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  • Deserved by Kira Johns

    Deserved by Kira Johns

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Five years after leaving Rockingham, Jade Moore is still trying to move on. Easier said than done when your heart lies in your hometown. She finds friendship with a man who bears a dark secret, one that could destroy her. Shadow has spent the last five years in misery over losing Jade. He still loves her, but knows he lost his chance...
  • Cooper by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Cooper by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cooper and Elizabeth Townsend are from two very different worlds - she's an attorney and he's an outlaw biker. At first, she was just an escape he needed, but now she's everything to him, even though their relationship remains a secret.After his world is blown apart, Cooper is no longer the same man he was before...
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  • Toxic by A.C. Bextor

    Toxic by A.C. Bextor

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Told through Shame’s point of view, the final installment of the Lights of Peril MC takes place on the ‘implied’ wedding day. Shame is plagued with doubts surrounding his love for Mace. He loves her. He’s loved her since she was five years old, but feels he doesn’t deserve her. This uncertainty is surfacing while struggling to forget the loss of his tragic childhood...
  • Vile by Lulu Waters

    Vile by Lulu Waters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    EVERLEE VERA This isn’t the life I’m meant to live—stuck on the arm of a rich asshole while he has a pissing contest with other rich assholes. They’re all puppets, playing a dutiful role that condemns them to hell until death do they part. Hatred pushes me forward. Lust fuels me. And there is only one guy who checks both: Holden Van. My boyfriend’s enemy. The guy who flusters me beyond anything...
  • Amos y mazmorras: Segunda parte by Lena Valenti

    Amos y mazmorras: Segunda parte by Lena Valenti

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Chegou a hora de encarar o tão aguardado torneio Dragões e Masmorras DS. Entregue-se aos combates. Liberte seus desejos. Na busca pela irmã desaparecida, a agente Cleo Connelly conseguiu se infiltrar no ultrassecreto torneio de práticas BDSM, o Dragões e Masmorras DS...
  • Legacy by Bethany-Kris

    Legacy by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B018IMSYZE A Legacy PrequelBLURB:filth·y (fĭl′thē)adj. filth·i·er, filth·i·est1. Covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty.2. Obscene or offensive.3. Vile; dirty. adv. filth·y1. To an extreme and often disgusting extent...
  • Hawke by Anise Storm

    Hawke by Anise Storm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Previously published in 2019, "Hawke" has been updated with a new POV and some expanded scenes. Arrogant. Sexy. Reminiscent. I felt all three about my newest client. The moment I met the sexy club owner in need of a party planner, I soon realized why. He was the one responsible for the most mortifying night of my life just one year earlier...
  • Royal Bully by Rachel Van Dyken

    Royal Bully by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Something dark this way comes. He's gorgeous, mean, and mine. He catches me dreaming about him, and then just like my dream, he decides to make me his. I should have said no when he asked me to swear fealty to him. The knife clued me in first. The blood second...
  • Misappropriate by Kathryn Kelly

    Misappropriate by Kathryn Kelly

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Megan 'Meggie' Foy Caldwell is finally getting everything she’s dreamed of, a child, a husband, and family (of bikers) that would truly do anything for her. Her life is finally on the right track. When Meggie asks her husband, Christopher 'Outlaw' Caldwell, MC President of the Death Dwellers’, for a church wedding, he agrees because keeping his new found love happy is everything to him...
  • Black Light: Purged by Livia Grant

    Black Light: Purged by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    They may not have used the ‘f’ word, but it didn’t matter. She knew she was too fat. Khloe finally has it all — good friends, a successful acting career, a Dom who loves her, and a bright future ahead of her. Despite that, old insecurities flare after she is turned down for a coveted role.  Khloe quickly falls back into old habits that lead down a dark and dangerous path...
  • Chosen by Josie Litton

    Chosen by Josie Litton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    < From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Josie Litton My name is Grace Delaney. I was born into this country’s most admired political family. When I was sixteen, the media dubbed me “America’s Princess”. I hate being called that, all the more so since I discovered the terrifying secret hidden behind my family’s glittering public image...
  • Those Boys Are Trouble by Willow Winters

    Those Boys Are Trouble by Willow Winters

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Five steamy, contemporary romances. One collection. AMAZON TOP 100 best selling series available in one collection for a LIMITED time! Those Boys Are Trouble includes all five of the full-length, stand-alone romances from the Valetti mafia series featuring filthy-mouthed, possessive bad boys, HEAs and no cliffhangers...
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    bdsm  alpha male  contemporary  dark  mafia  length-epic
  • Rise by N.V. Roez

    Rise by N.V. Roez

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Hurt people hurt people. But can broken people save broken people? There’s dissension among the Knights. With new opponents forming alliances with old players, it’s forcing us to acknowledge the roles we have to play. Now Elijah is the only voice of reason.Caleb has made a deal with the devil; he just doesn’t know who that is yet.And Micah is devoted to living an unattainable life...
  • Kane & Ava: Rough Touch by Willow Winters

