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  • 余污 [Yu Wu] by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, 肉包不吃肉

    余污 [Yu Wu] by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, 肉包不吃肉

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The traitor Gu Mang returned to his home kingdom again. Everyone rejoiced in his banishment. It was said the one who hated him most was his closest friend – the cold and stoic Young Master Mo. A rumour: Young Master Mo prepared three hundred and sixty-five methods of torture to try on Gu Mang, enough to play with him for a year without repetition...
  • The Lost by K.A. Knight

    The Lost by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After I was betrayed and left for dead in the sands of the wasteland, I found a new home—a sanctuary of lost souls like me. With the help of others, I rebuilt myself until I was stronger than before, but when word comes that my old home, Paradise, has fallen, I have a choice to make...
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  • Shadows of Ruin by Anna Applegate, Helen Domico

    Shadows of Ruin by Anna Applegate, Helen Domico

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    The king is dead. Ellevail has fallen. And I’ve been kidnapped by an annoyingly sexy, shadow-wielding prick. When Kade Blackthorn kidnapped me in the middle of the siege, he sealed his fate. I will never trust his lies again. With the marriage trials interrupted and my father dead, the throne is at risk of falling into the hands of his duplicitous royal advisor...
  • 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...
  • Knight of the Goddess by Briar Boleyn

    Knight of the Goddess by Briar Boleyn

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The fourth and final book in the bestselling Blood of a Fae series…. “I see forever with you by my side. Because long after these scars have faded away to nothing, I'll still be standing beside you. You and I? We're eternal. ”. Beware the dread curse of Three…. In the aftermath of the war between Pendrath and its neighbors, peace has finally come to Camelot...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  dark  fantasy  audiobook
  • Lady of Istok by Isabelle Olmo

    Lady of Istok by Isabelle Olmo

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “The lies we tell to protect ourselves are the most important lies we ever tell. ". A heavily pregnant Almira forces Hira to return to Istok and lead her people. When Hira boards the Sea Wife, she doesn’t expect Commander Justan to be combative and surly. He questions her every decision and challenges her authority. He’s also clearly keeping his own secrets...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  fantasy  historical  war  dark  horror  length-epic
  • Thrill Me by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Thrill Me by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Time to break the rules and make her submit to me…. We dance like devils, except we wear masks. Every night a different one. Dancing on the edge. Dancing with danger. Me and her, for years. I’ve allowed her to think she doesn’t already belong to me. Time to change that up and claim her. Possess her, dominate her, own her. Heart. Body. Mind. Soul...
  • The Devil's Fire by Mariam El-Hafi

    The Devil's Fire by Mariam El-Hafi

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Althaia grew up protected and sheltered, not knowing about the Mafia World, despite her father being a Mafia Boss. Her mother took her away when she was younger to protect her from the dark world. However, at her cousin's engagement party, she met. .. him. Damiano Bellavia. The ruthless and powerful Mafia Boss. The one her father had desperately tried to hide her away from...
  • Crowns of Fate by Anna Applegate, Helen Domico

    Crowns of Fate by Anna Applegate, Helen Domico

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My mate is captured. My kingdom has fallen. And my enemies? They have no idea I’m coming to destroy them all. My entire life, I believed I had no magic. But during our battle with King Dargan, my power erupted, showing the world the magic inside of me. Light magic sparked by my acceptance of myself and my mate...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  fantasy  dark  horror
  • A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov

    A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even a king gets stung when he reaches for a scorpion. After barely surviving an assassination attempt, King Adrastes is a changed man—one who mistrusts even his allies and friends. He readies his Empire for war against an enigmatic enemy, the Elder of Vededrin, but not everyone approves...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-m  fantasy  historical  queer  suspense  mystery  dark
  • Lying with Scorpions by Aleksandr Voinov

    Lying with Scorpions by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you lie with scorpions, you’d better have a taste for poison. Now that Kendras’s lover Adrastes has claimed the throne of Dalman, Kendras is tangled deeper than ever in politics and intrigue. As the new leader of the Scorpions and Adrastes’s one true friend, he and his men stand between Adrastes and those who wish him dead. And many do...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-m  fantasy  historical  queer  dark  suspense  war
  • Monster Girl Mountain by Edward Lang

