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  • Ember by Rachel Van Dyken

    Ember by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Everybody Loves A Bit of Darkness..Until It Consumes Them... I am a Killer. A Rapist. A Monster. I know only pain and survival. That is until the Cappo's sister walked into my life. And changed everything...
  • Empire by Rachel Van Dyken

    Empire by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    I have lost everything. My purpose. My love. My soul. Death knocks on my door, I want to answer, but every time I reach for the handle--the promise I made her, brings me back. So I breathe. I live. I hate. And I allow the anger to boil beneath the surface of a perfectly indifferent facade. I am broken, I dont want to be fixed...
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  • Long Way Down by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

    Long Way Down by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The TikTok sensation Addicted Series continues with Long Way Down , now in a print edition with special bonus material!With a seven-year age difference, Ryke Meadows and Daisy Calloway have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as the most adventurous, fast-paced couple, their next step has always been elusive to the rabid media...
  • Speed by B.B. Easton

    Speed by B.B. Easton

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    With Netflix adapting BB's 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN into a new series, you're going to want the full story behind her outrageous adventures. Because BB Easton had so much fun writing her bestselling, award-winning memoir, she decided to give each of her four men his own steamy standalone...
  • Logan Kade by Tijan

    Logan Kade by Tijan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    People think that just because they know my name, my reputation, and my family that they know me. They don't.They say I’m a manwhore, but who wouldn’t be with my face and body? They say I’m a partier, and that's not going to change. They say I'm a fighter, and hell yes I am. F*ck with mine, and I’ll f*ck you back ten times worse.So, yes. Maybe what they say is true, but that’s not all of me...
  • Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next installment of her dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world.My life has been full of half-truths tangled in lies—I’d been to hell and back more times than I could count...
  • Elicit by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elicit by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Cursed, numb, rejected, scorned, wicked, sinister, dark, twisted...my name is Tex Campisi and this is my legacy. I killed my father in cold blood and lost my soul right along with him. I crave war more than peace, and I'm about to take my place in history as the youngest Capo dei Capi in the Cosa Nostra...that is until someone stops me, saves me from myself...
  • Jackson by Siobhan Davis

    Jackson by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    The devil came to me in disguise. Too bad I didn’t notice until it was far too late. Vanessa:The devil doesn’t always wear an evil mask.Sometimes, he appears in the most beautiful form.Like the super-hot bad boy with the dirty-blond hair and a wicked glint in his blue eyes who swept in out of nowhere, stealing all the air from my lungs.I thought he was my savior. But he’s my ruination...
  • Ten Below Zero by Whitney Barbetti

    Ten Below Zero by Whitney Barbetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    “In here,” he said, pushing on the skin above my heart, “you're ten below zero. And you’re closer to death than I am.” My name is Parker. My body is marked with scars from an attack I don’t remember. I don’t want to remember. I choose to live my life by observation, not through experience. While people are laughing and kissing and connecting, I’m in the corner. Watching them live...
  • Rafe by Jo Raven

    Rafe by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    His name is Rafaele Vestri, Rafe to his friends. He’s tall, strong, handsome. Distant. He often comes to the café where I work, but we don’t talk much. He looks at me, though. Stares at me, his gaze heated, and I can’t help but stare back. I want him, I won’t deny it. I’ve never seen anyone that beautiful, anyone that powerful, in my life. But he’s growing more withdrawn by the day...
  • Victor: Her Ruthless Crush by Theodora Taylor

    Victor: Her Ruthless Crush by Theodora Taylor

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Victor: No last name. Totally mysterious. He doesn't talk. He's insanely hot. And now...I'm supposed to be spending every Thursday with him??? When my dad asked me to tutor the son of an important business associate, I thought I was agreeing to teach a little kid. Victor's definitely not a kid. In fact, it's hard to believe we're even the same age...
  • Always Crew by Tijan

    Always Crew by Tijan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For the longest time, I was Bren Monroe.I lived in Roussou, California.I had no parents, no brother, but I had a crew.Then things started to change.I never planned for any of it.I didn’t think I’d fall in love.I didn’t think I’d have a relationship with my brother again.I didn’t think that he’d come back.Now I’m in Cain.My crew is in college.They’re growing, going through their own things...
  • The Resolution of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

    The Resolution of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Things are well for Callie and Kayden. They’re still dealing with their past and the pain connected to it, but for the most part they’ve moved on. The biggest decision they have at the moment is what they want to do with their lives in the future. Eventually, though, the past catches up with them and they’re left facing tough choices...
  • Shame by Rachel Van Dyken

