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Lakestone - tome 1 by Sarah Rivens
Dans la tranquillité trompeuse de la ville d'Ewing aux États-Unis, Iris, confinée à la bibliothèque, est plongée dans ses révisions. À des kilomètres de là, un mercenaire affronte le froid tranchant de la nuit, aussi glaciale que le cadavre qu'il vient d’enterrer. Ils n’ont rien en commun, pourtant tous deux ont le même objectif : amasser assez d'argent... -
Dare To Take by L. Ann, Claire Marta
Arabella Gray. Studious. Good Girl. Liar. I warned her. I told her I would break her if she stayed. Who knew watching her shatter would taste so sweet? Eli Travers. Outcast. Artist. Monster. He vowed to make me pay—to ruin me. Only now it's my own sin that will break me. The monsters of Churchill Bradley Academy are stirring and deadly dangers haunt the halls...Categorized as:
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Rebellious Rook by Brooklyn Cross
The rook’s heart is as cold as stone, but when the rock crumbles, the spoils are twice as sweet. Death follows me around like a dark cloud just waiting to strike. First, it stole my mother, then my aunt, and now my father is missing. Even though I’m told to walk away, and even though finding him shouldn’t be my top priority, the memory of him begging me to talk to him haunts my dreams... -
My Sweet Cyanide by Amo Jones
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe survived evil. . .. Until a worse one decided she was his. Melissa Hart clawed her way back to Westbeach with a bakery full of dark humour and a strict no-bikers rule, determined to prove she could rebuild what was stolen from her. Melissa thrives on control... -
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Vicious Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDevastation tastes a lot like ash in your mouth. It feels like looming death hanging over your bones. It sounds like the violent shattering of your soul. It has an acrid smell much like that of rotting hearts. . . But most of all, devastation looks a lot like the beautiful, fiery girl with her fake sincerity and lies...Categorized as:
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Ominous: Book II by K.V. Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOminous Book II. Reading order:. Ecstasy. Ominous I. Ominous II. Sinister. -
Make You Mine by Shantel Tessier
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDax's story from Make You Beg: A Dark High School Bully Romance. -
Sinner by Sheridan Anne
Death surrounds me. Every step I take, there’s someone waiting for me in the shadows. There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and now, I’m out here on my own, my hands stained with the blood of those I’ve killed to survive. Zade DeVil was my executioner, my most feared enemy, but he was also my protector. I wasn’t willing to cross that line with him, despite how much I may have wanted to...Categorized as:
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The Elite Kings Boxset Vol. II by Amo Jones
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Elite Kings books 1-5. MADSHIP. Madison + Bishop. The Silver Swan. The Broken Puppet. Tacet a Mortuis. NATIL. Nate + Tillie. Malum: Part 1. Malum: Part 2. Riddle me this. .. -
Pacific Prep: A Dark Academy Reverse Harem by R.A. Smyth, Michelle Lancaster
⭑⭒⭑ A TOP 100 AMAZON BESTSELLING SERIES ⭑⭒⭑. My name is Hadley Parker, and today I take control of my life. Today I start school at Pacific Prep. This is my new lease on life, and I won’t be wasting it. I need this, now, more than ever. I need the education, the promise of a future that I wouldn’t get anywhere else. These rich kids don’t like me though...Categorized as:
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Ravaged Soul by J. Rose
Sabre Security saved my life. Now they want my soul as payment. After six years in captivity, forced to fight for survival, I thought I’d seen the darkest depths of humanity. The cartel broke me, forging a ruthless weapon from my shattered pieces. Not even freedom can heal those wounds...Categorized as:
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Mister Bossy by Cassie-Ann L. Miller
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe’s my boss. My grumpy, jaded, fresh-out-of-jail boss. Falling for him is not okay. Too bad I’m already up-to-my-eyeballs in love. I always imagined myself with my very own Prince Charming. The kind of man in those fairytales I grew up reading. And when Eli Kingston shows up in Crescent Harbor—grumpy, jaded and fresh out of jail—I know he's not the one for me... -
You Will Bow by Rachel Leigh
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsYou Will Bow is book two in the Wicked Boys of BCU series. It is strongly encouraged to read book one, We Will Reign first. More details coming soon.Categorized as:
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Massimo by Lora Nox
I’m his enemy’s daughter. His captive. His revenge. Until he becomes my weapon to wield against the monsters in my world. Nova. I am the Mancini Princess. A pawn in my monstrous father’s game. His key to an alliance worthy of a king. However, I end up under the control of a new monster - Massimo Santoro. A lethal man whose hate, wrath, and malice toward anyone with the Mancini name is palpable... -
