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  • Wild Bliss by Lexi Blake

    Wild Bliss by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sabrina Leal moved to Bliss looking for a new start. She’s in charge of building a school system from scratch and is excited about the challenge. What she didn’t count on was the surliest bar owner she’s ever met. Sawyer Hathaway gets under her skin in the most annoying way. He’s arrogant and sometimes rude, and she can’t stop thinking about him. It’s easier to ignore him when it’s only Sawyer...
  • Battle Lines by Heather Long

    Battle Lines by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    Violence chose me a long time ago…Survival isn’t everything. I’ve fought to protect my family. I’ve bled for them, killed for them, and gone to jail for them. There is no fight I will not take on for them…I’ve been waging this war since I was seven years old. The only thing that’s changed is the battlefield itself...
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  • The Wren by Penelope Black

    The Wren by Penelope Black

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the firstborn King, I should be the heir of the Irish Syndicate.Instead, my father wants to marry me off to the highest bidder to fund a war I don’t believe in.My carefully controlled life starts to unravel, spiraling out of control faster than I can stop it.And then I meet them and everything stops for a moment...
  • Sully by Penelope Black

    Sully by Penelope Black

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Do you believe in the butterfly effect?”There comes a time in your life when you’re faced with a choice. One that has the potential to alter the course of your life. I answered my mother’s call that day and everything changed.The path I chose was a turnpike masquerading as a meadow, and the tolls I paid have been grave.So I made a promise to myself that I will have my vengeance...
  • Volatile King by Brooklyn Cross

    Volatile King by Brooklyn Cross

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    The King's Damaged Heart Was Tainted With Darkness, But Not Even He Could Resist The Radiance Of His Queen. Determined to shut Ren Davies out, I clung to the ghosts of a past that no longer existed. I watched in horror as my pieces toppled, one by one, succumbing to her charms. The binds only tightened the harder I fought to pull away. But fate laughed in my face...because I’d already fallen...
  • Defied by Sarah Bailey

    Defied by Sarah Bailey

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two become three. Lies, lust and betrayal. Who will fall first?It started when I chose to remain with them. The ones who took me from my life and changed all the rules. The chains binding me to my family loosened their hold. Little did I know that by taking me, Quinn and his friends began the long process of setting me free. And even as I got closer to the boys, the past always held us back...
  • Son of Saint by Ruby Vincent

    Son of Saint by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m going through a bit of a rough patch.I lost my job, got kicked out of my apartment, and now I sleep under an overpass. If that wasn’t bad enough, my psychic twin is plagued with daily visions of my death.She guarantees it’ll be gruesome.The last thing I needed was for Sole “Sunny” Bellisario to come crashing through my tent...
  • The Gentlemen: The Complete Series by Kate King, Jessa Wilder

    The Gentlemen: The Complete Series by Kate King, Jessa Wilder

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    A Complete, Binge-worthy Series filled with action, romance, and a healthy dose of sass. This set contains all three best-selling titles: RED HANDED THIEVES' HONOR DAMNED SOULS From Book One: Forced to live with my ENEMIES. They think they OWN ME. But I own their HEARTS. Nico, Rush, and Beck are the three leaders of The Gentlemen...
  • Shadowed Obsession by Penelope Black

    Shadowed Obsession by Penelope Black

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    book two coming this...
  • Dangerous Vows by Kris Butler

    Dangerous Vows by Kris Butler

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The difference between a vow and a promise? Promises were broken.Between the truth and lies, I’d found the dark confession I’d been too afraid to acknowledge. I was tired of hiding behind fear, the lies holding me back too much. It was time to drop the mask completely and embrace the reality that had been staring me in the face.Except now, I was the one with the secret...
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    suspense  mafia  mystery  m-f  length-long  poly  reverse harem  m-m-f
  • Baby Makes 7 by Kai Lesy