    Shame by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Everything done in darkness, will eventually be brought into the light. I ran, but all it did was keep me one step ahead of my past. I tried to start over; new name, new identity. But you can't change your soul. A fresh start at college was just what I needed. For a while, it worked. I was the party girl, the one that seemed confident, but it was a lie. When guys kissed me--I felt only pain...
  • The Probability of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

    The Probability of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Luke Price and Violet Hayes haven’t seen each other in a couple of months, not since they discovered Luke’s mother’s connection to Violet’s parent’s murders. But when Luke gets into some gambling trouble with the wrong people, destiny decides to throw the two of them together and they head out to Vegas to try and settle Luke’s debt...
  • The Destiny of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

    The Destiny of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Luke Price's life has always been about order, control, and acting tough on the outside. For Luke, meaningless relationships are a distraction-a way to tune out the twisted memories of his childhood. He desperately wishes he could forget his past, but it haunts him no matter what he does. Violet Hayes has had a rough life...
  • What's Left of Me by Amanda Maxlyn

    What's Left of Me by Amanda Maxlyn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Life works in mysterious ways. Four years ago I became known as the girl with cancer. I refuse to cry. And I refuse to give in. A relationship with a man is the last thing I’m looking for right now, but one night with Parker changes everything. He is persistent, and he knows what he wants. Me. He doesn’t treat me like I’m fragile. But he doesn’t know, and I’m not ready to tell him...
  • FALL by Cora Brent

    FALL by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author Cora Brent comes a new epic crossover novel. Jenny... I was a lost girl, a child bride. Now, to most people I appear to be just an average college student. They would never guess my strange history. But secretly I'm still held down by my past. I cannot bring myself to trust men...
  • The Arrangement 15: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    The Arrangement 15: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It's hard to trust anyone anymore. Everyone is suspect. And I have no reprieve, no rest. I can't sleep after all I've been through. Sean is slipping away, receding back into the monster he was. Alone, I'm being smothered by death's cold shroud. Too many people have died -- this ends tonight. If it kills me, so be it. Genre: New Adult RomanceThis story unfolds over multiple volumes approx...
  • Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

    Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over? Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on and moving forward, just as Clay wanted her to. Clay never stopped thinking of Maggie...
  • Out of Breath by Rebecca Donovan

    Out of Breath by Rebecca Donovan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Emma leaves Weslyn and everyone in it behind to attend Stanford University, just as she always intended. A shell of her former self, she is not the same girl. She is broken, and the only way that she’ll be whole again is through forgiveness. Emma must find a way to forgive herself and recognize her own worth before she can receive the love she deserves...
  • Normal by Danielle Pearl

    Normal by Danielle Pearl

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It's the kind of situation most people would dread. Starting at a new high school, in the middle of my senior year, in a new town, in a new state. I know no one. No one knows me. That's what I'm counting on. A year ago, Aurora "Rory" Pine was just a normal teenage girl - just as sweet and naive as the fairy tale princess she was named after. But this isn't a year ago...
  • Heresy by Lily White

    Heresy by Lily White

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sixth CircleHeresyAlso Known as Shane CarterThere are no rules with this man.No courtesies.No acceptable behaviors he’ll conform to in order to be accepted.He marches to his own beat.Gives the finger to expectations.And does whatever pleases him because nobody can control him.Arrogant.Aggravating.Absolute Chaos.Shane is the last person you want walking into your world...
  • In Her Wake by K.A. Tucker

    In Her Wake by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Before you knew him as Trent in Ten Tiny Breaths , he was Cole Reynolds—and he had it all. Until one night when he makes a fatal, wrong decision…and loses everything. When a drunken night out at a Michigan State college party results in the death of six people, Cole must come to terms with his part in the tragedy...
  • Enforce by Rachel Van Dyken

    Enforce by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    There’s two sides to every story… And ours? Isn’t pretty… Then again, what’s pretty about the mafia? Trace Rooks, that’s what. But she only wants one of us, and I’ll kill him before I let him have her. The only problem ? We’re cousins . And she may just be our long lost enemy. Whoever said college was hard, clearly didn’t attend Eagle Elite University...
  • Dusty by YellowBella, TeamBella23

    Dusty by YellowBella, TeamBella23

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Now published as InnocentsShe loves him. He loves her crazy. She's a hopeless romantic. He's just hopeless. She's afraid to let go. He won't let her. A story about a silly girl in love with a foolish boy. Here, forever is a lie...
  • Wreck Me by Jessica Sorensen

