’t let anyone stand in her way. Now that they are getting closer to finding him she begins to doubt herself and her need for revenge...
  • Splinters of You by Anne Malcom

    Splinters of You by Anne Malcom

    6 ratings
    Words are my weapon.Stories wrap around my soul, choking me, capturing you.I don't work in dreams.I don't offer escapes.I cage you within my nightmares.Magnolia Grace is a horror writer, despite what the name might suggest.One of the best in the business, if you asked around.Pressure comes with that title. Expectation for the next nightmare. The next bestseller.Sickness.That's what it is...
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    captivity  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • The Perfect Cover by Charlotte Byrd

    The Perfect Cover by Charlotte Byrd

    6 ratings
    When Tyler McDermott escapes from prison, he takes me hostage.No, I do not fall in love with my captor.Tyler is an innocent man who was framed for a heinous double murder.Of course, I do not know that yet.All that I know is that he has a knife to my throat. All that I know is that if I want to live, I have to let him in...
  • Finding His Dragon by Elianne Adams

    Finding His Dragon by Elianne Adams

    6 ratings
    After months of torment at the hands of her own clan, Charlotte is sold to a rival clan. She refuses to be claimed by a man who is known for his mistreatment of women, and so she runs. The last thing she wants, or expects to find is her mate, but that's precisely what happens. If only she could stop running long enough to take what is rightfully hers...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dragons
  • The Flesh Cartel, Season 2: Fragmentation by Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau

    The Flesh Cartel, Season 2: Fragmentation by Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau

    6 ratings
    Nikolai Petrovic is a man of refinement. He collects fine art, enjoys gourmet cuisine, and trains boutique sex slaves for some of the wealthiest-and most morally dubious-men and women in the world...
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