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  • Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat

    Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 305 ratings
    Damen’s identity has been revealed, and now he must face his master, Prince Laurent, as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill. The struggle that ensues takes them deep into Akielos, where they face their most dangerous opposition yet. On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of two kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the south, Kastor’s forces are massing...
  • Anarchy by Tate James

    Anarchy by Tate James

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 160 ratings
    Five years ago, I made a choice that I haven’t regretted a day since. I protected the single most important person in my world, my little sister. I protected myself, and I seized control of the Tri-state Timberwolves. Since then, I’ve wielded that power with an iron fist. Done whatever it took to take care of my people. Kept us out of the public eye, and kept us safe...
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  • Club 22 by Tate James

    Club 22 by Tate James

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 153 ratings
    Club 22 is the THIRD in a new Shadow Grove series. Several characters cross over to the Madison Kate series but it is not necessary to read MK's story first. HADES is a contemporary new adult reverse harem series, which means the leading lady has several love interests and never has to choose in order to find her HEA. ◆◆◆They say to keep your enemies close and mine are all around me...
  • Lights Out by Navessa Allen

    Lights Out by Navessa Allen

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 601 ratings
    “I don’t need another kink.”That thought pops into my head whenever I pull up my favorite social media app, but alas, every time I scroll, I learn something new about myself, and another one is born. And yes, I know I’m responsible for what the algorithm shows me, but I’m trying to ignore that fact.Lately, my feed has been dominated by masked men...
  • Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

    Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 621 ratings
    The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't...
    Categorized as:
    war  fantasy  royalty  strong heroine  magic  demons  fae  mystery
  • Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat

    Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 358 ratings
    With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master Prince Laurent must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot. Forced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  alpha male  abuse  royalty  dark  bdsm  war  slavery
  • Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 1 by 墨香铜臭, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 1 by 墨香铜臭, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 93 ratings
    Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood. But those who rise may also fall, and fall he does--cast from the heavens and banished to the world below...
  • 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...
  • Heartsong by T.J. Klune

    Heartsong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 111 ratings
    Heartsong is the third book in the Green Creek Series, the beloved fantasy romance sensation by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, about love, loyalty, betrayal, and family.“ Complex and startling... Green Creek is the perfect setting.” ―Charlaine HarrisThe Bennett family has a They're not just a family, they're a pack. Heartsong is Robbie Fontaine's story...
  • A Light in the Flame by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    A Light in the Flame by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 334 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book two in her Flesh and Fire series…The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill.The truth about Sera’s plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos. Surrounded by those distrustful of her, all Sera has is her duty...
  • Manacled by SenLinYu

    Manacled by SenLinYu

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 349 ratings
    Harry Potter is dead. In the aftermath of the war, in order to strengthen the might of the magical world, Voldemort enacts a repopulation effort. Hermione Granger has an Order secret, lost but hidden in her mind, so she is sent as an enslaved surrogate to the High Reeve, to be bred and monitored until her mind can be cracked...
  • Broken Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Broken Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 186 ratings
    Me and my kings have come as close to breaking as I ever could have feared.Just as we were finding a way to get past our difficulties, the stars have torn us apart...
  • Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 3 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 3 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 62 ratings
    SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR, SOMEONE TO LIVE FORGods should never meddle in the affairs of mortals, but Xie Lian is not one to follow the rules when lives are at risk. He spits in the face of heaven and its laws and descends in a fury to save his country from drought and civil war...
  • Ravensong by T.J. Klune

    Ravensong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 137 ratings
    Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves. It should have been enough. And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett...
  • Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs

    Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 79 ratings
    Mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham must discover what could make an entire community disappear — before it's too late — in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Alpha and Omega series.In the wilds of the Northern California mountains, all the inhabitants of a small town have gone missing. It's as if the people picked up and left everything they owned behind...
  • Ashes by Suzanne Wright

