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  • Lovely Wicked Things by Trisha Wolfe

    Lovely Wicked Things by Trisha Wolfe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    The third and final installment of the Hollow's Row series. Halen: I’ve created a monster. When past and present collide, the fallout feels like the death of my morality. Every time I look into Kallum’s clashing, feverish eyes, I see a dark omen—the threat of what we’ll do to each other if our desires run wild. While the Hollow’s Row case comes to a head, a new heinous player enters the scene...
  • Transcend by Jewel E. Ann

    Transcend by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    “In another life, she was my forever.” An unexpected tragedy leaves Professor Nathaniel Hunt a widower alone with a newborn baby. He hires a nanny. She’s young, but well-qualified, with a simple life, a crazy name obsession, and a boyfriend she met at the grocery store...
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  • Like Grim Death: Part One by K.V. Rose

    Like Grim Death: Part One by K.V. Rose

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “There’s someone you haven’t met yet...All at once, we turn to each other.We realize it was never the 6.It was always us against ourselves.The greatest betrayal.The worst sort of pain.A moment of perfect stillness, disloyalty loud in the silence.Then the chaos begins. But tonight, you will...
  • The Life That Mattered by Jewel E. Ann

    The Life That Mattered by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 40 ratings
    Sex isn’t love. Love isn’t sex. And friendship is neither. The son of a French Olympic skier and a Malaysian fashion designer, Ronin Alexander has lived the life of a nomad, traveling the world to find his next adventure. Life takes a dramatic turn when he meets Evelyn, a beautiful scientist who owns a bath shop in Aspen, Colorado...
  • Broken Luna by Paulina Vasquez

    Broken Luna by Paulina Vasquez

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Do you believe in Myths? Just when she thinks it can't get any worse, it does. Lucy lost everything four years ago in a rogue attack. She's been abused, starved, rejected and broken. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, strange things start to happen, things that only happen once every century...
  • Shadow Men by Adira August

    Shadow Men by Adira August

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A 72k word novel, the seventh in the Hunt&Cam4Ever BDSM-MYSTERY series. This is the book the author calls "The hardest book I ever wrote."AN ASTONISHING TWIST IN THE EPIC LOVE STORY~ A HIGH SEAS DEATH ON A BILLIONAIRE'S YACHT"No matter how hard you fight the darknessevery light casts a shadow;The closer you get to the lightthe darker that shadow becomes...
    Categorized as:
    angst  bdsm  m-m  suspense  mystery  dark  contemporary  bisexual
  • Memories of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

    Memories of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The girl I met when we were nine is now the woman who said “yes” to being my wife.But Josie’s not planning our wedding; she’s too consumed by things that happened over a century ago.She has terrible dreams and unrelenting visions of the unspeakable. I believe her, but I don’t understand her.If I can’t understand her, I can’t stop her.If I can’t stop her, I can’t save us...
  • Of Elves and Embers by Elle Madison, Robin D. Mahle

    Of Elves and Embers by Elle Madison, Robin D. Mahle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A princess bound in flames.A king living in shadows.A forgotten vow written in the stars.When I jetted off to Vegas for a reluctant girls’ weekend, the last thing I expected was to tumble through a portal into an alternate reality...
  • Zenith by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Zenith by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A killer haunts Prophet, and this time it’s personalThe discovery of a body at Thompson Cabins sets off a chain of events that hits too close to home for Sheriff Gabriel Thompson. When his brother Sam becomes a prime suspect in the murder investigation, Gabriel is forced to keep secrets from Tiber and call in outside help as he fights to prove Sam’s innocence...
  • Riot Reunion by Callie Hart

    Riot Reunion by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Callie Hart comes a brand catch-up book in the Crooked Sinners Series, featuring interwoven storylines told from multiple POVs.The residents of Riot House have graduated, but the events of the past year are far from forgotten...
  • When Sinners Kneel by R. Scarlett

