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  • Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine

    Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    She’s investigating a cold case no one else could—by going places no one else would dare.In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo...
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    suspense  horror  mystery  contemporary  dark  queer  f-f  abuse
  • Killing Stalking 5 by Koogi

    Killing Stalking 5 by Koogi

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    CAUGHT BETWEEN PLEASURE AND PANICAfter 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...
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    horror  suspense  dark  queer  abuse  length-medium
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  • 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...
  • The Last Party by A.R. Torre

    The Last Party by A.R. Torre

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror  dark  length-novella
  • No Place Like Home by Geneva Monroe

    No Place Like Home by Geneva Monroe

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Condemned by lies. Driven by vengeance. Bound for death.Mine will be the first public execution in a century. Only problem is, I’m innocent.Well, mostly.A single bullet shattered my world, bringing down the men who swore to protect me, and stealing my newfound freedom. The Wizard promised salvation, but the only thing I have now is a prison cell and a date with a guillotine...
  • Whitlock by Alaska Angelini, A. A. Dark

    Whitlock by Alaska Angelini, A. A. Dark

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Complete 24690 and Welcome to Whitlock 24690 White Out (24690 series, book 2) 27001 (Welcome to Whitlock, 24690 series 2.1) 27009 (Welcome to Whitlock, 24690 series 2.2) 27011 (Welcome to Whitlock, 24690 series 2...
  • Play With Me by Emily Klepp, Jade Katzchen

    Play With Me by Emily Klepp, Jade Katzchen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 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...
  • 27009 by Alaska Angelini, A. A. Dark

    27009 by Alaska Angelini, A. A. Dark

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Welcome to Whitlock” Genre: Pitch Black Welcome (interjection) : 1. A word of greeting, as to ones’ arrival at a destination. Whitlock ((noun) : 1. A subterranean fortress within the base of a mountain, housing slaves for the cruel use of Masters who have purchased them through an auction. For reference, see to the 24690 series as you will get to experience the world first-hand...
  • Pleasure & Prey: vol. 1 by A.J. Merlin

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

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    DepravedThere’s nothing out there.That’s what I keep telling myself while I walk back from a campfire to my isolated cabin.BrutalNothing 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...
  • 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...
  • Trapped in the Shadows by Georgia Wells, Cora Masters

    Trapped in the Shadows by Georgia Wells, Cora Masters

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the nightmarish confines of the Puppet Master's Playhouse, a place of unrelenting horror, I am a prisoner, haunted by unspeakable childhood torments. This house, under the control of the Puppet Master, a sadistic architect of suffering, subjects me to a relentless barrage of psychological and physical trials, echoing the darkness of my past...
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    horror  suspense  dark  captive  insta-love  length-medium
  • Chill by AJ Merlin

    Chill by AJ Merlin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One month. That’s all it takes for everything to unravel.For weeks, I try returning to normal, to forget the men who turned me into a killer against my will. At first, I convince myself I could be happy—at least I think I should be.But I’m not. I can’t be.When I find them, I realize what they’re doing. If I want them—if I want this—I have to accept what they truly are.Monsters...
  • You Should've Kept Driving by M.A. Savino, Frina Art

    You Should've Kept Driving by M.A. Savino, Frina Art

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When brothers Griffin and Benny spot a beautiful woman stranded on the roadside, they can't believe their luck.Finding victims for their lucrative human trafficking business isn't usually this easy.But she's no ordinary woman and attempting to break her will cost them more than they could have ever imagined.Benny wants to get rid of her.Griffin wants to keep her.She has plans for them both...
    Categorized as:
    horror  suspense  dark  abuse  death
  • Serial, Volume Three by Lily White, Jaden Wilkes

    Serial, Volume Three by Lily White, Jaden Wilkes

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With Donovan closing in, his feelings growing for Ronnie, and the sudden realization where their paths crossed before, Jude's composure might be cracking...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    suspense  horror  dark  length-novella
  • Opaque Melodies by Natalie Bennett

    Opaque Melodies by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alaric Schuyler.Enigmatic, cocky, and my new brother-in-law.He had cerulean blue eyes and a smile so beautifully devious it could entice the devil to do his bidding.We were never supposed to happen.One night changed everything, tying him and me together in a sordid twist of fate, trapping me in his dark, chaotic world.The lucid dreams and sick fantasies followed...
  • The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden

    The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 83 ratings
    She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect...
  • No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings

    No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    "If you want us to remain silent - if you want to retain your freedom, your job, and your reputation - you need to tell us everything, and I mean everything. . ." We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments, each trying to come out on top. But they aren't finished yet...
  • In a Dark Wood by Josh Lanyon

    In a Dark Wood by Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house...Camping in the Jersey Pine Barrens may literally turn out to be a first date from hell for travel writer Tim and the cute cop who persuades him to revisit a past that Tim has done his best to forget...
  • Desiccate by Charity B.

