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Seduction by Cassie Hargrove, Story Brooks
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsᴀ ʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴛʜᴀɴ ɪɴɴᴏᴄᴇɴᴛ ᴏʙꜱᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ ʜᴀꜱ ᴛᴜʀɴᴇᴅ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴀ ᴅᴇᴀᴅʟʏ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴇᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ…The Deadly Seven were something I never could have prepared for. They came into my life like a silent stalker, claiming my heart and body, and I gave into them willingly. I love those seven broken souls, but even love has it’s limits... -
Broken Heir by Helen Scott, Zoey Shelby
I thought the truth would be black and white. I couldn’t have been more wrong.The Boys of Ascendance Bay have wormed their way under my skin, or rather some of them have. The others I’m still not so sure about.With each task for the Regents getting deadlier and the Pi Ep parties growing more depraved, the guys have become my safe haven...Categorized as:
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Make Me Lie by C.R. Jane, May Dawson
The world knows me as the Demon’s Daughter.He’s a famous serial killer. And I may have been his accomplice.But no one knows for sure except for me.The dangerous, cruel men of the Sphinx secret society intend to uncover my secrets…and break me.Stellan, my childhood crush who lost his sister to the Demon... -
Sin Like The Devil by J. Rose
“Look into the camera, Ripley.Tell us what happened in Harrowdean Manor.”Serving a three-year sentence after a violent manic episode, I own this psychiatric institute and every last patient in it. Dealing contraband to the desperate and disturbed has earned me this kingdom. To survive, I simply sacrificed my soul. They all fear me.Worship me.Hate me... -
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Dirty Crazy Bad: The Complete Collection by Siobhan Davis
A dark, secret society, reverse harem romance from USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Siobhan Davis. This set includes the prequel, Dirty Crazy Bad book 1, Dirty Crazy Bad book 2, and exclusive brand-new bonus content told from multiple character POVs...Categorized as:
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The End by Ruby Vincent
It doesn’t feel like the end.It feels like all of my problems are just beginning.There’s more happening in my town of Raven River than I knew.More lies. More secrets. More pain.Enemies seen and unseen are circling and not even my guardian angels can protect me.There’s a war coming and I’ll fight because this time my Angels…My Horsemen…My loves……are the ones who need saving... -
WITSEC by Ashley N. Rostek
One year ago… My family is gone. My parents. My twin sister. All of them murdered by the man who has stalked me for years. He nearly killed me, too. But I got away and he’s still out there, searching for me. He won’t find me. At least, I hope not. Thanks to WITSEC, I’ve been given a new life with a new identity... -
Damaged by Sheridan Anne
Play with fire; you’ll get burned.Play with me; I’ll get even.Dynasty came roaring into my life, bringing four of the most incredibly delicious men I’ve ever laid my eyes on, but along with it came a life that I was never expecting.This world is filled with corruption. There are secrets and lies around every corner...Categorized as:
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You Will Bow by Rachel Leigh
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsYou Will Bow is book two in the Wicked Boys of BCU series. It is strongly encouraged to read book one, We Will Reign first.More details coming soon...Categorized as:
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Cardinal of Hope by Mia Smantz
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsCallie Jensen has officially taken a step into the world of romance, but even that can't be uncomplicated. She's pretty sure that more than one guy is showing interest in her, and with no experience on the matter, she's not sure how to handle it. It certainly doesn't feel normal. However, the harem she seems to be building with the Delta members is the least of her worries... -
Dangerous Men by Evelyn Ward
“Careful, Sydney. No one likes an angry woman.”Sydney Sinclair has spent her life trying to be good.And it hasn’t always been easy.Reeling from a bad breakup, Sydney’s life takes an unexpected turn when a night out with her best friend leads to an encounter with Alec, a wealthy and enigmatic businessman...Categorized as:
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Damaged & Deadly by R.A. Smyth
Blood will be shed.Lives will be lost.Lines will be crossed.I married the very man I’m supposed to hate. I still can’t believe it, but when I saw Luc, beaten and bloody in that church, I knew there was no way out. I had to marry him. That doesn’t mean everything the Rejects and I have worked toward has been for nothing. If anything, it matters more now than ever...Categorized as:
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Make Me Queen by C.R. Jane, May Dawson
With my mother in the Demon’s clutches, I’ll do almost anything to buy her more time. Like make a deal with the Demon. I’ll pay him with an enemy’s death for my mother’s life. Long ago, dear old dad took me on a camping trip with his serial killer bestie before he broke their pinkie promises. Now the Demon wants the man dead...Categorized as:
