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  • Irresistible Attraction by W. Winters

    Irresistible Attraction by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes the complete heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense trilogy, Irresistible Attraction. Sometimes you meet someone, maybe meet isn’t the right word. You don’t even have say hello for this to happen. You simply pass by them and everything in your world changes forever...
  • Meet Fifty Shades Continued - Fifty Shades of Grey by G.E. Griffin

    Meet Fifty Shades Continued - Fifty Shades of Grey by G.E. Griffin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Converted to ebook format, Cover Updated. Fifty Shades of Grey from Christian's POV. Get inside Christian Grey's mind, as you read the complete Fifty Shades trilogy retold from his point of view, carrying on where E L James left off at the end of 'Fifty Shades.
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  • Tempt Me by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Tempt Me by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Love is a weakness for a man like me…. Two years ago my enemies murdered my wife. They took away the mother of my newborn son. That’s how I became the beast…. A merciless, heartless, soulless creature. That’s why I made the deal with Ava:. Take her to repay her father’s debt…. I couldn’t resist. Not when I saw she feared me as much as she wanted me. I wanted the beauty, a woman nearly half my age...
  • Tease Me: A Contemporary Romance Collection by Lizzi Stone, Elise Knight

    Tease Me: A Contemporary Romance Collection by Lizzi Stone, Elise Knight

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't let love, or lust, pass you by…. Sink into this incredible collection of never-before-released full-length novels! Available for a limited time only! Let us arouse your imagination with dozens of books compiled to satisfy your craving for romance. They'll tease… excite… and tempt you to sin. Get ready to swoon over these seductive stories of craving and demand. Yield and advance. Heat...
  • Hostile Fates by India R. Adams

    Hostile Fates by India R. Adams

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today best selling author India R. Adams comes an explosive romance of fated lovers starting a war that will bring them to their knees. A slow burn kind of beginning? No. Not in the slightest. I’m fighting to live. She’s planning to die. It’s a soul to soul—fire to fire— start to our story that creates a perfect storm...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  alpha male  mafia  suspense  fantasy  abuse  bikers  dark
  • Tease Me by Julia Ash, Linzi Basset

    Tease Me by Julia Ash, Linzi Basset

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't let love, or lust, pass you by…. Sink into this incredible collection of never-before-released full-length novels! Available for a limited time only! Let us arouse your imagination with dozens of books compiled to satisfy your craving for romance. They'll tease… excite… and tempt you to sin. Get ready to swoon over these seductive stories of craving and demand. Yield and advance. Heat...
  • Cursed King by Julie Saman

    Cursed King by Julie Saman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    A deliciously steamy, suspenseful, and darker contemporary royalty Beauty and the Beast retelling about a grumpy single dad and the woman who brings him to his knees. Welcome to the cursed kingdom of Messalina…. When my sick father wanders into the off-limits palace where the widowed king of Messalina lives with his three children, I know we're in trouble...
  • Delicate Revenge by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Delicate Revenge by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Bellamy Carmichael was Darlington’s princess all through high school. Perfect, popular, too gorgeous for words—and unfortunately, she knew it. I’d had a crush on her ever since arriving at Darlington Prep, only she never looked my way except for an occasional cruel put down. I was a scrawny kid, nerdy, and worst of all, my family was new money. But now, a decade later, the tables have turned...
  • Pearl Boy by Inking

    Pearl Boy by Inking

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dooshik is in a bind. After making off with the takings from the gay bar where he worked, he seeks refuge in a small, coastal town. As his funds dwindle, he desperately needs a way to make ends meet. Still, a boy’s gotta eat! So he dives into a clam house to satisfy his cravings. But with no money to pay, he dashes off leaving Jooha, the server, to foot the bill...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  bdsm  queer  dark  angst  fantasy  contemporary  m-m
  • Vicious Secret: A Dark Romance by Morgan Bridges

    Vicious Secret: A Dark Romance by Morgan Bridges

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    A woman fights her dangerous attraction to the sexy assassin stalking her across campus, but he’s the only man who can save her from the secret society he serves. The moment she pulls a knife on him, Delilah becomes Xavier Donovan’s obsession...
  • Vicious Secret: A Dark Romance by Morgan Bridges

    Vicious Secret: A Dark Romance by Morgan Bridges

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Mors solum initium. Death is only the beginning. The. The Obsidian Order only cares about three secrecy, loyalty, and power. Every man born to the founding families is bred for this purpose, to serve the society and its objectives. As a result, we are the elite. Untouchable. Unbreakable. If we make it through the Trials. I will, as long as my obsession doesn’t get the best of me. This girl…...
  • Dark Obsessions Anthology: Volume 1 by C.M. Steele

