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  • Killing Stalking 5 by Koogi

    Killing Stalking 5 by Koogi

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    CAUGHT BETWEEN PLEASURE AND PANIC. After their trip to the police station and an intimate night together, Sangwoo decides he wants to know more about Bum. Their ensuing conversation leads to a trip to the amusement park and a night of drinking and sex. This new phase of their warped relationship teeters between thrilling and unnerving, leaving Bum overjoyed one moment and panicked the next...
    Categorized as:
    horror  suspense  dark  queer  abuse  length-medium
  • Hunt by Taylor Rose, Kenya Wright

    Hunt by Taylor Rose, Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED:. This is a twisted ride. Dark psychological themes, dubious situations, and intense sexual circumstances layer this story and may be triggering or offensive to some. CAIN. Before Phoenix, there was only death and blood. After Phoenix, I changed. Now, I was no longer only the villain—the hopeful seminary turned serial killer. My humanity was slowly returning...
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  • Mafia Don's Secret Twins by Vivy Skys

    Mafia Don's Secret Twins by Vivy Skys

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dino and Marisol's story. She's the ultimate prize—I'd risk my life just thinking about this mafia princess, let alone claiming her innocence. We had one night. Then she vanished. I found her. I thought that Marisol, my dream girl, was lost. After I woke up and never saw her again, it seemed like something that was a complete non-starter. She wasn’t with me. I didn’t know her last name...
  • The Ties of Steel: The Ties of Steel Box Set by M.J. Fields

    The Ties of Steel: The Ties of Steel Box Set by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR MJ FIELDS COMES A steamy Dominant, Billionaire, Bad Boy series of stand alone novels. You may have met Abe, Dominic, and Sabato in the Men of Steel series, and now you get their stories. ABEDominant CEO meets college student while on vacation. DominicBillionaire Italian businessman meets a girl down on her luck and sparks fly...
  • No Way Back by Santana Knox

    No Way Back by Santana Knox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    THERE’S NO WAY BACK FROM WHAT WE’VE BECOME. There is no way back. There is no way. No way back. Not from what we’ve become;. Bloodthirsty, vengeful, vile. Some women strive to make their men better,. I VOW TO MAKE HIM WORSE. With each life we take, we fall deeper into our own sinister desires...
  • Ruin Me: A Whiskey Row Spin-Off by D.A. Young

    Ruin Me: A Whiskey Row Spin-Off by D.A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Their paths never should have crossed, but a mandate for justice sealed their fate. From their first encounter, Cruz "The Butcher" Merada and Zafira Wilder's meticulously laid plans were shot to hell. He's a charmingly persuasive player, a keeper of sinful promises, who's used to getting what he wants. She's resilient, determined, and nobody's pushover...
  • A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan

    A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A serial killer is terrorizing Sacramento, preying on happily married couples and unleashing unspeakable cruelties upon his victims. The ordeal rekindles disturbing memories for private investigator Lizzy Gardner, who barely escaped a serial killer clutches only years ago...
  • Ten by Roxie Rivera

    Ten by Roxie Rivera

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ten years ago, Nisha Jackson survived her serial killer husband but lost something precious during her escape. Since then, she’s built a successful life for herself. She has a beautiful home, a grumpy cat, beloved friends, and a career that brings her joy. There’s only one thing she wants to complete her life—Anton Vasiliev...
  • The Carrera Cartel  by Cora Kenborn

    The Carrera Cartel by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A Dark Mafia Romance Collection. Delve into the dark. The Carreras are waiting. .. Three full-length dark mafia romance novels from the Carrera Cartel Trilogy and Stained White Lines, an explosive, new bonus novel, ONLY available in the collection. Blurred Red Lines. Carrera. A word whispered in fear and respect. A name to avoid at all costs...
  • Maid for the Yakuza by Melverna McFarlane

    Maid for the Yakuza by Melverna McFarlane

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a Kimura has you in their sights, there’s nowhere you can hide. As a single mother of two, I will do anything, and I mean anything for my children. Even if it means sacrificing my dreams of independence after my husband’s death by moving in with my mother-in-law. She hates me, but she loves my son and daughter...
  • One Fear by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper

    One Fear by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “My one fear is now my reality. ”. He didn’t offer his name when he fulfilled his need to include me as a player in his game. I’m number thirteen. Just a number given to the bitches who wronged him. I was blindsided. Stolen from my life. In his devilled eyes, I have a debt to pay…he wants my final breath to see us even...
  • The Last Party by A.R. Torre

    The Last Party by A.R. Torre

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre. Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection...
  • Unwell by Effie Campbell