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Degradation by Kyra Alessy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI thought I'd found allies in the kings of Kappa Iota Pi—my step-brother and his two best friends. But avarice doesn't just exist in the gold plated corridors of Richmond U and my stepfather taught them well.Shade, with his calculated cruelty.Mav, with his barely controlled violence.Blake, with his digital empire and a darkness in his mind that rivals my own... -
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Twisted Secrets by Rachel Leigh
The Lawless have been many things:My friends,My enemies,And now my lovers. All but one…Neo Saint—my villain dressed in leather with the body of a god and a heart made of stone. He blames me for his misfortunes. Wants me to feel his pain. It’s time he learns I’m not who he thinks I am. Someone is out there,opening old wounds and creating new scars... -
Watch Me Rise by K.C. Kean
Emerson Grove is supposed to be my fresh start, a chance at a new beginning and a better future, yet my past is a force I never saw coming. Now my head and my heart are at odds, my future is unknown, and everything I thought I knew is in disarray.Jameson, Ezra, Leo, and Jagger are ghosts from a different time, a different me. One night changed everything and I’m not the girl they once knew...Categorized as:
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Ravaged Soul by J. Rose
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSabre Security saved my life.Now they want my soul as payment.After six years in captivity, forced to fight for survival, I thought I’d seen the darkest depths of humanity. The cartel broke me, forging a ruthless weapon from my shattered pieces.Not even freedom can heal those wounds...Categorized as:
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Violent Tendencies by Mallory Fox, C.A. Rene
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsComing Spring 2021,A collection of all new deliciously dark storiesWritten by deviously dark authors.It’s going to be dark.It’s going to be bloody.Not for the faint of heart.You have been warned...Announced authors include: Loxley Savage, A.J Macey, Lucy Smoke, Suki Williams, K.A. Knight, R.E. Bond, C.A Rene, Mallory Fox... -
Beautiful Sinners by Jennilynn Wyer
Beautiful Sinners is the highly anticipated second book of the Beautiful Sin Series. Blurb contains spoilers from book 1, Beautiful Sin.***I went to Darlington Founders filled with hopes and dreams. What I found were three men from a past I didn’t want to remember. Tristan Amato, Hendrix Knight, and Constantine Ferreira... -
Cardinal Rose by Mia Smantz
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCallie finally found a home. It's everything she's ever dreamed of - friendship, family, and a healthy dose of romance, which Dr. Harper repeatedly reminds her is a good thing since it will help her deal with her most recent loss. So, why can't she be happy? That reason comes in the form of one Russian mob boss named Nikolai Ivanov... -
Hateful Regent by Helen Scott, Zoey Shelby
Finding out who murdered my sister was supposed to be easy…The Boys of Ascendance Bay are more complicated than I ever imagined. Between what Jude told me and the creepy notes that I’ve found in my room I’m beginning to wonder if there’s more to my sister’s death than I first thought.Melody is pushing harder for me to find the evidence we need to take our revenge...Categorized as:
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Why Don't You Save Me? by Rae Knight
We will get her back. No matter the cost.Tori’s been taken. Nico's done the unthinkable—kidnapped her right from under our noses.We’ve spent years fighting for her, trying to prove that we’re the ones who deserve her, and just when we managed to have her the way we've wanted, he’s got her. He’s using her. Telling her to say she hates us, that she never loved us...Categorized as:
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Dirty Crazy Bad: Book 2 by Siobhan Davis
In the secret society of The Luminaries, no sin will go unpunished… The Greed & Gluttony Luminary has trapped us into executing his evil plans, and it seems we have little option but to agree. Carter has orchestrated Chad’s kidnapping, and he holds my mom’s life in his hands...Categorized as:
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Nemesis by S. Massery
A new darkness is seeping into Sterling Falls, and I’ve drawn its ire. When a masked stranger declares he wants our ruin—mine, my brother’s, the whole town’s—I hope he’s bluffing.A series of escalating events later, and it’s clear the threat is very present.It’s not only present, but it drags up old nightmares from my past...Categorized as:
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Salvation by Cassie Hargrove, Story Brooks
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIt started with an Obsession… We knew from the moment we saw her that she would be ours, and we used all of our means of Seduction to prove it to her... However, with our way of life comes trouble. It didn’t matter how much Devotion we had, it wasn’t enough to keep her safe, and now we’re here. We’re fighting for our lives and everything we never knew we’d have... -
Player by Hattie Jude