    Monster Girl Mountain by Edward Lang

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He had to die to meet the (monster) girl of his dreams. Jack is a survival expert who wakes up after an avalanche on a snow-covered mountain, and has to fight for survival every inch of the way. Then he meets Lelia, a beautiful monster girl from a tribe of women who need Jack’s help. They need protection…. They need a warrior…. And more than anything, they need a man...
    Categorized as:
    military  fantasy  harems  dark  poly  length-medium
  • Bride of the Midnight Prince by Anastasis Blythe

    Bride of the Midnight Prince by Anastasis Blythe

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    An undercover vigilante. The fae prince sworn to hunt her down. Can they survive the most impossible of arrangements: marriage? Ever since she lost her mother to the fae forest, Kat has sought to free human slaves from the cruel clutches of fae masters. Her daring escapades performed under the nose of her guardian go off without a hitch—until the fae decide to retaliate...
  • Fractured by R. Phillips

    Fractured by R. Phillips

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "All of it existing somewhere in between everything. ". What is a life? A collection of memories? A series of glorious highs and heartrending lows? Is it a purpose, cumulative or singular? Or is it something more? Something beyond what is tangible or immaterial? Something beyond even what is found within us...
  • Caste Heaven, Vol. 6 by Chise Ogawa

    Caste Heaven, Vol. 6 by Chise Ogawa

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Today’s top could be tomorrow’s bottom when playing the caste game! School is hard enough as it is, but when students are forced to play a cutthroat game to determine their social ranks—and subsequent treatment—all bets are off...
  • Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho

    Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for the people you love? With the godspower waning, the queen of Ashvi has had to find another way to bolster her fight against her imperialist oppressors. The solution: wrenching children of other cultures from their homes and conscripting them into service. Hammer was one of those children...
  • Protector by Michelle Horst

    Protector by Michelle Horst

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternate cover edition for ASIN B01MG7S9XB. For other cover editions go here and here. From International Bestseller Michelle Heard, comes a new, suspenseful standalone novel. I’m not capable of love. I’m loyal and honorable. I’ll kill for those closest to me. But love? Hell no. It’s saver for everyone if I remain a bachelor. Besides, money buys me everything I need...
  • Wicked Masquerade by Kenya Wright

    Wicked Masquerade by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Tristan is the Bad Boy of the Art World. A tortured artist with insatiable cravings for beauty, pleasure, and the darker shades of life. When Nova, a Psychology graduate student, enters his orbit, Tristan sweeps Nova off her feet and lures her onto an erotic journey that awakens desires she never knew existed. Danger looms in the background...
  • The Dread Prince by Lauren Cate Leake

    The Dread Prince by Lauren Cate Leake

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Magic is different in the Dread Lands. Magic is deceptive in the Dread Lands. At last, The Dread Prince takes the throne and begins to develop his own army while battling the darkness that still lurks in the ancient and deadly Dread Lands. Maeve is grieving a great loss as Mal slips into darker and darker Magic, driving a wedge between them...
  • Mirage by C.M. Radcliff

    Mirage by C.M. Radcliff

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Releasing as part of the 2019 Sinister Fairy Tales Collection! Painted in gold, Jaslyn was born into a life of luxury with the world at her feet. After the death of her father, his empire became hers and the princess became a queen. Painted in gold, Jaslyn was born into a life of luxury with the world at her feet. Her fortune was sought after and deception and deceit had a ring around her finger...
  • Caste Heaven, Vol. 7 by Chise Ogawa

    Caste Heaven, Vol. 7 by Chise Ogawa

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Today’s top could be tomorrow’s bottom when playing the caste game! School is hard enough as it is, but when students are forced to play a cutthroat game to determine their social ranks—and subsequent treatment—all bets are off. The third trimester begins, and the school’s atmosphere has changed...
  • 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...
  • Hush by B.T. Urruela, Anne Malcom