    When Sinners Kneel by R. Scarlett

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. Lex Harvey came to The Pit to find her missing friend. Someone who fights there must have the answers she’s seeking. Instead, she found him. The damage inside her matches the darkness inside him. She’s only eighteen, but the feelings she has for him are as old as time. Beau Knight should have ruled New York...
  • Delightful Sins by Lola King

    Delightful Sins by Lola King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A dark and sizzling, enemies to lovers, polyamorous standalone romance from bestselling author, Lola King She betrayed them and ran away. Now they want their revenge. In a town where all that matters is loyalty to your gang, I’ve been labeled a traitor. A death sentence. I ran away from the North Shore the day I knew I wasn’t safe there anymore...
  • Greenwode by J. Tullos Hennig

    Greenwode by J. Tullos Hennig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Novel of Robyn Hood The Hooded One. The one to breathe the dark and light and dusk between.... When an old druid foresees this harbinger of chaos, he also glimpses its outcome...
  • Silent Screams by M.H.B.

    Silent Screams by M.H.B.

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *Previously published as Kisser of Death by M . H . B .*One accident.Two men.Almost three years of despair.Four beating hearts growing in pain.Five lives forever changed.Everything fell apart in the blink of an eye.These days my own misery keeps me company.I never thought this would be me—a twenty-four-year-old—stuck in a dead-end relationship.Gone are the thrilling adventures with Harvey Stark...
  • Appetite by Carmen Rosales

    Appetite by Carmen Rosales

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    GiaGia has found Dravin’s truth, and he isn’t the only one she belongs to. Can she accept what she means to his family? When she finds out how dangerous they are and what they are capable of, will she accept how far they will go to keep her?Her best friend is in trouble, but the danger surrounding her and Jess has Gia questioning everything except the love in her heart...
  • First Light by Liz Kerin

    First Light by Liz Kerin

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    First Light, the riveting sequel to Liz Kerin’s Night's Edge, is about seizing a brighter future by confronting the shadows of our past.“I came all this way to watch you burn.”It's been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home...
    Categorized as:
    angst  horror  vampires  fantasy  paranormal  queer  contemporary  f-f
  • Drawn to Death by Kat Shehata

    Drawn to Death by Kat Shehata

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ghosts visit Evelyn in her dreams. The secrets of the dead could get her killed.The city is ripe with crime, and the freshly dead need help solving their murders. Evelyn is a reluctant medium who channels the dead through her art.Leo is a skeptical homicide detective who believes in evidence, facts, and witness testimonies—when the information comes from the living, not the dead...
  • Shift of Morals by K. Webster

    Shift of Morals by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I found him when he was a boy.Bloody. Mangled. Near death.If I’d been a merciful alpha, I would’ve snapped his neck and ended him right then.Except, I didn’t.Something in his big brown eyes tugged at my heart strings.I kept him. Healed him. Raised him to be fierce, loyal, and brave.Now that he’s an adult, everything’s changing.He’s no longer the soft, scared beta I once thought he was...
  • Rule Four and Five by Adrienne Wilder

    Rule Four and Five by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is book two of three. All books are full-length novels and must be read in order. All books are available now. The My Brother's Keeper Trilogy The town of Gilford has a Big and Terrible secret hidden in the ground. Infecting those it touches. Exploiting their darkness. Consuming their souls. It’s hungry. It’s vile. It’s evil. And it wants out...
    Categorized as:
    angst  contemporary  dark  abuse  suspense  paranormal  m-m  fantasy
  • No Redemption by Alexis Winter

    No Redemption by Alexis Winter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    “It’s not the big bad wolf you need to be afraid of kitten; it’s the devil in disguise that you sleep next to.”

