The Best Man
Sam Mariano
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50
· Steam/Spice level: 5 of 5
Explicit and plentiful [?]
· 31 ratings · 140 pages · Published: 04 Jan 2024

He’s an artist, a maniac, a brilliant sculptor capable of molding the most delicate clay into something beautiful and unbreakable. He teases that he makes magic, but it’s not a joke to me. He is a magician.
He will break you apart and rebuild you, and only then will you know true freedom.
He will give you what you never knew you needed, whether you want him to or not.
He will make you his.
If you’re me, anyway.
I thought I knew what love was, but he opened my eyes to depths invisible to anyone who doesn’t know him.
I don’t know how I lived for so long in the cold, cruel world without him.
Now, I need him to breathe, and he needs me the same way.
Call it sickness, call it obsession.
Tell me I’m brainwashed, that he’s more villain than hero.
I don’t care.
I’m in love, and this is the story of how he made me his.
The Best Man was previously published on Kindle Vella. This is a high spice standalone dark romance with a morally flexible "hero" and is intended only for a mature adult audience. If you require content warnings, please make sure to read the author's note in the beginning of the book.
Tagged as:
- other man/woman 7
- dark romance 7
- cheating 7
- contemporary 7
- alpha male 5
- age gap 5
- pregnancy 5
- bondage 5
- breeding 4
- menage 4
- exhibitionism 4
- praise kink 4
- cruel hero/bully 4
- love triangle 3
- mfm 3
- forbidden love 3
- anal sex 3
- first person pov 3
- m-f romance 3
- arranged/forced marriage 2
- shy heroine 2
- betrayal 2
- bdsm 2
- consensual non-consent 2
- dual pov 2
- rich hero 2
- enemies to lovers 1
- double penetration 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
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- content warnings
- rape 7
- dubious consent 6
- non-consent between mcs 3
- slut shaming 2
- forced pregnancy 2
- birth-control non-consent 2
- abuse 1
- victim blaming 1
- mental illness 1