    Hush by B.T. Urruela, Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They were taken. Off the street. From parking lots. Malls. Playgrounds. Snatched from life and thrust into hell. They took Orion Darby on a perfect summer day, while she could still taste her first kiss on her lips. She joined the others with chains on their ankles and scars on their souls. They turned into nothing more than statistics. Cold cases. Lost girls. Years passed and the world forgot...
  • Behind The Broken by Chloe C. Peñaranda

    Behind The Broken by Chloe C. Peñaranda

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    A darkly heart-wrenching, swoon-worthy contemporary romance debut from Chloe C. Peñaranda. Book one of the Behind Darkness duet will leave you on the edge of your seat for the sequel to Rhett and Ana's tension filled, emotional story. No one expects an angel to buy a ticket to hell...
  • Farfall by J.C. Owens

    Farfall by J.C. Owens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets. Rebellion. Two men drawn together by a bond that may change the land forever. .. Captain Andon Grazon, the poor son of a prostitute, shares a rare bond with Ceris, the only wild-born griffon in the land to bond with a human. He and Ceris are part of the flight corp at Farfall, where he is treated like an outsider and abused by the noble-born riders at the base...
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    military  m-m  fantasy  abuse  dark  dub-con  queer  length-medium
  • 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...
  • Reclaim  by Jenna Daring, Belle Harper

    Reclaim by Jenna Daring, Belle Harper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I’m being forced to marry a monster—a man who kills not only because he has to, but because he enjoys the hunt. No one can save me—not even my best friend, Emilio. What’s a girl to do but run away? Only when I try, my bodyguard finds me and returns me home. Even Arrow can’t help...
  • 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...
  • Into the Fire by Stefanie Medrek

    Into the Fire by Stefanie Medrek

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Nineteen-year-old Melanie Snow is desperate to untangle what happened the night her parents died. Their employer—the most powerful weapons manufacturer in the country—swears the deaths were a tragic workplace accident, but details in the police reports don’t add up. Worse, the authorities refuse to answer her questions. Something bigger is going on, and Mel won’t stop until she uncovers the truth...
  • The Painter Knight by Fiona Patton

    The Painter Knight by Fiona Patton

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE PASSING OF THE FLAME. Simon, the Court Painter of Branion, was the closest friend of the kingdom's ruler. Aristok Marsellus the Third...
    Categorized as:
    military  fantasy  queer  m-m  high fantasy  historical  bisexual  dark
  • Assassin & Cinderella 01 by Yuzo Natsuno

    Assassin & Cinderella 01 by Yuzo Natsuno

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A sexy spy and an elite assassin enter into the world’s sweetest, deadliest marriage of convenience! Neneko is a spy blessed with catlike charms. Her mission? Seduce the ace assassin of a rival organization and expose his weaknesses...
  • Seal My Fate by Roxy Sloane

    Seal My Fate by Roxy Sloane

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 47 ratings
    Oxford, England. The city of dreaming spires, dark secrets… And desire. I came to Oxford to avenge my sister, but instead, I found a web of lies. Ancient loyalties. Fortunes built on sin. Riches they’d do anything to protect. I’m the one who could bring their empires crashing down. But can I destroy the man I love? Time is running out… The Oxford Legacy.
  • Taming Grizz by Nikki Wild

    Taming Grizz by Nikki Wild

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    GRIZZ. My life belongs to the club, but before the chains and guns, there was HER. .. The love of my goddamn life. The girl who broke my heart. .. I thought I could forget about her, but I was wrong. I've grown older. I'm the right-hand man of the Devil's Dragons club president. But none of that mattered when I found her. She's grown too. .. More beautiful and clever than I remembered...
  • The Muddy Princess by Colubrina

    The Muddy Princess by Colubrina

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    A hidden adoption revealed, a brother found, a new world to figure out: "What are you hoping for? " he asked as they stood ready to do the spell. "I don't know," Hermione admitted. "You? " His knuckles were white on his wand. "A sister," he said, his voice very low, "I'm hoping for a sister. ".
  • Cursed Queen by Julie Saman, J. Saman

