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  • All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

    All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 84 ratings
    1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  historical  abuse  dark  death  abduction  survival
  • 泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng] by Qing Jun Mo Xiao, 请君莫笑

    泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng] by Qing Jun Mo Xiao, 请君莫笑

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A natural moat called the Luo river split the great land into two. Jing of the north, and Wei of the south. One was the Prince of the grass plains who had no worries nor sorrow. One was a lawful Princess who received exclusive favour of the Emperor...
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  • 余污 [Yu Wu] by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, 肉包不吃肉

    余污 [Yu Wu] by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, 肉包不吃肉

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The traitor Gu Mang returned to his home kingdom again. Everyone rejoiced in his banishment. It was said the one who hated him most was his closest friend – the cold and stoic Young Master Mo. A rumour: Young Master Mo prepared three hundred and sixty-five methods of torture to try on Gu Mang, enough to play with him for a year without repetition...
  • A Sea of Song and Sirens by Whit Stanfield

    A Sea of Song and Sirens by Whit Stanfield

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Raised in a trading port, I'd seen my share of attractive sailors. But I'd never cared to get to know one, let alone allow one to follow me around, drawing my neighbors' suspicions that I was a seductress. Until the day I pulled him from the water. I found him drowned and alone, and I breathed life into him before I knew his name...
  • An Oath and a Promise by Adelaide Blaike

    An Oath and a Promise by Adelaide Blaike

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Just when Ren had everything he wanted – Mathias, Quareh’s throne, and the chance for peace they’d fought so hard for – it was cruelly ripped away. Now him and Mat are on the run from their own people as they desperately search for a way to restore the prince’s name and protect the country they love. Hunted across the continent by enemies old and new, it will take everything they have to survive...
  • 千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 24 ratings
    晏无师是从尸山血海里走过来的人。. 他不相信人性本善,更不相信这世上会有大仁大义,不求回报为别人着想的人。. 某日,有天下第一道门之称的玄都山掌教沈峤与人约战,却因故坠下山崖。. 晏无师正好从下面路过。. 看到重伤濒死的沈峤,他忽然生出一个绝妙的主意……. 千秋之后,谁能不朽?. **THIS ENTRY IS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE WEBNOVEL NOT THE PHYSICAL EDITIONS OR EBOOKS**. "Thousand Autumns". Yan Wushi had walked a path full of blood and corpses. He did not believe in the good nature of humanity...
  • 千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    晏无师是从尸山血海里走过来的人。. 他不相信人性本善,更不相信这世上会有大仁大义,不求回报为别人着想的人。. 某日,有天下第一道门之称的玄都山掌教沈峤与人约战,却因故坠下山崖。. 晏无师正好从下面路过。. 看到重伤濒死的沈峤,他忽然生出一个绝妙的主意……. 千秋之后,谁能不朽?. **THIS ENTRY IS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE WEBNOVEL NOT THE PHYSICAL EDITIONS OR EBOOKS**. "Thousand Autumns". Yan Wushi had walked a path full of blood and corpses. He did not believe in the good nature of humanity...
  • 약탈혼 2 [Yagtalhon 2] by Saha, 사하

    약탈혼 2 [Yagtalhon 2] by Saha, 사하

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    결혼식을 앞두고 유서를 작성했다. 첫날밤을 치른 후 죽어버릴 것이기 때문이었다. 평생 나라를 위해, 그리고 왕실을 위해 헌신한 왕녀의 비참한 최후였다. 목숨을 내버리기 전에, 레아는 왕실을 향한 마지막 복수를 계획했다. 순결하지 못한 새신부가 되는 것이었다. “왜 첫 경험을 내다버렸지? 도망치고 싶진 않나? ”. “나는…… 죽고 싶어. ”. 하룻밤 상대이기에 충동적으로 털어놓은 말이었다. 그렇게 끝날 인연이라고 생각했다. 전혀 생각지도 못한 곳에서 다시 만나기 전까지는. 그는 질서정연하던 일상을 침식해나갔다. 위험한 관계임을 알면서도, 레아는 그를 거부할 수 없었다. 도대체 저 남자는 무슨 생각을 하고 있는 것일까. “기억 안 나? ”. 남자는 사납게 웃으며 말했다. “내가 네 인생 망쳐주겠다고 했잖아...
  • A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov

    A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even a king gets stung when he reaches for a scorpion. After barely surviving an assassination attempt, King Adrastes is a changed man—one who mistrusts even his allies and friends. He readies his Empire for war against an enigmatic enemy, the Elder of Vededrin, but not everyone approves...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  m-m  fantasy  military  historical  queer  mystery  dark
  • Lying with Scorpions by Aleksandr Voinov

    Lying with Scorpions by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you lie with scorpions, you’d better have a taste for poison. Now that Kendras’s lover Adrastes has claimed the throne of Dalman, Kendras is tangled deeper than ever in politics and intrigue. As the new leader of the Scorpions and Adrastes’s one true friend, he and his men stand between Adrastes and those who wish him dead. And many do...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  m-m  fantasy  military  historical  queer  dark  war
  • Fine Eyes & Beastly Pride by Tiffany Thomas

