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  • I Think Knot by Sinclair Kelly

    I Think Knot by Sinclair Kelly

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 134 ratings
    No. Nope. Knot going to happen. I may be an omega, but I’ve got dreams and goals of my own, and none of them include shacking up with a pack of raging alphas just because biology says I have to. Sure, that time will come and I’ll welcome it with open arms, but for now, I’m doing me...
  • New York Minute (In These Words: Prequel) by Kichiku Neko, Suzume

    New York Minute (In These Words: Prequel) by Kichiku Neko, Suzume

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In These Words prequel that takes the readers back to a newly NY State employed Dr. Asano Katsuya. The 27 year-old had never sought company until one Christmas day Katsuya finally gave into the charm of a homicide detective at the Manhattan Precint.
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  contemporary  dark  fantasy  length-novella
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  • 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:
    queer  dark  mafia  angst  fantasy  contemporary  m-m  rape
  • 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...
  • Run for us by Jaye Pratt

    Run for us by Jaye Pratt

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    Sometimes life hands you a fork in the road. Mine feels more like a tidal wave crashing down on me, just as I’m about to turn thirty. Until now, I’ve been trying to live up to my mother’s impossible standards while drowning in deadlines, but I’ve finally had enough. Bluebell Bay is my escape plan. It’s a chance to figure out what I want from life, a place I don’t have to pretend...
  • These Hallowed Bones by L. Eveland

    These Hallowed Bones by L. Eveland

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He saw the monster in me and called it beautiful. Micah Salt destroys every painting he creates, desperate to silence the darkness whispering beneath his skin. The same darkness that made him sit beside his mother's corpse for three days, finding art in her decay. The church called it sin. Therapy called it trauma. But Professor Ezra Bishop calls it potential. Ezra doesn't want to fix Micah...
  • Endgame by Jaye Pratt

    Endgame by Jaye Pratt

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 23 ratings
    Even after the death of Mr. Z, he still manages to screw me from the grave. One letter was all it took to irrevocably change my life forever. It not only changes the course of my future, but also for those I am close to. Ending Mr. Z’s life should have made things easier, yet his death has revealed so many more secrets and lies, and unleashed new enemies that were once allies...
    Categorized as:
    queer  pregnancy  contemporary  new adult  dark  poly  mystery  m-m-f
  • 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:
    queer  m-m  contemporary  dark  bdsm  fantasy  age difference
  • Caste Heaven, Vol. 2 by Chise Ogawa

    Caste Heaven, Vol. 2 by Chise Ogawa

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 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. Atsumu, a regular target of the school bullies, has had a rough life...
    Categorized as:
    queer  abuse  dark  m-m  high-school  contemporary  rape  fantasy
  • This Vow of Ours by Lucy Scott Bryan

    This Vow of Ours by Lucy Scott Bryan

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    After a bungled job, I’m forced to escape and abandon everything. It’s not the worst to happen, being sent to Ireland is. My next assignment, bringing down four men involved in the Irish Mafia. First, I’m put on leave and, as a favour, I end up ‘married’ to two strangers on St. Patrick's Day in Genoa. In the early morning, I run and hide. I have to...
  • Woodland Appeal by N. Slater

    Woodland Appeal by N. Slater

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    Haunted by his harrowing past, Omega Kieran Woods finds solace in the shadows, resigned to a life of solitude as an isolated lumberjack. Scarred by the cruel hands of his ex-Alpha, he rejects the notion of a pack or a mate, knowing all too well the suffocating grip an Alpha's ownership can possess. Alpha Terrence may be on the smaller side for an Alpha but his aura is just as deadly...
  • Nursing the Alpha by Gianni Holmes

    Nursing the Alpha by Gianni Holmes

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 35 ratings
    It started with a contract. I'd express my milk for what I thought was a family in need. No names. No questions. No strings. Just a big check. Then I found out the truth. The man buying my milk isn't a stranger. He's someone I know. Someone who's been doing things to me without my knowledge. And he doesn't just want my milk. He wants all of me.
  • Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A bloody past haunts him. A devastating present calls him back…. Nao hides from his violent past in the Japanese mob by opening a teahouse in Japan's cultural center, Kyoto. His past comes flooding back when he discovers a gravely injured man with a tattooed chest, a bloody knife, and a Korean business card. Saehyun would've died if not for Nao's help...
  • Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A bloody past haunts him. A devastating present calls him back…. Nao hides from his violent past in the Japanese mob by opening a teahouse in Japan's cultural center, Kyoto. His past comes flooding back when he discovers a gravely injured man with a tattooed chest, a bloody knife, and a Korean business card. Saehyun would've died if not for Nao's help...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  mystery  contemporary  dark  suspense  mafia  fantasy
  • Counterpoint by Rachel Haimowitz

    Counterpoint by Rachel Haimowitz

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 39 ratings
    It is the twilight of mankind. Depleted by generations of war with a dark race, the human kingdoms and their ancient alliance stand on the brink of extinction. The outlands are soaked with the blood of the fallen. The midlands are rotting with decadence and despair. Elfkind, estranged by past crimes, watches and waits for nature to run its course. And then the two collide...
  • Scarlett by Cinder Blaze

    Scarlett by Cinder Blaze

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    No one wishes to know my name. I’m the unclaimed Omega of one of the strongest mafia empires Chicago has ever dealt with. To the world, I’m but a shadow. A secret. The final chess piece that’s ready to checkmate anyone who dares to mess with me and the few unclaimed Omegas I protect. At least, until my Alpha, Alfonso Russo Jr, betrays me...
  • Tangled in Knots by Jenn Bullard