    Wreck Me by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When Avery Hensley met Conner Wellings, she thought she’d found the guy she was going to spend the rest of her life with. She got married young and had the most beautiful son in the world. Life seemed perfect. But not everything is what it seems. Turned out Conner had another side to him, a darker side that Avery didn’t see coming...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  angst  new adult  m-f  young adult  contemporary  abuse  dark
  • Campfire Chaos by K. Webster

    Campfire Chaos by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes a forbidden, enemies to lovers romance called Campfire Chaos!I have a new problem.Cal Hutton.Town’s lawless, gorgeous bad boy. A Hood River Hoodlum. My new nemesis.He wants me to pay for what I did.Cal thinks I’m weak and an unworthy adversary, someone he can toy with.But I’ll never allow another man to have that power over me.I have claws now...
  • Out of the Dark by Danah Logan

    Out of the Dark by Danah Logan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LillyMy name is the only truth they didn’t take from me.Betrayed by my family, my desperate need for answers put me back on his radar.The one person who was never supposed to find me.Again.I was unprepared for the world I got thrust into—the connection we shared.The deeper I dug, the more unstable my future became.With Rhys as my anchor, I will fight to bring my past out of the dark...
  • The Fire Between High & Lo by Brittainy C. Cherry

    The Fire Between High & Lo by Brittainy C. Cherry

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 40 ratings
    There once was a boy, and I loved him. Logan Francis Silverstone and I were complete opposites. I danced, and he stood still. He was quiet, while I ran my mouth. He struggled to find a smile, and I refused to frown. The night I saw the darkness that truly lived inside of him, I couldn't look away. We were broken together, yet somehow whole. We were wrong together, but always right...
  • Tempting Little Thief: Alternate Cover Edition by Meagan Brandy

    Tempting Little Thief: Alternate Cover Edition by Meagan Brandy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Meagan Brandy comes a steamy forbidden romance featuring a possessive hero … who falls first and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Bastian Bishop. That’s his name. He’s rough, rugged, and utterly unpredictable. He’s not cautious or contemplative. He’s a volcano. Silent and steady one second, and a nightmare in the next...
  • Tempting Little Thief: Alternate Cover Edition by Meagan Brandy

    Tempting Little Thief: Alternate Cover Edition by Meagan Brandy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Meagan Brandy comes a steamy forbidden romance featuring a possessive hero … who falls first and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Bastian Bishop. That’s his name. He’s rough, rugged, and utterly unpredictable. He’s not cautious or contemplative. He’s a volcano. Silent and steady one second, and a nightmare in the next...
  • Echoes by Dylan Page

    Echoes by Dylan Page

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blurb & cover to come!!Release date is a placeholder...
  • Nova and Quinton: No Regrets by Jessica Sorensen

    Nova and Quinton: No Regrets by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Today is the first day of Quinton Carter's new life. The toxic guilt of his past left him in pieces-but one girl unexpectedly put him back together. Thanks to Nova Reed, Quinton can finally see the world with clear eyes. She's the reason his heart is still kicking behind the jagged scar on his chest. And he would love to have her in his arms every minute of the day . . . but he's not ready yet...
    Categorized as:
    college  m-f  young adult  contemporary  dark  abuse
  • The End Game by Kate McCarthy

    The End Game by Kate McCarthy

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “Professional athletes are pillars of their respective communities. They are heroes in the eyes of boys and girls and are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that positively represents their community.” The public loves a good scandal. Seeing someone fall from the pinnacle of success makes a great headline. No one knows that better than I do...
  • Ava by Leslie Luckie

    Ava by Leslie Luckie

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ava The minute we walked through the gates of Blackheath Academy I knew we weren’t welcome. It was us against them. The Club Brats against the Elite. Bastian de Trafford was their ringleader, but I wasn’t about to go down without a fight. Only - that fight would be so much easier if he didn’t look like a god of old...
  • Better when He's Bad by Jay Crownover

    Better when He's Bad by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Welcome to the Point There’s a difference between a bad boy and a boy who’s bad . . . meet Shane Baxter. Sexy, dark, and dangerous, Bax isn’t just from the wrong side of the tracks, he is the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he’s the master of bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five years...
  • Sinning Like Hell by Trilina Pucci

    Sinning Like Hell by Trilina Pucci

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    USA TODAY bestselling author, Trilina Pucci brings you the finale of Sutton and Calder’s heart wrenching love story. We’ll never run away.There won’t be stars or a blue sky filled with heaven staring down on us.All we have is death and destruction.A life sentence, forced to survive within the absence of our love.Until five years later...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  angst  contemporary  young adult  mafia  dark
  • Fall With Me by Lucy Smoke