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Vile Wicked Eyes by Candace Wondrak
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Stella. I used to be empty, broken, a shell of a person watching as days passed me by. But then I found out the truth. What I’d done. What I wanted to do again. My three killers took me and shook my world upside-down, stopping only when I faced the fact that I was just like them. A brute. A monster. A beast with an innate craving to make others bleed... -
Harder Betrayal by Penelope Sky
I knew a relationship with Cauldron wouldn't be easy. But I underestimated just how challenging it would be. How can you love someone that refuses to love you back? How can you love someone that betrays you not once, but twice?Categorized as:
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A Fractured Reign by Veronica Eden
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Crows are more than nightmares lurking in every shadow. They’re a brotherhood. Family. When threats creep in, they’ll protect what belongs to them. Quinn. Does a wrong make a right? In my case, it has to. The Kings gave me no choice, no chance to fold. I betrayed the guy who believed he was protecting me while I gave his secrets away. Now we’re enemies once more...Categorized as:
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Scarred Angel by Elle Maldonado
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere desire ignites between bullets, blood, and burning rubber. The man I last saw when I was just a girl came crashing back into my life—literally—after fourteen years. Same smile. Those same mesmerizing eyes. Only now, they’re darker, more haunted. He carries demons I can’t touch. And a past my father destroyed before I was born... -
Desperate Lies by Ella Miles
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI lied. He lied. His search for answers is unrelenting. It makes me hate him, but I also want him. No, I can’t want him. I want to kill him, but I’d also die for him. I’m done relying on men to protect me. I’m the huntress, about to become the killer. Desperate Lies is Book 2 in the Lies Series. Ends on a cliffhanger. -
Broken Anchor by Ella Miles
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI’m broken. He’s broken. We are broken. But sometimes you have to shatter to pick up the pieces. To start over. To overcome our enemies. And find out if we can love again. He’s my anchor, but can our love be repaired? This is the final book in the Sinful Truths series. -
Summer Sparrow by Emmerson Hoyt
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRylee Adder left Eden thinking she’d put the worst day of her life behind her. She was wrong. Separated from her new family and Colton—the man she never thought she’d have to live without—Rylee finds herself in Boston facing her biggest challenge yet: surviving the Vipers’ Den...Categorized as:
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Darkness Follows by J.L. Drake
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEmily McPhee is in the clutches of a monster…. Despite the protection of her boyfriend Seth Connors and his colleagues with the Orange Police Department, Emily is imprisoned in a basement by her psychopathic stalker Jimmy Lasko. His bizarre behavior adds to her terror, and a video link forces Seth to witness her captivity, leaving him feeling helpless as he, the OPD, and the FBI search for her... -
Delude by Jacob Chance
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShe wasn’t part of my original plan for revenge, but one glance at her and I was entranced. I followed her for weeks, observing her habits. I’ve been in her apartment numerous times, learning anything and everything I can about her. She’s become an obsession and I’ll do whatever it takes to make her mine. It’s only a matter of time before I have her where I want her. . -
Disobedient Pawn by Brooklyn Cross
Never underestimate the power of a pawn. My life seemed pretty perfect until I turned twelve. Then everything was destroyed with a fainting spell, a doctor’s visit, and a diagnosis that rocked me to my core. Now at seventeen, I am being shipped to a new country and school with no support from my father... -
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Thirty Days of Shame by Ginger Talbot
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA dark romance with trigger warnings! Book 2 of a 3 part serial. My captor's rules have changed . .. I’m still Sergei's prisoner. Freedom seems further away than ever. I swore I’d endure everything, and make him care for me. I accepted every cruel word, every punishing blow, until one day he looked at me with stark, naked hunger instead of hatred... -
Amos y mazmorras: Segunda parte by Lena Valenti
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsChegou a hora de encarar o tão aguardado torneio Dragões e Masmorras DS. Entregue-se aos combates. Liberte seus desejos. Na busca pela irmã desaparecida, a agente Cleo Connelly conseguiu se infiltrar no ultrassecreto torneio de práticas BDSM, o Dragões e Masmorras DS... -