She thinks she’s found the perfect husband—the one in a million who isn’t like the rest...my best friend Dane Ashford.
He would never betray her.
He would never lie or cheat on her.
He loves her...
  • The Life You Stole by Jewel E. Ann

    The Life You Stole by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Sex. Lies. Revenge. On the heels of a devastating loss, Evelyn fights to put her life back together. Only … part of her husband belongs to another woman, and the devil owns her soul. “If you tell her the lie, I will tell her the truth...
  • Unleashing Chaos by Crystal J. Johnson, Felicity Vaughn

    Unleashing Chaos by Crystal J. Johnson, Felicity Vaughn

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Desideria is looking for true love…When your father, the king of demons, tells you to find an eternal partner in ninety days, you do it―because the alternative is worse.Jace’s heart is shattered and guarded…All I asked for was a quiet roommate to help with the bills instead I got a sassy demon princess...
  • My Heart Still Beats by Helen Hardt

    My Heart Still Beats by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Helen Hardt comes a deeply emotional tale of being lost, until light—and love—brings you back to shore…Some days I can almost see the person I used to be. See the version of myself that felt joy, even passion. But she's gone...just out of reach...
  • Craving Control: a dark tale of obsession by Bella Faust

    Craving Control: a dark tale of obsession by Bella Faust

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Previously banned as an ebook on Amazon, Apple Books, and Draft2Digital, this 90,000-word dark and steamy psychological suspense novel is the prequel to Bella Faust's Duplicity Trilogy. A brutal, one-sided, “love” story, Craving Control, is the tale of one man's battle against his obsessive tendencies and one woman’s fight to survive him...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  bikers  vengeance  rape  contemporary  m-f  suspense
  • The Final Rule by Adrienne Wilder

    The Final Rule by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is the last book in this trilogy. All books are full-length novels and must be read in order. All books are available now. The My Brother's Keeper Trilogy The town of Gilford has a Big and Terrible secret hidden in the ground. Infecting those it touches. Exploiting their darkness. Consuming their souls. It’s hungry. It’s vile. It’s evil. And it wants out...
  • Those Savage Stars by Cameo Renae

    Those Savage Stars by Cameo Renae

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    As an infant, I was abandoned on the steps of a church. My childhood was spent in an abusive foster home. At nineteen, I killed someone.Not long after, three men in black cloaks kidnap me and whisk me through a magical portal to a world I never knew existed. A world they say is my home. But the enchanting realm of Celestria is in turmoil...
  • Wyjść z mroku by Anne Stuart

    Wyjść z mroku by Anne Stuart

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A silent scream, a bloodstained knife...A century past, the faceless killer had strolled out of the London fog and into history, the most infamous murderer who ever lived. And only reporter J. R. Damien knew he had never died, could never die. It was impossible, and yet it was true--Saucy Jack was back, plying his trade in the back alleys of Venice, California.. .
  • Break the Night by Anne Stuart

    Break the Night by Anne Stuart

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What if Jack the Ripper never died?As the skies turn red over Los Angeles, Jack the Ripper roams once more. Saucy Jack is back, and women are dying. Caught up in the case, artist Lizzie Stride is haunted by dreams of the crimes. And even more disturbing? Her name is identical to a victim from 1888. J.R...
  • Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff

    Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Ridiculously entertaining…. Jaff’s woozy supernatural saga is effectively scary and great fun to read. ”— New York Times Book Review This electrifying debut—Book I of the Night Song Trilogy—spins dark suspense and literary fantasy into a mesmerizing story of seduction and survival. Katherine Emerson was born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries in the making, but she doesn't know it yet...
  • Layla by Colleen Hoover

    Layla by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 106 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love.When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life...
  • Jekyll by Zoe Blake

    Jekyll by Zoe Blake

    Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 28 ratings
    HydeI am the shiver up your spine, a shift in the shadows, a skipped heartbeat. You are my reason for existing, the focus of my entire world. My obsession. No locked doors, no chains, no cage will stop me from stalking you through the night. I will make you crave the darkness.  Soon, my love, nothing will stop the monster in me from claiming you for my own.  JekyllI know it is wrong...
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