    Fall With Me by Lucy Smoke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Isaac Icari: The God of Hazelwood University. My stepbrother.My lover.My enemy.It was dangerous to let myself be swept up by him but he’s a drug that I crave.I should have walked away the second I realized what he was involved with, when he revealed who his father truly was.Now it’s too late.We should have known better. Get too close to the sun and you get burned...
  • Unlit Star by Lindy Zart

    Unlit Star by Lindy Zart

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    We are not guaranteed anything, not even this life. Rivers Young is the popular guy untouchable by reality. He is like a star—bright, consuming, otherworldly. The thing about stars, though, is that they eventually fall, and he is no different. He falls far and he falls hard. Delilah Bana is the outcast enshrouded in all of life's ironies...
  • The Saint by Kelsey Clayton

    The Saint by Kelsey Clayton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    DELANEYCruel.Heartless.A mistake waiting to happen.Knox Vaughn is the epitome of a bad boy.He's trouble in a sexy-as-sin package. I know it.They know it.Even he knows it. But, it's like a moth to the flame.I can't stay away—even though I'm going to get burned.You know what they say,The sinners are much more fun. And this saint is changing the game.KNOXSweet.Innocent.Valedictorian...
  • Kick, Push by Jay McLean

    Kick, Push by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There’s a single defining moment within every skater. It lasts only a second. Two if you're good. Three if you’re really good. It’s the moment you’re in the air, your board somewhere beneath you, and nothing but wind surrounds you. It’s the feeling of being airborne. The sixteen-year-old version of me would’ve said it was the greatest feeling in the world...
  • Temper Him by Caitlyn Dare

    Temper Him by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She wants to protect him. He can't stay away.Kennedy Lowe wasn’t supposed to walk away, taking my heart with her. Now she’s gone, but I’m determined to get her back.I want to save her.Punish her.In the end, I’ll make sure she knows exactly who she belongs to.Conner Jagger wasn’t to supposed to save me, but he did. Now I’ll do anything to protect him and the people he calls family.He’s good...
  • Taunt Her: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Taunt Her: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    𝗛𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺.Remi Tanner wasn’t part of the plan. But when I see my uncle doting on her, I know she’s going to help me destroy him.I’ll taunt her.Test her.In the end, I’ll break her.Ace Jagger wasn’t a good guy. But he swept into my life like a storm, and I’m caught up in the aftermath.He’s cruel.Calculating...
  • Savage Kind of Love by Nicole Snow

    Savage Kind of Love by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    SAVAGE LOVE: FIERCE, SEDUCTIVE, AND LIMITLESS... Shelly “Saffron” Reagan's life is in shambles, and it's about to get worse. Keeping up a broken home and a brother in the vicious Grizzlies MC is more than any woman can handle. Remembering the tough talking biker who nursed her after a savage attack is all she has, a bad boy who's impossibly out of reach. Or so it seems...
  • Saving Quinton by Jessica Sorensen

    Saving Quinton by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 20 ratings
    Nova Reed can't forget him-Quinton Carter, the boy with the honey-brown eyes who made her realize she deserved more than an empty life. His pain was so similar to her own. But Nova has been coming to terms with her past and healing, while Quinton is out there somewhere, sinking deeper. She's determined to find him and help him . . . before it's too late...
    Categorized as:
    college  angst  m-f  tattoos  dark  abuse  young adult  contemporary
  • Lovely Vicious by Sara Wolf

    Lovely Vicious by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    1.Don't talk about love. 2.Don't think about love. 3.Thinking and talking about love leads to Love, which is the enemy... For 17-year-old Isis Blake, the list has one goal: to ensure she never falls in love again. Ever. As Isis and her mom settle into their new home in Buttcrack-of-Nowhere, Ohio, Isis is rockin' the purple hair and a beat up old car..
  • Heart on a Chain by Cindy C. Bennett

    Heart on a Chain by Cindy C. Bennett

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    17-year-old Kate has lived her whole life in abject poverty, with an alcoholic father and drug-addicted mother, who severely abuses Kate. At school, her second-hand clothing marks her as a target. Her refusal to stand up for herself makes her the recipient of her classmates taunts and bullying. That is, until Henry returns...
  • A Whole New Crowd by Tijan

    A Whole New Crowd by Tijan

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Taryn grew up in a different world. Her boyfriend was a criminal. His older brother was part of a gang. They weren’t great people, but they were her family. Then everything changes when she’s adopted by a family in the neighboring town. New family. New friends. A new world. She’s elated...
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