Books like 'Cognati'

Readers who enjoyed Cognati by Elizabeth Gray & K. Webster also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

dark romance  suspense  age difference  forbidden love

  • Slingshot by K.L. Savage

    Slingshot by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    She slingshotted her way into my heart. I’m a laidback kind of guy. I don’t like to take life too seriously. I’ve experienced serious and I’ve gone through the bad life has to offer. I’m ready for the good in life. I wear my heart on my sleeve just so someone can take it. Someone does…. Natalia Moretti. Out of all the people for me to love, why does it have to be her? The frenemy’s daughter...
  • Code Name: Pisces by Janie Crouch

    Code Name: Pisces by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    My code name is Pisces. The stars say I’m independent, wise, and intuitive. Still waters run deep. I’m the leader of Zodiac Tactical’s guardian unit. We’re the bodyguards—the ones who stand toe to toe with danger and refuse to give any ground. We protect people who need it most. But what if who needs it most is a spoiled diva? I don’t normally take on movie stars...
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  • War of Hearts by Nina Levine

    War of Hearts by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I tried not to look at her. I tried not to want her. I tried not to love her. But she won this war of hearts and now I'm a man on my knees. This love may kill me. My president will see to that. No one touches his daughter. He's removed me from her life. He's sent me to hell where every day is a bloodbath. If he thinks he's won, he's wrong...
  • Craved by Gray by Cassi Hart

    Craved by Gray by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Scarlet. All I’ve ever known is a life of danger and crime. Growing up among the Chrome Vipers, I’ve never known love or safety. As an adult, I still can’t break free. My father’s hold on me is ironclad. But I have secrets, things my father might kill me over if he ever found out. And one of those secrets just walked into my father’s office with a fake name on his lips and mischief in his eyes...
  • Lone Star by Lauren Gilley

    Lone Star by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From London, England to Amarillo, Texas, Michelle Calloway – now Michelle Snow – has spent her whole life with the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club. The last two years, she’s served as the first lady of the Texas chapter, keeping the books and overseeing the club’s expanding legitimate businesses, including the bar named for her husband: Tastes Like Candy...
  • Dutch’s Surprise Baby by Aria Ray

    Dutch’s Surprise Baby by Aria Ray

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Figured my major screw-up was losing Joy, but it was losing that precious secret she cradled in her belly. Now she's back, and I'll guard her and my little dude 'til my last wicked beat. Despite being much older than Joy, I was damn sure we were meant to ride together. Then, she vanished, leaving me with just a quick note and a shattered heart. Didn't sit right, but I respected her call...
  • Obsession by T.K. Leigh

    Obsession by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One week. No names. No expectations. That was our agreement. We were supposed to walk away after our time in Hawaii was over. No matter what. That was before…. Before I learned who she is. Before I realized how interconnected our lives are. Before I fell in love. But our love isn’t the stuff fairy tales are made of. Demons lurk around every corner. Good doesn’t necessarily prevail over evil...
  • Neglected Consequences by L. Ann

    Neglected Consequences by L. Ann

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    We’ve been through it all. Childhood trauma, kidnapping, scandals, suicide, drugs, and breakups. We came out the other side. Stable relationships, multi-platinum albums, sold-out tours. We thought we’d suffered enough. The universe thought otherwise.
  • Inferno: Part 4 by T.K. Leigh

    Inferno: Part 4 by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He found me in the dark when I thought all hope was lost. He swore he loved me when I didn’t think anyone ever would. He vowed to keep the shadows haunting me at bay when I felt like I was drowning in my past. But in doing so, he also kept the truth from me. It shouldn’t surprise me...
  • Mafia Don's Secret Twins by Vivy Skys

    Mafia Don's Secret Twins by Vivy Skys

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dino and Marisol's story. She's the ultimate prize—I'd risk my life just thinking about this mafia princess, let alone claiming her innocence. We had one night. Then she vanished. I found her. I thought that Marisol, my dream girl, was lost. After I woke up and never saw her again, it seemed like something that was a complete non-starter. She wasn’t with me. I didn’t know her last name...
  • The Savage by Stella Andrews

