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  • Fool Me Twice by Ariana Nash

    Fool Me Twice by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The epic, heart-wrenching conclusion to the Court of Pain duology. Spanning four courts, devious and doomed royals, and the most unlikely of loves between a prince and his fool. They say in the darkest of times, the brightest star has no choice but to shine. I’m no star, nor am I a hero. But I could be the villain. To protect Arin from Razak’s scheming, I’ll have to be...
  • 千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 24 ratings
    晏无师是从尸山血海里走过来的人。. 他不相信人性本善,更不相信这世上会有大仁大义,不求回报为别人着想的人。. 某日,有天下第一道门之称的玄都山掌教沈峤与人约战,却因故坠下山崖。. 晏无师正好从下面路过。. 看到重伤濒死的沈峤,他忽然生出一个绝妙的主意……. 千秋之后,谁能不朽?. **THIS ENTRY IS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE WEBNOVEL NOT THE PHYSICAL EDITIONS OR EBOOKS**. "Thousand Autumns". Yan Wushi had walked a path full of blood and corpses. He did not believe in the good nature of humanity...
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  • 千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    千秋 [Qian Qiu] by Meng Xi Shi, 梦溪石

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    晏无师是从尸山血海里走过来的人。. 他不相信人性本善,更不相信这世上会有大仁大义,不求回报为别人着想的人。. 某日,有天下第一道门之称的玄都山掌教沈峤与人约战,却因故坠下山崖。. 晏无师正好从下面路过。. 看到重伤濒死的沈峤,他忽然生出一个绝妙的主意……. 千秋之后,谁能不朽?. **THIS ENTRY IS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE WEBNOVEL NOT THE PHYSICAL EDITIONS OR EBOOKS**. "Thousand Autumns". Yan Wushi had walked a path full of blood and corpses. He did not believe in the good nature of humanity...
  • Lying with Scorpions by Aleksandr Voinov

    Lying with Scorpions by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you lie with scorpions, you’d better have a taste for poison. Now that Kendras’s lover Adrastes has claimed the throne of Dalman, Kendras is tangled deeper than ever in politics and intrigue. As the new leader of the Scorpions and Adrastes’s one true friend, he and his men stand between Adrastes and those who wish him dead. And many do...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  fantasy  military  historical  dark  suspense  war
  • New York Minute (In These Words: Prequel) by Kichiku Neko, Suzume

    New York Minute (In These Words: Prequel) by Kichiku Neko, Suzume

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In These Words prequel that takes the readers back to a newly NY State employed Dr. Asano Katsuya. The 27 year-old had never sought company until one Christmas day Katsuya finally gave into the charm of a homicide detective at the Manhattan Precint.
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  contemporary  dark  fantasy  length-novella
  • Silk & Steel Series #1-3 and The Black Prince by Ariana Nash

    Silk & Steel Series #1-3 and The Black Prince by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The four full-length novels in the bestselling Silk & Steel series. Elves and dragons battle for supremacy as a tortured dragon prince and a lethal elf assassin fight for their impossible love. Buy the stunning, emotional, epic, and award-winning MM fantasy series today. Includes the full-length novels:. Silk & Steel. Iron & Fire. Blood & Ice. The Black Prince...
  • Beyond Time by Lee McCormick

    Beyond Time by Lee McCormick

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    How many times will we kill each other? How many times can we fall in love? SETH. I always thought my world would begin and end with Jayce Walker. When a sleep study offers us life-changing money, we jump at the opportunity. There’s only one I don’t have insomnia. Bluffing my way in is easy, but getting there and losing everything that’s ever mattered is a nightmare I can’t escape. Jayce is gone...
  • Pearl Boy by Inking

    Pearl Boy by Inking

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Dooshik is in a bind. After making off with the takings from the gay bar where he worked, he seeks refuge in a small, coastal town. As his funds dwindle, he desperately needs a way to make ends meet. Still, a boy’s gotta eat! So he dives into a clam house to satisfy his cravings. But with no money to pay, he dashes off leaving Jooha, the server, to foot the bill...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mafia  dark  angst  fantasy  contemporary  m-m  rape
  • Iblis’ Affliction by Nero Seal

