Books like 'Girl on the Edge of Nowhere'
Readers who enjoyed Girl on the Edge of Nowhere by R. Lee Smith also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Sigma by Tiya Rayne
Shiloh Green has had the worse luck when it comes to men. For the last seven years she’s been trapped in a relationship with her Kingpin boyfriend. But opportunity to escape comes knocking when a mysterious businessman visits. Now Shiloh is headed to a top-secret military base to be a volunteer breeder for a government experiment... -
Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier
If you had told me that the world would turn to crap a year ago, I would have never believed you. If you had told me I'd be living with my cheating ex and my manipulative twin sister, I would have laughed. Had you informed me I'd be in a relationship with five men, I would have asked what meds you had forgotten to take. Yet here I am at Sanctuary...Categorized as:
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IMMERSED by Gale Ian Tate
Love at first death. Obsession at every resurrection. Levi Mercer wanted to honor his brother's memory with a charity stream. The VR horror game was supposed to last a few hours. Instead, it became an endless nightmare where the monsters are predictable, but the man hunting him is not. Death resets the scenario but not his killer's growing obsession... -
Your Knife, My Heart by K.M. Moronova
From USA Today Bestselling author KM Moronova comes a brand-new compelling and addictive dark romance in her Dark Forces world. Dark. Deadly. Irresistible. Cameron Mortem has a problem—he can’t stop killing his partners... -
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Mike Schmidt and the Long Night by R. Lee Smith
Five Nights at Freddy's Fanfiction. Located on Archiveofourown. org. Second in a five part series. After moving back to her hometown, Ana Stark finally has a job (for now), a home (with dark secrets of its own), friends (albeit animatronic ones) and one last chance at happiness. Until a phone call threatens to destroy what little peace she’s found... -
My Blade, Your Back by K.M. Moronova
Broken. Lost. Unforgiven. One month after surviving the Under Trials, Emery Maves finds herself in a world she doesn't recognize―with a man whose cold eyes are haunted by secrets she can't remember. Stripped of her memories, Emery is tormented by dreams of danger, death, and deceit... -
Hellions by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaliki. Vicious. Nyx. Chaotic. Maliki + Nyx. Vicious. Chaotic. Gods. What once was sweet has turned vile. I covet death. He thrives in darkness. Our sacrilegious desires run rampant. Our maleficent demons demand to be sated. Mercy finds no refuge in our hearts. Insanity takes courtship within our minds. Together, we embark on a path saturated in blood and rotting corpses... -
Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA brutal murder draws nobleman Sebastian St. Cyr into the tangled web of the British royal court in this gripping historical mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie. London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift...Categorized as:
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Children of Mammon by R. Lee Smith
Five Nights at Freddy's Fanfiction. Located on Archiveofourown. org. Third in a five part series. After spending one long night with Mike Schmidt, everything Ana Stark thought she knew about her missing aunt has changed. The life she had only just begun to build has fallen down and she doesn’t know what else to do except build it up again... -
Her Day To Die by Sage RelleAnne
My brother? He’s dead. My first love? Dead. I am alone. Until I’m not. My first love, well he had three brothers, and for some reason they are hellbent on not leaving me alone. No matter where I go or what I do, there they are. Always watching in the shadows, waiting for something to happen, but what? I try my best to steer clear of them, but in doing so I stumble across a mystery...Categorized as:
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Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss
INDIE. I have them all now. Just the way I want them. McKay, the one who loves me deepest. Adam, the one who protects me fiercely. Donovan, the one who tells the truth. They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world. And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is. This is the family I’ve always wanted. This is the family I deserve...Categorized as:
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Gorgeous Misery by J.A. Huss
Wendy Gale isn’t the kind of girl you marry. She’s not even the kind of girl you date. She’s not a friend with benefits, she’s not one-night-stand, and regardless of what she thinks, she has never been a rebound. Wendy Gale is kind of girl you kidnap and lock in your basement so she can’t ever escape. She’s the kind of girl you tie up. You put a collar on her. A leash. Handcuffs... -
Knot All is Whole by Holly Monroe
Athena Valentine always wanted an Omega. Atlas Cassidy just wanted to save them. But what we ask for isn’t always what we receive. When Atlas and Athena wake up caged across from each other in an abandoned warehouse after being captured and locked away, the two Betas make a pact: survive and escape. Together. The experiments take their toll, and their opportunities for escape are slim... -
Alpha by Tiya Rayne
Morgan Downs’ life is unexceptional. She’s stuck in an abusive loveless marriage and often made to feel inferior by her parents because of her speech impediment. Although as bad as her life is, she never expected to be kidnapped from her home and taken to a private military base to become a test rat for a science experiment. But things change when Morgan meets Alpha... -
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Garden of the Gods Vol. 1: Books 1-5 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is Vol. 1 of the Garden of the Gods series, books 1-5. These books are DARK and despite having romantic elements are considered HORROR. With the death of Whitlock, a new home for horror is born…. Garden of the Gods. Book 1:. Main Master. Beauty. Drive. Desperation. Charlotte Wyce spent years captivating the world on the big screen... -
If She Only Knew by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsShe can't remember anything. .. but she knows that she's in danger. A thrilling story of deadly secrets and missing memories, Lisa Jackson's first New York Times bestseller is now beautifully repackaged and republished for a brand-new audience of readers. It begins on a dark stretch of highway in northern California... -
Cup of Lies by K. Webster
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling author K Webster comes a new dark romance…. I’m trapped in a lie. They’ve twisted my mind so that I barely recognize who I am anymore. In this new prison, I’m the devoted wife of a brilliant, deceptive man who holds the key to my carefully constructed reality. But something is missing and my soul aches...Categorized as:
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Creeping Beautiful by J.A. Huss
McKAY. I wasn’t the one who broke her but I played my part. She came to us when she was ten. I raised her. I loved her. I taught her how to survive in a world of evil men. But it wasn’t enough. ADAM. I wasn’t the one who saved her but I did my best. She needed me as much as I needed her. Bought and paid for on the auction block. But not for the reasons you think. She was my weapon. DONOVAN...Categorized as:
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Savage Instinct: A Dark Sci-Fi Romance by Loki Renard
A corporation created a drug to change how the brain works. They’re testing it on me. -
WINTER PLAGUE by Quinn Blackbird
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS WINTER PLAGUE BY QUINN BLACKBIRD. THIS IS A NEW. 'If I find out you had anything to do with that ambush, Winter. .. I'll not only kill you, I'll let you turn. '. I started this plague with packing up my car to drive across the country. All I wanted those bloody, violent months ago was to visit my sister... -
Beast by Penny Dee
“There is nowhere for you to run, little one…”. Beast. I am the president of The Knights of St. Bon Motorcycle Club. A seven-foot mountain of muscle and bone in a pair of motorcycle boots and a leather cut. Cursed with demons and darkness and secrets that run deep. To the people of St. Bon, I am a monster. To my club brothers, I am a fearless leader. To her, I am a nightmare. Belle... -
Alien Hit and Run: A Sci-Fi Romance Novella by Lizzy Bequin
She wanted revenge. He needed a place to hide. One moment is all it takes to change your life forever. For Kris Morgan, that moment comes when her car collides with a mysterious stranger in the middle of the Nevada desert. He ought to be dead, but he doesn’t have a scratch on his perfect, muscle-bound body. As Kris soon discovers, there’s more to this stranger than meets the eye... -
WINTER STORM by Quinn Blackbird
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS WINTER STORM BY QUINN BLACKBIRD. THIS IS A NEW. 'If you tried to run, you know what would happen, Winter. I would hunt you down and burn the world to find you. .. '. The world has gone to shit. All that's left are a few bands of rogue survivors, more dangers than ever, those violence-loving rotters, and me and my dog, Cleo. Well, it should just be Cleo and me...Categorized as:
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Knot All is Perfect by Holly Monroe
Nora Summers is the Perfect Omega. No, really. That’s what they call her. The pride and joy of the Design Clinic, every bit of Nora’s genome was specifically chosen to make her the ideal Omega. Luckily for her, she was guided into reaching her full potential. The core tenets of the Perfect Omega are very simple. The Perfect Omega must be the picture of beauty and health...Categorized as:
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Warden by Cari Silverwood
I am Isolde, female, and I’m a grocery store assistant who can shelve like a badass. Until the day I’m scooped up by a lionlike alien called a mauleon, and he has CLAWS and FANGS. I should have fainted at those. Now I’m trapped on a humongous, fossilized starship. I find myself craving the touch of that mauleon, Gideon. I never asked to be an experiment, but we are mutating...Categorized as:
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Find Her by Jessie Ellis
An unlikely savior searching for an angel in the midst of Hell. .. As a convict serving a life sentence, I shouldn't be playing the hero to the prison warden's damsel-in-distress daughter. But with ninety-nine percent of the population projected to die from a rapidly-spreading virus and society falling into chaos, the desperate, dying father’s options are limited...Categorized as:
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My Wild Pet by Olympia Black
I saw the bright lights of the UFO and then it took me. I was kept in a cage, then I sold. My story is like many other humans adrift in the galaxy. If only people on Earth knew…. But it’s too terrible, no one would believe us. -
Read the Fine Print by Adara Wolf
Moving across the galaxy with his now ex-girlfriend was a mistake. Dave doesn't speak the language, can't get a job, and hates everything about the place. So when the opportunity presents itself for a ticket home, he jumps on it. All he has to do is work as some rich dude's assistant. Easy, right? Some things in the job description might have gotten lost in translation though... -
Commodity by Shay Savage
A woman hunted by human traffickers. A hot and dangerous bodyguard. Utter destruction. The end of civilization. The beginning of a new form of currency. Women are now the highest COMMODITY.Categorized as:
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Venomous by Penelope Fletcher
"She is mine to protect, mine to shelter, mine to feed and mine to cover. When she is weak, I shall be her strength. She was stolen from her world by our captors. Now her survival is my responsibility. It is her duty to endure my lust, respect my nest mates and honour our union with offspring. I revere this giver of life, as is the way. " ~ Venomous One, formerly of Rök, enslaved gladiator... -
Hold by Claire Kent
Find the strongest man there. Give yourself to him in return for protection. It’s the only way you’ll ever survive. Convicted of a minor crime, Riana is sentenced to a prison planet—a dark primitive hold filled with convicts vying for power. Her only chance of survival is with Cain, a mysterious loner who has won his territory in the prison through intelligence and brute strength...Categorized as:
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Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon
You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women—including me—on an ice planet. And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me. ..Categorized as:
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The Scorpion's Mate by Susan Trombley
The Scorpion’s Mate. Claire has never really fit in with everyone around her, but she's carved out a life for herself using her own unique style and artistic ability to support herself on the Internet. The last thing she expects is to be abducted by aliens and dropped into a research facility, where a genetically-engineered alien soldier chooses her as his life-mate... -
Brutal Mate by Lee Savino, Tabitha Black
One minute I’m walking back home from a nightclub. The next, I’m waking up in a cage. Abducted by aliens. Given to an alien race. Put up for auction. But instead of being sold to the highest bidder, I'm rescued by one of the Brutal Ones: the biggest, baddest bullies in the universe. But it's not a rescue. Not really. My rescuer makes it clear he wants something in return for saving my life. .Categorized as:
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