    The Savage by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Ivan may be my name but I am best known as The Savage. Born and bred Bratva heir and loving every delicious minute of my life. That's why it was easy to kidnap the entitled Charlotte Richmond from her finishing school in England. It was my pleasure to hide her away while her depraved father searched for her. I have no heart, no emotion, and no morals. She is a bargaining chip, a means to an end...
  • Hard Angle by Cole McCade

    Hard Angle by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unsettled tensions from the last case come to a head as Seong-Jae reveals his secrets — but will it be enough to repair the fractures in his relationship with Malcolm? Especially when their only promising lead on the Golden Ratio Killer's identity falls apart, along with any hope of returning home to Baltimore and to their life together. When their primary suspect turns up dead. .. . .
  • Inferno: Part 3 by T.K. Leigh

    Inferno: Part 3 by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My life has always been a series of carefully constructed roads. Always the passenger, never the driver. Always the puppet, never the master. Always the pawn, never the queen. Except with Dante. He makes me feel like a princess, a goddess, a queen. .. His queen...
  • Stolen Mafia Vows by Vivy Skys

    Stolen Mafia Vows by Vivy Skys

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **An Age Gap Surprise Pregnancy Dark Romance**. “When can I touch you where no one else has? ”. One reckless text. That’s all it took to start a mafia war. She was untouched. And she let me watch her fall apart—moaning my name through the phone like I already owned her. So I married my wild Irish rose. Filled her with my seed. Marked her as mine. Then my father’s orders caught up to me...
  • Tank’s Unexpected Child by Aria Ray

    Tank’s Unexpected Child by Aria Ray

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My world was the Savage Legion MC—until Ivy arrived, pregnant and seeking a fake husband for protection. I dove in, but why can't I stop fooling myself that it's real? I ain't holding back. I enjoyed the MC's perks and had my way with every vixen in our club and more. Marriage and babies? They weren't even a blip on my radar. But Ivy Monroe changed everything...
  • The Devil's Crown-Part Two by Monica James

    The Devil's Crown-Part Two by Monica James

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All The Pretty Things Trilogy Spin-Off. With the enemy dead, my throne awaits my return. But the reason I’m still standing is being held captive by another foe.
  • Watch Her Bend by Emily Klepp, Jade Katzchen

    Watch Her Bend by Emily Klepp, Jade Katzchen

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    For two long years, we kept our distance while also sitting on the same couch during my sessions. I kept my secrets tucked far away from my psychiatrist because revealing one thing would lead to the unveiling of my traumatic past. When I am forced to set aside my desire to weather this storm alone, Dr. Daxton Cooper is the one to catch me before I sink...
  • The Chameleon by Amelia Shea

    The Chameleon by Amelia Shea

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two hundred fifty dollars. It’s exactly what Camille Gwin was worth twelve years ago when she was traded to the leader of the Underground to pay off a debt. Barely an adult, she was initiated into the harsh reality of a new world. The Underground. Camille knows how it works. Play the game or get played. Her rise in the Underground came at a cost...
  • Breathe Again by Nola Marie

    Breathe Again by Nola Marie

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the flames of sin I rose, by her virtue, I fell. .. I found her in my eleventh hour. My whiskey-eyed canary. Quinn. Call it Fate or destiny or whatever, but she is the melody to calm my madness. With her, the demons inside me quiet. She doesn't have a hold on my heart, she owns it. She is my everything. I've been given a second-chance and I’m not about to squander it...
  • Hostile Devil: Giovanni & India Duet by Autumn Archer

    Hostile Devil: Giovanni & India Duet by Autumn Archer

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    6. Hostile Devil : A Dark Age Gap Mafia Romance (Souza Cartel: Giovanni). by Autumn Archer (Author) , Hostile Kingdom (Author). 4. 8 out of 5 stars (9). He's my devil. My forever. I've grown up around the Souza cartel, never fully realizing the brothers would never let me go. That the powerful gangsters around me would protect me at all costs...
  • Divine Proportion by Cole McCade

