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  • Control by Manna Francis

    Control by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 27 ratings
    Power Writes Its Own RulesGaining it, keeping it, or losing it, control is more than just a game--it's a critical tool for survival. No more so than in the Administration, where the Investigation and Interrogation Division's Val Toreth faces professional and personal hazards every day...
  • Evenfall Volume Two by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Evenfall Volume Two by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    In a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents.In the newly revised Director's Cut of Evenfall, the second volume follows Sin and Boyd through a long-term undercover mission in Mexico...
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  • Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut by Ais, Santino Hassell

    Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut by Ais, Santino Hassell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents.In the newly revised Director's Cut of Evenfall, the second volume follows Sin and Boyd through a long-term undercover mission in Mexico...
  • Evenfall Volume One by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Evenfall Volume One by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents.Sin is the Agency's most efficient killer. His fighting skills and talent at assassination have led to him being described as a living weapon...
  • Garden of Spiders Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    Garden of Spiders Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    When you look at a man’s past, who he is makes sense. Things previously shrouded become clear, and the airs of mystery that once clung so tightly to him, begin to fade away until all that is left is the being he hid like a dark secret.Elish’s beginnings did not start out with a bang, but inside of a peaceful home far from the savage realities of the greywastes...
  • IMMERSED by Gale Ian Tate

    IMMERSED by Gale Ian Tate

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Love at first death. Obsession at every resurrection.Levi Mercer wanted to honor his brother's memory with a charity stream. The VR horror game was supposed to last a few hours. Instead, it became an endless nightmare where the monsters are predictable, but the man hunting him is not.Death resets the scenario but not his killer's growing obsession...
  • Devil May Hunt by Chani Lynn Feener

    Devil May Hunt by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Brennon Cree made a mistake. Hitting on his best friend was the worst thing he's ever done, and he doesn't exactly have a squeaky-clean record. When he's given a chance to move on, he makes another mistake and seizes the opportunity. Which lands him in the bed of an alpha from another planet. Gunho Idris is hiding because of his rut...
  • The Devil's Embrace by Chani Lynn Feener

    The Devil's Embrace by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    Calix Valimir has one goal…Catch the killer terrorizing the galaxy and make it off the planet Emergence faster than anyone can recognize him. Of course, that’s a pipe dream, and he’s identified the very first night he’s there. Fortunately for him, he’s rescued by the resident golden boy, Doctor Aodhan Solace...
  • Waves of Fury by K. Webster

    Waves of Fury by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a post-apocalyptic, ruined-Earth survival thriller featuring LGBTQ+ heroes who must ban together, despite their differences, to not only adapt to the new, destroyed world, but find safety in it...
  • Saint by Chani Lynn Feener

    Saint by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    Nix Monroe has had it with playing things safe. Where exactly has that gotten him anyway? In the bed of three of the Demons of Foxglove Grove, in over his head. Since he arrived at the prestigious university, nothing has gone his way, and nothing has been what it seemed. Now that he's finally discovered the truth behind what his cousin was up to, he's reevaluating his next moves...
  • Dark Edge of Honor by Aleksandr Voinov, Rhi Etzweiler

    Dark Edge of Honor by Aleksandr Voinov, Rhi Etzweiler

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Sergei Stolkov is a faithful officer, though his deepest desires go against the Doctrine. A captain with the invading Coalition forces, he believes that self-sacrifice is the most heroic act and his own needs are only valid if they serve the state. Mike, an operative planted within Cirokko's rebels, has been ordered to seduce Sergei and pry from him the Coalition's military secrets...
  • Unlucky Break by Manna Francis

    Unlucky Break by Manna Francis

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Short story based on The Administration series. Warrick breaks his wrist while with Toreth. They have some explaining to do at the hospital...
  • A Kidnapping by Adara Wolf

    A Kidnapping by Adara Wolf

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    During what should have been a boring family affair, Alex is kidnapped while trying to protect Tracht’s nephew. With Tracht’s sister concentrating on getting her son back, nobody is thinking about Alex—except Tracht, who will stop at nothing to get him back.This 20k short story continues the story of Alex and Tracht from "Under His Heel...
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    queer  bisexual  anal sex  cruel hero  possessive hero  m-m  dark  bdsm
  • Under His Skin by Adara Wolf

    Under His Skin by Adara Wolf

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    Alex's five-year contract with Tracht is almost up, and neither of them is sure how things will proceed from here. Without the constraints of the contract, Alex is technically free to do whatever he wants. There's nothing forcing him to stay with Tracht, or forcing Tracht to keep him...
  • Under His Control by Adara Wolf

    Under His Control by Adara Wolf

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    Agreeing to transport goods for a notorious crime syndicate isn't the best choice Tracht had ever made, but reneging on that deal could have dire consequences for him. When it all goes sour, it's up to Alex to pull Tracht out of the fire. Under Control is the third book in the Under His Heel series and is not a standalone. It features dark kinks and an unhealthy central relationship...
  • Bane by Amelia C. Gormley