    Unwell by Effie Campbell

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Two women. One asylum. Deadly secrets. When nineteen-year-old Ginny’s mother abandons her at Wellard Asylum, she isn’t sick. She’s pregnant. Behind the iron gates patients cower, the rules are broken, and the basement hides evils that would make monsters squirm. Ginny only has one keep her baby safe, no matter what. Nurse Nancy once believed hospitals were for healing the vulnerable...
  • Andrei by Nicole Fox

    Andrei by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She thinks she owns me. She’s never been more wrong. My second-in-command sold me out. Stabbed me in the back. Betrayed me to our sworn enemies. Now, I’m the prisoner of the Irish mob. Their don wants to beat me down. But his daughter would rather tie me up. Jamie buys me off the auction stage to star in her pet photography project. “The Beast,” she calls me. A fitting title...
  • Dark by Aleatha Romig

    Dark by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. ” ~ Madeline L’Engle. Darkness has fallen upon the Sparrow world. What seemed secure was breached, and what was assumed unattainable is possible. In this dangerous underground world, we Sparrows took our power by force...
  • Dawn by Aleatha Romig

    Dawn by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. ” ~Hugh B. Brown. The Sparrow web world is covered in darkness, yet the dawn is near. The dramatic conclusion to the Dangerous Web trilogy is here. The veil of safety protecting Lorna Murray’s life has been ripped away...
  • The Night Blossoms by Leylah Attar

    The Night Blossoms by Leylah Attar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Leylah Attar returns with a page-turning romantic suspense/thriller that careens down an emotional highway toward a chilling finale. Dark, thrilling, and ingeniously unpredictable. “Do you ever really know someone, or do you just know the parts they want you to see? ”...
  • The Night Blossoms by Leylah Attar

    The Night Blossoms by Leylah Attar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Leylah Attar returns with a page-turning romantic suspense/thriller that careens down an emotional highway toward a chilling finale. Dark, thrilling, and ingeniously unpredictable. “Do you ever really know someone, or do you just know the parts they want you to see? ”...
  • Armor's Mistake by Elizabeth Knox

    Armor's Mistake by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I crossed a line and I damn well knew it, but I wanted her, and I always get what I want. Armor. There are a few unspoken rules within the club. One of them is the fact we don’t go around screwing each other’s sisters and for a while it wasn’t an issue. That is, until Hammer came into the clubhouse. He was a regent from the Reapers Rejects MC up in Montana, and since Inc was there, he came here...
  • Breaker’s Vow by Elizabeth Knox

    Breaker’s Vow by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I vowed to never love another woman ever again. I broke my vow for her. Breaker. My ex-girlfriend, Celia, betrayed me in the worst way possible. She not only put my club at risk, but everyone in it, and anyone affiliated with it. People lost their lives because of the information she was feeding to the Guatemalan crew her family was loyal to. And when I found out what she did, I lost it...
  • Master of Games by Sienna Snow

    Master of Games by Sienna Snow

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He was my obsession. Haunting my dreams, reminding me of my past. He was the one whose heart I destroyed. Pierce Lykaios was everything I could want: captivating, cunning, and controlled. He understood my darkest desires and took pleasure in feeding my every craving. And when I walked back into his world, it was my fault for letting the first touch lead to a second. And a third...
  • Big Bad Wolf, Book 1 by Diana A. Hicks

    Big Bad Wolf, Book 1 by Diana A. Hicks

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Santino Buratti is ruthless, powerful, and only cares about one thing. .. his latest prey Lucinda O'Brien. As the only daughter of a mafia kingpin in Chicago, I grew up knowing my virginity was a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder. When I moved to New York City to meet my future husband, I did so with my eyes wide open...
  • Fury's Torment by Elizabeth Knox

    Fury's Torment by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On a blind date, I met the woman I was always looking for. Fury. With everything that happened at the club recently, I didn't have any time for love. At least, I didn't think I did. We all just went through hell. Not too long ago, we found out there was a rat in the club, and it turned out to be our Prez's girlfriend at the time...
  • Escaping the Darkness by Georgia Wells, Cora Masters

    Escaping the Darkness by Georgia Wells, Cora Masters

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    We came so close to escape. Or so it seemed. As soon as we turned around outside, we discovered how wrong we were. Sam isn't letting us go anywhere. I'm not the giving-up type. Despite the torture, I've found comfort and physical release in Drake. Thank goodness he's here to help me keep my sanity. I will find a way to free us and everyone here in the dollhouse...
    Categorized as:
    horror  suspense  dark  insta-love  bdsm  length-long
  • Scorched by Yolanda Olson, Jennifer Bene

    Scorched by Yolanda Olson, Jennifer Bene

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    One father. Two brothers. But there can only be one perfect son. Luke. Pater. Dad. The man left behind more than just a legacy when he died, and ten years is a long time to be without a guiding hand. I’ve done my best, tried to follow the rules my father bestowed on me when I was young, and now I have to fulfill a promise. I have to bring Cleo home...
  • Steele her Heart by Elizabeth Knox

