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Demons by J.L. Drake
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTrigger… I thought the light would bring redemption. Salvation. But it only brought the Devil to my doorstep. My demons are breaking through, and the reaper is moving closer. My weakness has been exposed, and there’s only one person who can calm this hell… Tess… I broke a promise to myself, and now I’m paying for it. I don’t want to be here... -
Maverick: A Dark MC Romance by Serena Akeroyd
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlessa (Ghost)Maverick’s in love with a dead man buried at Arlington National Cemetery, where his heart might as well be buried too. My husband’s stuck in the past, lost in his fractured mind, and the last ten years are a blur to him, meaning I’m a blur to him. But I’m not a ghost. I’m a woman. I’m alive. I breathe. I hurt.Should I let go or hold on?My instinct is to let go, but I have family now... -
Road To Ruin by Callie Hart, Jonny James
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMalicious Destruction of Property. Two counts of breaking and entering. Two counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Four counts of assault. Three counts of illegal gambling. Three years served in Orleans Parish Prison. Tommy ‘Havoc’ Kendrick’s rap sheet reads like a recipe for disaster: one part mayhem to three parts chaos... -
Dark Destiny by Bec Botefuhr
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYou were with Willow and Jagger when they found their happily ever after in Dark Endings. You felt their love. You felt their relief, but what you didn't feel, was the pain they left tucked inside. Jagger killed his own father, he suffered on an island alone being forced to fight to save his life. Now, the memories are catching up on him. The reality is haunting him. He's becoming numb... -
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Deserved by Kira Johns
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFive years after leaving Rockingham, Jade Moore is still trying to move on. Easier said than done when your heart lies in your hometown. She finds friendship with a man who bears a dark secret, one that could destroy her. Shadow has spent the last five years in misery over losing Jade. He still loves her, but knows he lost his chance... -
Tethered Souls by Beth Flynn
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy family has secrets. I’m always the good girl, doing what’s necessary to keep my loved ones safe. I've kept the darkest secrets from everyone I know. As painful as it is to hold them all inside where they live and gnaw away at me, that’s where they must stay. I haven't seen my closest childhood friend, Christian Bear, since I was a teenager—he hasn't changed a bit... -
Growing and Kissing by Helena Newbury
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNote: This book was republished as "Bad For Me". This edition is no longer available.Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ASIN B01CYT8S3KWhen my sister is diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, there’s only one way to raise the half a million dollars I need to save her: use my skills with plants to grow marijuana. But I’m a botany geek, not a drug lord. I need help... -
Cooper by Lane Hart, D.B. West
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCooper and Elizabeth Townsend are from two very different worlds - she's an attorney and he's an outlaw biker. At first, she was just an escape he needed, but now she's everything to him, even though their relationship remains a secret.After his world is blown apart, Cooper is no longer the same man he was before... -
Reapers and Bastards Anthology by Joanna Wylde
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Reapers Motorcycle Club and Silver Valley series comes an anthology of extras and never-before-released material, including a new short story featuring fan favorites Horse and Marie. Charming Bastard: A Novella I first met Riley Boone when I was four years old. We moved to Callup, Idaho after my dad blew out his back and had to go on disability... -
Legacy by Bethany-Kris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here.A Legacy Prequel filth·y (fĭl′thē) adj. filth·i·er, filth·i·est 1. Covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty. 2. Obscene or offensive. 3. Vile; dirty. adv. filth·y 1. To an extreme and often disgusting extent... -
Toxic by A.C. Bextor
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTold through Shame’s point of view, the final installment of the Lights of Peril MC takes place on the ‘implied’ wedding day. Shame is plagued with doubts surrounding his love for Mace. He loves her. He’s loved her since she was five years old, but feels he doesn’t deserve her. This uncertainty is surfacing while struggling to forget the loss of his tragic childhood... -
The Ingénue by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Siren prequelEvents take place approximately six months before The Siren – stars Sheridan &... -
Heaven Hill Series Box Set by Laramie Briscoe
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGet the first four books in the best-selling Heaven Hill series in one box set. Book #1 – Meant To Be Single Mother Denise Cunningham meets her match when Heaven Hill VP Liam Walker convinces her to do a job for the club. Once she’s in, she’s not sure if she’ll ever want to get out... -
Forced Submission Bundle 2 by Alexa Riley
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBONUS: Bundle includes never before seen epilogues for all three stories! Taking What’s His Driving a truck and hauling cargo from coast to coast can be lonely. Sly’s been looking for a pet to keep him company, and late one night on the side of the highway, he finds her. Cameron is scared something bad is going to happen to her, but then he comes along, and she feels relieved... -
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Staying Dirty by Cheryl McIntyre
