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  • The Raven King by Nora Sakavic

    The Raven King by Nora Sakavic

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 51 ratings
    Book 2 of All for the Game; The Raven King follows The Foxhole CourtThe Foxes are a fractured mess, but their latest disaster might be the miracle they've always needed to come together as a team. The one person standing in their way is Andrew, and the only one who can break through his personal barriers is Neil...
  • 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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  • Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This book is the sixth book in the internationally bestselling Eagle Elite Series. It's an interconnected stand alone novel with no cliffhanger. Twenty-Four hours before we were to be married--I offered to shoot her. Ten hours before our wedding--I made a mockery of her dying wish. Five hours before we were going to say our vows--I promised I'd never love her...
  • Inferno by Catherine Doyle

    Inferno by Catherine Doyle

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Romeo and Juliet meets The Godfather in the second installment of Catherine Doyle's Blood for Blood series. Sophie's life has been turned upside-down, and she's determined to set things right. But Nic, the Falcone brother who represents everything she's trying to forget, won't give up on their love - and it's Luca's knife she clutches for comfort...
  • Sweet Retribution by Siobhan Davis, Robin Harper

    Sweet Retribution by Siobhan Davis, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the power struggle between two elite groups, one feisty girl will bring them to their knees… Discover how the story concludes for Abby in the final book in the trilogy. The release date will be brought forward in due course...
  • Sinful Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Sinful Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world. The night we met, she left behind a lot more than just her shoes on my bedroom floor. She left an impression. A lasting memory burned into my brain. It teases me… tortures me. Months have passed since that night...
  • Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world. We knew it wasn’t going to be easy.That our love could start a war...Dear reader,Dark Legacy is the twelfth book in my Knight's Ridge Empire series, and the third book of Calli and Batman's story...
  • Almost Broken by Portia Moore

    Almost Broken by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Lauren Brooks fell in love with Cal Scott at 21, married him at 22 and had her heart broken at 23 when he walked out of their marriage. At 25, though raising his daughter on her own, Lauren was finally moving on with her life. Until, she learned the reason for Cal's abandonment, the walls she’d carefully built around her collapsed.
  • May We Rise by K.G. Reuss

    May We Rise by K.G. Reuss

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Possessive. Violent. Perfect. Mine.After our time at Black Falls High, we moved to Mayfair, the college of my dreams. With my singing career taking shape, Fox’s football career off and running, Ethan’s photography, and Enzo and Cole’s. . .well, whatever secret things they do happening, life seemed good.Too good.If there’s one thing I know about my life it’s that nothing good ever lasts...
  • Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    I found everything I didn’t know I needed. Accepted forgiveness I didn’t deserve.She fought for us. Killed for us. She was one of us. And there was no way I was letting her go… again. But I’m not the only one with wicked intentions for my siren. With her missing, we turn our blame to an obvious enemy. But our path of destruction could be leading us right into another trap...
  • 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...
  • Corrupt Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Corrupt Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next instalment of her forbidden dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world.I learned from a very young age that the only person I could count on was myself.For years I’ve been content with meaningless one-night stands and zero promises for tomorrow...
  • Broken Legacy by Jaymin Eve, Tate James

    Broken Legacy by Jaymin Eve, Tate James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    They're my boys now - the four heirs of Delta. Together we’re a team ... a family. Five broken, brutal, possibly sociopathic people, and we are all that stands between the world and the powerful, corrupt Delta corporation. We have no idea what we’re doing, but somehow we are determined to stop them. Permanently. We just need leverage ... irrefutable evidence of their corruption...
  • Jackson by Siobhan Davis

    Jackson by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 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...
  • If You Dare by Shantel Tessier

    If You Dare by Shantel Tessier

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The game was over. The dares were getting old, and the secrets were piling up faster than the bodies.But someone had other plans. They wanted to play a new game.Becky Holt was the love of his life until he found out what she was hiding. Now he wants to seek his revenge in the most daring way.Deke Biggs has always been a shark. He's not afraid to kill, and he's about to become her worst nightmare...
  • Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lucien Valentine must die.It’s the thought that’s kept me going for four long years. I’ve imagined it, dreamed about it, relished in it. I want it so bad, but the question is, do I have what it takes to make it happen?Taking a life isn’t for the faint-hearted. Just ask Lucien, he knows.He’s taken me back to where it all started and I know exactly how it’s going to go...
  • Mafiosa by Catherine Doyle

