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  • Hard Truths by Rebecca Royce

    Hard Truths by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    I’m Everly Marrs, and I’ll be damned before I lose myself to the men that kidnapped me. I had plans, big plans. I had my pretty little life outlined: Graduate school and get a job in social work—maybe even one day marry a nice man who actually knew what he was doing in bed. But everything changed when I woke up in a strange place with five men who insisted I call them D, W, J, K, and T...
  • Beasts by Sheridan Anne

    Beasts by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    Rain, rain go away. Naive rivals I will slay. Touch what’s theirs and they will play. A shallow grave you will lay. Standing at the top of the DeAngelis empire isn’t as glamorous as it sounds. Sure, it comes with the kind of power one could only ever dream of, and having three men to lavish me with undeniable pleasure is the greatest perk of all...
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    mafia  suspense  bdsm  abduction  m-f  new adult  angst  strong heroine
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  • Tease Me by Julia Ash, Linzi Basset

    Tease Me by Julia Ash, Linzi Basset

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't let love, or lust, pass you by…. Sink into this incredible collection of never-before-released full-length novels! Available for a limited time only! Let us arouse your imagination with dozens of books compiled to satisfy your craving for romance. They'll tease… excite… and tempt you to sin. Get ready to swoon over these seductive stories of craving and demand. Yield and advance. Heat...
  • Dangerous Truths by Kris Butler

    Dangerous Truths by Kris Butler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    What if the reflection staring back at you had become a stranger? Inside, I was dying—empty, dark, alone. Keeping it all together was exhausting and the ‘perfect’ mask I wore was beginning to slip. Pretending to have it all together wasn’t working anymore as the lies I had to tell weighed heavier each day. I’d done everything right my whole life and I still ended up divorced, childless, and alone...
  • Dark Knight by Helen Scott, Zoey Shelby

    Dark Knight by Helen Scott, Zoey Shelby

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I escaped from a cult only to be captured by the mafia…. The last thing I expect after being kidnapped is to find out they aren’t even planning on keeping me. I'm going to be auctioned off. Apparently, natural blondes are a big seller. Too bad someone else bought me before the auction could even take place. The amount of money they must have spent on me makes me sick to think about...
  • Six by Evie Rae, Poppy Flynn

    Six by Evie Rae, Poppy Flynn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A Dark 'Why Choose' Romance Inspired by "Peter Pan & The Lost Boys". First there were Five. Now they are Six. Beck. The sun has dawned on a new day and after a grim fight with a notorious serial child killer, the future looks bright. Even for me. But not everything is as it seems. The man killed in that brutal struggle? He’s not the man I remember as my kidnapper...
  • Villain Era by Luna Pierce

    Villain Era by Luna Pierce

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 52 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...
  • Dark Obsessions Anthology: Volume 1 by C.M. Steele

    Dark Obsessions Anthology: Volume 1 by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    They’re watching. Waiting. Bound by their desires to own—the uncontrollable hunger that breaks rationality and brings forth their baser needs. To hunt. To take. Morals and humanity have no place in this game, one they’ll win at all costs. A hunter never apologizes. A man claims his woman without guilt or care for the consequences. And in this dark obsession, these demons will own your soul...
  • Nirvana In Neon by M.J Knight

    Nirvana In Neon by M.J Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We did it. Our enemies are just bad memories. Or so we thought. Can you ever really be safe from enemies when you and the men you love run the largest crime syndicate in the South? We were celebrating. Preparing. Our life was finally on track. Now new enemies come from the North. They think us weak… Little do they know I’m more bloodthirsty than ever...
  • Under the Cover of Darkness by Emma Luna

    Under the Cover of Darkness by Emma Luna

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    ADDY. I thought the suffocating loneliness of the last two year were bad, but then I was sent to Lakeridge Psychiatric Facility. On the outside it’s disguised as helpful brochures and friendly doctors who have vowed to help, but the real truth is just below the surface, lurking in the shadows, and haunting my dreams. At night he comes—taunting and abusing me...
  • Breaking Bailey by Jarica James

    Breaking Bailey by Jarica James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    They call themselves the Underground Omega Syndicate, and the dirt they have on me could ruin my life. As an omega myself, I never thought I’d fall victim to an organization that claims to want omegas in power, but I’ve been kidnapped and given a new identity. Now, I’m in the middle of North Harbor’s political scene with orders to take down a corrupt senator...
  • Wicked Deceit by Aly Beck

    Wicked Deceit by Aly Beck

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    My enemy is The Apocalypse Society: Three brothers, a hidden agenda, distorted masks, and minions who do their dirty work. They tried to kill the rabbit. They injured two of the men I love. They thought they could cut me down. Not only my life, but the lives of my four men, are now in danger. Time is running out. The rabbit is almost in their trap. The next time they may succeed in killing me...
  • Reclaim  by Jenna Daring, Belle Harper

    Reclaim by Jenna Daring, Belle Harper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I’m being forced to marry a monster—a man who kills not only because he has to, but because he enjoys the hunt. No one can save me—not even my best friend, Emilio. What’s a girl to do but run away? Only when I try, my bodyguard finds me and returns me home. Even Arrow can’t help...
  • Poisoned Throne by Nikita.

    Poisoned Throne by Nikita.