    Divine Proportion by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While Captain Anjulie Zarate y Salazar faces a crisis of loyalty at home, Malcolm Khalaji faces another crisis in Los Angeles—one that will test him to his absolute limits. And that crisis is named Yoon Eun-Ji...
  • Birdie's Biker (Royal Bastards MC) by Misty Walker

    Birdie's Biker (Royal Bastards MC) by Misty Walker

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Vegas is where good people go to sin. Reno is where the bad ones go. Amidst the drugs, weapons, and trafficking, a murder-for-hire market has emerged. And my motorcycle club is right in the thick of it. If you can pay, we have a million different ways to solve your problem...
  • Worth of Waste by Bethany-Kris

    Worth of Waste by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    DeLuca Duet, Part Two. The Chicago Mob is the same as it has always been—violent, greedy, and excessive. The Outfit families have turned their backs when they were needed the most one too many times, but Dino DeLuca didn’t expect anything different. His whole life has been lived for the Outfit—for his family. He has a whole new set of reasons to live and fight now...
  • The Fearless One by Lori Foster

    The Fearless One by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Count on Lori Foster for sexy, edgy romance. ” —Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times bestselling authorHe had it all planned…until she showed up. Jedidiah Stephens came to the Colorado Rockies for one to uncover the truth behind the fire that killed her family. She’s been chasing down clues, and everything has led her to an isolated campground...
  • Reclaiming Lola by Kylie Kent

    Reclaiming Lola by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    ⚠⚠⚠This is a dark romance containing scenes that could be triggering to some. This is not for the fainthearted. ⚠⚠⚠. Lola. They want me to be her. Lola. I’m not though. I haven’t been that girl for the last ten years. My childhood was stolen from me. And the monsters who took me, they make the devil look like a saint. I was nothing more than a slave, trapped in a nightmare with no way out...
  • Raptor by Brooke Summers

    Raptor by Brooke Summers

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He can't get her out of his mind. She is drowning in her own self doubt and secrets. Raptor thought it would just be a few steamy nights and nothing more-- but he can't seem to get Mallory out of his mind. But she lives in Ireland and he lives in New York; how could they ever be more? He can't and won't abandon his brothers, his family for love...
  • Final Vendetta by T.K. Leigh

    Final Vendetta by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    For five years, vengeance fueled me, keeping me alive through the darkness. Every move I made was calculated, every step bringing me closer to the justice stolen from me. But I didn’t see the cost — not until it was too late. My actions have put Imogene’s life in danger. The man I used to be can’t save her. The monster I became might destroy us both...
  • Sully by Dani René

    Sully by Dani René

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I walked away from Clover once before. She was too young, and I was too much of a bastard to hurt her. But now she's all grown up, and she's mine. As much as I want to protect her, to keep her safe, I'm not a good man. I've done things I'm not proud of, sold my soul to a devil who's comin' to collect...
  • Watch Her Break by Emily Klepp

    Watch Her Break by Emily Klepp

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I was just an innocent girl back then, but I should have known better than to trust strangers on the internet. No one knows the secrets I keep locked away. My family and friends are clueless about how far I've fallen. They mean well, but none of them understand the situation I've gotten myself into. I built my entire world around the dream of a life with a man I'd never met...
  • Armor's Mistake by Elizabeth Knox

    Armor's Mistake by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I crossed a line and I damn well knew it, but I wanted her, and I always get what I want. Armor. There are a few unspoken rules within the club. One of them is the fact we don’t go around screwing each other’s sisters and for a while it wasn’t an issue. That is, until Hammer came into the clubhouse. He was a regent from the Reapers Rejects MC up in Montana, and since Inc was there, he came here...
  • Crown of Bliss: A Billionaire Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