    Dark Obsessions Anthology: Volume 1 by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    They’re watching. Waiting. Bound by their desires to own—the uncontrollable hunger that breaks rationality and brings forth their baser needs. To hunt. To take. Morals and humanity have no place in this game, one they’ll win at all costs. A hunter never apologizes. A man claims his woman without guilt or care for the consequences. And in this dark obsession, these demons will own your soul...
  • The Beginning Of Us by Lylah James

    The Beginning Of Us by Lylah James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s something special about first love. It feels right; it looks right. It’s perfect in every way, until it isn’t. Grayson Hale — the hot nerd, my first love. He was an enigma. Both mysteriously complicated and beautifully broken. The vacant look in his eyes reminded me of my own, almost as if our misery called to one another. Colton Bennett — the sarcastic playboy, my second chance...
  • Once a Myth by Pepper Winters

    Once a Myth by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    He bought her. He trapped her. She belongs to him. Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes her travel-loving boyfriend can save her when her freedom is snatched and sold. Squirrelled away to an island at dawn, delivered to a man even darkness won’t touch, she’s bound by a contract. Sullivan Sinclair is the giver of fantasies...
  • 약탈혼 3 [Yagtalhon 3] by Saha, 사하

    약탈혼 3 [Yagtalhon 3] by Saha, 사하

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    결혼식을 앞두고 유서를 작성했다. 첫날밤을 치른 후 죽어버릴 것이기 때문이었다. 평생 나라를 위해, 그리고 왕실을 위해 헌신한 왕녀의 비참한 최후였다. 목숨을 내버리기 전에, 레아는 왕실을 향한 마지막 복수를 계획했다. 순결하지 못한 새신부가 되는 것이었다. “왜 첫 경험을 내다버렸지? 도망치고 싶진 않나? ”. “나는…… 죽고 싶어. ”. 하룻밤 상대이기에 충동적으로 털어놓은 말이었다. 그렇게 끝날 인연이라고 생각했다. 전혀 생각지도 못한 곳에서 다시 만나기 전까지는. 그는 질서정연하던 일상을 침식해나갔다. 위험한 관계임을 알면서도, 레아는 그를 거부할 수 없었다. 도대체 저 남자는 무슨 생각을 하고 있는 것일까. “기억 안 나? ”. 남자는 사납게 웃으며 말했다. “내가 네 인생 망쳐주겠다고 했잖아...
  • Iblis’ Affliction by Nero Seal

    Iblis’ Affliction by Nero Seal

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Iblīs (Arabic إبليس)—the primary devil in Islam. “If you sleep with the Devil, don’t expect to get out of hell. ”. DEMANDING. NEEDY. DANGEROUS. Slater is everything Talha doesn’t want but everything the crime lord needs. The bloodiest ripper of Anatolia, nicknamed Iblīs, kills for him and warms his bed...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  mafia  cheating  forced proximity  dark  m-m  abuse  contemporary
  • Reign of Freedom by C. Hallman, J.L. Beck

    Reign of Freedom by C. Hallman, J.L. Beck

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    Who do you trust when you can’t even trust yourself? Everything I knew was a lie. Everyone I loved betrayed me. Everywhere I go someone wants me dead. I’m no stranger to being alone. Even in my darkest hour, I knew I could count only on myself. Now, I have nothing and for the first time in my life I have to let someone else save me...
  • Ruins of Temptation  by C. Hallman, J.L. Beck

    Ruins of Temptation by C. Hallman, J.L. Beck

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    I’ve spent years trying to be someone I’m not. Controlled and humanized. Still, the darkness lurks inside me, waiting for a chance to break free. As the headmaster at Corium University, I must maintain professionalism and keep myself in check. I manage to do that until the day I discover I have a daughter and all the carefully constructed walls I’ve built around myself start to crumble...
  • Devious Deals by Sarah Bale

    Devious Deals by Sarah Bale

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    He’s Devious. Kieran Van der Zee. The one man I shouldn’t trust. He runs the city, dealing in sex, secrets, and pain. Whatever it takes to get what he wants. He’s my only hope. So I make a deal with the devil. It seems simple. Just say yes and sign away my life. But my heart is on the line and I’m not sure I can win this game. She’s Desperate. Ari Triton can get me what I want...
  • Therefore by Katherine Isaac

