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  • Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith

    Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 73 ratings
    They never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave...Welcome to Cottonwood.Excerpt:“You should have heard it, Kate. It was subtle, but it wasn’t my imagination. The guy spent five hours essentially telling us that the aliens are retarded.”“Oh come on.”“Not in so many words, but—hang on...
  • Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    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...
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  • Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 34 ratings
    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...
  • Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

    Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 131 ratings
    Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers—a special group who provide ‘lodging’ to other-planetary visitors—so she knows that a simple life isn't in the cards. But even Maud could never have anticipated what Fate would throw at her. Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her young daughter, Helen, were exiled with him for his treachery to the desolate, savage planet of Karhari...
  • Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

    Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 74 ratings
    Shanghai is under siege in this captivating and searingly romantic sequel to These Violent Delights, which New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan calls “deliciously dark.”The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath...
  • The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 82 ratings
    Two boys, alone in space.After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are installed in the same spaceship.Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch...
  • The Interludes by Santino Hassell, Ais

    The Interludes by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The Interludes is an anthology of stand alone stories that exist between Book #2 (Afterimage) and Book #4 (Fade) of the In The Company of Shadows series. This anthology contains key plot points and major development of characters and relationships that cannot be missed...
  • Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie

    Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 108 ratings
    I promised to avenge my parents.But their killer is still on the loose, and he's stolen more than my parents' lives. Now, as he draws closer to his mysterious goals, he's poised to destroy what little I have left.I promised to translate an ancient grimoire.But it holds the secrets of my family—and the secret history of demon summoning. I fear its answers as much as I need them...
  • Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

    Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 121 ratings
    Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love...
  • Seraph by Lily Mayne

    Seraph by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 189 ratings
    I’ve already mentally prepared myself to kill the screaming, murderous monster in the cage outside our camp.I’m used to it. It’s what I do here. Kill monsters and other people. And this monster, Seraph, is particularly unstable—has been since the moment he arrived from Collector Mary’s monster menagerie to the west, where the military stashed him away.He’s in pain. I can see it...
  • Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 78 ratings
    Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits...
  • Darkness by Laurann Dohner

    Darkness by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 101 ratings
    Kat’s boss wants dirt on the NSO. She is sent to Homeland undercover but everything goes wrong as soon as she enters the front gates. She is arrested by a big, powerful, sexy New Species but she is not frightened. He turns her on and things heat up fast between them. Now, she just hopes he does not break her heart. Darkness admires Kat’s courage but he cannot trust anything she says...
  • Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

    Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 739 ratings
    Sparks are igniting.Flames are spreading.And the Capitol wants revenge. Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be...
  • Fade by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Fade by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Years after the bombs of WWIII have changed the physical and political landscape, the Agency ruthlessly works behind the scenes to take down rebel groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means. Hsin Liu Vega (Sin) is their most efficient and deadly assassin ever...
  • Psycho by Onley James

    Psycho by Onley James

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 125 ratings
    August Mulvaney has always been exceptional. As the genius son of an eccentric billionaire, his off-putting behavior is often blamed on his high IQ. They say there’s a thin line between genius and madness. August is both—a brilliant professor loved by his students and a ruthless, obsessive killer tasked with righting the wrongs of a failing justice system...
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    contemporary  m-m  bdsm  paranormal  insta-love  dark  abuse  mystery
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 162 ratings
    The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants...
  • Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee Smith

    Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee Smith

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 184 ratings
    SHE WOULD DARE ANYTHING TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM HIS RULE. EVEN HIS BED. He ascended from the darkness years ago—Azrael the Eternal, Azrael the Undying, Azrael Who Is Death—bringing with him the black rains, the fires, the souring of the sky, and the Eaters...
  • Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 123 ratings
    This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it...
  • Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

    Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 159 ratings
    Anna Latham didn’t know how complicated life could be until she became a werewolf. And until she was mated to Charles Cornick, the son — and enforcer — of Bran, the leader of the North American werewolves, she didn’t know how dangerous it could be either..
  • Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 101 ratings
    Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash...
  • Afterimage by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Afterimage by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In the Company of Shadows is a series about two people who are thrown together as partners in a secret agency; their mission is to disband rebels who have propagated in a post-war future, but they have to deal with everything that comes with an unlikely partnership as well...
    Categorized as:
    war  mystery  suspense  fantasy  erotica  futuristic  abuse  military
  • First Against the Wall by Manna Francis

    First Against the Wall by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Who is leading the rabble to victory? Toreth shifted against the wall, trying to get comfortable. Between bruises and handcuffs, he didn't have much success. On the first day, in the first cell, the lights had been on, the water dispenser working, and the prisoner feeding schedule still running. Then the lights went out, and things had gone steadily downhill from there...
    Categorized as:
    futuristic  suspense  dark  mystery  dystopian  bdsm  m-m  erotica
  • The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith

    The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 208 ratings
    It was her last chance: Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth’s first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world...
  • Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock must dig deep and find strength within herself if she is to survive in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series.Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker, and vampire killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low...
  • Gloam by Lily Mayne

    Gloam by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 190 ratings
    When a strange woman shows up outside our camp in the Wastes with monsters chained up to her RV, it feels like I’m the only one who actually wants to help them.That big, grey-skinned monster with the cage on his head and the chain hanging from his back—something is telling me I need to help him. I need to free him...
  • Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

    Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 46 ratings
    Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling.An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry...
  • Cornucopia by Alek L. Cristea

    Cornucopia by Alek L. Cristea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    As with each of the Fractured Cities, Cornucopia is a world unto itself. A place where faith makes magic and magic makes faith. A place of excess and obsession, where the only sin is a life of less, of moderation. But here in Cornucopia, moderation isn't just a sin, it's also a place...
  • Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

    Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    Second novel in the brilliant series from the bestselling author of Prince of Thorns.In Mystic Class Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder...
  • Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C. Rochelle

    Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C. Rochelle

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 132 ratings
    XanderBig City is supposedly the place where dreams come true. As someone just trying to live my life, I can tell you, it’s more like a recurring nightmare where dreams get c*ckblocked at every turn.Especially if you’re a supervillain like me.The irony is that I have zero powers, despite coming from purebred villain stock, but try telling that to Big City’s beloved hero, Captain Masculine...
  • Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 113 ratings
    Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul to Artemis for one moment of vengeance on his enemies. In return, they swear to spend eternity protecting mankind from the daimons and vampires that prey on them. Valerius isn't a popular Dark-Hunter - he's a Roman, which means that the largely Greek Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilization for superceding them...
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