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  • Sinful by K.G. Reuss

    Sinful by K.G. Reuss

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 44 ratings
    I was not without sin.I carried my name for a reason.Screwing things up was just part of who I was.Sometimes people got hurt because of me.Sometimes they died.After being exiled from the world I’d created with my best friends, I was left to punish myself for my sins against the girl they loved.The sins I spent hours begging whatever entity was out there to forgive me for...
  • Stitches by K.G. Reuss

    Stitches by K.G. Reuss

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Some secrets should not be kept. They should be screamed. I have a secret. In fact, I have many. Most of them could get me killed, so my silence is the golden ticket to survival in this asylum from hell. But my watchers don’t like it when I’m silent. They like when I scream. When I beg. When I’m a bad girl who tells the things I shouldn’t. Maybe this time I’ll let it all out...
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  • Villain Era by Luna Pierce

    Villain Era by Luna Pierce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 47 ratings
    He was once our enemy, but now he's my bodyguard.After our rival gives up the throne as my dying wish, my men trust him to keep a close watch on me and protect me from any danger that may come my way.He keeps me safe, somehow understanding the darkness that lurks inside of me. He knows it cannot be caged, and he allows me the ability to set it free when we’re alone...
  • Charming Devils by Katie May

    Charming Devils by Katie May

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Five years ago, they made my life a living hell. They teased me, abused me, and called me a witch.Little did they know...Now, I’m back for my senior year of high school. New hair, new style, new personality. I’ll no longer be the weird girl hiding in the shadows. Instead, I’ll embrace all of my darkness.The goal?Revenge on the boys—the men—who bullied me...
  • Trust in the Fallen by Montana Fyre

    Trust in the Fallen by Montana Fyre

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    We made a deal with the devil many years ago and sentenced ourselves to a life of hookups and casual sex. It’s not safe for us to bring a woman into our lives, and until recently it was enough. But then we met her. Our Angel. On the outside Leighton’s a good girl forced to live a life as a pawn in a game she didn’t choose to play...
  • Hand and Tome by Tana Rose

    Hand and Tome by Tana Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Potestas in omni temporeI’ve always known I needed to attend Septem Stellae University, Seven Stars to those that don’t speak Latin. As soon as I found the tiny school, tucked away on a remote island in the Puget Sound, there has been an ache in my chest pulling me toward it.When I’m accepted in my sophomore year, it feels like a dream...
  • Cruel Saints by Evie Kady

    Cruel Saints by Evie Kady

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Girls don’t belong at Lochkelvin Academy.This new girl, Jessa, is an abomination.A doe-eyed goody-two-shoes, as innocent as the day she was born.Our little saint thinks she can survive on her happy-clappy, all-American spirit.But this isn’t a school for girls. It isn’t a school for foreigners, either.The peacekeeper? She’s going down...
  • Hollow Hearts by B.C. Morgan

    Hollow Hearts by B.C. Morgan

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Harkwright Academy, the place where dreams can come true. A three year stay will award you with an education that will rival any college and enough money to aid you in whatever career you choose to take.I’m applying to give my mom the life she deserves, to fund my sister’s medical bills and so I can be sure to have the only thing I truly want...
  • Pack Origin by Kate King, Jessa Wilder

    Pack Origin by Kate King, Jessa Wilder

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 56 ratings
    They claimed my heat, I claimed their hearts In a world where Omegas are cherished, Alphas are revered, and Betas are forgotten I wouldn’t have changed a thing. Growing up in foster care, my friends and I took care of each other. Ares, Killian, Rafe, and Nox, were my everything: my first loves, my only family, my pack...
  • Gallows and Ghouls by Katie May

    Gallows and Ghouls by Katie May

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    One’s a liar. One’s arrested for murder. One’s dead. The rest of us? We’re struggling to get out of this mess alive. With new secrets emerging and the Shadow Man more determined than ever to claim me, we must all do something we’ve never done before: embrace our darkness...
  • Den of Vipers: A Dark Romance by K.A. Knight

    Den of Vipers: A Dark Romance by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 67 ratings
    Best of BookTok: Caught between four dangerous men, one woman indulges her hidden desires, in this deliciously dark reverse-harem romance.The Vipers run this town and everyone in it. They make deals as sordid as their business―and they have no mercy. They’re a mafia family only an idiot would mess with, so of course my estranged, abusive father did just that...
  • Savage Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Savage Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 203 ratings
    There's more to my brother's murder than I realised... Shadows in the halls, mysteries lurking around every corner. Whoever killed him is covering their tracks well. And now I'm walking a dangerous line between getting close to the four kings for information and wanting to crawl deeper under their skin for my own desires. I can't trust anyone. I can't let my guard down...
  • Devils' Day Party by C.M. Stunich

    Devils' Day Party by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 97 ratings
    I crashed my shitty yellow VW Beetle into Calix’s Aston Martin. To be fair, he deserved it. But Calix and his friends, Barron and Raz, they don’t see it that way. Not that it matters. They’ve bullied me for years, and I’ve never known why. At least today, they have something real to be pissed about. All of which would be fine, if today was a normal day. But it’s not. It’s far from normal...
  • Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    After surviving a round-trip to hell, Piper figures she can survive anything. After all, she just lived through the devastating loss of her Consul apprenticeship and a torturous stint at boarding school. How much worse could it get?Well, she wasn’t expecting a group of crazy radicals to burn her home to the ground and take her prisoner.The Gaians, a.k.a...
  • Watercolour Smile by Jane Washington

    Watercolour Smile by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    “Maybe I was stupid to have agreed to this, but when all of the options that you have in life are dangerous ones, you can only choose to do something reckless, or turn a blind eye and allow the cards to fall as they may… and I was sick of being blind...
  • The Storm We Face by Katie May

