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  • Eulogy by Rachel Van Dyken

    Eulogy by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 34 ratings
    The next book in the internationally bestselling mafia series… All is lost. All. I don't recognize myself in the mirror anymore. My thoughts are filled with hatred and dripping with rage. I've lost my soul. She took it to the depths of Hell with her and haunts me with images of what could have been. Sixty lives are mine to take. Sixty lives stand in the way of my vengeance...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mafia  alpha male  bad boys  m-f  new adult  angst  dark
  • Tongue's Target by K.L. Savage

    Tongue's Target by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I don’t live in the shadows anymore.Daphne has dragged me into her light.At first, it was bright, and I didn’t know how to live in it.I’m… adjusting.Life for the most part is better than I ever dreamed.But not better for her dreams.Especially when dreams tread the line of reality.When she tells me the truth, it sends me into a quiet place...
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    suspense  alpha male  bdsm  mafia  bad boys  m-f  dark  contemporary
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  • Orbiting Mars by K.L. Savage

    Orbiting Mars by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I'm a car accident waiting to happen and it's only a matter of time before I crash into something.Every day that passes, every second I blink, the need to drink grows. Meetings aren’t enough. My willpower isn’t enough.Sunnie… The second I see her, I want to crash into her instead. But she may not be enough to kill the need.And when Sunnie tells me something that I can’t handle?I break. I run away...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  alpha male  bad boys  mafia  m-f  bikers  dark  contemporary
  • Slingshot by K.L. Savage

    Slingshot by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    She slingshotted her way into my heart. I’m a laidback kind of guy. I don’t like to take life too seriously. I’ve experienced serious and I’ve gone through the bad life has to offer. I’m ready for the good in life. I wear my heart on my sleeve just so someone can take it. Someone does…Natalia Moretti. Out of all the people for me to love, why does it have to be her?The frenemy’s daughter...
  • A Ruthless Halloween by K.L. Savage

    A Ruthless Halloween by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    He gets off on your fear.Trick or treat, Come and meet, someone you love that’s buried six-feet.If you don’t, I don’t care, I’ll love to see you in despair.They will die. Save their life!This isn’t a dare, I bid you beware.Follow the clues I’ll give to you,This is merely my debut.Until the clock strikes midnight,They will be gasping for air, what a delight.Love,The groundskeeper...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bad boys  mafia  m-f  dark  contemporary  bikers  death
  • Carson by Jane Henry

    Carson by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Megan: Carson Flynn is dangerous and brooding.Intensely possessive.Angry, fierce...Haunted.He’s a member of the Clan. A criminal.And a single father who’d burn the world for his daughter.But when he turns his eye on me, I know I should run.I should definitely hide.But it’s already too late...Because when Carson sets his mind on something, he gets what he wants.And what he wants... is me...
  • Miles by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Miles by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Who could ever fall in love with a cold-blooded killer like me?The answer is no one. That’s why I’m giving up trying to find a woman who wants me for more than one rowdy night. I’m determined to find a wife instead. If I buy a mail order bride, then she’ll have no choice but to stick around...
  • Easy to Fall by W. Winters

    Easy to Fall by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes the epic conclusion to the heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense, Hard to Love series.With her I was always on the highest high. That's why it was so easy to fall. I never stood a chance without her. The two of us were made for one another. It's as simple as that. The world could try to rip us apart, but it would fail...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  alpha male  mafia  m-f  new adult  contemporary  dark
  • Saving Poughkeepsie by Debra Anastasia

    Saving Poughkeepsie by Debra Anastasia

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Beckett Taylor’s quest to be a better man has brought Eve Hartt back into his life, but sometimes it feels like they’re bound together with barbed wire. Though he longs to love her without causing pain, the wreckage of their past continues to crash down around them. Yet with the help of this brothers—and for his brothers—Beckett won’t stop trying...
    Categorized as:
    alpha male  suspense  bad boys  mafia  m-f  contemporary  dark  angst
  • Destructive King by Rachel Van Dyken

    Destructive King by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A mafia romance about love and loss by Rachel Van Dyken, the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series.…When you awaken in the morning's hushI am the swift uplifting rushOf quiet birds in circled flight.I am the soft stars that shine at night.Do not stand at my grave and cry;I am not there. I did not die. — Mary Elizabeth Fyre "I'm sorry for your loss...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mafia  cruel hero  alpha male  m-f  new adult  college  angst
  • Born in Blood Collection Volume 1 by Cora Reilly