    Iblis’ Affliction by Nero Seal

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Iblīs (Arabic إبليس)—the primary devil in Islam. “If you sleep with the Devil, don’t expect to get out of hell. ”. DEMANDING. NEEDY. DANGEROUS. Slater is everything Talha doesn’t want but everything the crime lord needs. The bloodiest ripper of Anatolia, nicknamed Iblīs, kills for him and warms his bed...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  queer  dark  m-m  bdsm  abuse  cheating  contemporary
  • By Fang and Fire by Lionel Hart

    By Fang and Fire by Lionel Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    The very forces of fate are within his grasp. All he has to do is reach out and take them. While the soul-binding ritual has brought his fated mate back to him time and again, Adrissu never meant it to be a permanent solution. After all, mortals die, but dragons live forever...
    Categorized as:
    omegaverse  queer  fantasy  m-m  fae  dark  fated-mates  high fantasy
  • The Lure of Their Graves: Book Two of The Cursed Crown series by Laura R. Samotin

    The Lure of Their Graves: Book Two of The Cursed Crown series by Laura R. Samotin

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    In the heart-wrenching sequel to The Sins on Their Bones, The Lure of Their Graves forces Dimitri and Vasily to confront old ghosts and a new political enemies-turned-suitors, all coveting Dimitri’s throne and his hand in marriage...
  • This Is Not Revenge by Romilly King

    This Is Not Revenge by Romilly King

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The new dark gay romance series from Romilly King - Author of the Delphic Agency and Handled Series. He’s never going to believe this is for his own good. It looks like revenge. I swear it’s not. There is zero motivation for me to revenge what he did to my Father. I’d rather kiss him for it. (No, don’t think like that). This is me doing the only thing I can to save him...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  m-m  fantasy  dark  length-short  cliffhanger
  • Therefore by Katherine Isaac

    Therefore by Katherine Isaac

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It was supposed to be a simple job. Get in. Grab the goods. Get out. Easy, right? Not if you're caught by an alpha. Trystan is all sharp smiles and sharper instincts—an omega thief who’s never once been caught. Until now. Emerson is everything Trystan hates in an alpha: big, bossy, and built like a problem. Unfortunately, he’s also the one standing between Trystan and freedom...
  • Farfall by J.C. Owens

    Farfall by J.C. Owens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets. Rebellion. Two men drawn together by a bond that may change the land forever. .. Captain Andon Grazon, the poor son of a prostitute, shares a rare bond with Ceris, the only wild-born griffon in the land to bond with a human. He and Ceris are part of the flight corp at Farfall, where he is treated like an outsider and abused by the noble-born riders at the base...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  fantasy  abuse  military  dark  dub-con  length-medium
  • Counterpunch by Aleksandr Voinov

    Counterpunch by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Fight like a man, or die like a slave. Brooklyn Marshall used to be a policeman in London, with a wife and a promising future ahead of him. Then he accidentally killed a rioter whose father was a Member of Parliament and had him convicted of murder. To ease the burden on the overcrowded prison system, Brooklyn was sold into slavery rather than incarcerated...
    Categorized as:
    hurt-comfort  queer  m-m  bdsm  sports  dark  abuse  slavery
  • The Goblin Twins by Kit Barrie

    The Goblin Twins by Kit Barrie

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    What do you do when you have nothing to give and everything to lose? Twin goblin princes Shi’chen and A’bbni Er-Ha’sen did not ever plan to take the Emperor’s throne. Older twin Shi’chen is a military prodigy, and younger twin A’bbni is studying to be a physician...
    Categorized as:
    hurt-comfort  queer  fantasy  m-m  dark  new adult  open-door  rape
  • The Spoils of Victory by Jem Blackwing