    Baby Makes 7 by Kai Lesy

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A family of seven!? How did I get this freaking lucky?”Before meeting Kellan, Fallon and Luke, I was a homeless single mother.Escaping an abusive ex, with two small children to feed.The gorgeous men of my dreams offered more than just shelter in their spectacular mansion;They gave me love, a sense of belonging, and…A beautiful baby boy.Yet just when I find peace my younger sister goes missing...
  • The Echo of Violence by Candice M. Wright

    The Echo of Violence by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My daddy was the president of an outlaw MCMy Uncles, a motley crew of dangerous bikersI thought we were invincibleUntil a brutal act of violence destroyed everythingMy home, my family, and my identity were all gone in the blink of an eyeLeaving behind a tangled mess of emotional and physical scars...
  • Auction Me by Ivy Smoak

    Auction Me by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    My bestie has been kidnapped by a mafia boss. And now he’s going to auction her virginity. The most powerful, handsome men from all over the world have flown in to bid on her tonight.But I’m going to save her.It won’t be easy. I have to disable the security cameras, break into the mafia boss’s private suite on the top floor of the hotel, and then somehow get back out...
  • Dangerous Lies by Kris Butler

    Dangerous Lies by Kris Butler

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lying to yourself was the most dangerous game of all.I’d once thought the only thing that mattered was the truth. But perhaps I’d been naive. Learning to navigate life with my eyes open, I’d found things weren’t as they seemed. The good guy didn’t always get the girl, the right thing wasn’t always easy to spot, and the bad guy wasn’t always the villain. Life was more about perception than truth...
  • Daddies by Shanna Handel

    Daddies by Shanna Handel

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A Mafia Billionaire Romance. I didn't ask for a daddy. They decided I needed two.When they caught me putting my nose where it didn't belong, they didn't just teach me a lesson.They bared my bottom and spanked me like a naughty little girl.Then they made me call them daddy.This bad girl needs a firm hand. From both of us.She was playing a dangerous game and she had to be punished...
  • Daddies’ Little Spitfire by Everly Raine

    Daddies’ Little Spitfire by Everly Raine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Hedda went through a traumatic event that changed her. Pulling into herself, she visited Springfield, Missouri to get away from everything. She knew it was a risk coming to Missouri when Oliver and Leo were there, but she didn't plan on seeing them. Fear and guilt gripped her life each day, pulling her further and further away from reality.Oliver and Leo worried about Hedda...
  • Smokey & Bandit: Rebel Guardians MC by Liberty Parker, Darlene Tallman

    Smokey & Bandit: Rebel Guardians MC by Liberty Parker, Darlene Tallman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hannah Nelson has been running for a long, long time. Getting out of the dysfunctional household she was raised in, she knows if she doesn’t get out of the small-town she was living in, she’ll always be branded with the same brush her parents and siblings are...white trash, no-account, good-for-nothing pieces of filth. But Hannah has dreams of being an artist...
  • If You Were Ours by Melissa White

    If You Were Ours by Melissa White

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Kinsley Wright didn't come from money, but her friendship with Mafia princess, Adriana Romano, flung her into a lavish world that was luxurious and intimidating all wrapped into one. When she gains the attention of wealthy mafia bad boys, Dane Moretti and Tyson Santoro, her world is knocked off its axis and seems to stop turning all together...
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    mafia  harems  super rich hero  bdsm  poly
  • One Night with the Bikers (Royal Bastards MC: Tonopah, NV) by Nikki Landis

    One Night with the Bikers (Royal Bastards MC: Tonopah, NV) by Nikki Landis

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    One night, three bikers, a shared bottle of whiskey, and the best climax of my life changed everything.I’ve always been a good girl.My father is a preacher, and I’ve spent my life making safe choices and following all the rules.But when I find the man who swore to love me in bed with another woman, I can’t pretend to honor, love, and cherish any longer. He betrayed me and emptied our bank account...
  • House Rules by Evie Rae

