Dance of Defiance (Darkest Dance #5)
Jagger Cole
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
4.15
· Steam/Spice level: 5 of 5
Explicit and plentiful [?]
· 20 ratings · 610 pages · Published: 04 Oct 2025
A night meant for violence and vengeance turns into something far more twisted and deviant…
I was raised to be brutal.
Hard. Tough. Unmerciful.
In the Bratva, men don’t crave other men. Good thing I’m straight.
And if I say that enough times, six inches from the mirror, it usually sounds true.
That is, until I go into the woods looking for monsters, and find something far harder to escape from.
Val Bancroft is chaos and carnage wrapped in electrified sin.
Provocative and defiant.
Lethally, disarmingly beautiful.
A violent, unhinged corruption to my own brand of carefully controlled darkness.
I tell myself I’m not gay. That our families want to kill each other. That my place as my father’s heir, with a woman chosen for me at my side, has already been carved in stone.
But he dismantles me, piece by bloody piece, until even my demons bow to him.
He’s an unstoppable force.
I’m an immovable object.
And when we slam together, we’ll find beautiful wreckage—or vicious goddamn ruin.
Dance of Defiance is a standalone dark mafia male x male romance with two ultra possessive, extremely unhinged heroes. Readers are STRONGLY advised to read the TW inside. No cliffhanger; HEA included.
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Tagged as:
- mafia 12
- dark romance 11
- gay romance 11
- contemporary 10
- enemies to lovers 9
- queer romance 9
- bad boys 9
- rich hero 9
- queer awakening 8
- alpha male 8
- grumpy/cold hero 7
- athlete hero 7
- praise kink 7
- anal sex 6
- suspense 6
- angst 6
- possessive hero 6
- tortured hero 6
- sibling's best friend 6
- secret relationship 6
- bisexuality 5
- forbidden love 5
- found family 5
- hurt/comfort 4
- arranged/forced marriage 4
- other man/woman 4
- bdsm 4
- grumpy & sunshine 3
- sunny/happy hero 3
- funny 3
- sweet/gentle hero 3
- fighting/mma/boxing 3
- good grovel 2
- childfree 2
- forced proximity 1
- exhibitionism 1
- class difference 1
- bondage 1
- sports 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- alcoholism 8
- queerphobia 7
- substance abuse 6
- past child neglect 6
- misogyny 5
- past abuse 5
- child sexual abuse 5
- drug abuse 4
- dubious consent 4
- past sexual abuse 3
- mental trauma 3
- torture of mcs 2
- graphic violence 2
- geography
- north america 1
- usa 1
- new york state 1
- Format
- dual pov 8
- first person pov 6
- male pov 5
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The 'Darkest Dance' series
4.00 · 173 ratings
dual-pov · dark · bdsm · possessive hero · suspense · alpha male · contemporary · mafia · explicit-plentiful · bad boys · hurt-comfort · graphic-violence · m-f · from hate to love · length-long · spanking · super rich hero · drug-abuse · dub-con · heroine athlete
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