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  • Moonlight Scandals by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Moonlight Scandals by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    It takes a fearless woman to love the most scandalous man alive in New York Times Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout’s breathtaking novel Even a ghost hunter like Rosie Herpin couldn’t have foreseen the fateful meeting between two mourners that has brought her so intimately close to the notorious and seductive Devlin de Vincent...
  • The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

    The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 69 ratings
    Matteo Alacran was not born; he was harvested with the DNA from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium...
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  • The Isle Of Sin And Shadows by Keri Lake

    The Isle Of Sin And Shadows by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    This island alone boasts more ghost stories than all of Louisiana combined.And I'm one of them.In the Louisiana swamplands, ghost stories are as much a part of childhood as chasing fireflies and crawfishing. They never much scared me, though, nor the possibility of evil out to do me harm. Until the night I watched shadows come to life and butcher everything I loved...
  • Zenith by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Zenith by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A killer haunts Prophet, and this time it’s personalThe discovery of a body at Thompson Cabins sets off a chain of events that hits too close to home for Sheriff Gabriel Thompson. When his brother Sam becomes a prime suspect in the murder investigation, Gabriel is forced to keep secrets from Tiber and call in outside help as he fights to prove Sam’s innocence...
  • Judicium by Natalie Bennett

    Judicium by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Prequel to the Devil's Playground Series.Can be read before or after Periculum...
  • Unlovable by Sherry Gammon

    Unlovable by Sherry Gammon

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Available as an ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, & iBooks/iTunes. Also available in paperback on Amazon. Port Fare, New York, has fallen into the clutches of true evil. The Dreser brothers have arrived with a scheme to increase drug sales in the area by whatever means possible. Seth Prescott is part of MET (Mobile Enforcement Teams) a branch of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)...
  • Sinful Saint by Lana Sky

    Sinful Saint by Lana Sky

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Traumatized by a family tragedy, Frances “Frey” Heywood resorts to committing the unthinkable—only to be saved at the eleventh hour by a man more troubled than even she can comprehend.Daze Keaton is bad news. A criminal and a drug dealer, he’s a far cry from the safe harbor Frey craves, but all her doubts pale in the face of the way he numbs that cold, broken place inside her...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  magic  mystery  vengeance  dual-pov  new adult  dark  mafia
  • Solstice by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Solstice by Eli Easton, R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the dramatic peaks of the Olympic mountain range to the small town of Prophet, murder is only a footstep away. Gabriel is a former undercover cop haunted by the things he’s seen and done. He returns to his small hometown of Prophet, taking on the role of sheriff, hoping to mend his fractured relationship with his estranged brother and rebuild his life...
  • The Gathering: The Ivy Blackwood Chronicles by L.A. Fiore

    The Gathering: The Ivy Blackwood Chronicles by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Words like unnatural and impure started the whispers. From the very beginning, Ivy Blackwood was different. She was only a child when she was accused of setting the fire, one she passively watched engulf the small house she had called home. Her fingertips burned and her hair singed. Some who watched her crossed themselves, convinced she was soulless for she showed no emotion at all...
  • Del Diablo by Natalie Bennett

    Del Diablo by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Filthy. Clandestine. Unorthodox.Stygian Isle was born from the brilliant mind of an abominable man. The Alistair patriarch and sovereign of the nonconformist crafted a peaceful refuge for those unashamedly wicked.From his creation came a secret society of filthy heretics.Carnal sin and mayhem fuel their religion.Sex and death drench their doctrine...
  • Del Diablo by Natalie Bennett

    Del Diablo by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    💀STYGIAN IᔕᒪE💀The devil disguises himself as an angel of light.That illusion doesn’t change who he is—Draven Alistair. The man I’m madly in love with.He presented me with a flawless charade, masquerading as all I ever wanted. But there is nothing hidden that shall not be disclosed, and when the truth is revealed, its too late for me to run...
    Categorized as:
    alpha male  mystery  male-pov  dual-pov  magic  suspense  horror  dark
  • Drawn to Death by Kat Shehata