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom Hattie Jude comes Player, a sexy standalone why choose academy romance.The secrets I’m keeping are catching up with me.I’ve tried to keep my life as simple as possible out of necessity, and for the safety of me and my sister.I’ve kept my virginity, focused on my grades, and stayed away from trouble.But the desire to live a normal life is beginning to override everything else...Categorized as:
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Chaos Crown by Ruby Vincent
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChaos Crown description will be published closer to the release date to prevent spoilers... -
Bloody Cruel Psycho by Lucy Smoke
A life for a life … will kill the both of us in the end.Clover I know nothing of the Sickness at Eastpoint University. I know only the backroads that slip past the southern beaches and the gators that make their way onto the swamps shores. Until him. Until the killer known as Braxton Smalls finds his way into my stilted trailer on the coast of Port Charlotte... -
Endless Devotion by Emily Klepp
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI grew comfortable in the silence of my thoughts. I thought it was safe to move past my trauma. But did I ever really move past it? Me... Sadie Graves... confronting my trauma and moving forward in a healthy way?Hell no.I shoved all those memories into a tiny little box and forced it to the back of my mind where it has sat for a year... -
Convict by Blake Blessing
Life had always been about right and wrong. No gray area. No exceptions. But my time with the bastard sons of the Institution were slowly changing my mind–forcing me to see that sometimes the only options available to someone were bad and worse. Their justice was different than mine and I struggled with it. Except now, they were gone. Every day I’d fought to leave them, to go home...Categorized as:
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Dylan by Charlie Jules, Stacy Stone
Just because I’m new to the dark doesn’t mean I can’t embrace it…I used to have a decent life. A normal life. Then my mother decided to marry into the Irish mafia and everything changed.Suddenly, normal was in my rearview and I was stuck in the uppity hell known as Brooke Hollow Academy. The only upside I found was the brutally hot guy I met on day one.Dylan Blackthorne...Categorized as:
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Kiss Her Goodbye: The Complete Series by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI'm Everly Marrs, and my life has been a whirlwind of chaos and revelation. The men who kidnapped me, known as The Letters, upended everything I believed in. They showed me a world beyond my control, one where I'm not just a victim but a player in their dangerous games. From the day they took me, my neatly outlined plans for a future in social work, for love, for a normal life, all vanished... -
To The Flame by Kylie Cross
I'm not sure how to come back from this. Maybe I shouldn't have let the Laniidae sisters pull me into their orbit.But who could resist them when they looked like that?After joining the Hunt, I'm finally one of them, which means bubbly Teresa, charming Kennedy, and vicious Xander aren't afraid to stake their claim to me.But a war is brewing between the us and the vultures of Cathartidae...Categorized as:
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Return by N.V. Roez
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey say there’s beauty in broken things… I don’t agree.My past broke me, nothing beautiful about it. I buried my past and my secrets to live a normal life at the prestigious Stratham University.School of dreams… with new friends and a fresh start. But I didn’t bury my past deep enough. The boys that betrayed me are now the men of Stratham’s elite...Categorized as:
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Psycho Punks by Madeline Fay
This is it.The moment it's come down to... the end of my new beginning.My veins were once frozen, that if you cut me open, it would have been so cold. So very cold that I felt nothing.Now, my blood flows with fire, a purpose to fight back. To keep living and to love.The evil that exist around me doesn't know what they have unleashed.Psycho isn't even the right word to describe me...Categorized as:
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Empire by Sheridan Anne
An Empire risen from blood and ash.Murder. Betrayal. Undisputable power.A sacrifice to be given. An innocent life to be lost.He made the solemn vow.The flesh of my flesh will perish in flames,but the blood will forever reign.-------All I wanted was a new life, a fresh start in Faders Bay.But fate hadn’t written my name in the stars, it was written in cold, murderous blood.Zade. Sawyer. Dalton...Categorized as:
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Merciless Kings by Becca Steele, C. Lymari
They say bad things happen in threes.The first was when I lost my parents.The second came when I had to leave behind everything I knew to move across the world to live with my only remaining relative.But what was life for, if not for living? So I kept moving.Then the third thing happened, just as I was about to begin my junior year at the prestigious Blackstone University... -
Mercy by Ruby Vincent
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMaverickThe more answers I unearthed, the less I understood. I stepped into this game not knowing the rules, and now, they’re playing me to their beat.Old faces reappear. New friends circle. I got closer to the puppeteer as they got ever closer to me. And when they struck, I wasn’t ready.ValentinaA queen sacrifices for her subjects. A president makes the hard decisions... -
