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  • Malachi by Grey Huffington

    Malachi by Grey Huffington

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When souls are tied, it’s never goodbye. A boy , I was, the day that I met you that summer evening, pulling your belongings out of the truck and into your new home. I knew it was love then. A whole man , I was, the day that you met me at the altar and agreed to love me until death do us part. A shell of a man , I’ve become since it did...
  • Phantom by Susan Kay

    Phantom by Susan Kay

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    "Phantom of the Opera fans no longer need to ponder what was in Erik's past, as Kay has created one for him in this deeply moving, poignant story. . . This sad, but beautiful, novel will be especially popular with [those] who have enjoyed the current musical . . . " – School Library Journal “A MUST READ! Haunting and riveting...
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  • Malachi by Grey Huffington

    Malachi by Grey Huffington

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When souls are tied, it’s never goodbye. A boy , I was, the day that I met you that summer evening, pulling your belongings out of the truck and into your new home. I knew it was love then. A whole man , I was, the day that you met me at the altar and agreed to love me until death do us part. A shell of a man , I’ve become since it did...
  • Shadows of Ruin by Anna Applegate, Helen Domico

    Shadows of Ruin by Anna Applegate, Helen Domico

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 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...
  • 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...
  • Opulent Obsession by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Opulent Obsession by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    I’m an imposter, a fraud, unwanted… but that won’t stop me from claiming her. She is part of a tortured past I’d rather forget. A flesh and blood ghost here to haunt me for my sins. I will never forgive myself for living when my brother died. As a penance, I’m forced to live his life. To claim what should have been his birthright...
  • The Order : Labyrinth of Twisted Games by Katerina St. Clair

    The Order : Labyrinth of Twisted Games by Katerina St. Clair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    *Newly revised published version coming December 31st, 2024**This title is currently being re-edited and re-revised*In the dystopian world of "The Order" lies, betrayal, and secrets become the twisted threads weaving the tapestry of Forest Blackburn's tumultuous existence...
  • Meet Fifty Shades Continued - Fifty Shades of Grey by G.E. Griffin

    Meet Fifty Shades Continued - Fifty Shades of Grey by G.E. Griffin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Converted to ebook format, Cover UpdatedFifty Shades of Grey from Christian's POVGet inside Christian Grey's mind, as you read the complete Fifty Shades trilogy retold from his point of view, carrying on where E L James left off at the end of 'Fifty...
  • Tempt Me: A Dark Billionaire Mafia Romance by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Tempt Me: A Dark Billionaire Mafia Romance 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...
  • 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  horror  fantasy  historical  war  dark  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...
  • Bride of the Midnight Prince by Anastasis Blythe

    Bride of the Midnight Prince by Anastasis Blythe

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 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...
  • Inherited Malice: A Dark Secret Society Romance by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Inherited Malice: A Dark Secret Society Romance by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    I’m a con artist, and I’ve got my sights set on Beau Radcliffe. He’s dominant, arrogant, and always thinks he’s the smartest person in the room.But he made the mistake of getting way too drunk one night and telling me all about the twisted ways of the dark, mysterious secret society he was about to be initiated into.So, I steal an invite and show up as a belle...
  • 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...
  • Beautiful Lies by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Beautiful Lies by Alta Hensley, Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twenty Beautiful Lies stand before me.I can feel one’s hatred from across the ballroom.She loathes me and all that I stand for... that’s why she will be my choice, my belle of the ball.Born into a secret society that strangles the life out of me, I have no choice but to face my demons head on.Inheritance isn’t about money or land, it’s much more twisted than that...A sinful birthright...
  • The Shadow Fae Rhapsody by Niro J. Hayle

    The Shadow Fae Rhapsody by Niro J. Hayle

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Please wait for the relaunch before getting this one.This book will be relaunched on 12/12/2024 with its original price and will be on KU on that date.I appreciate everyone who preordered and bought this book but do update and refresh for the latest version on the 12th.My deepest and sincerest apology for the inconvenience. Thank you so much for the support. It means the world to me...
    Categorized as:
    horror  new adult  fantasy  dark  length-long
  • The Moral Dilemma by Veronica Lancet

    The Moral Dilemma by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The riveting conclusion to the War of Sins Series! More secrets come to light in this stunning conclusion to Raf and Noelle's story. The events of the hacienda still haunt both lovers...
  • 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...
  • Twisted Circles by Claire Contreras

    Twisted Circles by Claire Contreras

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When someone tells you who you are, do you believe them? The first question the cops asked me was if anything out of the ordinary happened to me lately. When I woke up this morning in the room of a mental institution I couldn’t remember a thing – not my name nor how I got there. Not how I left or how I ended up in that interrogation room. The only thing I knew came from the contents inside my bag...
  • 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...
  • Assassin & Cinderella 01 by Yuzo Natsuno

    Assassin & Cinderella 01 by Yuzo Natsuno

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 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...
  • Traces of Her by C.M. Radcliff