    Desiccate by Charity B.

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He says our blood flows Greene, and because of that, we’re required to carry on its legacy. Or some psychotic bullsh*t like that. The truth is, he’s completely insane. His mind’s been shattered by the sadistic belief that we’re meant to be his ‘family’. Everything about him makes my insides rot, yet on the outside, I remain Daddy’s good little girl...
  • Heaven by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Heaven by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, the Casteels were the lowest -- the scum of the hills. Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face...despite a father meaner than ten vipers...despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes...
  • Dysfunctional by Isabel Lucero

    Dysfunctional by Isabel Lucero

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    Ezra Hamilton hasn’t felt the warm spurt of blood flow through his fingers or the indescribable feeling of pushing a knife deep into someone’s flesh in a long time. Too long.He’s been watching a man stalk women, curious as to what he’s doing with them...
  • Embers by Yolanda Olson

    Embers by Yolanda Olson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Embers is not a standalone.It is highly advised to read Inferno, Cinere, and Sparks first.I swore to myself that I would never love you.I promised my children that they wouldn’t suffer for my sins.But it’s so hard, Daddy.It’s hard to not love the man that gave me life. It’s hard to not love the man that’s taken care of me the only way he knows how...
    Categorized as:
    horror  suspense  dark  abuse  rape  age difference  incest  breeding
  • Death Blooms by Yolanda Olson

    Death Blooms by Yolanda Olson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I deal in beautiful things.I'm paid to create unique masterpieces and I enjoy my work.I'm the best there is because I'm patient, kind, and quick.I wear the mask of humanity when I need to, and I play the part of just another stranger walking past you on the street, but there's something I want that I can't quite seem to get my hands on...
    Categorized as:
    horror  suspense  dark  m-m  from hate to love  m-f  new adult  queer
  • The Good Husband by Lucian Bane

    The Good Husband by Lucian Bane

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Ben was a loving husband until his life and death operation brought sadistic psychological scars. Ben is facing two tragedies. First, he's going to die soon. Next, he's just learned his wife has been lonely in their marriage he thought was perfect.Ben is told about a dangerous surgery that could save his life but it would mean getting an entire head transplant...
  • Slasherazzi by Daniel A. Kaine

    Slasherazzi by Daniel A. Kaine

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Recently promoted to Detective, Alex is out to prove himself and the Slasherazzi case is the perfect opportunity. Mutilated corpses are showing up across Tampa, and when the team discovers the newest victim was tortured alive, Alex becomes more determined than ever to stop the crazed serial killer before the horrific stabbings escalate further...
  • Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger prequel) by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger prequel) by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Before terror flowered in the attic there was a young girl. An innocent, hopeful girl... When young Olivia arrives at Foxworth Hall, she thinks her marriage to handsome Malcolm will bring the joy she has longed for...
  • Sparks by Yolanda Olson

    Sparks by Yolanda Olson

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My son is a good man. I know what you think about him, because I know what he's done, but you have to understand that it's not his fault. He was something of a misanthrope in his youth and that can be attributed to his father. Please understand that I will take the blame for my part in wrecking his soul, but it's so hard to resist a boy so sweet...
    Categorized as:
    horror  suspense  dark  incest  age difference  abuse  rape  breeding
  • Simmer by Measha Stone

    Simmer by Measha Stone

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    We'll teach her to be a good wife. It's our job and we won't fail her. There are rules here. Don't eat until Papa has. Do all your chores. Learn your lessons. Be grateful. Don't break the rules. But I did..
  • Letters in the Dark by Kit Rose

    Letters in the Dark by Kit Rose

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    CassandraAbducted.Caged.Kidnapped.They all mean the same thing. Hidden away and forgotten about by everyone. Everyone except the monster who put me here.He stripped me of my freedom. He stripped me of my clothing. He’s a monster, and he’ll do whatever he wants with me.But I will survive.And I will wait.He hides in the shadows, but I will learn to see in the dark...
  • Willow by V.C. Andrews

    Willow by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    All that glitters isn't gold.... Wealth. Extravagant parties. Celebrity status. These are things Willow De Beers could only dream of — until now. After discovering deep family secrets in her adoptive father's journal, Willow bids farewell to her North Carolina college town and sets out in search of her birth family amid the ritzy glamour of Palm Beach...
  • Defying Evil by Abbie Roads