    Born in Blood Collection Volume 1 by Cora Reilly

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The first four books in the bestselling Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles in one big book!Bound By HonorBound By DutyBound By HatredBound By...
  • Winston by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Winston by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Winston Prescott has been a grumpy SOB for the past ten years. None of his brothers in the Savage Kings MC knew why, not until the day one of them made the mistake of posting a sexy centerfold on the wall of the clubhouse.The gorgeous model posing topless on sports cars and motorcycles isn’t just any girl. Her name is Zoe Donahue, and she also happens to be Winston’s stepsister...
  • 30 Days of Shame by Ginger Talbot

    30 Days of Shame by Ginger Talbot

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The monster draws pleasure from my pain. Now, it's time to fight back.SERGEI30 days of pain have pushed Willow to her limits.My pretty prisoner is no longer meek. She's trying to resist.But my precious prize doesn't know what I know.Nobody has ever won a war against me.Nobody has ever bested me.And she's not going to be the first.Good luck, little Willow..
    Categorized as:
    mafia  bdsm  suspense  dark  captive  contemporary
  • Deny by E.C. Land, Elizabeth Knox

    Deny by E.C. Land, Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I'll crucify every last one of them that hurt her.MalcolmI didn't think she was so important in my life until she was taken, and then everything changed. It became clear she was my entire world and my life revolved around her. I did everything I could to pull her from their evil clutches, and by the grace of God I found her in enough time.But I didn't find her soon enough. Sure, she was alive .
  • Reviving Izabel by J.A. Redmerski

    Reviving Izabel by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    Determined to live a dark life in the company of the assassin who freed her from bondage, Sarai sets out on her own to settle a score with an evil sadist. Unskilled and untrained in the art of killing, the events that unfold leave her hanging precariously on the edge of death when nothing goes as planned...
  • King of Pain by Piper Stone

    King of Pain by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    My vows didn't make me his. My body did. Diego Santos may be wealthy, powerful, and sinfully gorgeous, but his slick veneer doesn't fool me. I know his true nature, and I had planned to end this arranged marriage before it even began. But it wasn't Diego waiting for me at the altar...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  suspense  alpha male  bdsm  m-f  spanking  dark  contemporary
  • SCARS by Jaimie Roberts

    SCARS by Jaimie Roberts

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I had the perfect school, the perfect friends—the perfect life ... At least, that’s what I thought. But you changed all that. You are always there ... Always watching ... Always waiting in the shadows. You send me flowers and messages. You stalk me, trace my every movement..
  • On Every Street by Karina Halle

    On Every Street by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Recommended to be read AFTER Sins & Needles (book #1). When young con artist Ellie Watt decides to call herself Eden White and go after the drug lord who ruined her as a child, she never expects to fall for one of his henchmen. But Javier Bernal is no ordinary man...
  • Sax by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Sax by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I never thought I would be stupid enough to make a deal with the devil, but here I am doing just that.It’s not like he really gave me a choice. I have to give the Governor what he wants, or he’s going to throw all of my Savage Kings MC brothers into prison for decades.And what exactly does Governor Satan need from me? That’s the real kicker because he’s insisting that I…date his daughter...
  • Pretty Evil by Stella Andrews

    Pretty Evil by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the cage door opens, freedom is a difficult temptation to ignore.Serena VieriMafia princess, protected her entire life for a very good reason.There is a target on her back.Her family believed she was better off not knowing but with knowledge comes a certain kind of power that she could sure use right now...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  suspense  m-f  dark  contemporary  length-medium
  • A Shade of Evil by Stella Andrews

    A Shade of Evil by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Revenge is a dish best served cold.Shade Vieri has no mercy. No compassion and no empathy.He is cruel, enigmatic, and deliciously dark.His instructions are clear.Find the Achilles heel of the enemy and destroy it.The enemy is a woman who slides across his soul like spun silk.A breath of fresh air in a dark, depressing world...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  suspense  m-f  dark  contemporary  length-medium
  • There is No Light in Darkness by Claire Contreras

    There is No Light in Darkness by Claire Contreras

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    A past hidden in darkness. Her present cloaked in secrets. The future holds the only truth that cannot be escaped. After the mysterious and violent death of her parents, Blake Brennan finds comfort with an unconventional family...
  • 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...
  • Until the End by London Miller

    Until the End by London Miller

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Lauren Thompson After learning the truth behind her father's tragic murder, Lauren vowed never to go near another Volkov again, but sometimes matters of the heart are too strong to resist... Mishca Volkov As a Captain in the Volkov Bratva, Mishca has pledged his loyalty to the Vory v Zakone, but he soon finds himself at odds with the life he's always known..
  • Dark Desire by Bec Botefuhr