    Ashes by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 171 ratings
    Knox and Harper's story continues as the Las Vegas lair - and its two infamous Co-Primes - face their most terrifying enemy yet . . . Together, Harper and Knox have overcome just about every evil thing you can think of - from Horsemen of the Apocalypse to dark magic practitioners to Lucifer's insistent belief that he's hilarious...
  • God of Fury by Rina Kent

    God of Fury by Rina Kent

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 329 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new STANDALONE MM college romance. I’m not attracted to men. Or so I thought before I slammed into Nikolai Sokolov. A mafia heir, a notorious bastard, and a violent monster. An ill-fated meeting puts me in his path. And just like that, he has his sights set on me. A quiet artist, a golden boy, and his enemy’s twin brother...
  • Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

    Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 145 ratings
    No day is ordinary in a world where Technology and Magic compete for supremacy…But no matter which force is winning, in the apocalypse, a sword will always work. Hugh d’Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him aside...
  • Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat

    Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 53 ratings
    In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Dark Rise, Will and his allies have survived the Dark’s first assault, but at a terrible cost.A new threat from the past is rising, and only a handful of heroes remain to fight...
  • Embers by Suzanne Wright

    Embers by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 116 ratings
    Harper and Knox are back and better than ever! The fourth book in Suzanne Wright's globally bestselling The Dark in You series is not to be missed. The final horseman awaits . . . and the stakes have never been higher. With the birth of their son, Asher, Harper and Knox are both more powerful and more vulnerable than they've ever been before...
  • Warrior Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Warrior Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 169 ratings
    I once thought one of my ruthless boys could be the killer I’m hunting. They’re all dark, deadly and more than capable of brutality.But now I’m held by the King I’ve been stalking in the shadows and when I unmask him, he’ll realise he made a huge mistake in taking my brother from this world.My Kings are coming for me, I know that in my soul...
  • Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent

    Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 133 ratings
    Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do for love? In the wake of a crushing defeat, Tisaanah and Maxatarius have been ripped apart. Tisaanah is desperate to rescue Max from his imprisonment, even as her people’s fight for freedom grows more treacherous...
  • The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    After the dramatic events of The Creeping Shadow, the Lockwood team (plus Quill Kipps) deserve some well-earned rest.So naturally they break into the Fittes Mausoleum, on a perilous mission to discover the truth about London's top ghost-hunting agency, and its sinister leader.What they discover will change everything.But there's little time to ponder...
  • 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...
  • Gypsy Rising by Kristy Cunning

    Gypsy Rising by Kristy Cunning

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 133 ratings
    Sing, gypsies, sing of your lies... That old song plays in my head, as the world turns around me faster than it has ever turned. Monsters and mayhem. That's become my life. Fear and apprehension. That's become the normal for those around me. Dread and distraction. That's what has interrupted my own personal romance story with my mon-star quad. Vengeance and retribution...
  • The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

    The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 101 ratings
    Not many people get a second chance, let alone a second life.I died. Burning in a prison cell I spent years of my life rotting away in.I had been beaten, battered and bruised beyond repair...but not broken.Never broken.By whatever miracle, I’ve been brought back ten years into my past and before I was locked away...But to a different kind of hell…Wensridge Academy...
  • Broken by Jex Lane

    Broken by Jex Lane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 64 ratings
    Vampire. Incubus. Demigod. Weapon. Matthew has many names, but none as distressing as pet. A slave to incubus High King Malarath, Matthew is tired. Tired of fighting. Tired of losing those he loves. Tired of the torture. And, in his despair, his body begins to decay around him...
  • Relever by Jane Washington

    Relever by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 102 ratings
    All that glimmers is not gold, but nothing glows quite like the gilded cage of Ironside Academy. The Ironside Show is back. Bigger than ever, and shinier, too. To the audience, it’s a glorious spectacle, but to Isobel Carter and the Alphas of Dorm A, it’s a trap. A maze...
  • The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 50 ratings
    The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck...
    Categorized as:
    fantasy  urban fantasy  magic  m-m  paranormal  mystery  dark  abuse
  • The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 547 ratings
    He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal...
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