Saved by My Stepbrothers by Angel Lawson, A.K. Rose
Who killed Olivia Davenport? After years of being on the run, Kate Stevenson knows the only way to save her stepbrothers and their friends from a life of hunting, is to solve the crime that consumes them. Using her investigative skills, Kate digs into the past, uncovering secrets and truths about the Davenport family that may destroy them...Categorized as:
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Lies and Other Drugs by Coralee June
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternate Cover Edition of ASIN B07L92X791Killing my brother’s murderers has become my latest obsession. Against the advice of my alcoholic therapist, I've left my life behind, moving across the country with just two goals in mind: Take down the elite Ivy League School that covered up my twin brother’s death, and seek revenge on the ones responsible...Categorized as:
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Shame on Me by Aurelia Knight, Stephanie Hurst
TristanI told Ivy I loved her, and she rejected me, again. She’s going to pay for that mistake. She won’t see the light of day until she begs my forgiveness.My mirror image should be on my side, but instead, he’s betrayed me, told me to give her up and let her go home. I am their home!He wants to paint me as a monster. They both do. But he’s no better, and I’ll prove it... -
Fall by N.V. Roez
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat happens to the broken? … Honestly, I don’t know. My past is catching up to me from all directions. I’m stuck between the girl I was and the woman I want to be. Everyone is blaming me for what happened to Micah, but nothing is as it seems. People are after me, and debts have to be repaid. That’s not the hardest pill to swallow, though... -
Poison Kiss by Steffanie Holmes
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsI may be blind, but they won’t see me coming.Cassius. Victor. Torsten.My monster. My strength. My heart.Three cruel, broken kings who kissed me with poisonAnd woke me from my slumber.I used to think that my future lay beyond ivy-covered walls;College, a career, a white-picket fence…But now I’m bathed in blood and fire.Now I wear their thorny crown,and sit upon a throne of skulls...Categorized as:
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Delectable Lies by Shauna Mairéad
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNever feed your fears, Saoirse, because if you do, they will eat you alive.Those were the last words my mother uttered before the masked men arrived.She begged me to run, to save myself from the past she kept hidden.But here's the thing, the past doesn't stay buried forever, and somebody has to pay the price for the choices she made.All the King's horses and all the King's men..Categorized as:
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Kings of Kink by N.O. One
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Why Choose Standalone NovelSometimes a queen needs a king…or three.My name is Madelina Mancini and as the younger sister to New York City’s most powerful mafia don, I’ve lived most of my life in the family’s protective bubble.Until I didn’t.Until evil found me and tried to destroy me.Happiness seemed impossible when all I felt was emptiness... -
Raven by Leah Steele
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSecrets are revealed, and I’ve never felt so betrayed. We had a plan, a good fucking plan, and with one explosion it all went to shit. Only, it wasn’t the bomb I set off that left destruction in its wake, it was the truth about my men. They've been hiding details about my life, and until they decide to share every last truth, they're choosing to live life on the edge of my blade... -
Bind Me by H.M. Slade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThey betrayed me, and now I'm left in the wake of the destruction.Cerberus made a promise to save Axton Harbor from the sickness that has corrupted it for far too long. And somehow, I became collateral damage in their quest for justice... -
Greed: A Rumpelstiltskin Retelling by J. Kearston
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI thought they’d be my salvation, but they look at me like I'm theirs.Beaten, starved, broken.With nowhere else to go, my only hope to survive is to sell my soul to the devil. After all, when you have nothing, even poison starts to look tempting. But the brutal men that work beneath him are just as trapped as I am, and now it's too late for me to back out... -
When We Play by Shayne Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRAVENOne queen. Three Kings. One pesky agreement.Eight iron clad rules.But rules are meant to be broken, right?I can still win this... And if I do, I'll win big.My second chance at the prize comes with three hot-blooded billionaires who know the game better than I do.But my motivation surpasses their wit. By a long shot...Let the games begin... -
Retribution by Crystal North
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSome secrets refuse to stay buried... it’s time for Retribution.***Raven hasn’t had it easy; her life has been a whirlwind of clusterfucks and disasters, but the latest has left her reeling. She’s faced with a tough decision: crumble and break, or rebuild and come back fighting harder than ever...
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