    Defying Evil by Abbie Roads

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He’s the son of a serial killer.She’s his father’s only surviving victim.He’s obsessed with her.She’s frightened of him.Before it’s all over they’ll need each other to survive.Cain Killion’s life has revolved around blood. From a childhood of torture by his father, to his gruesome ability to solve crimes...
  • Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for...free from the scorn and contempt of her past! In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love. The pearls of culture, wisdom and breeding would now be hers...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror  contemporary  dark  mystery  length-long
  • The Boy by Rayne Havok

    The Boy by Rayne Havok

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Chop has that familiar craving, the one that makes him itch; drives him crazy until he gets his release. Join him tonight as he invites himself into a friendly neighborhood home and indulges himself in all that is not offered. The graphic nature of this book may trigger some people...
  • Tarnished Gold by V.C. Andrews

    Tarnished Gold by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Growing up in her beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Her classmates tease her, calling her "La Femme Au Naturel," the Nature Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret dreams...
  • Web of Dreams by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Web of Dreams by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    With nowhere to go, no one to help her, Leigh fled into the arms of Luke Casteel! Leigh Van Voreen had to escape from Boston's Farthinggale Manor. The foul secret she harbored within her seemed to darken her life forever. Jillian, her mother, would not believe her...and Tony Tatterton, her stepfather, had betrayed her most cruelly...
  • Music in the Night by V.C. Andrews

    Music in the Night by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Laura Logan dreams of a glorious Cape Cod day when all the dark secrets are swept away.... For Laura Logan, life on Cape Cod has been nearly perfect, full of magical days spent enjoying the sea with her beloved twin brother, Cary. But then, like the creeping of the tides, the vicious rumors at school begin — cruel voices saying unspeakable things about the Logans...
  • Flagrant by Ally Vance

    Flagrant by Ally Vance

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I never knew my daddy. It was always just me and Mom, until it wasn't. She left me alone in the world with nothing but a name, an obsession, and a fierce yearning to know where I came from.He doesn't even know I exist, but I found him, and he was everything I could want…Pater's blood runs in my veins, and the darkness inside of him paints my soul as black as his heart...
  • Darkest Hour by V.C. Andrews

    Darkest Hour by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Growing up on the thriving plantation called The Meadows, Lillian Booth cherishes the brightest, happiest dreams.... Lillian's world is full of grand parties, of sunshine and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister, Eugenia...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror  contemporary  dark  mystery  length-long
  • Heart Song by V.C. Andrews

    Heart Song by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Melody Logan was as alone as a solitary gull, with only the wild Atlantic wind to lift her spirits.... When Melody Logan's mother died in a car accident, Melody lost the last shred of family she had ever known. She was practically a stranger to the Logans, her wealthy relatives on Cape Cod, where she now drifted on a sea of dark secrets...
  • Melody by V.C. Andrews

    Melody by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town.... But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe — until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings. She was still devastated by her father's death when she left West Virginia with Haille to follow her mother's dream of becoming a model or actress...
  • Twilight's Child by V.C. Andrews

    Twilight's Child by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    AS MRS. JAMES GARY LONGCHAMP, DAWN IS BLISSFULLY HAPPY. BUT A LEGACY OF DECEIT AND BETRAYAL STILL HAUNTS HER ... At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotel and soon she and Jimmy will be blessed with a child of their own...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  horror  contemporary  dark  mystery  length-long
  • Olivia by V.C. Andrews

    Olivia by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Olivia always knew her younger sister would get into trouble. but she never realized the undercurrents of disaster would grow to a raging flood.... Olivia was always the sensible one. The responsible sister. She took after their father, a man as cold and driven as the Cape Cod wind, a man possessed by an inner need to be respected and successful...
  • Asylum by Patrick McGrath

    Asylum by Patrick McGrath

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane...
  • Gates of Paradise by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Gates of Paradise by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Stunned by tragedy, desperate and alone, Heaven's daughter clung to the frailest of dreams! The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother...
  • The Darkness of Perfection by Michael Schneider

    The Darkness of Perfection by Michael Schneider

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    5 STARS "a perfect read for people looking for a fresh book.” Gothical’s Book Reviews 5 STARS "a highly emotional read.” Tevya, Reading Lark 5 STARS “Loving the enemy has never felt as right as it does in Michael Schneider’s sophomore novel” Andrea, Book, Baking, and Other Objects of Beauty He desired perfection. She already was perfect...
  • The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson

    The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson—featuring the smart and complex Lily Kintner from his acclaimed novel, The Kind Worth Killing—a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him. There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan...
  • If There Be Thorns by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    If There Be Thorns by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 50 ratings
    Out of the ashes of evil Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for their splendid children... Fourteen-year-old Jory was so handsome, so gentle. And Bart had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the abandoned house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching their home with prying eyes, guarded by her strange old butler...
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