    House Rules by Evie Rae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    Everyone in this town owes something to the casino.My father owed everything—including his life.Now he’s dead, and his debt has come for me.I offer the mob a I’ll uncover what the four sons of Titan Wynn Casino are hiding. In exchange, they erase what my father owed. They say yes. But there’s a catch—I have to get close.Enter the Conrad. Storm. Maverick. Atticus...
  • Blood in the Water by R.E. May

    Blood in the Water by R.E. May

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    First, he adorned me in diamonds. Then, he killed my father.Now, I’ll make him pay. I’ve waited my whole life for Maximiliano Volpe to propose. But on my twenty-first birthday, his sparkling gift offers no such promise — probably because he’s been too busy preparing the ultimate betrayal. What’s a mafia princess to do?Take revenge, of course...
  • Eight Bikers' Heir by Nicole Casey

    Eight Bikers' Heir by Nicole Casey

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A biker gang wants me to have their baby? This must be some wild joke.It all started with a flirty chat with Kai, the leader of the Iron Serpents MC. One wild night led to something I never saw coming: I was pregnant.I thought I’d be raising my child alone, but the gang makes a shocking offer: they need an heir, and they promise to support me throughout my pregnancy...
  • Masks & Mayhem: The Hannover Heathens Book 1 by Lauren Ellis

    Masks & Mayhem: The Hannover Heathens Book 1 by Lauren Ellis

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    I’m not a good girl, not really. I mean, I get good grades, and I’ve never been arrested, but it’s not for lack of a little law-breaking. I don’t have the time or luxury of a moral compass--not when I have someone counting on me. So, I’ve been keeping my head down, getting everything ready for us to flee this place as soon as I turn eighteen. But the past has a way of catching up to us...
  • Until I Keep You by Callie Stevens

    Until I Keep You by Callie Stevens

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    Wanting one man you can’t have is bad enough. But wanting two is torture…I knew better than to fall for my latest client. But Nate Lyons is not easy to resist, and being his live-in physical therapist is an exercise in restraint. One I’m not sure I’ll be able to pull off. Enter Mason Lotts. Nate’s best friend. My very hot ex-boyfriend. The very man I have been trying to forget...
  • Deadly Passion by Holly Bloom

    Deadly Passion by Holly Bloom

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What if the men I thought I loved want to ruin me?Escaping captivity should have given me the freedom I craved, but now I’m stuck in another prison. My sexy captors know my true identity, and they want to make me pay for my deception.The Dukes may have reunited, but dark secrets and cruel revelations have changed them. They’re broken, and so am I...
  • When We Fall by Shayne Ford

    When We Fall by Shayne Ford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trick or treat? Or triple treat?A walking contrast, my neighbor catches me at a low point in my life.We wouldn’t be more different, yet he is set to prove me wrong.I’m not the one to refuse a dare, although I may be in over my head.His proposal involves him, me, and his two best friends.They bet against me, and the prize is a secret. What I have to do to win is not what you think.Well, almost...
  • Baking and Blindfolds by Sylvie Haas

    Baking and Blindfolds by Sylvie Haas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cooking with my stepbrothers really heats things up.I'm a disappointment.A failure.A burden.That's how my billionaire father and his wife see me.After getting dumped and flunking out of college, there's only one place left to go: back home. The last thing I want is to see that look of utter disgust in my father's eyes and that smug smirk on my stepmother's face, yet again...
  • Wicked in the Shadows by Trina M. Lee

    Wicked in the Shadows by Trina M. Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I knew that coming home to them would be painful. I had no idea that it was only the beginning.After coming together to deal with the syndicate that followed me home, the guys went their separate ways once again. As I struggle to forgive and forget the past, they do as well. It all gets so much worse when an attack on the nightclub Wolfe and Ace own sets off a chain of horrific events...
  • Stepbrothers in the Bratva by Sylvie Haas

    Stepbrothers in the Bratva by Sylvie Haas

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I’m a people pleaser through and through. There is 1 thing that will make my stepbrothers happy…pleasing me. Who am I to deny their happiness?!?! And my own! ;) My four stepbrothers have very different ideas of what I should be studying and where I should get my lessons. I say I should be studying for my science degree, while they say it should be sex ed...
  • Nanny for the Billionaire by Cassie Cole