    Kane & Ava: Rough Touch by Willow Winters

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes a HOT mafia, standalone romance.I thought I was safe.I still remember smoothing my dress and putting on my earrings the day it all happened. The day my family was murdered and I was taken.The chain around my neck won't ever leave me, but I won't stop fighting. I'll have my revenge at any cost so long as I can remember the girl I used to be...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  alpha male  bad boys  dark  contemporary  abuse  mafia  suspense
  • The Ingénue by Tiffany Reisz

    The Ingénue by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Siren prequelEvents take place approximately six months before The Siren – stars Sheridan &...
  • Breaking Grace by Rose Devereux

    Breaking Grace by Rose Devereux

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two years ago, I murdered the love of Grace Garrett’s life. I had it all – a thriving company, money, women at my beck and call. Then I shot and killed James Winthrop. And got away with it. His beautiful fiancé is ruined, so damaged she’s destroying herself. And I’m the reason why. Nothing and nobody can save her. Except me. Only I know how to help her start again...
  • Bed of Thorns by Piper Stone

    Bed of Thorns by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He was once my protector. Now he's become my captor.Hardened by years spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Montego is no longer the gentle man I remember. When he came for me, he didn't just take me for the very first time.He claimed my virgin body with a savagery that left me screaming... and he made me beg for it...
  • Savage Locke by Victoria Ashley, Jenika Snow

    Savage Locke by Victoria Ashley, Jenika Snow

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    STERLING LOCKE They say us Locke brothers are savage and that we’ll take care of any motherfucker who steps out of line without even batting an eye. They’re right as shit. The last thing you want to do is get on the bad side of a Locke. There’s no fucks given when it comes to protecting the people we care about. We’ll fight to the motherfucking death if it comes down to it...
  • Soldiers of Chaos- Chaos Abounds: Book 1 in the Soldiers of Chaos series by A.A. Askevold

    Soldiers of Chaos- Chaos Abounds: Book 1 in the Soldiers of Chaos series by A.A. Askevold

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There is darkness lurking inside us all. What would you do to escape yours? Nikki grew up in the Soldiers of Chaos Motorcycle Club and as far as women in MC's go she's somewhat of an anomaly. Nikki's one of very few patched female members in the existence of outlaw motorcycle clubs...
  • Destroyed by Kira Johns

    Destroyed by Kira Johns

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Jade Moore was no stranger to the MC lifestyle. Growing up the daughter of the President of the Satan's Rebels, she knew all about family and loyalty. Her world slowly crumbles when she loses not only her parents, but her brother and best friend. Her uncle steps in and becomes the family she so desperately needs...
  • Last Shadow by Pepper Winters

    Last Shadow by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. RELEASE DATE WILL BE ADVISED.“My life wasn’t perfect but at least it was mine. Now, I live in hell and owned by others. I fell for a guy who promised me the world and sold me for five grams of cocaine. I want nothing more than to end this existence of abuse and slavery. I’m not weak. I’m not giving up. I’m just done.” Owned. Possessed. Used.Lyric is a whore...
  • The Waltz by Angelica Chase

    The Waltz by Angelica Chase

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    This book is free on some platforms. You know what they say… One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. After sacrificing years of my life on a cheating husband, I'd had enough. I set out to quench a thirst I had ignored for years. I gave myself one year to explore my sexuality—to delve into my deepest, darkest desires...
  • Broken Discipline by Audrey Rush

    Broken Discipline by Audrey Rush

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    My husband sold me, and now, I belong to a stranger. A secret society promised that if I married a brutal voyeur, I’d be given a better life. But the only way out was death, and our marriage was a nightmare.Then one day, I woke up in an unfamiliar house. Concrete walls surrounded me like a cage, and a stranger with blue-gray eyes held the chains to my freedom...
  • My Sweet Villaintine by Skye Warren, T.M. Frazier

    My Sweet Villaintine by Skye Warren, T.M. Frazier

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    MY SWEET VILLAINTINE – A VALENTINES COLLECTION OF DELICIOUS DARKNESS Happy f*cking Valentines Day. That's what your favorite sexy-as-sin villain would say to you, right? And he'd probably say it with one hand around your throat and your dress bunched around your hips. It’s doubtful that he’ll buy you flowers. He definitely won't serenade you...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  bad boys  alpha male  dark  contemporary  abuse  suspense  angst
  • Saint Nick by Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue

    Saint Nick by Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Bonus Content on Forsyth U website...
  • The Decimation of Mae by D.H. Sidebottom