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratings“What I did today… I don’t want to be that person anymore. I don’t know how you can stand to touch me." “I’ll never stop wanting to touch you, Link. I’m pretty sure you’re the only one I want to touch for the rest of my life.” Link and Rocky's story concludes in this fifth and final installment of the Dirty series. *This is part five in a five-part novella series... -
Axton by Sam Crescent
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTen years ago, the Four Kings killed my friend. I’m not going to kill them. I’m going to make every single one of them pay. Make them pray for death, and take everything they’ve ever loved. This is not revenge. This is justice. Plain and simple. It's been ten years and the girl he once knew is back, working for the Four Kings as their PA... -
Misappropriate by Kathryn Kelly
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMegan 'Meggie' Foy Caldwell is finally getting everything she’s dreamed of, a child, a husband, and family (of bikers) that would truly do anything for her. Her life is finally on the right track. When Meggie asks her husband, Christopher 'Outlaw' Caldwell, MC President of the Death Dwellers’, for a church wedding, he agrees because keeping his new found love happy is everything to him... -
Those Boys Are Trouble by Willow Winters
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFive steamy, contemporary romances. One collection. AMAZON TOP 100 best selling series available in one collection for a LIMITED time! Those Boys Are Trouble includes all five of the full-length, stand-alone romances from the Valetti mafia series featuring filthy-mouthed, possessive bad boys, HEAs and no cliffhangers... -
Destroyed by Kira Johns
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJade Moore was no stranger to the MC lifestyle. Growing up the daughter of the President of the Satan's Rebels, she knew all about family and loyalty. Her world slowly crumbles when she loses not only her parents, but her brother and best friend. Her uncle steps in and becomes the family she so desperately needs... -
Nomad Kind of Love by Nicole Snow
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsJune Daniels watched helplessly as the Grizzlies Motorcycle Club destroyed everything she ever cared about. The ruthless gang controls her shattered life, condemning her to darkness without end...until she meets him. Aaron “Maverick” Sturm doesn't know what it means to settle down. The President of the Prairie Devils Nomads charter is way too hardened, untamable, and dominant for any old lady... -
Just One Song by Stacey Lynn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNicole Parsons had the perfect life, made complete with the suburban home and the proverbial white picket fence. When tragedy struck and she lost the most important people in her life, she turned away from everything she loved before; shutting out every reminder of the perfect life she lost... -
Boy in a Band by Lisa Loomis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMATURE CONTENT language, sex, drugs, rock and roll Morgan Mallory meets beautiful, sexy, blond haired, blue eyed, Mathew O'Conner, a singer in a rock band, when she's just a teen. Her instant physical attraction to him completely unnerves her. Their convoluted relationship transcends years, and even when she knows it would be best to stay away from him she can't seem to stop herself... -
Savage Locke by Victoria Ashley, Jenika Snow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSTERLING LOCKE They say us Locke brothers are savage and that we’ll take care of any motherfucker who steps out of line without even batting an eye. They’re right as shit. The last thing you want to do is get on the bad side of a Locke. There’s no fucks given when it comes to protecting the people we care about. We’ll fight to the motherfucking death if it comes down to it... -
My Sweet Villaintine by Skye Warren, T.M. Frazier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMY SWEET VILLAINTINE – A VALENTINES COLLECTION OF DELICIOUS DARKNESS Happy f*cking Valentines Day. That's what your favorite sexy-as-sin villain would say to you, right? And he'd probably say it with one hand around your throat and your dress bunched around your hips. It’s doubtful that he’ll buy you flowers. He definitely won't serenade you... -
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Her Knightmare by Sam Crescent
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf Dwayne Carson comes for you, you’ll wish for death long before he will let you find it. No one can match him. He has more kills than any other Carson, including his father and uncles. He is your worst nightmare—but when an eighteen-year-old girl is abducted, Dwayne agrees to save her for a price. Charity has never been so afraid in her life... -
Total Possession by Juliette N. Banks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHunter Dufort may be the youngest in the Dufort family dynasty.He might also be the quietest, but he has certain tastes and needs his elder brothers don't have.And he's not talking about whisky.When Grace turns up in his world, Hunter wonders if she may be his greatest challenge yet. For he needs to have unequivocal and total possession of her... -
The Waltz by Angelica Chase
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book is free on some platforms. You know what they say… One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. After sacrificing years of my life on a cheating husband, I'd had enough. I set out to quench a thirst I had ignored for years. I gave myself one year to explore my sexuality—to delve into my deepest, darkest desires... -
Slammed by Skyla Madi
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnce upon a time, Selena Graham met a boy named Jackson Quinn… This isn’t your typical fairytale, no. This one is twisted and the role of prince charming is filled by one man too set in his ways, haunted by the demons of his past... -
Blood and Beauty by Callie Vincent
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA Mafia Prisoner Romance “You’re mine, Esmeralda.”His amber eyes track me as I move away from him slowly. He’s a predator in the wild and I am his next meal. His scent and presence are so overpowering that it makes my knees tremble in anticipation.Never have I been this attracted to a man, especially a man that I should hate. Especially from a man who’s taken everything from me... -