    Nanny for the Billionaire by Cassie Cole

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WANTED: NANNY FOR BILLIONAIREI wish that’s what the ad had said. Because it was a huge surprise when I was picked up for my job interview in a freaking helicopter.Now I’m nannying the children of Braxton Nash, the young, fearless, incredibly-handsome billionaire.But at night? He has scorching plans for me. And that’s not the only fringe benefit of this job...
  • Dangerous Love by Kris Butler

    Dangerous Love by Kris Butler

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    In the end, there was nothing more dangerous than love.“Atticus was all in, and well, I guess I was all in with the mafia.” If you’d asked me six months ago if this was what my life would look like, I would’ve politely told you that you were insane. But now, the mafia, or the men in it, had become my world, and I was learning to embrace the darkness I’d long ignored...
  • Twisted Queen by Penelope Black

    Twisted Queen by Penelope Black

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    When I’m ripped from safety, catapulted into consciousness, and thrown into a nightmare, I come face-to-face with the cruel plot twist fate threw me.My fight-or-flight instinct kicks in, and when every road leads to chaos, there’s only one option.In my darkest moments, I promised myself I’d take what I want.And that includes them.My dark avengers.Protective. Possessive. Mine...
  • A Day of Chaos by Steph Macca

    A Day of Chaos by Steph Macca

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Just when I thought the broken pieces were finally falling back into place, my world shattered again.He's getting closer and this time he's promising to hurt anyone who stands in his way.Starting with the guys I am in love with.They saved me and now they are in danger because of it. He's determined to destroy me, to break me.I was so close to being free but chaos knows no mercy...
  • Show Biz by Jenn Bullard

    Show Biz by Jenn Bullard

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What if… they left you because they weren’t good enough for you. Does that make things better? It’s five years later and you’re the headliner for their show. No one told you this was going to happen, and you’re frozen in fear and surprise when you step into their sight. What would you do? Show biz is a second chance, why choose stand alone with MM content and Layla’s story...
  • Her Royal Treatment by Kai Lesy

    Her Royal Treatment by Kai Lesy

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It’s like being cherished. Worshipped and unbelievably fulfilled, by four of the most beautiful men I'd ever laid eyes on. All at the same time.The King ordered me to lock down.In my country, his word is final - especially for the Princess.I’m both infuriated and screwed!My anger transforms into curiosity when my eyes fall on my protectors.Four ex-military mercenaries. Brothers by war...
  • Saved by the Marines by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Saved by the Marines by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    They never should’ve been protecting me. Now, they’re my only hope… As the daughter of a US Senator, my life was never going to be normal. I thought I’d finally escaped out from my father’s shadow, but he dragged me back kicking and screaming...
  • Debauched by Sarah Bailey

    Debauched by Sarah Bailey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    Four seek their fifth. The hunter devours his prey. Who will lose first?It started with an impossible choice. One I had no wish to make from a person I'd only just come to know.So many of our decisions had led up to this moment. Perhaps it was the way we’d come together which threw my life so off balance. Leaving me with the final say in a matter I wanted no part of...
  • Promise of Embers by Celeste Night

    Promise of Embers by Celeste Night

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    I was offered one last job. One last job and I would be free from owing anyone anything. It was enough money that I would be able to pay for my final semester of college and change my life forever. How could I say no to that? The job was straightforward: burn down an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Strathmore...
  • Secret Baby and the Bratva by Sylvie Haas

    Secret Baby and the Bratva by Sylvie Haas

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I hid my pregnancy for 9 months, but my secret's out now!We all have that friend—the one who can convince us to do anything. The one who gets away with everything. I’m not that friend. I’m the friend who lets my bestie convince me to go to a sex club, relax my better judgment for one night, hook up with three guys, and end up pregnant...
  • Double Scrooged by Shae Sullivan