    The Storm We Face by Katie May

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Well... So far, my apocalpytic upbringing has not been peaches and daisies (if that is how the saying goes). Or is it peaches and pansies? Fighting off feral beasts, surviving natural disasters, and coming face to face with the worst that humankind has to offer is quite tiresome. Psycho ex-girlfriends? Check. Creepy monsters/zombies? Check. Orgasms? Not check. Yet...
  • Poison Throne by Jaymin Eve, Tate James

    Poison Throne by Jaymin Eve, Tate James

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    They're waiting for you.Those four words should have been a warning. They should have filled Violet with dread. But she was so focused on Rafe's disappearance, she forgot.The resistance was supposed to be fighting for a better world. A group of freedom fighters formed during the Monarch War, pushing back against laws that would see everyone enslaved. For a while there, they gave hope...
  • Dark Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Dark Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 235 ratings
    What do a heartless Dragon Shifter, a cold-blooded Basilisk, an arrogant Lion Shifter and a brooding, tattooed Harpy have in common…? Me.  Elise Callisto. Vampire. Angel of vengeance. And a girl on a mission to destroy one of them for murdering my brother. I just don’t know which one did it yet...
  • Chase the Dark by Annette Marie

    Chase the Dark by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 58 ratings
    Piper wants one thing in to become a Consul, a keeper of the peace between humans and daemons. There are three obstacles in her way.The first is Lyre. An incubus. He’s sinfully seductive, unusually perceptive, and flirtatious when he’s not being a smartass. But for a daemon with supernatural allure, he’s strangely averse to drawing attention to himself—or his secrets.The second is Ash...
  • Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly

    Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    In the wake of the Second Wave, the angel menace has exploded, and Alex and Willow are on the lam. Willow's prophetic dream points them to Mexico City, where they connect with a fledgling group of angel killers led by the exotically beautiful Kara, an Angel Killer from Alex's past...
  • Civil Contempt by Jade Thorn

    Civil Contempt by Jade Thorn

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The amount of pressure on Melody is only increasing. The Apex want to mate with her, her new coven wants her to choose a suitable husband from within their ranks and the new Provost wants her out of there - to graduate as soon as possible.Everyone wants something from Melody, including her mad aunt and Coven Bestia...
  • Guns and Graveyards by Katie May

    Guns and Graveyards by Katie May

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    I have blood on my hands. Blood that isn't mine. I had thought I had escaped my past. I had thought I had finally freed myself. But can you really escape your monsters? With a gang war looming on the horizon, bodies piling up, and a strange new student claiming ties to the Shadow Man, I find myself looking into my past...
  • Ignited by Steffanie Holmes

    Ignited by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    I’ll do whatever it takes to free them. Even if I have to sacrifice my soul. The Kings of Miskatonic Prep have fallen. Three arrogant, cruel, and broken boys defied an ancient god, a faculty who imprisoned them. and the parents who stole their future. They were never going to win. But they won’t quit. They won’t stop fighting. This time, it’s not themselves they’re trying to protect...
  • Initiated by Steffanie Holmes

    Initiated by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    They were my tormenters. Now, they’re all that stands between me and my nightmares. They were my tormenters. Now, they’re all that stands between me and my nightmares. Trey, Quinn, and Ayaz—the king, the joker, and the enigma. Three guys who’ve flipped my life upside down, set my heart on fire, and shown me that nothing is as it seems. Last quarter, they broke me...
  • Midnight Poison by A. Kirk, E. Kirk

    Midnight Poison by A. Kirk, E. Kirk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A new paranormal urban fantasy romance thriller from the bestselling authors of The Divinicus Nex Chronicles! It's action, adventure, suspense, and crazy fun characters!   - No Memory. No Mind. No Mercy. Kiara Blackwood has a few problems.She's older than she looks - by several centuries. She can't remember who she is...
  • Love Potion by Mary Martel

    Love Potion by Mary Martel

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Ariel Kimber is a seventeen year old girl who has recently discovered she is no ordinary girl. She's a witch and she's got magic. Her world is turned upside down with this discovery and the recent death of a parent. She struggles to learn the way of the world of magic while mourning for her hideous mother and trying to find her place amongst her coven...
  • Possessed by Steffanie Holmes

    Possessed by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    The Kings of Miskatonic betrayed me. Trey, Quinn, and Ayaz pulled me into their world, made me trust them. Now, I can’t even trust myself. They broke my mind, They shattered my heart. And sent me to the Dunwich Institute, where they tell me I’m insane. I am insane, all right. Insane to trust them. Insane to love them...
  • Wicked Gods by Michelle Hercules

    Wicked Gods by Michelle Hercules

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 42 ratings
    Nowhere is safe when the gods are wicked. Since the beginning of times, there has always been two sides: Norms and Idols. But never have the scales been so unbalanced as they are today. I’m a Norm, which means, I grew up in fear of the Idols and their godly powers. And now, I’m going to be surrounded by them, day and night...
  • Shunned by Steffanie Holmes

    Shunned by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 38 ratings
    I should have kept my mouth shut. I should have let them win. Now the kings of the school are out for my blood, ... and they’re not the only ones. The fire took everything. My parents. My best friend. My life. Now I have a second chance. I only have to endure one year at this prestigious academy for rich snobs. One year of being the charity case no one wanted...
  • Anything But the Truth by Lexie Scott

    Anything But the Truth by Lexie Scott

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I've been lied to, lied about, and lived a lie.I've been beaten and broken.I'm done being the victim.I trusted the wrong people. I let them into my life, my heart, and they turned on me. In one moment, my life changed. I know whom I can count on and who truly cares about me. My guys.Each day the attacks turn more personal...
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