    Therefore by Katherine Isaac

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It was supposed to be a simple job. Get in. Grab the goods. Get out. Easy, right? Not if you're caught by an alpha. Trystan is all sharp smiles and sharper instincts—an omega thief who’s never once been caught. Until now. Emerson is everything Trystan hates in an alpha: big, bossy, and built like a problem. Unfortunately, he’s also the one standing between Trystan and freedom...
  • Savage Soul by Ella Jade

    Savage Soul by Ella Jade

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I failed the woman I swore to protect, and now my enemies are after her. Jude I live by a code. I don’t tolerate lies, betrayals, or secrets. I seldom give second chances. When Emmie withheld the truth from me, I acted on instinct before I gave her a chance to explain. My actions put her in danger, and now it’s my responsibility to save her...
  • The White Rabbit by Alta Hensley

    The White Rabbit by Alta Hensley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lyriope doesn’t have a family. At least, not a family that recognizes her. She’s a secret bastard child of the infamous Bryant Morelli. And she wants a single experience of that glamorous lie. One evening when she can pretend to belong. A single gala where she can sneak inside. There are wealthy men. Powerful men. Dangerous men. No one is more dangerous than Nick Hudson...
  • Mafia Vows by L. Steele

    Mafia Vows by L. Steele

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    "I think you will find it worth your time to listen to my proposition. ". "What is it? " I scowl. "Marry me. Of course, it’s only an arrangement …". Sebastian 'grumphole' Sovrano is ruthless, arrogant, and fixated on me. The first time we meet at a bar I dump my drink all over him. He retaliates by following me into the ladies' . .
  • The Thief and the Painter by Candice Clark

    The Thief and the Painter by Candice Clark

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AmeliaPaint smudges and secret grudges. Despite the occasional ball gown and glass of champagne, my life is anything but glitz and glamor. I’m the daughter of The Southern Black Widow and a girl so full of darkness that it bleeds from my very fingers onto high-priced canvas. But what is darkness but the absence of light? Insert Merrick Stratford—my light. His cold demeanor doesn’t fool me...
  • The Swan Princess by Natasha Knight

    The Swan Princess by Natasha Knight

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 ratings
    At a glamorous masquerade ball in an opulent mansion the elite gather to celebrate the introduction of one of their own to society. But the guests of this party aren’t all knights in shining armor. And tonight, Lucia DeMarco and Salvatore Benedetti will meet in a chance encounter one year before the contract that makes her his is to be fulfilled...
  • Savage Secrets (Bale’s Villainous Tales) by Sarah Bale

    Savage Secrets (Bale’s Villainous Tales) by Sarah Bale

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    He’s Angry—because I ran from him. I fled the city, hellbent on starting over without Malik Jafar in my life. I should have known it wouldn’t be easy. I should have known he would give chase. But there’s something that he doesn’t know. Something he’ll never forgive me for. When he shows up, I know the game is over. I’m about to be thrown into the lion’s den. And face the wrath of my best friend...
  • We're All Mad Here by Richard Rider

    We're All Mad Here by Richard Rider

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A golden afternoon, a nightmare, and how sometimes you can only make sense of a thing through the looking-glass. (A Stockholm Syndrome short story. ).
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  age difference  m-m  contemporary  dark  fantasy  queer
  • Beauty and the Villain by V.F. Mason

    Beauty and the Villain by V.F. Mason

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Once upon a time I had it all. I thrived in all the power and luxury this world had to offer. Until I found out the hideous truth. When a man I considered a friend betrayed me in the worst possible way. The scars on my body burned anew every single day as I only craved one thing. Revenge. And to execute it I had to strike him where it would hurt the most. His family...
  • Puppeteer by S.B. Hazel

    Puppeteer by S.B. Hazel

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    Fear and desire have always intertwined together in my brain. When I’m afraid, my body reacts, makes me crave touch, makes me ache. So the idea of going to a sex club's Halloween horror house is making me nervous. .. Curious. In the maze, a masked man stalks me through the shadows. It’s terrifying, and feels alarmingly authentic...
  • Savage Impulses by Michelle Hercules

    Savage Impulses by Michelle Hercules

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Everyone knows to stay away from the heirs of Olympus Bay. They rule the city through savagery and blood like the heartless assholes they are. A streak of bad luck puts me on the path of the most ruthless of them all. Hades. The black sheep of the family, his reputation for debauchery and violence precedes him. No wonder he’s the king of Olympus U...
  • Poisoned Throne by Nikita.