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Like many little girls, I too used to dream of fairytales. Until that illusion was shattered, and I saw firsthand just how cruel life could be. Now I just wished my nightmare would end. The life I knew ceased to exist as I suffered at the hands of my stepmother, who hated me...
  • Vengeance of The Fallen by Dani René

    Vengeance of The Fallen by Dani René

    Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling Author, Dani René, brings you a brand new dark and steamy reverse harem romance which is part of the Twisted Legends Collection! A new persona. A new life. But none of that would save me from them. The Fallen are ruthless, demanding, and vicious, and they want me. I thought I could hide from my past, but they know who I am, what I am. They want vengeance...
  • Warrior Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Warrior Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 293 ratings
    I once thought one of my ruthless boys could be the killer I’m hunting. They’re all dark, deadly and more than capable of brutality. But now I’m held by the King I’ve been stalking in the shadows and when I unmask him, he’ll realise he made a huge mistake in taking my brother from this world. My Kings are coming for me, I know that in my soul...
  • Tragic Bonds by J. Bree

    Tragic Bonds by J. Bree

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 492 ratings
    Nothing will ever be the same again. Our Bonded Group has been torn apart, and the monsters are now the prey. But we’re not going to just wait around for our enemy to strike; the blood on his hands is unforgivable, and the god living inside of me wants her revenge paid in blood. And a thousand souls...
  • Savage Bonds by J. Bree

    Savage Bonds by J. Bree

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 676 ratings
    With my gift coursing through my veins, the tables have turned on the Draven Campus. I’m no longer the Giftless reject, no longer the girl who’s fair game to the other students for daring to run away from my Bonds. But there are bigger problems heading my way. With destiny pushing me closer and closer to each of my Bonds, I’m fighting tooth and nail against nature to keep my distance...
  • Vicious Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Vicious Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 313 ratings
    Elise continues her hunt for the King who killed her brother while trying not to fall for the vicious boys she suspects. As her investigation deepens, she seems to be closing in on some answers. And with a surprise trip to Zodiac Academy, she finds more there than she expects. .. This is the third installment of Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac.
  • The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

    The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 167 ratings
    Not many people get a second chance, let alone a second life. I died. Burning in a prison cell I spent years of my life rotting away in. I had been beaten, battered and bruised beyond repair. .. but not broken. Never broken. By whatever miracle, I’ve been brought back ten years into my past and before I was locked away. .. But to a different kind of hell…Wensridge Academy...
  • Alpha Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Alpha Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 165 ratings
    I came here with a single goal in mind. An aim. A purpose. I will break out of Darkmore Penitentiary. But I was a fool to think that it would be so simple. And now with more and more Fae relying on me to get them out of this slice of hell, I find myself unable to do a damn thing. Mason Cain stabbed me in the back and left me to rot in the dark...
  • Caged Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Caged Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 184 ratings
    What do you do when the guy you’ve loved since you were fourteen is sent to the most dangerous prison in Solaria for saving your life? Okay, so maybe he doesn’t love me back. And maybe getting sent down would seem insane to some, but I’m Rosalie Oscura, champion underground cage-fighter and alpha werewolf from the infamous Oscura Clan...
  • Possession by K. Loraine, Meg Anne

    Possession by K. Loraine, Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 139 ratings
    He saved me from a vengeful wolf but became a monster to do it. And now I’ve lost him. My Viking. My Alek. Locked away in Novasgard, he’s beyond reach. I have no way to find him. No way to tell him about my secret. About the two words that changed everything. To make matters worse, Noah and Caleb want nothing to do with me now that they know. Two little words, and I’m on the verge of losing them...
  • Forced Bonds by J. Bree

    Forced Bonds by J. Bree

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 538 ratings
    They say to keep your friends close but your enemies closer;. What if they’re one and the same? The stable foundation I thought I’d built in the Sanctuary has been ripped away, and I find myself on the front lines of the war against the Resistance. I might have my Bonds on my side, but there are darker schemes in motion...
  • The Witchwood Boys Did Me Dirty by C.M. Stunich

    The Witchwood Boys Did Me Dirty by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 108 ratings
    These forgotten witches aren’t too wicked to fall for. A coven of shadows with a curse on my heart and my house. They bake f*cked-up cupcakes in my kitchen and unalive influencers in my front yard. These men make zombies out of their own relatives, and a panting mess out of their own wife. The Witchwoods are a violent stain on the world...
  • Tourner by Jane Washington

    Tourner by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 214 ratings
    Isobel Carter is making headlines. Some of them good, some of them bad, and some of them … astounding . She started at the bottom and now she’s near the top with everything she never wanted, but the Ironside Show doesn’t care, because she’s just become one of the most interesting students at the academy, and everyone seems to have big plans for her...
  • Temptation by K. Loraine, Meg Anne

    Temptation by K. Loraine, Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 127 ratings
    Temptation, thy name is Sunday Fallon, and I am done resisting. Once upon a time I’d been a priest, but she’d made a sinner of me and now I welcomed damnation. She’d always been my destiny. The woman whose life was tied to mine. I just hadn’t planned on falling in love and being forced to choose between my vows and my soul...
  • Savage Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Savage Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 285 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...
  • Restless Stars by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Restless Stars by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Orphans. Changelings. Princesses. Queens. We are all and nothing now, our fate weighed on the scales of the stars and counterbalanced by the forces that oppose us. The shadow of the false king spreads as thick as oil across the kingdom we were born to rule, and none remain untouched by its darkness. Our crowns lay within reach if only we can claim them...
  • Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 48 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...
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