    The Decimation of Mae by D.H. Sidebottom

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Devil visited me three times in my life; albeit, my short life. Not in the physical sense, you must understand, but very much literally. He was persistent, resolute and tenacious. His ruthless greed to annihilate me was utterly disturbing. I am sure if he had hierarchy, the man at the top would have dragged his arse into Hell’s prison for his unscrupulous methods...
  • Rotten Apple by B.B. Blaque

    Rotten Apple by B.B. Blaque

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ▪▪▪▪Francis Patrick “FOCUS” Flanagan Sgt. at Arms for the Royal Bastards NYC/Rotten Apple Chapter▪▪▪▪ I knew immediately Nixx’s tough girl game was an act—New Yorker with a rough edge and a decent size chip on her shoulder—I wasn’t buyin’ that mess at all. She has the eyes of a damn angel and lips that’d make the most religious man wanna lay down with Satan himself...
  • Intricate Love by Amo Jones

    Intricate Love by Amo Jones

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Vicky Abrahams has a tendency to get herself into tricky situations. But after a crazy spring break with one of her best friends, she has a bigger situation she needs to deal with—Blake Rendon. Blake is part of the Sinful Souls MC. He has never been interested in anything serious with any woman, until Vicky. This interest results in him taking time to figure out his feelings for her...
  • Unmasked: Volume Two by Cassia Leo

    Unmasked: Volume Two by Cassia Leo

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I left my former life – and my mask – behind. Running from a past where I was born unloved. A past where I was betrayed by love. Running from an organization with limitless power and stealth. Running for my life. I never expected to find love on the run. Not in a tiny seaside town on an island in the middle of nowhere. Not without my mask...
  • True Beginnings by Willow Madison

    True Beginnings by Willow Madison

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A DARK EROTIC ROMANCE True Beginnings is the second book in a series that includes two alternative endings. See for yourself why fans are saying this makes all the other dark romances look like greyed out shades of fairytales. MORE OR ENOUGHMax is all about being in control. It's the only way he knows how to be. There’s never been a question in his mind about what he wants...
  • Total Possession by Juliette N. Banks

    Total Possession by Juliette N. Banks

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hunter Dufort may be the youngest in the Dufort family dynasty.He might also be the quietest, but he has certain tastes and needs his elder brothers don't have.And he's not talking about whisky.When Grace turns up in his world, Hunter wonders if she may be his greatest challenge yet. For he needs to have unequivocal and total possession of her...
  • Whiskey and a Gun by Jade Eby

    Whiskey and a Gun by Jade Eby

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I only meant to love her... Tawny Owens was going to help me escape my past. She was going to change my future. But that's not what happened. I don't know if I can control it much longer. This insatiable need to kill the only good thing in my life. But this isn't her story - it's mine...
  • Bad Wolf by Jo Raven

    Bad Wolf by Jo Raven

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    This is no fairytale… Once I fell in love with a gorgeous boy next door. Years later, he’s back—a total hunk, hot as hell, and bad. So bad. Rude. Arrogant. Hard. And I’m dying for a taste. Jarett was our neighbors’ adopted son. Handsome, strong, quiet, he was my protector, and my friend. Now he’s back, and he’s still gorgeous. Tall, dark and s*xy. All man...
    Categorized as:
    alpha male  bad boys  contemporary  humor  new adult  dark  m-f
  • Slammed by Skyla Madi

    Slammed by Skyla Madi

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Once upon a time, Selena Graham met a boy named Jackson Quinn… This isn’t your typical fairytale, no. This one is twisted and the role of prince charming is filled by one man too set in his ways, haunted by the demons of his past...
  • Heartbreak Me by T.L. Smith

    Heartbreak Me by T.L. Smith

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "You can't hate me when I leave. " He kidnapped me.That was how I met Atlas Hyde.A man known by many names and admired by all.But most didn't know he was ruthless, conniving, and always got what he wanted.No matter the cost.I was a good girl.Never in trouble with the law.Never took drugs.Always did precisely what was expected of me...
  • Untangle Me by Chelle Bliss

    Untangle Me by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Kayden is a bad boy that never played by the rules. Sophia has always been the quintessential good girl, living a life filled with disappointment. Everything changes when their lives become intertwined through a chance encounter online. Hundreds of miles separate them, but the connection that draws them together is too much to be denied...
  • Plaything: Volume One by Jade West, Jason Luke

    Plaything: Volume One by Jade West, Jason Luke

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’ve been sold. That’s what he tells me. Sold as a rich man’s plaything to the highest bidder. I’m to be shipped to the other side of the world, where I’ll disappear without a trace. I’ve nobody coming after me, nobody who’ll even know I’ve gone. But I’m no plaything. I’ve already been rejected for sale once. Not fit for purpose. Too fiery, too uncouth. Two choices remain...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  alpha male  suspense  dark  contemporary  slavery  abuse
  • Alexei: A Mafia Love Story: Dark Erotic Romance by R.E. Saxton, Kit Tunstall