    Poisoned Throne by Nikita.

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Like many little girls, I too used to dream of fairytales. Until that illusion was shattered, and I saw firsthand just how cruel life could be. Now I just wished my nightmare would end. The life I knew ceased to exist as I suffered at the hands of my stepmother, who hated me...
  • Brutal Prince: Bonus Scene by Sophie Lark

    Brutal Prince: Bonus Scene by Sophie Lark

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Aida and Callum go to a Halloween event.
  • Hades & Persephone by Amelia Wilde

    Hades & Persephone by Amelia Wilde

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    He wants her submission. She demands his secrets. Hades has acres of diamonds and precious little patience for a world that has stolen his compassion. So, when lifegiving medication is withheld from him, Hades steals something more valuable—the daughter of his enemy—and holds her for ransom. The night Persephone left home, she had just one thing on her freedom...
  • Beauty's Daddy by Jane Henry

    Beauty's Daddy by Jane Henry

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    They call me “The Beast” for a reason. Locked away in my cold, dark mansion overlooking the treacherous cliffs that haunt me, I want for nothing. .. except her. The moment she set foot in my lair, her fate was sealed. I will claim her, make her mine…. I’ll be her daddy. Annabelle:. He can buy anything he wants. He wants me. He’s a wealthy, domineering recluse; I’m dirt poor...
  • Love After Never: A Steamy, Enemies to Lovers Dark Romance: Empire Bay Book 1 by Melanie Kingsley

    Love After Never: A Steamy, Enemies to Lovers Dark Romance: Empire Bay Book 1 by Melanie Kingsley

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Even the blackest souls need love… Seedy underbellies and dark depravities don’t scare me. I’ve seen the worst and survived. I’ve never seen a man like him before. Gabriel Blackwell, the raven-haired demon of the underworld. He’s the sickest bastard of them all. He might also be a murder suspect. If I’m going to do this job and see him behind bars, then I need to use my wits...
  • Hearts by Kyra Irene

    Hearts by Kyra Irene

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blamed for the deaths of her ex-fiancés, Rosalie Clarke has a reputation as the Outfit’s very own. black widow. But in a world where powerful men gamble with lives, Rosalie can’t tell if she’s. cursed or if her exes’ blood is on someone else’s hands. Max has always been there, a brooding, protective constant in Rosalie’s life. He’s her father’s...
  • Entangled by Vera Kane

    Entangled by Vera Kane

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’ve lived the last several years of my life under the control of my step-mother. Every decision taken away from me, completely suffocating me. At eighteen, she sold me off to the highest bidder and traded one gilded cage for another. I’ve never been anything but a dollar sign to her. Until two years later Kade Luchetti kidnapped me from my tower, making me yet another dictator’s rag doll...
  • Love After Never by Melanie Kingsley

    Love After Never by Melanie Kingsley

    Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even the blackest souls need love… Seedy underbellies and dark depravities don’t scare me. I’ve seen the worst and survived. I’ve never seen a man like him before. Gabriel Blackwell, the raven-haired demon of the underworld. He’s the sickest bastard of them all. He might also be a murder suspect. If I’m going to do this job and see him behind bars, then I need to use my wits...
  • The Black Fox by Brianna Hale

    The Black Fox by Brianna Hale

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    For fifteen years I was the Black Fox, the hero of Spain, the good-luck devil. I made my enemies dance to my tune and fall to my sword. The day must come when every hero hangs up his cape, and for me, it was the day I outsmarted the curse. I would not die for love, because I didn’t love the woman I married. Valeria Hernandez didn’t love me. Then I met her. Lolita...
  • All He'll Ever Be by W. Winters

    All He'll Ever Be by W. Winters

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 64 ratings
    A USA Today bestselling, gripping and heart-wrenching romantic suspense. I get why Beauty fell in love with the Beast, but it doesn’t change who Carter is. There’s no magical rose or kiss that will turn him into a prince. All Carter Cross will ever be is a beast. A cold-hearted and ruthless, mafia king, trapped in a castle of his own making. I’m the daughter of his enemy and his new possession...
  • Taking What's Mine by Alexa Riley

    Taking What's Mine by Alexa Riley

    Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition: B0103J7IMK. Alone at night in the middle of nowhere. The town sheriff pulls me over. I should be safe. I'm not. Being forced shouldn't turn me on. Being pushed to the ground and taken by him isn't supposed to get me hot. Nothing could have prepared me for what he had planned. And my darkest desires should have remained a secret. But it seems he knows everything about me...
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