    Dark Desire by Bec Botefuhr

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This book contains adult content. 18+ only. This isn't for the faint hearted, it is not your typical love story, but I do promise it has some seriously hot scenes. You have been warned. Enjoy. After the shock of finding out about Jagger's wife, Willow ran. She needed time, needed space to fix her heart. The love of her life has a big choice to make. Her or his wife...
  • Ruthless Prince by Piper Stone

    Ruthless Prince by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Alexandra is a senator's daughter, used to mingling in the company of the rich and powerful, but tonight she will learn that there are men who play by different rules. Men like me. I could romance her. I could seduce her and then carry her gently to my bed. But that can wait...
  • Celt. by London Miller

    Celt. by London Miller

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to the Den ... Six minutes is all he needs to get a job done … Kyrnon “Celt” Murphy is one of the best thieves in the world. After all, his childhood was spent with a caravan of Irish Travelers that taught him everything he knows...
  • Tethered Souls by Beth Flynn

    Tethered Souls by Beth Flynn

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    My family has secrets. I’m always the good girl, doing what’s necessary to keep my loved ones safe. I've kept the darkest secrets from everyone I know. As painful as it is to hold them all inside where they live and gnaw away at me, that’s where they must stay. I haven't seen my closest childhood friend, Christian Bear, since I was a teenager—he hasn't changed a bit...
  • The Carrera Cartel  by Cora Kenborn

    The Carrera Cartel by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Dark Mafia Romance Collection Delve into the dark. The Carreras are waiting... Three full-length dark mafia romance novels from the Carrera Cartel Trilogy and Stained White Lines, an explosive, new bonus novel, ONLY available in the collection.Blurred Red LinesCarrera.A word whispered in fear and respect. A name to avoid at all costs...
  • Eclipse Heart by Mya Grey

    Eclipse Heart by Mya Grey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    💋Hating him should be easy—he killed my brother.He’s my sworn enemy… Instead, I'm fighting the urge to rip his clothes off. Every inch of me remembers that night—how his hard body felt claiming mine.Now, I’m living under Leonid’s control, Trapped in his house as his captive. Playing by his rules. It wasn’t supposed to go like this – Every day, every night, under the same roof...
  • The Final Hour by London Miller

    The Final Hour by London Miller

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Three months pass without incident, leading Mishca and Lauren to believe they can finally move on from the past and build a life together ...but enemies both old and new lurk in the shadows, waiting for the opportunity to strike. When a dangerous threat presents itself, Lauren is forced to turn to the one person that would rather see Mishca dead than live happily ever after ..
  • Merciless Union by Faith Summers

    Merciless Union by Faith Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everything changed overnight.Truth became my enemy, and the sting of betrayal dragged me into a web of lies.I’m damned if I fight to live and damned if I die. Both will be dangerous for the child growing inside me. I can’t trust Lucca to save us.Love is a myth we shouldn’t have explored.He was always my enemy.Love just made me forget and blinded me to the truth...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mafia  m-f  new adult  contemporary  dark
  • Kingdom of Corruption by Bella Di Corte

    Kingdom of Corruption by Bella Di Corte

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Royal Organized Crime RomanceMy husband had been keeping a secret from me—a secret that would irrevocably change the course of our lives.He was the son of one of the most ruthless men alive, and an heir to the infamous Fausti crime family. They were beautiful, powerful, ruthless—royalty in their beloved Italy and beyond...
  • Hold Me by LP Lovell

    Hold Me by LP Lovell

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m a former slave. The sister of death. Collateral. He’s a bad man. A cartel boss— and my everything. I thought I was done being someone’s toy, but I was so very wrong. Safety is nothing more than a premise in my world, and it seems my own sister can’t be trusted. Loyalties will be tested, and even my big bad wolf might not be able to save me this time. A priceless pawn...
  • The Gift by S.R. Jones

    The Gift by S.R. Jones

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Keep your friends close, and your enemies in your bed...ANDRIUSI’m the man they all fear. King of the murky world in which I live.A Bratva hitman with no mercy.Then she comes along, courtesy of a mob boss with no morals. She’s given to me.A gift...mine.To own, to keep. To do with as I please.With blonde hair, and violet eyes, and an innocence begging to be tarnished, she torments me...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  alpha male  mafia  contemporary  dark  cold hero
  • King's Hostage by Piper Stone

    King's Hostage by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 21 ratings
    A King takes what he wants. He wants me. When my life was threatened, Michael King didn't just take matters into his own hands. He took me. When he carried me off it was partly to protect me, but mostly it was because he wanted me. I didn't choose to go with him, but it wasn't up to me...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  mafia  bad boys  alpha male  suspense  m-f  abduction  dark
  • The Price of Honor by Aleatha Romig