    Crown of Bliss: A Billionaire Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His obsession. Her salvation. At my lowest, I accept an unimaginable clean up a murder scene to earn one-hundred-grand. Problem is, my employer doesn’t plan on letting me survive the night. That’s when I meet Lanzo Torrent. He’s gorgeous, chaotic, frustrating, and my only salvation. He says he can save my life, but I have to trust him first. Lanzo drags me into his war...
  • Ruthless Vows by Victoria Ellis

    Ruthless Vows by Victoria Ellis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Romeo & Juliet have nothing on a made mafia member and the one woman he was supposed to stay away from. Dante De Santis. I took an oath in blood–one that binds me to the mafia until my dying breath. I vow to live and die by the family. Murder. Extortion. Manipulation…it’s all in an honest day’s work. I didn’t know who she was when she walked into my sex club, but I damn sure do now...
  • Mine to Shield (Protection) by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Mine to Shield (Protection) by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can this broken FBI agent and young professor work together to take down a dangerous cult despite their rocky past or will their true identities be exposed, threatening their lives and future together. Going undercover with the FBI to infiltrate a dangerous cult was the last thing I expected during my week off from teaching. But here I am...
  • Sins and Secrets by Kira Cole

    Sins and Secrets by Kira Cole

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Desperation sends me to the auction where the only thing I have to sell…is myself. The Marchetti Mafia runs this town. My dad has been under their thumb for years as the Boss’s personal consigliere. After facing death multiple times he’s now hanging on by a mere thread and I worry the next injury will be his last. They always say once you join the family you’re in it for life...
  • The Boss by Piper Stone

    The Boss by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    To avenge my family's deaths, I agreed to marry a monster. Dimitrios Nomikos was an old family friend, a man considered the most dangerous person in Greece. He was also now my enemy. Wrapped in muscles and tattoos, he was darkness personified. The mafia king was as powerful as he was ruthless, feared by almost everyone. Craving him was forbidden but in his world, rules didn't apply...
  • The Blood of Black Oak by Monique Edenwood

    The Blood of Black Oak by Monique Edenwood

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I watch the blood as it seeps from him, pooling like crimson flame around his neck, trickling in rivulets of liquid fire onto the dense body below. The body I've touched. I've held. I've kissed. I've felt wrapped around me for so long, holding me possessively, protecting me from those who wanted me lost...
  • Beauty & the Rose by Lee Savino, Stasia Black

    Beauty & the Rose by Lee Savino, Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The conclusion to the Beauty's Beast trilogy. They say the gods will accept no small sacrifice. To appease them you must give your all. I’ve sacrificed everything. Lived through loss, and learned to love. To take the beauty with the pain. The rose with the thorns. This love story isn’t perfect, but it’s ours. We’ll hold onto it forever. And hope our forever is longer than a day.
  • Luck of the Devil by Marie James

    Luck of the Devil by Marie James

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I’m good enough to protect her. I’m good enough to die for her. But, I’m not good enough to touch her? I may be the Vice President of the Ravens Ruin MC, but her brother, the President, has given all of us orders that she’s off-limits. It’s for the best, really. The demons in my past love to play with a pretty little girl like her.
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  • You Don't Know Me by Georgia Le Carre

    You Don't Know Me by Georgia Le Carre

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The sexy spin off standalone to the bestselling, You Don't Own me (The Russian Don series) is available now to Preorder. You do not have to read 'You Don't On me' books 1 & 2 as this Bad Boy Mafia Romance is Noah's story and can be read as a complete standalone and has guaranteed HEA. Tasha. I knew Noah Adamovich was trouble the first time our eyes locked. I was sixteen that summer...
  • Brewer by Jessica Ames

    Brewer by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Brewer. As the money man of the Manchester chapter of the Untamed Sons Motorcycle Club, my job is simple: make the illegal income legal and don’t get caught. I have a good life in the Sons, an easy one. I don’t have time for women or drama. But when my former cellmate calls and tells me his daughter is in trouble, I have no choice but to respond. Ophelia...
  • Gears by Mackenzy Fox