    Mafiosa by Catherine Doyle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A blood war rages on the streets of Chicago.Protected by an infamous mafia family, Sophie is living a dangerous lie, pretending to lead a normal life. But the deceit can’t last for ever. Her heart belongs to a killer and Sophie’s the prime target of a rival clan...
  • 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...
  • Taint Her: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

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

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He wants to ruin her. She wants to save him.Hadley Rexford was a distraction I didn’t need. But when she discovers me with blood on my hands, I know I can’t walk away without demanding her silence.I’ll taint her.Torment her.In the end, I’ll ruin her.Cole Jagger was a puzzle I wanted to solve. But he refuses to let me in, and now I’m ensnared in his trap.He’s cold.Immoral...
  • Shamelessly Loyal by Heather Long

    Shamelessly Loyal by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    A Bay Ridge Royals/82nd Street Vandals Novella There’s a war brewing, and I’m right in the middle of it ready to crush anyone who gets in my way… I was born into this world. Power and wealth are the keys to controlling it, but they aren’t everything. They are a means to an end when it comes to protecting the people I care about. I’ve known my destiny since I was old enough to sit at the table...
  • Ghostgirl by J.B. Salsbury

    Ghostgirl by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She was brainwashed into believing she could save mankind.Now, she’s the one who needs saving. Abandoned with his two younger brothers, Milo Vega was placed in foster care. Now a twenty-year-old high-school senior covered in gang tattoos and working as the school’s janitor, he is living a life vastly different from the one he was destined for...
  • Drowning in Stars by Debra Anastasia

    Drowning in Stars by Debra Anastasia

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    … he walked a tightrope five stories up just to hold my hand.Gaze: I moved into the building next to Pixie when I was eleven. She blew bubbles through my window. I shot my Nerf gun through hers. We both had secrets, but one of us was fated to get hurt. I wanted it to be me.Pixie: When I was afraid of the dark, he would shine a light in my window...
  • Pained by Vera Micic, Vera Hollins

    Pained by Vera Micic, Vera Hollins

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two months have passed since the day I pushed Hayden away. Two months since I found out he loved me and wanted to be with me. I’ve been trying to move on and forget about him, but my heart refuses to listen. Hayden had almost died saving me. Half of me wants to forgive him for everything and give him another chance...
  • Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I was crying one minute and laughing the next. A definite must read!" Winnie is content in her role as the reining matriarch of Smithville, but when a letter arrives from a long-lost friend, the door to her past is reopened. Memories come flooding in, drawing her back to 1968, her college days; a time filled with people and events she hasn’t allowed herself to recall...
  • Ride or Die by Sheridan Anne

    Ride or Die by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Gang life isn't for everyone, but a b*tch in colors always looks good.The West Side Wolves claim to be a brotherhood, but what do they do when a sister walks in demanding their attention?To everyone else, stepping into the Wolf Den was an epic mistake, filled with consequential betrayals...
  • The Havoc We Wreak: An Enemies to Lovers College Bully Romance by Becca Steele

    The Havoc We Wreak: An Enemies to Lovers College Bully Romance by Becca Steele

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    The final part of Caiden and Winter's story...Secrets and lies are being revealed. Loyalties are being tested, and betrayal cuts deep.My mother needs to be stopped, but at what cost? At the end, who will be left standing? And...WhoWillFall…Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.You underestimated the Four and Snow.You thought you were on a winning streak...
  • Wild Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Wild Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Have you ever known what it feels like to die?It’s not great. Trust me, I don’t recommend it.I’ve always said that my life is about surviving, but I didn’t realize how true that was until the devil sent me soaring off a bridge with the love of my life and lodged a bullet through my thigh.It’s not my time to die...
  • Boys of Oak Park Prep by Callie Rose

    Boys of Oak Park Prep by Callie Rose

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A long time ago, I was one of them. Now I’m back, and they hate me for it.Plucked out of the harsh life I was living and thrust into a world of unimaginable wealth, power, and privilege, all I want to do is keep my head down and survive until graduation.But they have other plans—Mason, Finn, Elijah, and Cole.Everyone at my new school calls them the Princes, and that’s exactly what they act like...
  • 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...
  • I Was Always Yours by Khai Hara

    I Was Always Yours by Khai Hara

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    We all know how the legend goes.Girl meets boy.They fall in love.They get married.And they live happily ever after.The fairytale. The ending that every girl wants, that every girl dreams of.For a brief moment there, I foolishly, naively, allowed myself to dream that’s what our destiny was. That our friendship would evolve into something more and we’d be together forever...
  • Barbie B*tch by Sheridan Anne

