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  • Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 40 ratings
    This book is the sixth book in the internationally bestselling Eagle Elite Series. It's an interconnected stand alone novel with no cliffhanger. Twenty-Four hours before we were to be married--I offered to shoot her. Ten hours before our wedding--I made a mockery of her dying wish. Five hours before we were going to say our vows--I promised I'd never love her...
  • Inferno by Catherine Doyle

    Inferno by Catherine Doyle

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 28 ratings
    Romeo and Juliet meets The Godfather in the second installment of Catherine Doyle's Blood for Blood series. Sophie's life has been turned upside-down, and she's determined to set things right. But Nic, the Falcone brother who represents everything she's trying to forget, won't give up on their love - and it's Luca's knife she clutches for comfort...
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  • Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 21 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world. We knew it wasn’t going to be easy.That our love could start a war...Dear reader,Dark Legacy is the twelfth book in my Knight's Ridge Empire series, and the third book of Calli and Batman's story...
  • Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 180 ratings
    Check out the #1 New York Times bestseller Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, called “a surefire hit” by Entertainment Weekly.   "The secrets burrowed in this seemingly placid small town...are so suburban noir they would make David Lynch clap with glee..
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  abuse  dark  young adult  humor  rape
  • Elicit by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elicit by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 42 ratings
    Cursed, numb, rejected, scorned, wicked, sinister, dark, twisted...my name is Tex Campisi and this is my legacy. I killed my father in cold blood and lost my soul right along with him. I crave war more than peace, and I'm about to take my place in history as the youngest Capo dei Capi in the Cosa Nostra...that is until someone stops me, saves me from myself...
  • Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 28 ratings
    Lucien Valentine must die.It’s the thought that’s kept me going for four long years. I’ve imagined it, dreamed about it, relished in it. I want it so bad, but the question is, do I have what it takes to make it happen?Taking a life isn’t for the faint-hearted. Just ask Lucien, he knows.He’s taken me back to where it all started and I know exactly how it’s going to go...
  • Malum: Part Two by Amo Jones, Lucy Rivers

    Malum: Part Two by Amo Jones, Lucy Rivers

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Some girls don’t like pretty things.Some girls like things that are destructive and toxic. Things that fuel our bodies with adrenaline and bring our demons to their knees.They say magic isn’t real, but isn't it the closest way to describe love? It doesn’t exist physically. It merely exists around us, within us, possessing our souls and making us do stupid shit...
  • The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

    The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it.Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best—the language of violence. While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted among other people...
  • Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next installment of her dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world.My life has been full of half-truths tangled in lies—I’d been to hell and back more times than I could count...
  • The Sinners by Ruby Vincent

    The Sinners by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    I knew when I started this path it would lead to destruction......but nothing could have prepared me for this.Drugs flooding campus. Tensions brewing between the factions. Old enemies reappearing. New secrets taking over my life. Love awakening a soul I long thought was dead.Cassius, Clay, Hiro, and Royal have named me one of them, but sharing a title is easy...
  • Ghostgirl by J.B. Salsbury

    Ghostgirl by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She was brainwashed into believing she could save mankind.Now, she’s the one who needs saving. Abandoned with his two younger brothers, Milo Vega was placed in foster care. Now a twenty-year-old high-school senior covered in gang tattoos and working as the school’s janitor, he is living a life vastly different from the one he was destined for...
  • Game by Barry Lyga

    Game by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Billy grinned. “Oh, New York,” he whispered. “We’re gonna have so much fun.” I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history’s most infamous serial killer, Billy Dent. In an effort to prove murder didn’t run in the family, Jazz teamed with the police in the small town of Lobo’s Nod to solve a deadly case...
  • The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Blackmail. Breakups. Boys. Trouble always comes in threes.Life is different for Jack Moreno. Good. Definitely good. Well, better, anyway.He’s back in school (although classes are harder than he expected). And his dad is healthy (which means he’s worrying again about things like Jack’s curfew and, oh yeah, grades)...
  • Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

    Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other close friends are off to a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives. But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting against vile and contemptuous accusations...
  • Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Out of the past six years of my life, I only remember about half of it. After a dozen doctors and thousands in medical bills, I was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder--one that causes me to lose track of time. Sometimes it’s hours, days or even weeks with no recollection of anything. The good thing is it's been almost two years since I had my last ‘black out’...
  • Collateral Damage: A Second Chance Mafia Romance by Amy McKinley

    Collateral Damage: A Second Chance Mafia Romance by Amy McKinley

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The spark is real, but the timing’s wrong.When Mafia surgeon, Trey La Rosa, met the one woman who could bring him to his knees, grief from his girlfriend’s recent death loomed between them. He forced himself to walk away. Months later, she’s been kidnapped—and he’ll do anything to save her...
  • Meet Me in the Dark by J.A. Huss

    Meet Me in the Dark by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    He’s empty, inhuman, dishonest, and cruel.She’s never wanted anyone more. Sydney has lived in fear for eight years after freelance assassin, Merc, failed to rescue her from a cult-like militia group. Left in the hands of a sadistic man, she did whatever it took to survive. But Merc’s last words gave her hope. Hope he’d be back to finish the job...
  • The Dead List by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Dead List by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    It's Ella's senior year of high school and she and her best friend Linds plan to make it the best year ever. At Brock Cochran's end of summer pool party, the girls vow to have as much fun as possible before they head off to different colleges next fall. But when Ella is mysteriously attacked on her way home from the party, everything changes...
  • Salvation and Secrets by L A Cotton

    Salvation and Secrets by L A Cotton

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Chastity Falls was supposed to be Ana Parry’s fresh start. But what started as her salvation soon became her undoing. Four months after losing the very thing that gave her reason again, Ana is back at Chastity Falls. Holding on by a thread and trying hard to forget about Jackson isn’t easy when she’s determined to uncover the Donohue’s biggest secrets...
  • Cruel Legacy by Dakota Lee

    Cruel Legacy by Dakota Lee

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    A NEW LIFEThat’s what the move to canyon falls was supposed to offer me. A chance to leave my past behind.But day one I manage to paint a target on my back and the vindictive boys who run this school, Pax, Finn and Holdendecide to turn me into their personal punching bag.They try it all. Liquidated accounts. Public humiliation. Every prank and act of horror designed to break me.I’ve endured worse...
  • Persuasion by T.K. Leigh

    Persuasion by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I came to Hawaii to get answers about my sister’s death.But that all changes when I meet her.Beautiful. Charming. Haunted.And the last thing I need in my life.But that doesn’t mean I can stay away from her, a powerful force pulling me toward her when all rationale tells me to keep my distance.So we make an agreement.One week. No names. No falling in love.It’s the perfect plan...
  • Yakuza Fiance: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Vol. 2 by Asuka Konishi

    Yakuza Fiance: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Vol. 2 by Asuka Konishi

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Depuis la disparition de la fille d’un yakuza allié au clan Miyama, et le meurtre d’un de leurs hommes,Yoshino est contrainte à passer tout son temps avec Kirishima pour sa propre sécurité. Situation compliquée pour ses nerfs ! À l’occasion d’une sortie, elle aperçoit la soi-disant disparue dans un quartier branché...
  • Vendetta by Catherine Doyle

    Vendetta by Catherine Doyle

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    When it comes to revenge, love is a dangerous complication.With a fierce rivalry raging between two warring families, falling in love is the deadliest thing Sophie could do. An epic debut set outside modern-day Chicago. When five brothers move into the abandoned mansion in her neighbourhood, Sophie Gracewell's life changes forever...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mafia  mystery  abuse  dark  bad boys  vengeance  insta-love
  • Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets...
  • Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Vol. 2 by Asuka Konishi

    Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Vol. 2 by Asuka Konishi

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    Depuis la disparition de la fille d’un yakuza allié au clan Miyama, et le meurtre d’un de leurs hommes,Yoshino est contrainte à passer tout son temps avec Kirishima pour sa propre sécurité. Situation compliquée pour ses nerfs ! À l’occasion d’une sortie, elle aperçoit la soi-disant disparue dans un quartier branché...
  • I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod...
  • Friends by J.M. Darhower