    The Price of Honor by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE PRICE OF HONOR: The making of a manFrom New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the haunting story of love and honor. An epic tale of devotion and sacrifice spanning thirty years, bidding the characters, as well as readers to ponder the questions..
  • Respect by Aleatha Romig

    Respect by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Respect - An Infidelity series Novel “The making of a man” An EPIC mafia love story not to be missed. From New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a stand-alone novel, a spin-off from her beloved Infidelity series...
  • A Touch of Dark by Lana Sky

    A Touch of Dark by Lana Sky

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    IS HE HER HERO? Juliana Thorne is falling apart beneath her perfect façade. Haunted by a monster from her childhood, the sheltered socialite is slowly losing her mind—while a mysterious stranger seems to lurk around every corner, relishing in her demise...
  • 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...
  • Forced to Cooperate by Piper Stone

    Forced to Cooperate by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I'm going to make her pay. Then I'm going to make her mine.Willow Church is not the first person who tried to put a bullet in me. She's just the first I let live. Now she will pay the price in the most shameful way imaginable. The stripes from my belt will teach her to obey, but what happens to her sore, red bottom after that will teach the real lesson...
  • His to Own by Ava Gray

    His to Own by Ava Gray

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    He’s supposed to marry her older sister, but he can’t stay away… MICELIThe mafia world is cold and cruel. I live by one rule - cut their throat before they cut yours. It’s what keeps me ruthless and on top of my mafia family.But when I see something I like, I take it. It’s no different with Alessia DeLuca, who’s supposed to marry my rival… while I’m marrying her older sister...
  • King of Beasts, Book 1 by Diana A. Hicks

    King of Beasts, Book 1 by Diana A. Hicks

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From award-winning author Diana A. Hicks comes a dark mafia romance full of angst and heart.Rex Valentino is my enemy.He has the power to wave a hand and make all my family problems go away.In return, he only requires one thing...my complete surrender.Caterina Alfera, an angel lost in a world of beasts.I didn’t ask for her.Destiny brought her to me.And now I can’t let her leave.She’s mine to keep...
  • Under the Stars by Tia Louise

    Under the Stars by Tia Louise

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *Book #2 in the "Bright Lights" CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE Duet by USA Today bestselling author Tia Louise. All around us was darkness and night... I'm not a hero. I'm a survivor. I had one way out, and I took it. Now all I want is peace, A place to pick up the pieces and start over. But she wants justice. Names on a list, faces in the crowd...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  alpha male  m-f  dark  contemporary
  • Ricca  (In Loyalty Lies Trust) by Esther E. Schmidt

    Ricca (In Loyalty Lies Trust) by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chiara was raised into the mafia world the hard way. Enduring the assault at the hands of her father until she was kidnapped and forced to marry a mob boss. One she’s sure is even worse than her father. Ricca never backs away from a challenge. When the woman he kidnapped sneers he would never own her, he’s more than happy to prove her wrong...
  • Acer by A.M. Hargrove

    Acer by A.M. Hargrove

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How could a world so cruel and inhumane exist?Little did I know the one-time-job I’d taken would plunge me into a world filled with mob ties and illegal activities or bring me face to face with the woman of my dreams. Isla Chambers was a blinding vision wrapped in Kevlar and topped in a baseball cap with FBI stitched on it...
  • Evanesce by K.L. Savage

    Evanesce by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Evanesce is ready to relax without her brother breathing down her neck, but the news she has for Tongue might just kick his fourth of July off with a bang. Between keeping a secret for Daphne and trying to avoid the blonde prospect, this trip to Vegas will be more than she bargained for. Knix came to Vegas, only keeping to the Kings clubs as he blows around the US...
  • The Swan & the Jackal by J.A. Redmerski

    The Swan & the Jackal by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    This is not a romance in any sense of the word. If that's what you're looking for, don't read it. Fredrik Gustavsson never considered the possibility of love, or that anyone could ever understand or accept his dark and bloody lifestyle—until he met Seraphina, a woman as vicious and blood-thirsty as Fredrik himself...
  • Desperate to Touch by W. Winters

    Desperate to Touch by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes a heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense. I ran from him, even though my heart knew better. Love was one thing, but survival another. He chose a life of crime. I never wanted any of it; I only wanted him. I left when the danger bled into my life, taking more than I was willing to sacrifice...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mafia  m-f  new adult  contemporary  dark
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