    Alexei: A Mafia Love Story: Dark Erotic Romance by R.E. Saxton, Kit Tunstall

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Available at an introductory price of $0.99 for a limited time. Ordinary Tara Noland leads a boring existence until she sees something she was never meant to observe. Head of the Russian mafia in his city, Alexei Varnakov can’t let her go after she witnesses him murdering an underling. He should follow the code of the vory v zakone and eliminate her, but he can’t...
  • Plaything: Volume 2 by Jason Luke, Jade West

    Plaything: Volume 2 by Jason Luke, Jade West

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The clock is ticking. I'm holed up in Hell, destined for sale as a rich man's plaything. They've beaten me, they've bullied me, but they haven't broken me. Not yet. There's only one man standing between me and a life of misery. The man they've instructed to train me... to make me willing... to make me a good product... Robert. He's trying to teach me the art of submission, and I'm trying to learn...
  • Misunderstood by Kathryn Kelly

    Misunderstood by Kathryn Kelly

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Johnnie 'John-boy' Donovan is the new VP of the Death Dwellers MC. While the club president, his cousin Christopher 'Outlaw' Caldwell, is on his honeymoon, Johnnie is left in charge. With Outlaw's return just a week away, he just wants things to run smoothly and without a hitch. But trouble is brewing for the Death Dwellers and an evil from his past may be back to haunt him...
  • Blood Lust by Erin Trejo

    Blood Lust by Erin Trejo

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    I love being the VP of the Royal Bastards MC. It was my calling. So was the blood lust. I grew up craving it in any form I could get it and I took it with force. But that wasn’t all I wanted.  No, I wanted her.  The old lady of a rival MC. I watched her as I sated my taste for blood but once I had her, I didn’t know if I could finish what I started...
  • To Hold by Alessandra Torre

    To Hold by Alessandra Torre

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    When Nathan Dumont , heir to Dumont Shipping, steps onto the scene with a new wife, the media sits up and takes notice. But nothing can be found on the new Mrs.Dumont. No family history, private school chums, or expensively hidden skeletons in couture closets. It is as if she has materialized out of thin air, and wearing Chanel. Life in a fairytale sucks...
  • Saving Dallas by Kim Jones

    Saving Dallas by Kim Jones

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    When the self-righteous, millionaire bachelorette, Dallas Knox walks into Hattiesburg’s largest night club she is looking for one thing – a one night stand with no strings attached. What she doesn’t expect is to find herself at the mercy of the Devil’s Renegades Motorcycle Club and their President-Luke Carmical. Luke is dangerous, sexy, and dark...
  • Kade & Olivia: Broken by W. Winters

    Kade & Olivia: Broken by W. Winters

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Heartless. Ruthless. Stone Cold Killer.That’s me. I destroy anything in my path to get what I want.Then she showed up. Olivia Bell. She’s sweet and innocent, and in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Now she’s mine. My property. I own her. Given to me as a bargaining chip.She’s not a part of my plans, but plans change. Her pouty lips and gorgeous curves beg me to break her...
  • Shane by R.E. Saxton

    Shane by R.E. Saxton

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As captain of an Irish mafia crew, Shane has everything he wants. Money, women, and power. He can have anything, except the one woman with whom he’s obsessed. Mia Kasilli, daughter of a Russian kingpin, wants nothing to do with that lifestyle. When he can no longer be without her, he orchestrates a series of actions that leave her father in his debt and Mia in his power...
  • PAYBACK  (A Bad Boy Romance) by Alexx Andria

    PAYBACK (A Bad Boy Romance) by Alexx Andria

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    He kidnapped me—so why do I feel alive for the first time in my life? Holly I’ve spent my entire life avoiding trouble, unlike my brother Butcher. But when Cason O’Connor kidnaps me, I’m shocked that I’m now being used as a pawn for my brother’s crimes. I should hate my captor, but I don’t. I hunger for his touch, I crave his intensity, I feel alive for the first time in my life...
  • Dom & Becca: Dirty Dom by Willow Winters

    Dom & Becca: Dirty Dom by Willow Winters

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes a HOT mafia, standalone romance.I’m not always proud of the man I am, but when you grow up in a crime family, there aren’t a lot of options.I do what I have to do, and more than often, I crave it.The power, the women, the money. All of it comes easy to me.Until Becca walked into my office.Everything about her was tempting...
  • Deadly Persuasion by N. Heinz

    Deadly Persuasion by N. Heinz

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All my life I’d been running, and I was the worst kind of runner. The kind that pretended they were stronger than others, the kind that looked down on people just to make their own life more bearable. It wasn’t necessarily that I was a bad person, far from it. I knew I needed to change but couldn’t. Turns out, my pride was a deadly thing..
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