    Tangled in Knots by Jenn Bullard

    Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    I was the perfect omega princess. People left me alone for the most part, my father loved me, and I was happy. Or so I thought. Three alphas break into my house on Christmas Eve and everything changes. Lies are exposed, my life is ripped away, and one of them is my scent match. This should be one of the happiest moments of my life. Unfortunately, I’m a very unlucky omega...
  • Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 51 ratings
    She’s been looking for the perfect man. She found two. When Rachel Riley sacrificed a life in Eden to protect the O’Kanes, she earned her place in the powerful Sector Four gang. But the former crime princess is tired of being everyone’s sweet little sister...
  • Emerged by Marissa Honeycutt

    Emerged by Marissa Honeycutt

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 36 ratings
    Anna has escaped from Devin. Now she must learn what it is to live without a master. Yet Devin will not let her go so easily, his power depends on what he takes from her. Will Anna's freedom last? Can she even learn to live as a free woman? Is Devin’s power too great for her to escape? There is a subculture within our own world that you’ve only heard whispers of...
    Categorized as:
    alpha male  abduction  queer  m-f  dark  paranormal  abuse  bdsm
  • Dylan St. James: Omega Concealed by Elizabeth Dear

    Dylan St. James: Omega Concealed by Elizabeth Dear

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 81 ratings
    Packs are pain and bonds are fucking shackles. With the government issuing omega females to Alpha packs like we’re social security checks, I cling to my freedom thanks to a black-market suppressant hookup and a lethal family that’s ready to execute any Alpha who tries to force a bond. By day, I work in the family hardware store...
  • Bloodlines by Andrea Speed

    Bloodlines by Andrea Speed

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 16 ratings
    Sequel to Prey. In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds. The newly married Roan is struggling to balance his work with his home life as he grows increasingly distracted by his husband Paris's declining health...
  • Knot My Problem by Sinclair Kelly

    Knot My Problem by Sinclair Kelly

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 79 ratings
    Secrets are my life. But after so many years of living one lie after another, do I even really know who I am without them? When work explodes—quite literally—in my face, I’m forced into hiding until the smoke clears. Now I’m living in a small town, with the one man who has the power to break down my carefully constructed identity...
  • Honored Vow by Mary Calmes

    Honored Vow by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 40 ratings
    Jin Rayne is still growing into his frightening new powers as a nekhene cat and his place as reah of Logan Church’s tribe when he learns that a sepat, an honor challenge, has been called. Logan, who has never wanted to do anything but lead his small-town tribe, must travel around the world to Mongolia and fight to become the most powerful leader in the werepanther world...
  • Endlessly Raphael by Mia Monroe

    Endlessly Raphael by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    I was looking for a fake husband, but what I found was so much more. Something was in the air the night I walked into the club. It was like the clouds parted and there he was, the most stunning man I’d ever seen. He looked like he could be fun for a few hours, but as night turned to day, I proposed to him...
  • Shadow Men by Adira August

    Shadow Men by Adira August

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A 72k word novel, the seventh in the Hunt&Cam4Ever BDSM-MYSTERY series. This is the book the author calls "The hardest book I ever wrote. ". AN ASTONISHING TWIST IN THE EPIC LOVE STORY~ A HIGH SEAS DEATH ON A BILLIONAIRE'S YACHT. "No matter how hard you fight the darkness. every light casts a shadow;. The closer you get to the light. the darker that shadow becomes. ". Plato.
    Categorized as:
    queer  bdsm  m-m  suspense  mystery  dark  contemporary  angst
  • Bewitching Her Monsters by Yve Vale

    Bewitching Her Monsters by Yve Vale

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 29 ratings
    A werewolf, a gargoyle, a phoenix, and a demon walk into the bar…. Yeah, it sounds like a set-up to a bad joke. But this is my life, and it just got weird. Jade :. As a hopeless romance author, I go out to a local bar, looking for something to cure my writer’s block. When I discover four of the hottest guys I’ve ever seen in real life, this forty-year-old homebody finds all the inspiration I need...
  • Wolves of Black Pine by Sheena Jolie, S.J. Himes

    Wolves of Black Pine by Sheena Jolie, S.J. Himes

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    The wolfkin clans have hidden from humanity for eons, treading the line between legend and reality, guarded against those who hunt their kind. Yet despite their caution, the clans are ambushed at a peaceful gathering of their people and the loss of life is devastating, the cost reverberating through the clans for decades...
  • Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 6 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 6 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    NOT ALL TIES BINDAfter a night in the throes of passion, He Yu finally feels secure in his relationship with Xie Qingcheng. Yet just as Xie Qingcheng begins to grasp the depths of his own feelings for He Yu, he makes a devastating His health failing, and only a few years left to live, he must sever their ties now--before his inevitable death shatters He Yu's already frail psyche...
  • The Viper by J.R. Ward

    The Viper by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    In this newest Prison Camp installment, #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward pens a heart-wrenching tale of love and betrayal in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world…. Framed for the grisly murder of his shellan, Kane is condemned to the notorious prison camp—unaware of the dark truth behind his arranged mating...
    Categorized as:
    alpha male  m-f  queer  urban fantasy  suspense  fantasy  erotica  dark
  • Wolf Domination by Avery Song

    Wolf Domination by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A paranormal mafia romance.
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-f  reverse harem  magic  fantasy  paranormal  fae  werewolves
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