    Double Scrooged by Shae Sullivan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say everyone has a Scrooge in their life, and I unfortunately have two.Nate and Barron, my arrogant ex-stepbrothers, hate me.Like really hate me.Ever since my dad, their ex-stepdad, cheated on their mom for the fifth time, they’ve wanted nothing to do with me—or him. Not that I can blame them. Daddy has never been the standard father figure...
  • Alphahole by Ann Grech

    Alphahole by Ann Grech

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An eye for an eye—her identity, their lives.Vengeance will be sweet. And I will have it. My mother’s and brother’s killers will suffer.Ryder, my brother’s best friend, is by my side. He’s ready to help exact retribution.Together we will destroy the earth to find the culprits.But I want more. I want Ryder.I want us. All of us.I’m not the only one either. My guys want Ryder as much as I do...
  • Dark Devotions by Nichole Greene

    Dark Devotions by Nichole Greene

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Once upon a time they were my best friends, my family, my soulmates. But this is no fairy tale and I have nothing left to lose.Beaten, bruised, scarred, emotionally traumatized. Olivia finally found a way to escape her sadistic husband. Now broken and penniless, with nowhere else to turn, she seeks out the four men who always protected her when they were younger...
  • Depraved by Sarah Bailey

    Depraved by Sarah Bailey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Together. Apart. Where does it end?It started with the war. The war we’d wage upon the very man who’d raised me. The war which would either tear us apart or keep us together.We’d finally found our way to each other. The five of us gave in. It’d been inevitable from the start. Desire had forged us, but it was love which set us free. Made us into what we were. A family drenched in blood...
  • Their Dark Reign by Penelope Wylde

    Their Dark Reign by Penelope Wylde

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    * You read about Nyx in Room Two, now follow her into Their Dark Reign for a dark, mafia reverse harem romance!I’ve always chased after the bad boy.My taste for the dark side has nearly killed me once.And now I am knocking on death’s door again, only this time the darkness stares back at me with the most gorgeous eyes.All three of them. Mafia underlords. Criminals...
  • Cartel Kings by Carmen Rosales

    Cartel Kings by Carmen Rosales

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Entre Familia Cartel KingsBlurb Coming...
  • Dad's Best Friends by Molly Eden

    Dad's Best Friends by Molly Eden

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I never meant to fall for my dad’s best friends...When I arrived at the lake house, I wanted a summer of relaxation and reconnection with my dad. But the presence of Oliver, Henry, and Max—each captivating in their own right—spins my world into unexpected chaos.With his carefree zest for life, Oliver urges me to seize every moment...
  • Gilded Princess by Penelope Black

    Gilded Princess by Penelope Black

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    When I was little, I was obsessed with fairytales. My dad told me the stories of the stars and white knights who rescue princesses. I’d wear a silver plastic crown and stare at the sky, waiting for the day my knight in shining armor would come.Then my dad died, my crown broke, and my mom shipped my sister and me off to boarding school.And then I met them.My knights...
  • Prevail by Bex Dawn

    Prevail by Bex Dawn

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Prequel: Crash: A Los Diablos Syndicate NovellaBook 1: Burn: A Dark Reverse Harem RomanceBook 2: Evolve: A Dark Reverse Harem RomanceBook 3: Ressurect: A Dark Reverse Harem RomanceBook 4: Prevail: A Dark Reverse Harem Romance (Part 1, Part 2)Book 5: Reign: A Dark Reverse Harem RomanceThis is a Reverse Harem, mafia/gang, mystery romance with plot twists/turns, steamy and smutty scenes, hot...
  • Tainted Deception by Kay Riley

    Tainted Deception by Kay Riley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Jace and Kian. Best friends until a gang rivalry ripped them apart. Three summers ago, I played them both, never expecting to have guilt over what I did.Once I got what I needed, I fled, planning to never see them again. I stayed tucked away at Little Haven University, hidden in plain sight while making moves in the dark...
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