Deceitful Truths by A.R. Breck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKidnapped. Broken. Hopeless. Confined into a dark, abandoned basement with nothing but the clothes on my back. There's no escaping obsession, especially one honed by a serial killer who's bound and determined to call me his. Forever. Every day grows more dire with death circulating my existence. I believe all hope is lost until I'm saved by my own monster, the man who enslaves my soul... -
The Heir She Loved by H.G. Johnston
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsOlivia's been taken. Ripped from my grasp because of a mistake I made. When I find her, and I will find her, the Delepski's would regret the day they ever betrayed my family. We pick up right where we left off in the last book. Everett and Olivia, fighting their way through obstacle after obstacle, simply trying to forge their own path in this life. The Delepski's are after her now... -
Cruel Lies by Ella Miles
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is book 4 in the Lies Series. It continues Langston & Liesel's story. Ends on a cliffhanger. -
Mayhem by Becca Steele
A dark standalone romance (short story) set in the world of the Four. Takes place approximately one year before the events of The Lies We Tell. I thought I was finally done with Elijah Ripley. My former tormentor, the boy with the dark hair, the cruel mouth, and the black soul, had left Alstone behind for good. Or so I thought. I was wrong...Categorized as:
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Wicked Little Island by Rhea Ryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrapped in snow, bound by grief, captured by an illusion. In the days following a devastating loss, winter takes hold in the Arctic. I’m stranded with the man who turned my world upside down. His secrets are the reason we fell in love, and our trauma is now what binds us. As we cling to each other to survive, I begin to peel his darkest layers and find he’s exactly what I need to stay alive... -
Her by D.V. Fischer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI have something to prove. My weight. My worth. My life. Not only am I a woman fresh out of the police academy, but because of my father’s reputation, I have to prove I’m worthy of my badge. And then an opportunity arose, one I couldn’t pass up. Men and women are being abducted from another country to be trafficked for horrific purposes...Categorized as:
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Resilient Queen by Amber Vant
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI never wanted this. Never asked for any of it. The corrupted, chaos of the past is playing catch-up with the present and nothing is as it seems. Everyone wants something. Me? All I want is the truth. I thought this was the end, but it turns out it’s only the beginning. The basis for a much darker twist of fate. Secrets are starting to unravel; relationships have grown fractured...Categorized as:
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Because of Me by Katie Pearson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe aspires to be the girl he deserves. Becca Mills is desperate to give her son a better life. To do that, she heads to a new town where nobody knows her, except her mother and her mother’s dealer. When Becca meets Dereck, a tatted mechanic who enjoys making her blush and earning her smile, things get complicated...Categorized as:
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Mafie Trials: Brutal Boys of the Mafie- Book 2 by T.R. Oldin
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHer. I finally know the truth. There's been a hidden player on the board—moving pieces from behind a curtain. Now that the veil has burned, it’s time to start a new game...Categorized as:
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His Perfect Little Hacker by Everly Raine
Getting hacked into wasn’t on Betsy’s list of things she wanted to happen to her. Getting kidnapped a couple hours later and being held against her will wasn’t either. But both of those happened to her. Finding out the man who kidnapped her was a Daddy Dom, something she had been longing for her whole life... -
Court High: The Complete Series by Eden O'Neill
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA town full of secrets. A dark elite. A girl who crossed the wrong king. They call them the Court, an elite boys club who rule Windsor Preparatory Academy like gods among men. And, of course, they're led by Hercules himself. Royal Prinze--yes, that's actually his name--walks around both the school and the town like he owns them. His affiliation to the prestigious Court only gives him more clout... -
Bully Me: Class of 2020 by Shantel Tessier, Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLoving your tormentor isn’t easy, especially when they collect broken hearts and parade them around like trophies. They’re the bad boys, the alpha a**holes, and the thorns in our sides. They push us past our limits, turn us on, and break us. They’re our bullies. They’re the class of 2020. Eight bestselling authors are teaming up to bring you eight unique stories about the guys we love to hate...Categorized as:
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Almost Innocent by Carina Adams
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCallaghan. A name synonymous with power and fear. A family of untouchable criminals. As a teenager, Gabriella Forte had no intention of getting to know the town's most dangerous brothers. Once Dustin set his sights on her, she was trapped. There was only one way out of her personal hell. Declan was determined to break away from his family's shadow... -
Hostage of the Hitman by Alexis Abbott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe needs to behave, or I’ll be forced to punish her. Delaney Underwood is sexy as hell, with a killer body, wicked smile, and a spoiled rotten demeanor. She's a pampered rich girl, thinking she can get anything she wants, whenever she wants. It pisses me off. I've struggled to survive, and I have the scars to prove it... -
Delectable Lies by Shauna Mairéad
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNever feed your fears, Saoirse, because if you do, they will eat you alive. Those were the last words my mother uttered before the masked men arrived. She begged me to run, to save myself from the past she kept hidden. But here's the thing, the past doesn't stay buried forever, and somebody has to pay the price for the choices she made. All the King's horses and all the King's men. .Categorized as:
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The Firm by Erin Mc Luckie Moya
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsJosh and Raquel have known each other for years - The Society placing them in the same circles, each watching the other as they grow into someone that sparked their attention. It was no surprise when The Society paired them together, slating them as a match for the breeding program. But the more Raquel discovers about The Society, the faster she backpedals from them and Josh... -
THE TEST: Secret Society Dark Romance by Elena Monroe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI woke up to my roommate and best friend missing. In her place was a note on my bedside table that read: You can only find me with your eyes closed. No one thinks a note like that is meant for them. I knew it was meant for me, a clue, a way to seek Justice. Whoever left me that note was hoping I didn’t let my parent’s legacy die when they did... -
Mistakes Made by Marie James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe worst thing you can ever do is make an assumption about me, despite my job resting solely on making people think I’m someone I’m not. I know that makes me crazy, narcissistic, and a little out of touch with the reality of how the world works. I’ll never argue that fact with anyone. Maybe it was the hundred-degree Texas weather. Maybe it was overstimulation from the crowds at the beach...Categorized as:
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Beautiful Devastation by C.M. Wondrak
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s vicious. A liar. And for some reason, he wants me…. I was never supposed to see Rick Jones again after kissing him at my mom’s wedding, but that’s exactly who I see when I walk into the sheriff’s office to try to report my friend missing. Yeah, Erin? The girl I almost killed myself for? She’s missing, and Gareth’s suspect number one... -
Scotch by Mhairi O'Reilly
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAshby ‘Scotch’ Feilding returned from the military not feeling like a hero, but as a man fractured by the horrors he witnessed, a shadow of the man he once was. Unable to fit into the normalcy of ordinary life, he finds solace in the roar of engines and the brotherhood of The Devil’s House MC, serving as their tech wizard... -
The Society by Erin Mc Luckie Moya
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhat happens when you're born into a secret society? When your great-grandfather was a founding member? Do you have a choice whether you stay or not? And the benefits that befall you with such a position? The easy college access and high powered positions - the multinational firms... -
Destructive Truths by Shauna Mairéad
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsLies, Saoirse. It was all lies. Those were the last words I heard before my attacker held me under. Left shattered by deceit, with a past I couldn’t outrun, Killybegs destroyed the girl I used to be. But here’s the thing, this queen was born to rise, and those who hurt me will pay for the sins they committed...Categorized as:
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Redemption Refused by Marie James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSynopsis coming soon!Categorized as:
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The Villain by Nana Malone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGuess who's having the craziest week EVER? That would be me. Sunday: I get dumped by my boyfriend—right before a couple's bungee jump. Monday: My little sister informs me that she’s invited our evil, estranged mom to the wedding I’ve spent months helping her plan...Categorized as:
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