    The Spoils of Victory by Jem Blackwing

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    The gift of a male war prize is meant to insult him. It ruins him. The last thing Damon needs is to return home from war with this heavily-scarred, beautiful man amongst his spoils. But Damon’s jealous brother threatens to put the frightened creature to the sword if Damon refuses his gift. The rumours about Damon’s preferences for men in his bed have dogged him all his life...
  • These Hallowed Bones by L. Eveland

    These Hallowed Bones by L. Eveland

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He saw the monster in me and called it beautiful. Micah Salt destroys every painting he creates, desperate to silence the darkness whispering beneath his skin. The same darkness that made him sit beside his mother's corpse for three days, finding art in her decay. The church called it sin. Therapy called it trauma. But Professor Ezra Bishop calls it potential. Ezra doesn't want to fix Micah...
  • We're All Mad Here by Richard Rider

    We're All Mad Here by Richard Rider

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A golden afternoon, a nightmare, and how sometimes you can only make sense of a thing through the looking-glass. (A Stockholm Syndrome short story. ).
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  contemporary  dark  bdsm  fantasy  age difference
  • Shai by H.L. Night, H.L. Day

    Shai by H.L. Night, H.L. Day

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    How do you play a game when there aren’t any rules? Petty crook and drug dealer Elijah Page’s plan was simple. Stay off the feuding crime-lords’ radar for long enough to make a quick buck in the city, and then get out. He couldn’t have been more naïve. Captured and beaten by McIntyre, he escapes death, only to find himself in the hands of McIntyre’s opponent...
  • This Vow of Ours by Lucy Scott Bryan

    This Vow of Ours by Lucy Scott Bryan

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    After a bungled job, I’m forced to escape and abandon everything. It’s not the worst to happen, being sent to Ireland is. My next assignment, bringing down four men involved in the Irish Mafia. First, I’m put on leave and, as a favour, I end up ‘married’ to two strangers on St. Patrick's Day in Genoa. In the early morning, I run and hide. I have to...
  • On Edge by Brooke Matthews

    On Edge by Brooke Matthews

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Ready. Set. Run. Marley. For fifteen years, Marley has spent his days plotting, waiting, dreaming. Once, his dreams were filled with limitless color, love, and boyish ambition. Now, they’re stained in red. He demands justice for his wasted time behind bars, sentenced for a crime he and his twin didn't commit...
    Categorized as:
    hurt-comfort  queer  m-m  dark  m-m-m  abuse  contemporary  monsters
  • Siren's Call by J.C. Owens

    Siren's Call by J.C. Owens

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    A looming war. A pirate's revenge. A young noble caught in the middle. .. Dradin Sharlain is the youngest son of the most feared family in Malseenia. Scorned by his father and tormented by Vax, his sadistic brother, Dradin is seen as weak and vulnerable, despite his talents in diplomacy...
  • Warlord's Prize by F.A. Lantern, J.C. Bugg

    Warlord's Prize by F.A. Lantern, J.C. Bugg

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    Prize. Bribe. Distraction. Omega. Whatever they call him, Brook is doomed. Sold to a brutal Warlord to keep him from his homeland’s gates, Brook is hardly worth the reprieve. As a male Omega, Brook is unlikely to be Mated, so the brightest future he can hope for is that of a neglected concubine...
  • Hearts Lost by Gillian St. Kevern

    Hearts Lost by Gillian St. Kevern

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Some rules were never meant to be broken. Returning to the lunatic asylum would kill Ira Bird. Desperate to preserve his freedom, he follows the rules to the letter to prove himself a useful (and sane) member of society. But his new employer, eccentric and arrogant Professor Urquart, has little regard for convention—and no regard for Ira’s resolve...
  • Nursing the Alpha by Gianni Holmes