    Fine Eyes & Beastly Pride by Tiffany Thomas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this Pride & Prejudice variation, Elizabeth Bennet’s desperate journey to save her father's life leads to a forced marriage with the reclusive and scarred Mr. Darcy. Will the beauty with fine eyes be able to tame the man with beastly pride? All Elizabeth Bennet wants is for her father to bring back from Lambton a cutting of Pemberley’s famous roses...
  • 약탈혼 3 [Yagtalhon 3] by Saha, 사하

    약탈혼 3 [Yagtalhon 3] by Saha, 사하

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    결혼식을 앞두고 유서를 작성했다. 첫날밤을 치른 후 죽어버릴 것이기 때문이었다. 평생 나라를 위해, 그리고 왕실을 위해 헌신한 왕녀의 비참한 최후였다. 목숨을 내버리기 전에, 레아는 왕실을 향한 마지막 복수를 계획했다. 순결하지 못한 새신부가 되는 것이었다. “왜 첫 경험을 내다버렸지? 도망치고 싶진 않나? ”. “나는…… 죽고 싶어. ”. 하룻밤 상대이기에 충동적으로 털어놓은 말이었다. 그렇게 끝날 인연이라고 생각했다. 전혀 생각지도 못한 곳에서 다시 만나기 전까지는. 그는 질서정연하던 일상을 침식해나갔다. 위험한 관계임을 알면서도, 레아는 그를 거부할 수 없었다. 도대체 저 남자는 무슨 생각을 하고 있는 것일까. “기억 안 나? ”. 남자는 사납게 웃으며 말했다. “내가 네 인생 망쳐주겠다고 했잖아...
  • 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. Can they move past the tragic revelations?
  • Keeper of Pleas by Annelie Wendeberg

    Keeper of Pleas by Annelie Wendeberg

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On December 10, 1880, Coroner Sévère makes a gruesome discovery: nine newborns, buried in flowerpots, and hidden in plain sight in Whitechapel. A mortician receives the bodies and vanishes. Clues for the two seemingly unconnected cases are scarce...
  • Paid to the Pirate by Una Rohr

    Paid to the Pirate by Una Rohr

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    He wants revenge. Captain Colt finds treasure far more valuable than gold when he invades a Carolina settlement, demanding tribute. He finds the girl who slipped through his grasp two years ago and he relishes the opportunity to punish her for what she’s done…. Though the strain in his breeches makes it unclear which of them is suffering more from the reunion. She wants justice...
  • The German by Lee Thomas

    The German by Lee Thomas

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his men are baffled and the community he serves is terrified of the monster lurking their streets. The only clues the killer leaves behind are painted snuffboxes containing notes written in German...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  historical  m-m  war  fantasy  dark  queer
  • The German by Lee Thomas

    The German by Lee Thomas

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Set during the height of World War II, The German examines the effect a series of ritualistic murders has on a small, Texas community. A killer preys on the young men of Barnard, Texas, leaving cryptic notes written in German. As the panic builds all eyes turn toward a quiet man with secrets of his own, who is trying to escape a violent past. Ernst Lang fled Germany in 1934...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  historical  m-m  war  fantasy  dark  queer
  • Moments of Mayhem by T.L. Smith

    Moments of Mayhem by T.L. Smith

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We met for the first time in high school. As adults, we married. But it was all fake. The wedding, us, what he did for a job. None of it was real. Except it was. They say he’s nothing but Mayhem, yet when he’s with me, he’s my salvation. Everything I need and more. The problem is…. He has a fascination for blood. I can’t handle it, in more ways than one. He has a fascination for me...
  • The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

    The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable historical thriller about murder, manipulation, and a young woman trying to wrestle power from the hands of a dangerous man. But he’s always one step ahead . . . London, 1839...
  • 반쪽 by Chyomchyom

    반쪽 by Chyomchyom

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
  • Of Exile and Song by Tiffany Hunt

    Of Exile and Song by Tiffany Hunt

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    I’ve been hunted my whole life. I am part siren, a hated half-breed. Forced to live in hiding, I use magic to steal and avoid the mages who would punish me for what I am. In a land ravaged by war, it’s the only way to survive. The only way to feed my family. I can change my destiny...
  • Betrayal by J.C. Owens

    Betrayal by J.C. Owens

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Secrets, madness, lies…and a love forged in the flames of betrayal. Imprisoned, starved and abused by his captors, Darcel finds his only escape in the depths of madness. But he’s tormented by his own demons, who taunt him with the memories of his past and of his beloved prince, Alasar of Rais. The man who condemned him to this prison for killing the enemy’s high king...
  • Uncle Silas By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Illustrated  (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Illustrated (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg...
  • Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram-Haugh", is a Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike...
  • Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg.
  • Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram-Haugh", is a Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike...
  • Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram-Haugh", is a Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike...
  • Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg...
  • Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg...
  • Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas Illustrated by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram-Haugh", is a Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike...
  • Stolen at Sea by Summer O'Toole

    Stolen at Sea by Summer O'Toole

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “He kneeled down and his eyes, the color of the sea caught in a storm, met mine. For some reason, the fact that rabbits' hearts can stop from fear alone popped into my head—literally being scared to death”. My plan to save my family’s business didn’t include getting kidnapped by a crew of mutineers. Or ending up beaten and chained in the hull of a ship...
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