    Gears by Mackenzy Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    Gears. I’m a Prospect. Nothing special. Nothing to anyone, except to her. She’s my V. P. ’s sister, and she’s older than me. She’s off limits. And as much as I try to keep my distance, she keeps. coming around. Showing up places where she shouldn’t be. Like my bed. It’s no secret that she could undo me. Take everything from me. Like my soul isn’t already tortured enough...
  • Conor Thames 2 by R.J. Lewis

    Conor Thames 2 by R.J. Lewis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charlotte Miles waited. For eight long years she clung faithfully to Conor Thames, longing for his release. But rehabilitation doesn't come easy, and when Conor is finally released, he is not the same man he used to be. With love and determination, Charlotte battles to reclaim the man she loves and knows still lives inside him. For years Conor Thames lived in hell...
  • Triangulation by Cole McCade

    Triangulation by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE. Less than a day. Less than a day of peace, of calm, of comfort before the white rabbit returns to tear Malcolm and Seong-Jae's lives apart. An eerie video presents them with a deadly ultimatum, which leaves our intrepid pair racing to discover the identity of the latest victim — and desperate to protect their families from the threat hanging over their heads...
  • Scotch by Mhairi O'Reilly

    Scotch by Mhairi O'Reilly

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ashby ‘Scotch’ Feilding returned from the military not feeling like a hero, but as a man fractured by the horrors he witnessed, a shadow of the man he once was. Unable to fit into the normalcy of ordinary life, he finds solace in the roar of engines and the brotherhood of The Devil’s House MC, serving as their tech wizard...
  • Nikolai: Through The Devil's Eyes by Shandi Boyes

    Nikolai: Through The Devil's Eyes by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nikolai Popov was raised in a criminal entity that’s as bigoted as it is violent. A byproduct of a woman pushed to the brink, he’s lived a hard and fast life that often sees him facing a line-up, yet he's not spent one night behind bars. After a confrontation with a known enemy, Nikolai stumbles upon an angel precariously balancing on the balustrade between good and evil...
  • Bratva Bastard by Misty Winters

    Bratva Bastard by Misty Winters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Crissy. A kind stranger calmed me down from one of the worst flights of my life. I forgot my Xanax and started to have a panic attack, 30,000 feet in the air. Little did I know that day would change my life forever. Maxim Kozlov looked and acted the part of a kind stranger. He’s a massive, powerfully strong bastard with brutal, deep blue eyes that promise all kinds of delicious things...
  • Savage Justice by Penelope Wylde

    Savage Justice by Penelope Wylde

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    *A full length 80,000-word dark Bratva mafia romance novel. It's the first in the series and opens up the SONS OF BRATVA SAVAGES world that ends with a HEA for this couple and opens up the story for book two. They call him the god of war. Damaged. Lethal. Ruthless to the point of savagery. They’re not wrong...
  • The Eraser (Houlihan Men of Dublin) by Brooke Summers

    The Eraser (Houlihan Men of Dublin) by Brooke Summers

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    I’m a killer, I do it for fun, a way to quell the blood thirstiness that lives inside me. No one has ever been able to penetrate the walls around my blackened heart. Except her. Jessica Grace. I met her at the lowest point in her life. I saw the depths of despair that shone brightly in those blue eyes. Begging for help, pleading for solace. It was at that moment that I found the one. My one...
  • Scorched by Yolanda Olson, Jennifer Bene

    Scorched by Yolanda Olson, Jennifer Bene

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    One father. Two brothers. But there can only be one perfect son. Luke. Pater. Dad. The man left behind more than just a legacy when he died, and ten years is a long time to be without a guiding hand. I’ve done my best, tried to follow the rules my father bestowed on me when I was young, and now I have to fulfill a promise. I have to bring Cleo home...
  • Griffin by S.M. West

    Griffin by S.M. West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WINNER of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best Thriller, Gold Global eBook Award, and Global Book Award Silver. Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite in two categories: Romantic Suspense and Audiobook: Fiction. Finalist in the 17th National Indie Excellence Award. After one electrifying kiss, I’ll risk everything to protect Cora Jennings...
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