    Barbie B*tch by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Cold-blooded murder. Do I have it in me? I’ve watched the people I love commit the worst kinds of crimes and within the blink of an eye, I could be just like them. I feel the jagged glass beneath my fingers, but do I have the strength to follow this through? How much of my soul am I willing to sacrifice to make this right?Nic was supposed to be my rock...
  • 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...
  • Scars by Cheryl Rainfield

    Scars by Cheryl Rainfield

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Kendra, fifteen, hasn't felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially because she still can't remember the most important detail-- her abuser's identity. Frightened, Kendra believes someone is always watching and following her, leaving menacing messages only she understands...
  • Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Out of the past six years of my life, I only remember about half of it. After a dozen doctors and thousands in medical bills, I was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder--one that causes me to lose track of time. Sometimes it’s hours, days or even weeks with no recollection of anything. The good thing is it's been almost two years since I had my last ‘black out’...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Until I Get You by unknown author

    Until I Get You by unknown author

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    *This is a standalone, new adult, hockey romance novel with morally gray characters*3 years ago, she ruined my life. Now I'm going to return the favor...My reputation at Fairview University preceded me. I was the projected number-one pick in the NHL draft and the fan favorite at the rink. People wanted to be me or be with me.Except for Lyla James Marichal...
  • The Not-Outcast (Hardcover Edition) by Tijan

    The Not-Outcast (Hardcover Edition) by Tijan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Cutler Ryder was everything I wasn't.He was the hockey star. I was an outcast.He was best friends with my stepbrother, that same stepbrother who hated me.His two parents loved him. My mom was a junkie. My dad barely knew me.Years passed.I got my life together.Cut went onto NHL stardom.Then there was a text.I was drinking.There was a party.Cut was there..
  • Reckless Lies by Nikki J. Summers

    Reckless Lies by Nikki J. Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say when you die, your whole life plays over in your mind like a Hallmark movie. A rose-tinted reflection to remind you what a great life you’ve led.But for me, that wasn’t the case.There was no romantic, nostalgic ending for me.All I had was pain, darkness, and despair on the day I died, dragged by fire into the depths of hell. That’s where I live now. A shadow of the man I used to be...
  • Beneath Your Beautiful by Adaline Winters

    Beneath Your Beautiful by Adaline Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Passion is a perilous game.HonorMy ruthless husband hunts me across the country and in my dreams. If he catches me, I'll lose not only my freedom, but my sanity. I have to stay one step ahead, but he's closing in. So I keep running, straight into the arms of a man who whispers seductive promises of protection and safety. One way or another, this race will end...
  • Boy Shattered by Eli Easton

    Boy Shattered by Eli Easton

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Brian You’ll make it out of here, Brian. I swear. I had everything—school quarterback, popular with girls, and my dad was proud of me. I told myself it didn’t matter no one knew the real me. And then I nearly died. Landon saved my life. He’s the bravest guy I know. He came out a few years ago, proud and fierce, and he ran into gunfire to help others. Me, I’m a mess...
  • Broken Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu

    Broken Hate by Thandiwe Mpofu

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What’s wrong Baby Blue? Did you mistake his forced sincerity for love?Every kiss will fade in time.Every memory will fade in time.Every smile, every teardrop, every wound—it’ll all dry up—in time.But every lie? That shit only gets bigger and more devastating with time.In time..
  • Tough Sh*t by Sheridan Anne

    Tough Sh*t by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Moving in with a billionaire playboy is supposed to be some sort of Cinderella story, right? I’m supposed to be having the time of my life while living the dream. Wrong.When the bank took our home, it didn’t come as a surprise. The bomb was when mom told me we were moving out of Breakers Flats, away from my crew, and to a place that only existed in fairy tales—Bellevue Springs...
  • Pretty Little Savage by Lucy Smoke

    Pretty Little Savage by Lucy Smoke

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 46 ratings
    Rule No. 1: Don't piss off the Sick BoysThey're cruel. Reckless. Impossibly fucked up.The Sick Boys feed on the order they create. They rule Eastpoint University just as their families have for decades. But their power doesn't stop there. The three of them are heirs to some of the largest fortunes in the world, and behind that kind of wealth lies an underworld of corruption...
  • Friends by J.M. Darhower

    Friends by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Friends: One moment. One wrong choice. That was all it took to destroy a friendship. *takes place before Sempre* Forever: Halloween. With a three year old. 'Nuff said...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  new adult  young adult  contemporary  dark
  • 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  mafia  angst  contemporary  young adult  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...
  • Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Naked or Dead by A.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Small town, small-minded people, small expectations, and big A-holes.Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape...
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