    Cursed Queen by Julie Saman, J. Saman

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We thought we broke the curse. I married King Sebastian of Messalina. We're pregnant with twins. His children are happy and thriving in a way they never have. All is finally perfect and as it should be. But we were wrong. Darkness has returned and with it comes more heartbreak and danger than any of us are prepared for. A darkness that not only seeks death, but to tear us apart for good.
    Categorized as:
    new adult  dark  fantasy  audiobook
  • Breathless: An F/F Hades and Persephone Short Story by Lianyu Tan

    Breathless: An F/F Hades and Persephone Short Story by Lianyu Tan

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    Hades steals her breath away. A few weeks into their marriage, Persephone is still learning how to please Hades, dreaded goddess of the underworld. As her fear wars with desire, Persephone must learn how to satisfy her captor and steel her own heart in order to survive.
  • 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...
  • Cross My Heart: A Spicy Dark Academia Romance by Roxy Sloane

    Cross My Heart: A Spicy Dark Academia Romance by Roxy Sloane

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    'Oxford, England. The city of dreaming spires, dark secrets…And desire. ' Discover the blazing hot dark academia romance saga from the USA Today Bestselling author - perfect for fans of Ana Huang, Emily McIntire, and Lauren Asher! Anthony St Clair. The future Duke of Ashford. A reckless enigma… and my greatest temptation...
  • The Darkest Prince by Jillian Frost

    The Darkest Prince by Jillian Frost

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have a dark secret, one that can never see the light of day…. I’m obsessed with my best friend. What I feel for him goes beyond love. Bastian is the only person who makes my black heart beat, but he thinks our relationship is wrong. He’s afraid of what others will think about us. Until we meet Alex. She’s the glue that holds our unconventional relationship together...
  • A Sun Scorched Bloom by Megan Shade

    A Sun Scorched Bloom by Megan Shade

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A bloody bargain. An impossible choice. An inevitable war. With the Lonely Death spreading and a rebellion ignited within the kingdom of Desia, Lea finally knows the truth. At least, she thinks she does. The revelation of Gray’s identity is just the beginning—Lea’s powers may be the key to ending the war and curing the Lonely Death, but only if she can confront the darkness within her...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  dark  fantasy  audiobook
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A Heroine of the World by Tanith Lee

    A Heroine of the World by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Aradia is only thirteen when the war begins. The brutal Saz-Kronians have invaded from the North, laying siege to her homeland, and as the war grows ever closer, Aradia’s father and mother are called to Fort Hightower to help defend the City. To keep Aradia safe, they send her to live with her Aunt Elaieva, a cold and distant woman, until the danger has passed. But Hightower falls...
  • The Lost Darling by Bailey Black, Bailey B.

    The Lost Darling by Bailey Black, Bailey B.

    Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Second star to the left and continue until morning. I got that line tattooed on my wrist the day I turned twenty-one. So much symbolism in such a simple sentence. At the time, it was a nod to the future and the infinite possibilities to come, while reminding me to remember the past and to look for magic in the world. Growing up, nothing was ever what it seemed...
  • Prince of Chaos by Amelia Wilde

    Prince of Chaos by Amelia Wilde

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My mother keeps me prisoner to keep me safe. Safe from the world. Safe from boys. And especially safe from Luther Hades, the most dangerous man in the world. She’d rather die than send me on an errand. But now she has no other choice. And someone new is waiting at the gate. .
  • White Desert Bloom by Maddi Ferrara

    White Desert Bloom by Maddi Ferrara

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Power is madness; weakness is reason; the rest is void. ”. I live peacefully in a world of perfect lies, a land of opposites where the sun never sets and war is peace. Our leader, Lucis, banned all firearms and banished his brother, Noctis, to a lifeless desert known as the Void Valley long ago. Now Lucis recruits our firstborns to battle Noctis’s army of shadows with swords and arrows...
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