    Nursing the Alpha by Gianni Holmes

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 35 ratings
    It started with a contract. I'd express my milk for what I thought was a family in need. No names. No questions. No strings. Just a big check. Then I found out the truth. The man buying my milk isn't a stranger. He's someone I know. Someone who's been doing things to me without my knowledge. And he doesn't just want my milk. He wants all of me.
  • Betrayal by J.C. Owens

    Betrayal by J.C. Owens

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Secrets, madness, lies…and a love forged in the flames of betrayal. Imprisoned, starved and abused by his captors, Darcel finds his only escape in the depths of madness. But he’s tormented by his own demons, who taunt him with the memories of his past and of his beloved prince, Alasar of Rais. The man who condemned him to this prison for killing the enemy’s high king...
    Categorized as:
    hurt-comfort  queer  m-m  fantasy  abuse  dark  historical  slavery
  • The Capo's Boy by Aja Foxx

    The Capo's Boy by Aja Foxx

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ~ Nicky ~. I never intended to be a mobster's secret lover, but somehow I found myself in that position. It's been two years now and I can't say I hate it. It only becomes a problem when Vinnie's family tries to marry him off to someone else. I may be his little secret, but I refuse to be his side-piece...
  • Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A bloody past haunts him. A devastating present calls him back…. Nao hides from his violent past in the Japanese mob by opening a teahouse in Japan's cultural center, Kyoto. His past comes flooding back when he discovers a gravely injured man with a tattooed chest, a bloody knife, and a Korean business card. Saehyun would've died if not for Nao's help...
  • Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A bloody past haunts him. A devastating present calls him back…. Nao hides from his violent past in the Japanese mob by opening a teahouse in Japan's cultural center, Kyoto. His past comes flooding back when he discovers a gravely injured man with a tattooed chest, a bloody knife, and a Korean business card. Saehyun would've died if not for Nao's help...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mafia  m-m  mystery  contemporary  dark  suspense  fantasy
  • Scent of Sanctuary by N. Slater

    Scent of Sanctuary by N. Slater

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’ve pretty much mastered the art of hiding from the world. Grief, fear, and panic attacks make my apartment feel like a safe prison. After my brother died, it’s become impossible to believe that anything other than my nest inside these four walls can be my comfort...
  • Break The Ice by Tea Ravine

    Break The Ice by Tea Ravine

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    When it Raines it Pours but this might be a freezing rain. He’s the hot shot hockey player with the looks and reputation that opens every door in our world. What I did not expect was the pack he’s hiding along with his rival turned team mate and their strange hostile attraction. The four of them are not at all what I expected, they are charming yet wounded...
    Categorized as:
    omegaverse  queer  alpha male  sports  bdsm  dark  fantasy  hockey
  • The Blind Concubine (Xia NiangNiang) [瞎娘娘] by Xi Ni

    The Blind Concubine (Xia NiangNiang) [瞎娘娘] by Xi Ni

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A blind concubine lives in the cold palace. The blind concubine has a snow white cat. Day after day, year after year, he lives quietly in the courtyard of the cold palace. It is as if he has already been forgotten by the entire imperial palace. Until one day, the young emperor accidentally chances upon him….
  • Scarlett by Cinder Blaze

    Scarlett by Cinder Blaze

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    No one wishes to know my name. I’m the unclaimed Omega of one of the strongest mafia empires Chicago has ever dealt with. To the world, I’m but a shadow. A secret. The final chess piece that’s ready to checkmate anyone who dares to mess with me and the few unclaimed Omegas I protect. At least, until my Alpha, Alfonso Russo Jr, betrays me...
  • Night's Melody by Drake LaMarque

    Night's Melody by Drake LaMarque

    Rated: 2.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    The opera house holds many secrets, but none are as frightening as the Opera Ghost. Matthieu has harboured a crush on his best friend, Christophe, since they started dancing together in the Paris opera ballet troupe, but he's never acted on it. When disaster strikes only hours before a gala performance, Christophe reveals a hidden talent for singing...
    Categorized as:
    hurt-comfort  queer  m-m  dark  fantasy  from hate to love  bdsm  poly
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