    Traces of Her by C.M. Radcliff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I am a ghost, a captive stripped of my own identity. I’ve lived in solitude in the depths of hell until the devil appeared, pulling me out of the darkness and shoving me into the arms of my new prison. But sometimes a prison becomes a home. And sometimes that home is within the heart of a man. I have a debt to pay and my brother’s collecting. He makes the messes and I deal with the aftermath...
    Categorized as:
    contemporary  new adult  dark  abuse  captive  mafia  fantasy  suspense
  • 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...
  • Zhànshì by Anna Edwards

    Zhànshì by Anna Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”  -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War Lia has known she was different since the age of five when her father taught her the skills of her ancestors. His stories of heroic exploits have fueled her fantasies for years...
  • The Order: Kingdom of Fallen Ash by Katerina St. Clair

    The Order: Kingdom of Fallen Ash by Katerina St. Clair

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    In the dystopian realm of "The Order" society is eternally divided between the privileged Untouchables and the struggling Unfortunates. The Untouchables, draped in opulence and power, govern the city with an iron fist, casting long shadows over the impoverished Unfortunates who toil beneath in the murky depths of the working class...
  • The Swan Princess by Natasha Knight

    The Swan Princess by Natasha Knight

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    At a glamorous masquerade ball in an opulent mansion the elite gather to celebrate the introduction of one of their own to society.But the guests of this party aren’t all knights in shining armor.And tonight, Lucia DeMarco and Salvatore Benedetti will meet in a chance encounter one year before the contract that makes her his is to be fulfilled...
  • 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...
  • Given by Elayna R. Gallea

    Given by Elayna R. Gallea

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She's born to die. He lives to hunt.Wren was born bearing a Mark on her forehead. She’s always known she would be Given to serve the gods in her twentieth year, and she’s eager to work for them since they keep the kingdom safe. That is until she sneaks into a Giving Ceremony and watches as her best friend is slaughtered in the name of the gods...
    Categorized as:
    horror  new adult  dark  fantasy  audiobook
  • Test Drive by Ines Johnson

    Test Drive by Ines Johnson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s the wrong turn her perfect life needed. All my life, I've never taken a wrong turn, until I get lost dropping off a classmate on the wrong side of town. To make matters worse, I blow a tire and am surrounded by a group of gorgeous, hot street racers. They offer to help me out with my car…for a price. It’s not currency that Hawk, the leader of the Watchers Crew, wants...
  • Insolent (Sinister Fairy Tales) by Cynthia A. Rodriguez

    Insolent (Sinister Fairy Tales) by Cynthia A. Rodriguez

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Releasing as part of the 2019 Sinister Fairy Tales Collection! There’s a girl screaming at the top of a hill, Burdened by a duty she was born to fulfill. There’s a quiet killer lurking nearby, Watching as she wishes only to die. She’s tasked by her mother to marry a man, Until the demon from hell puts a wrench in the plan. Their fates will twine in inconceivable ways...
  • 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...
  • Tragedy Queens by Kathryn Louise, Patricia Grisafi

    Tragedy Queens by Kathryn Louise, Patricia Grisafi

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Archetypes are real. Muses are real. Writers are the channels of these spirits & if that sounds like witchcraft that's because it is. These stories gave me chills. Sylvia Plath & Lana Del Rey course through the veins of these dark, sexy, mind-bending, fantastical, romantic, & haunting tales. Authors from different genres came together in their love & passion for these muses...
  • Beauty's Daddy by Jane Henry

    Beauty's Daddy by Jane Henry

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 28 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...
  • 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...
  • Prince of Chaos by Amelia Wilde

    Prince of Chaos by Amelia Wilde

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 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..
  • 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...
  • Entangled by Vera Kane

    Entangled by Vera Kane

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’ve lived the last several years of my life under the control of my step-mother.Every decision taken away from me, completely suffocating me. At eighteen, she sold me off to the highest bidder and traded one gilded cage for another. I’ve never been anything but a dollar sign to her.Until two years later Kade Luchetti kidnapped me from my tower, making me yet another dictator’s rag doll...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    horror  new adult  fantasy  dark  length-long
  • Omega Closet by Noah Harris

    Omega Closet by Noah Harris

    Rated: 2.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Download Your FREE Ebook Gift Inside! Everyone has secrets. For some, it might be a report card that they "forgot" to bring home. For others, it might be an illness with which they don't wish to burden their loved ones. For Tracey Collins, it's his entire existence...
    Categorized as:
    horror  contemporary  queer  dark  fantasy  audiobook
  • Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler

    Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler

    Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way. In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level...
  • The Black Fox by Brianna Hale

    The Black Fox by Brianna Hale

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    For fifteen years I was the Black Fox, the hero of Spain, the good-luck devil. I made my enemies dance to my tune and fall to my sword. The day must come when every hero hangs up his cape, and for me, it was the day I outsmarted the curse. I would not die for love, because I didn’t love the woman I married. Valeria Hernandez didn’t love me. Then I met her. Lolita...
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