    Friends by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Friends: One moment. One wrong choice. That was all it took to destroy a friendship. *takes place before Sempre* Forever: Halloween. With a three year old. 'Nuff said...
  • Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I was crying one minute and laughing the next. A definite must read!" Winnie is content in her role as the reining matriarch of Smithville, but when a letter arrives from a long-lost friend, the door to her past is reopened. Memories come flooding in, drawing her back to 1968, her college days; a time filled with people and events she hasn’t allowed herself to recall...
  • Darkly Ever After: An Organized Crime Anthology by Silla Webb, Gwyn McNamee

    Darkly Ever After: An Organized Crime Anthology by Silla Webb, Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The men of organized crime aren’t white knights.With quick trigger fingers and ruthless souls, they’re tall, dark, and deadly.Taking what they want and decimating anything that stands in their way.These men rule from their bloody thrones.Only a woman’s touch can tame the beasts lurking inside.Bringing light to the darkness.Love in the ruin...
  • Diamond Fortress by Morgan Elizabeth

    Diamond Fortress by Morgan Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Book Two in the Mastermind Duet“I don’t want to be a princess. I don’t want to be pretty. I want to fight!”“But you’re in a castle. You’re in a princess tower.”“Nope! I’m in a…” I try and think of the word I read from Lola’s vocabulary homework. “A fortress.”“A fortress, huh? So you can fight?”“Yup. Made of diamonds.”“Well, of course. You can fight in style...
  • Collide by E. K Hunter

    Collide by E. K Hunter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Riley I didn’t need friends. I didn’t need a man. All I needed was to keep my little sister safe and cared for, and I would have done anything to do that, even working in a dive like Club Sin. The last thing I needed was to get the attention of the most dangerous man in Hollows Bay….KaiI was the King of Hollows Bay.I had it all, money, power, and control over the city...
  • Pretty When You Lie by Anne Roman

    Pretty When You Lie by Anne Roman

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Juniper Wild is a liar.With her full lips, pretty blue eyes, and angelic face, she might have fooled everyone else in our small town, but not me. I know the truth about her - that she's a spoiled, selfish liar. Five years ago, she shattered my dreams with a single lie. And just when I thought she was gone for good, she shows up again, still hiding something...
  • Scarred, Part 3 by Kylie Walker

    Scarred, Part 3 by Kylie Walker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After agreeing to attend a Gala in New York with Derek, Chloe stumbles into her worst nightmare. Vince Donovan...District Attorney of New York...Jesse Donovan's father. RUN... is the only thought firing in her head. When Derek finally catches up with her, she realizes that her world has been flipped upside down and out of control. Chloe now decides to let the flood gates open...
  • Unstable by Alexandra Ivy

    Unstable by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 10 ratings
    WHEN IT COMES TO KILLINGA dead man in a cemetery isn’t news—unless he’s found on top of a grave, with a bullet through his head. The body belongs to Jude Henley, who was supposed to be buried below. Instead, the grave contains the remains of Staci Gale, thought to have run away nearly three decades ago...
  • All the Little Lights by Jamie McGuire

    All the Little Lights by Jamie McGuire

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 33 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jamie McGuire comes a riveting tale of first love that starts young but runs deep. The first time Elliott Youngblood spots Catherine Calhoun, he’s just a boy with a camera, and he’s never seen a sadder and more beautiful sight. Both Elliott and Catherine feel like outcasts, yet they find an easy friendship with each other...
  • Whiteout by Dyan Layne

    Whiteout by Dyan Layne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dear Miss Dalton,On behalf of our client, your presence at Dalton House is kindly requested.She’d been summoned. By the grandmother she’d never met.After missing twenty-one years of her life, why did she want to see her now?Please make arrangements to travel before the arrival of winter weather in the Sierra Nevada.Breanna had questions. Grandmama had the answers...
  • Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret...
  • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Faulkner’s most famous, most popular, and most anthologized short story, “A Rose for Emily” evokes the terms Southern gothic and grotesque, two types of literature in which the general tone is one of gloom, terror, and understated violence...
  • Dark Heart by Ella James