    Steele her Heart by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jordan. Lacey was the one person I could never have. She was off limits in every sense of the word. I went to my families lake house and found her in the guest house. Little did I know she asked my father if she could spend her last free summer in the one place she adored. That summer the devil tempted me, putting forbidden fruit right in front of my very eyes...
  • The Villain by Nana Malone

    The Villain by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Guess 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...
  • The Deal by Lexxi James

    The Deal by Lexxi James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ENZO. She should've known better than to cross my path. I had no choice but to notice her. See, I like collecting beautiful things, and unlucky for her,. Kennedy the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. She was meant to be owned. And I was born to undo her. The Deal is a steamy romantic suspense that can be read as a stand-alone in the SINS of the Syndicate series.
  • Pretty Dangerous by Jolie Alexander

    Pretty Dangerous by Jolie Alexander

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Warning! Contains themes and discussions that may be triggering***. I’m skilled at what I do and how I do it. Picture the person you’re scared of who would make you hide… Have you? Good. I’m their worst nightmare. No one ever sees me coming or going. Unless I want them to. The same skilled way I pick my targets, is the same way I knew the moment I saw him… he was mine...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  suspense  bwwm  dark  alpha male  cold hero  bdsm  abuse
  • Damien's Promise by Vic Tyler

    Damien's Promise by Vic Tyler

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Welcome to our corner of the underworld. where everything you. love. can and will be used. to. destroy. you. *****. She didn't just fall into the lap of the most ruthless criminal organization . She crashed our party. Bruised, battered, and broken - this innocent soul begged us to shed blood on her behalf. For justice . Retribution . Vengeance...
  • Vicious Prince by Sienna Snow

    Vicious Prince by Sienna Snow

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I'm not a good man. I'm the darkness, the danger, the enforcer behind the empire. No one sees me unless I want them to. Then one day, she found me, showing me a life beyond the shadows of the streets. Until one wrong turn and our fairytale shattered, leaving me back in darkness. In a place I can only reach her by destroying her world. So, I wait. But waiting isn't something she is willing to do...
  • Pleasure & Prey: vol. 1 by A.J. Merlin

    Pleasure & Prey: vol. 1 by A.J. Merlin

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    Depraved. There’s nothing out there. That’s what I keep telling myself while I walk back from a campfire to my isolated cabin. Brutal. Nothing bad happens at summer camp. That’s what my fellow camp counselors have convinced me of when the nights around the lake get a little eerie. ViciousOne, two, he’s coming for you. Three, four, better run some more...
  • Retribution by Crystal North

    Retribution by Crystal North

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Some secrets refuse to stay buried. .. it’s time for Retribution. ***. Raven hasn’t had it easy; her life has been a whirlwind of clusterfucks and disasters, but the latest has left her reeling. She’s faced with a tough decision: crumble and break, or rebuild and come back fighting harder than ever...
  • Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole

    Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Edwin Allen Mercer. I want them all to read my words. And they do. Every last blood-stained sentence, they've read and praised me for. They love the gore and violence, the realness. And I get a sense of power with it all because I know a secret: the victims in my books—they’re real and have all died on my table. And maybe that’s why the last book had such awful reviews...
  • Disgraced by Natasha Knight

    Disgraced by Natasha Knight

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Disgrace: the condition of one fallen from grace. She is my forbidden fruit. The one temptation I cannot resist. The first night…. I rescued her from an attack in the seedy underground of New York City. The second night…. She told me the first of many lies. She thinks she can keep me out of her world, but she’s in over her head...
  • A Bullet Between Us  (The Moretti Crime Family) by K. Dosal

    A Bullet Between Us (The Moretti Crime Family) by K. Dosal

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    DAVINA. I’d walked into an alley where death awaited me. Terrified under the brittle moon, I’d been left behind as blood swept into the pristine snow. I’d closed my eyes and waited for the afterlife, welcoming it. Death had never come for me, but it ended the life I once knew. Now, I lived in fear, running from a world ruled by vicious men. An organized world where power and violence had no limit...
  • Sin and Seduction by Callie Vincent

    Sin and Seduction by Callie Vincent

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    El Oscuro. His name is notorious. It inspires fear. I used to fear him too, the ruthless mafia monster. Then I learned to love him. But that was before everything changed. Before he tricked me into marriage. Before my choices led to a horrible event that I can’t undo. A grief that will stay with me forever. Dante. My salvation. My prison keeper. His seductive voice still gives me goosebumps...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  suspense  mafia  dark  length-short
  • Requiem & Reverie by Keri Lake