    Drawn to Death by Kat Shehata

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ghosts visit Evelyn in her dreams. The secrets of the dead could get her killed.The city is ripe with crime, and the freshly dead need help solving their murders. Evelyn is a reluctant medium who channels the dead through her art.Leo is a skeptical homicide detective who believes in evidence, facts, and witness testimonies—when the information comes from the living, not the dead...
  • The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

    The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Don’t miss the brand-new chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author . . .‘Fascinating and enthralling’ Prima‘Wonderfully atmospheric and compelling’ Rosamund Lupton‘A flawless read’ Elizabeth Lee‘Seething with gothic menace’ Caroline LeaUpon the cliffs of a remote Scottish island, Lòn Haven, stands a lighthouse.A lighthouse that has weathered more than storms...
  • The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb

    The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old family home into a bed-and-breakfast during the icy dead of winter…As the house’s restoration commences, a shuttered art studio is revealed. Inside are paintings Tess’s late grandfather, beloved and celebrated artist Sebastian Bell, hid away for generations...
  • Between Faith and Fear by J.A. Dennam

    Between Faith and Fear by J.A. Dennam

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TESTING THE LIMITS Melanie Parker's life takes a gut-wrenching turn when she wakes up in a crumbling, unfamiliar environment. Even worse, her small child is in the arms of a certifiable killer, but Rena Hellberg isn't the only immediate threat. Melanie's abductor lurks in the shadows, a quiet, hooded stranger who's calling the shots...
  • Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton

    Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    She's been watching us for a while now... Now you see her Gillian is haunted by the disappearance of her little girl two years ago. A devastating fire burned down their home, but she remains convinced her daughter survived. Now you don't Ten year old Tom lived by a neglected church...
  • Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier

    Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author ... original, dramatic, unputdownable ... Sierra has a despised and forbidden gift - she raises power from the suffering of others.Enslaved by the king's torturer, Sierra escapes, barely keeping ahead of Rasten, the man sent to hunt her down...
  • The Final Rule by Adrienne Wilder

    The Final Rule by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is the last book in this trilogy. All books are full-length novels and must be read in order. All books are available now. The My Brother's Keeper Trilogy The town of Gilford has a Big and Terrible secret hidden in the ground. Infecting those it touches. Exploiting their darkness. Consuming their souls. It’s hungry. It’s vile. It’s evil. And it wants out...
  • My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

    My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real?Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the only good thing in Roos’ life, which is filled with sordid backroom séances organized by her mother...
    Categorized as:
    horror  mystery  suspense  magic  fantasy  queer  paranormal  dark
  • Fallen Prey by Jen Stevens

    Fallen Prey by Jen Stevens

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    I've stared into the face of Death, falling victim to her deceptively sweet lullaby. Until she released me from her icy grip without any warning, sending me stumbling back out the other side to continue on as if nothing happened.When I come to in the hospital as their mysterious John Doe, I discover that the past year of my life never happened at all.But I remember all of it...
  • Endless by Rosie Flint

    Endless by Rosie Flint

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Madeline is cursed with the unrelenting ability to survive, and this has made her a valuable prize to those who want to control her. Deep within the confines of a secretive facility, she lives her days as a lab rat and the intellectual property of Omni Biomedical. Nearly two decades of torture and brutal experiments have numbed her to the depths of humanity’s depravity...
  • False Idols: A Dark College Romance by Darcy Dahlia

    False Idols: A Dark College Romance by Darcy Dahlia

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He’s going to make me pay.My name is Nevaeh Santiago and for the past fifteen years my hometown has been a living hell. Bloom, Kansas is a quiet college town where nothing bad should ever happen, but it has a deadly secret.The Reaper.He’s a sadistic serial killer and no one is safe when he chooses his prey...
  • To Be a Heartthrob in a Horror Movie 在恐怖片里当万人迷[快穿] by Jiang Zhi Yu