Cut So Deep by Stasia Black
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe commands my body, my mind, and my pleasure but now I might be forced to betray him… All my life, I knew I was only good for one thing—from being ogled by beauty pageant judges as a preteen to being hit on by my college philosophy professor—I was just an object for men to desire. It’s all anyone’s ever seen me as, including my current boss, Bryce Gentry. But Jackson? Jackson’s different... -
Unmasked: Volume Two by Cassia Leo
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI left my former life – and my mask – behind. Running from a past where I was born unloved. A past where I was betrayed by love. Running from an organization with limitless power and stealth. Running for my life. I never expected to find love on the run. Not in a tiny seaside town on an island in the middle of nowhere. Not without my mask... -
Bad Wolf by Jo Raven
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is no fairytale… Once I fell in love with a gorgeous boy next door. Years later, he’s back—a total hunk, hot as hell, and bad. So bad. Rude. Arrogant. Hard. And I’m dying for a taste. Jarett was our neighbors’ adopted son. Handsome, strong, quiet, he was my protector, and my friend. Now he’s back, and he’s still gorgeous. Tall, dark and s*xy. All man... -
Untangle Me by Chelle Bliss
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsKayden is a bad boy that never played by the rules. Sophia has always been the quintessential good girl, living a life filled with disappointment. Everything changes when their lives become intertwined through a chance encounter online. Hundreds of miles separate them, but the connection that draws them together is too much to be denied... -
Blood Lust by Erin Trejo
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI love being the VP of the Royal Bastards MC. It was my calling. So was the blood lust. I grew up craving it in any form I could get it and I took it with force. But that wasn’t all I wanted. No, I wanted her. The old lady of a rival MC. I watched her as I sated my taste for blood but once I had her, I didn’t know if I could finish what I started... -
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Kinged by B.B. Hamel
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRex Latour is a dangerous man. The first night I met him, he beat down two guys for knocking me over outside of a bar, but he barely gave me the time of day. He's deliciously ripped, tattooed, and completely frustrating. I know he's involved with some terrifying people, but I keep getting pulled back in by his perfect body and confident smile... -
Low by Mary Elizabeth
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIt’s hard living on the wrong side of the tracks. Lowen Seely has a criminal record to prove it. Determined not to follow in his father’s footsteps, he fights instinct and tries honesty. But hunger becomes painful, and bills are due. Forced to choose between what is right and wrong, the boy from the hood learns abiding by the rules is nearly impossible when corruption is in your blood... -
The Bratva's Bride: A Dark Mafia Romance by Jane Henry
Bratva life is simple: You steal from the brotherhood, you pay with your life. But the thief is a woman, and she’s too beautiful to die. My wedding band will be her collar. Our vows will be her shackles. She will be my captive bride... -
Undefeated by Scott Hildreth
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSince she was sixteen years old, Kace Meadows has known love hurts, literally. Now, after ten years in an abusive relationship, she is realizing what she has isn't love or a healthy relationship. No matter what she does, she can't win. One day, while in an argument with her boyfriend in public, she meets an unlikely hero. Shane Dekkar is a cocky but rather modest unknown boxer... -
Heat by Nicolina Martin
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMine .The moment I lay eyes on Sydney Lewis, that is the only word my mind can conjure. She is the promise of everything I could never have, the light drawing me out of my darkness. I have no business touching her. Corrupting her. Defiling her.And yet, I can’t stay away... -
Rough Hard Fierce by Skye Warren
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContains ROUGH, HARD, and FIERCE - all three books in Colin and Allie's complete story! This boxed set in the Chicago Underground series is over 400 pages.Meet the woman shaped by betrayal and the man determined to save her at any cost...ROUGH (Book One)I'm a cautionary tale. A statistic. A victim. A single teenage mother from the poor part of town... -
PAYBACK (A Bad Boy Romance) by Alexx Andria
He kidnapped me—so why do I feel alive for the first time in my life? Holly I’ve spent my entire life avoiding trouble, unlike my brother Butcher. But when Cason O’Connor kidnaps me, I’m shocked that I’m now being used as a pawn for my brother’s crimes. I should hate my captor, but I don’t. I hunger for his touch, I crave his intensity, I feel alive for the first time in my life... -
Dom & Becca: Dirty Dom by Willow Winters
From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes a HOT mafia, standalone romance.I’m not always proud of the man I am, but when you grow up in a crime family, there aren’t a lot of options.I do what I have to do, and more than often, I crave it.The power, the women, the money. All of it comes easy to me.Until Becca walked into my office.Everything about her was tempting... -
Pursuit by Lynda Chance
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsLogan Crenshaw is doing just fine until a chance meeting with Lauren Jacobs sends his libido into a tailspin. When she turns down his offer of a date, his hunting instincts go on high alert and a predatory urge he never knew existed explodes within him. Lauren Jacob's life is perfectly predictable until she meets Logan Crenshaw, a man who won't take 'no' for an answer...Categorized as:
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