    Requiem & Reverie by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author Keri Lake comes an intense and gritty romantic thriller that'll have you turning the pages well past your bedtime. It takes a killer to catch a killer. And no one understands the motives of ruthless murderer, The Sandman, quite like Rhett Voss. Having spent his childhood in the shadows of the deranged lunatic, he’s become an expert on the topic...
  • Play With Me by Emily Klepp, Jade Katzchen

    Play With Me by Emily Klepp, Jade Katzchen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Plenty of people make jokes about what they would do if a serial killer made them their target, but how many of them would beg for their lives if faced with the inevitability of death? How many would be triggered into a trauma response out of basic instinct? None of them understand true pain until all their tears have dried up and the numbness takes over...
  • Luna by Daisy Allen

    Luna by Daisy Allen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book Four in The Baxter Billionaires series by Daisy Allen.
  • Bedazzled by Arianna Fraser

    Bedazzled by Arianna Fraser

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Tania. .. The Yuri I fell in love with was kind and charming, even if he was the Prince of the Morozov Bratva. After he was kidnapped and tortured, he became someone else. Cold. Cruel. I still flew to St. Petersburg to stop his wedding to another woman. It was a marriage of duty, not love. This was such a mistake. I don't know this man. Now I'm trapped in his mansion...
  • Tempt Me by S.K. Pryntz

    Tempt Me by S.K. Pryntz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    When you wear a mask long enough… you forget who you were before it. Fallon: She was born into a prison with velvet bars—wealth, prestige, perfection. But when her older brother dies, the weight of the family legacy lands squarely on her shoulders. The cost of survival? Erasing the girl she once was and becoming who they demand. Quiet. Controlled. Obedient. But then he walks in—her new professor...
  • Possess by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood

    Possess by Olivia Ryann, Vivian Wood

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    This dark tale of obsession, beauty, and lust is by Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood. She writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN. There is something blooming between my captor and I, hot and wet and fragile. Lust. Obsession. Maybe it’s even love. But there are still secrets that stand between us, looming large over whatever happiness we might find together...
  • Danger's First Kiss: A modern-day Cinderella story set in Sparrow Webs by Aleatha Romig

    Danger's First Kiss: A modern-day Cinderella story set in Sparrow Webs by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes. ” ~ Mack David, et all for Cinderella. On the surface, the world glitters with all things only money can buy. My thoughts should be on the danger lurking beneath the surface. The money and power come from places and dealings the world pretends don't exist. I'm here at this debutante ball as a representative of the new Sparrow underworld...
  • Melodic Madness by Natalie Bennett

    Melodic Madness by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    There’s a method in his madness. Alaric is as brilliant as he is beautiful, and twice as deadly. He’s been watching me. Studying me. He’d planned to keep me long before I arrived on his doorstep. His chaotic world is now the prison I’m forced to call home. A place where nightmares and reality are indistinguishable...
  • The Protégé by Nadia Han

    The Protégé by Nadia Han

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    No matter what goes wrong in the world, you make me feel safe—my perfect lock. Compelling and brilliant, Orion Reimann is an avid collector—or rather, a thief—of fine things. Though a quadrillionaire with limitless power, he cannot heal the scars of his past until a beautiful woman bursts into his life like a supernova, chasing away the darkness and stealing his heart...
  • Lincoln Hospital by Cassia Brightmore, Eric Battershell

    Lincoln Hospital by Cassia Brightmore, Eric Battershell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the twenty-third day—he hunts, bringing the scum of the earth to justice; his justice. Ending up as a patient on Dr. O’Reilly’s table could either save your life or end it in the most horrific way. New York City. The infamous city that never sleeps; the place where dreams either shine brightly or shatter into razor sharp pieces of metal. For Dr...
  • Striking Distance by L.K. Shaw

    Striking Distance by L.K. Shaw

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a damsel in distress. I’m supposed to protect her, not desire her. Especially since she’s my sister’s best friend. Estelle. I never imagined I’d get caught in the crossfire between the police and the Mexican cartel. After a failed kidnapping attempt, a bodyguard attaches himself to my hip...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  multicultural  dark  contemporary
  • The Mob's Stolen Baby by Aria Ray, Sarina Hart

    The Mob's Stolen Baby by Aria Ray, Sarina Hart

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sleeping with a Russian mafia boss was my first mistake. Trying to keep his baby a secret might be my last. .. It was one night of scorching passion with the most irresistible man I’ve ever met. Dangerously handsome. Rich as sin. His voice was a knife in a velvet case, slipping dark promises into my willing ears. The kind of man who knows exactly what he wants…and isn’t afraid to take it...
  • Wicked Brute by M. James

    Wicked Brute by M. James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I thought I was safe from my father’s revenge. But he’s not the only one who wants me dead… Once upon a time, I was many things. An accomplished ballerina. The daughter of a powerful man. A Bratva princess . Now I’m none of those...
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