    To Be a Heartthrob in a Horror Movie 在恐怖片里当万人迷[快穿] by Jiang Zhi Yu

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Holographic viewing technology allowed audience members to enter a movie and personally experience it for themselves. Naturally, romance movies were the most popular and well-received, while nobody was interested in horror movies.Su Min was the first of the viewers to experience a horror movie...
  • Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

    Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 27 ratings
    A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York Times bestselling author.Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers’ market. Ash—precise, pretty, and practically perfect—sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants...
    Categorized as:
    horror  mystery  suspense  queer  contemporary  f-f  dark  fantasy
  • The Way Evil Does by Amara Draska

    The Way Evil Does by Amara Draska

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rebecca Reis considers abandoning her career as a novelist until she begins writing about convicted serial killer Thomas Eisenbrey. Nicknamed the Hunter because of his penchant for targeting groups of hunters in the forest, Eisenbrey is the worst kind of psychopath. He is crafty, aloof, at times possessing a charm that is almost hypnotizing, and he’s wheedling his way into her mind...
  • The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

    The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Their lives would never be the same. Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. But when construction of a beautiful new home begins in the empty lot next door, their easy friendship and relaxed get-togethers are marred by strange accidents and inexplicable happenings...
  • Break the Night by Anne Stuart

    Break the Night by Anne Stuart

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What if Jack the Ripper never died?As the skies turn red over Los Angeles, Jack the Ripper roams once more. Saucy Jack is back, and women are dying. Caught up in the case, artist Lizzie Stride is haunted by dreams of the crimes. And even more disturbing? Her name is identical to a victim from 1888. J.R...
  • Death Angel by Linda Howard

    Death Angel by Linda Howard

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 48 ratings
    In Linda Howard’s gifted hands, second chances, unexpected romance, and unrelenting action combine into a riveting new novel of suspense. In Death Angel, bad girls can wake up and trust their hearts, bad guys can fight for what’s right . . . and dying just might be the only way to change one’s life...
  • My Bloody Valentine (Don't Read in the Closet Events) by Andrea Speed

    My Bloody Valentine (Don't Read in the Closet Events) by Andrea Speed

    Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Free short story written for theM/M Romancegroup's "Hot Summer Days" event.----------Genres/Tags:Gay M/M / Paranormal / Supernatural / Blood / Sorcerer / Haunted / Hook-Up / Dark / ViolenceApprox...
    Categorized as:
    magic  horror  dark  contemporary  paranormal  fantasy
  • Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff

    Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Ridiculously entertaining…. Jaff’s woozy supernatural saga is effectively scary and great fun to read. ”— New York Times Book Review This electrifying debut—Book I of the Night Song Trilogy—spins dark suspense and literary fantasy into a mesmerizing story of seduction and survival. Katherine Emerson was born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries in the making, but she doesn't know it yet...
  • Creation's Captive by Melody Joanne

    Creation's Captive by Melody Joanne

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    The day I started seeing ghosts - my life went to shit. Too bad the Fates don’t hand out gift receipts because respectfully, I’d like a refund. Unfortunately, those meddlesome hags aren’t even close to being done with me.A powerful, destructive creature is on the prowl and threatens the existence of the universe. The only way to stop the creature is with equal destructive power...
  • Come Closer by Sara Gran

    Come Closer by Sara Gran

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Demonic possession or psychic break? One of Esquire's Top 50 horror novels of all time delves deep into the terrifying consequences of losing control."A perfect horror novel."—Paul Tremblay, author of 'The Cabin at the End of the World'A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults...
    Categorized as:
    horror  mystery  suspense  magic  paranormal  fantasy  demons  dark
  • Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller

    Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller

    Rated: 3.23 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Judith is a successful novelist, but she's a little sensitive. She's from a good family, even if that family favours her more beautiful sister. She loves a drink (or three) but isn't sure if she loves the handsome doctor who is courting her. She yearns for a romance to yield to but remains a virgin. Judith receives visions from the saints...
  • Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller

    Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller

    Rated: 3.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane EyreWhen the successful British mystery writer Judith meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter, lonely young woman into a romance heroine overnight...
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