    Bane by Amelia C. Gormley

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    The weapon that nearly destroyed humanity may be their only salvation.Rhys Cooper once thought he was a dead man. Instead, he's proven immune to the virus that nearly wiped out humanity.Now the Clean Zone's scientists want to know why...
  • For Your Own Good by Adara Wolf

    For Your Own Good by Adara Wolf

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Darrel and Ben are an alpha couple in love. They’re ready to start a family… but their omega Teddy isn’t cooperating. That means they have to take some drastic measures in order to get through to him, but it’s all for his own good. Note: This short MM erotica story contains alpha/omega dynamics, threesome, noncon, breeding kink, bondage, and more...
    Categorized as:
    queer  anal sex  m-m  omegaverse  bdsm  menage  rape  abuse
  • Anthelion by R.A. Steffan

    Anthelion by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Ash is dead.Okay, that’s a lie. He’s not. Not really.Somehow, that doesn’t make things any better. After reports of a fatal hovercar accident outside the Capital—complete with a charred body and DNA identification—it seems at first that all is lost in the Shadow Wing’s quest to infiltrate the Premiere’s inner circle...
  • Outcast Mine by Jamie Craig

    Outcast Mine by Jamie Craig

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    There is nothing Aleron Pitre can't steal, nobody he can't con and no situation he can't slip out of—until he's sent to the prison planet Tantoret, where every sentence is death. If the prisoners don't kill each other, they'll die slowly from mining the poisonous drug chojal. Yet Aleron still hopes that he can escape...
  • An Uncommon Whore by Belinda McBride

    An Uncommon Whore by Belinda McBride

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 31 ratings
    "As a general rule, you won't find the love of your life while you're on your knees under a table." -- Helios Dayspring Pasha is a slave, whoring for travelers at the most dangerous bar on Warlan. He has no memory, no future of his own, yet deep inside Pasha knows that that he is meant for better things...
  • The Swede: A Novel by Robert Karjel

    The Swede: A Novel by Robert Karjel

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Swedish security agent is summoned to interrogate a terror suspect held by the FBI —but the prisoner isn't the only one with something to hide.At a remote military base in the Indian Ocean, the FBI is trying to get a prisoner to confess. But the detainee, a suspect in an Islamist-inspired terror attack in the United States, refuses to talk...
    Categorized as:
    queer  bisexual  mystery  suspense  m-m  dark  contemporary  war
  • The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 113 ratings
    Two boys, alone in space.After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are installed in the same spaceship.Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch...
  • The Interludes by Santino Hassell, Ais

    The Interludes by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The Interludes is an anthology of stand alone stories that exist between Book #2 (Afterimage) and Book #4 (Fade) of the In The Company of Shadows series. This anthology contains key plot points and major development of characters and relationships that cannot be missed...
  • Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

    Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 139 ratings
    Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love...
  • Seraph by Lily Mayne

    Seraph by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 282 ratings
    I’ve already mentally prepared myself to kill the screaming, murderous monster in the cage outside our camp.I’m used to it. It’s what I do here. Kill monsters and other people. And this monster, Seraph, is particularly unstable—has been since the moment he arrived from Collector Mary’s monster menagerie to the west, where the military stashed him away.He’s in pain. I can see it...
  • Psycho by Onley James

    Psycho by Onley James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 176 ratings
    August Mulvaney has always been exceptional. As the genius son of an eccentric billionaire, his off-putting behavior is often blamed on his high IQ. They say there’s a thin line between genius and madness. August is both—a brilliant professor loved by his students and a ruthless, obsessive killer tasked with righting the wrongs of a failing justice system...
  • Gloam by Lily Mayne

    Gloam by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 277 ratings
    When a strange woman shows up outside our camp in the Wastes with monsters chained up to her RV, it feels like I’m the only one who actually wants to help them.That big, grey-skinned monster with the cage on his head and the chain hanging from his back—something is telling me I need to help him. I need to free him...
  • Afterimage by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Afterimage by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    In the Company of Shadows is a series about two people who are thrown together as partners in a secret agency; their mission is to disband rebels who have propagated in a post-war future, but they have to deal with everything that comes with an unlikely partnership as well...
  • Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C. Rochelle

    Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C. Rochelle

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 181 ratings
    XanderBig City is supposedly the place where dreams come true. As someone just trying to live my life, I can tell you, it’s more like a recurring nightmare where dreams get c*ckblocked at every turn.Especially if you’re a supervillain like me.The irony is that I have zero powers, despite coming from purebred villain stock, but try telling that to Big City’s beloved hero, Captain Masculine...
  • First Against the Wall by Manna Francis

    First Against the Wall by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Who is leading the rabble to victory? Toreth shifted against the wall, trying to get comfortable. Between bruises and handcuffs, he didn't have much success. On the first day, in the first cell, the lights had been on, the water dispenser working, and the prisoner feeding schedule still running. Then the lights went out, and things had gone steadily downhill from there...
    Categorized as:
    bisexual  queer  futuristic  suspense  dark  mystery  dystopian  bdsm
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