    Dark Heart by Ella James

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A devastating love story, coming summer 2020.--I thought he was the white knight. Looking back, it makes sense. I was young and needed saving. Luca was my strength. He could take on anything—the world, for me. They say first love cuts the deepest. Ours became a blade that bled me out. It turns out I didn’t know a villain when he held my heart in his hands. Now it’s darker—more like his...
  • Shattered Legacy by Caitlyn Dare

    Shattered Legacy by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mia Thompson wants only one thing: to survive Gravestone University, graduate, and get far far away from her hometown and its archaic traditions.But she’s about to become a pawn in a game she doesn’t understand.Bexley Danforth wants only one thing: to keep his head down, survive four years at college, and get far far away from his past and the mistakes that haunt him...
  • Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    When you're born wrong, sometimes you get bent and you get f*cked. Sometimes your life takes you places you don't want to go.Sometimes, it does. Dax McCann is as cold as ice. I'm intrigued by him. But I can't get close to him either. His music strokes my soul, butchers my broken heart. I wish he'd see me, but he only sees her...
  • Tough Luck by C.M. Stunich

    Tough Luck by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    * This is NOT the last book in the series. There will be later books featuring Turner and Naomi again, and they also appear in this volume quite a bit. ;) Ronnie McGuire is my target. But I wish he wasn't. I didn't sign up for this destruction, this pain. In his music, I hear his soul crying out for me...
  • Ómorphi by C. (Cody) Kennedy

    Ómorphi by C. (Cody) Kennedy

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Hauntingly beautiful, a book that you never wanted to end because you were so much a part of the characters lives. When you finish the book you want to know more, to pick up the phone and call Christy. Magically written, the voices and setting of the story were so clear you lived each moment with the characters...
  • Setting Fire by Mia Smantz

    Setting Fire by Mia Smantz

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sasha lives in the high mountain village of Stillwind. Not even thirty yet, she already owns her own cafe and spends her free time as a volunteer firefighter. No part of her life ever suggested that she'd become caught up in the middle of a crime ring that spans the globe. It's Stillwind. Nothing bad ever happens in Stillwind...
  • The End of Gods by Con Template

    The End of Gods by Con Template

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In every Kingdom, every government entity, and every secret society, there is an epic era that defies the boundaries of times and immortalizes itself in the history books. These unforgettable eras are unpredictable by nature and rare in occurrence. The centuries may come and go and such an extraordinary era may never grace the lives of those who live for it...
  • The Debt by Molly O'Keefe

    The Debt by Molly O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    LOVE AND SECOND CHANCES ARE NOT FREE For the five kids who live at St. Jude’s Home for Court Placed Juveniles, life is a nightmare. Carissa, the youngest, has been there the longest. And barely speaks. Rosa is sixteen and pregnant. Simon keeps his head down and studies, hoping to get back the life he lost...
  • What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

    What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Magda just wants to forget what happened. But there's a nightmare lurking —and it's coming for her...This is Magda’s last chance. Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school that threw her life into a tailspin, she’s shipped off to live with her grandparents in the Pacific Northwest for the summer...
  • Brake: A Serialized Dark Romantic Suspense by Skye Callahan

    Brake: A Serialized Dark Romantic Suspense by Skye Callahan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's no stopping as the bitter feud between brothers, Colt and Devlin, speeds out of control. From Colt's pawn to Devlin's captive, Aubrey is caught even deeper in their pact to destroy one another. Imprisoned in darkness, she fights for her life--and her sanity. Her only hope is a cocky and sadistic car thief who is already wrestling with his own demons...
  • Refrain by Lana Sky

    Refrain by Lana Sky

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some demons have angelic intentions... Caught in the middle of a vicious gang war, Espi Vialle is torn between helping a woman with a twisted past or escaping a world of crime he’s ashamed to be a part of.But when his own dark choices threaten to destroy what little hope of a future he has left, he’ll have to face his deepest fears and risk becoming the one person who has let him down the most...
  • Alternate by Lili St. Germain

    Alternate by Lili St. Germain

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you haven't read Alternate, you might want to download it and read it before you read Zero Hour (Which is the final book in the series).In Alternate, you'll get to learn some things you didn't know about Jase, Dornan and Elliot before you dive in to Zero Hour for the final Gypsy Ride...
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