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Special Forces: Soldiers Part II -Director's Cut by Aleksandr Voinov, Marquesate
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpecial Forces is an epic work of military gay erotic fiction. The three cycles Soldiers, Mercenaries, and Veterans were written between April 2006 and November 2008 and have 70 chapters in total, comprising around one million words (the equivalent of around 15 full-sized novels). It is only suitable for an adult audience... -
The Steel Rogue by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA scarred lady, living in the outskirts of society. A hardened rogue brought up from the worst of humanity. One seeks revenge. One seeks redemption. Neither is prepared for a love that will defy all odds.A scarred lady, living in the fringes. Lady Alton knows she doesn't fit into polite society. Her scars determined that long ago, and marrying a viscount never helped the matter... -
Sarah by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.A deliciously wicked gothic Regency romance from USA Today Bestselling author Scarlett Scott...Haunted by betrayal and the tragic death of her sister, Lady Sarah Bolingbroke seeks vengeance against the man she holds responsible for both. But the Earl of Markham is equally plagued by the events that cost him the woman he loved... -
To Have and To Hold by Patricia Gaffney
Suave, cynical, and too handsome for his own good, Sebastian Verlaine never expects to become a magistrate judging the petty crimes of his tenants and neighbors. Nor can the new Viscount D’Aubrey foresee that, when a fallen woman appears before him, he’ll find himself beguiled against all reason to alter her terrible fate...Categorized as:
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No Choice But Surrender by Meagan McKinney
PRISONER OF PASSION Penniless and alone, Lady Brienne had come to Osterley Park, back to the house of the father she despised. She found a stranger waiting -- an arrogant American whose sensuality set her heart beating wildly, rendering her powerless as his kiss deepened into a brand of fire, searing his mark on her tender flesh...Categorized as:
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Lord of Wicked Intentions by Lorraine Heath
Only one woman can break through his heart of stone... Three young heirs, imprisoned by an unscrupulous uncle, escaped—to the sea, to the streets, to faraway battle—awaiting the day when they would return to reclaim their birthright... Lord Rafe Easton may be of noble blood, but survival taught him to rely only on himself and to love no one...Categorized as:
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Wicked Hunt by Cari Silverwood
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThis book is part of a dark kinky fiction trilogy and may disturb some readers. The full warning is at the bottom. This is not a standalone read.What happens when the victim becomes the killer?Killing isn’t right, but it's better than the wrong people being dead.That’s what Zorie tells herself, until the day she makes a mistake and the hunter becomes the hunted... -
Wicked Weapon by Cari Silverwood
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThis book is part of a dark kinky fiction trilogy and may disturb some readers. The full warning is at the bottom. This is not a standalone read.Zorie is lost, again.Friends can become enemies and enemies can become friends.What is a man who declares himself your knight in cracked and bloody armor, when he seems to be leading you to your doom?Mavros, once known as Mister Black, has vanished... -
Ethan: Lord of Scandal by Grace Burrowes
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt the age of fourteen, Ethan Grey was banished by his titled father into a hell his legitimate siblings never learned of. Now that the old earl is dead, and Ethan is a widower with two children to raise, he finds himself attracted to Alice Portman, the boys’ scholarly, reserved governess... -
Her Wanton Wager by Grace Callaway
An Heiress on a Mission… After two failed Seasons, Persephone Fines has vowed to reform her hoydenish ways. But when her beloved brother falls into the clutches of wicked gamester Gavin Hunt, she must take action. Hunt offers her a shocking proposition: he will release her brother… if she can resist six nights of seduction... -
Dark Obsessions: A dark mafia romance - Pink Interior Special Edition by Effie Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTingles creep up my spine as I feel eyes on me. Something, or someone is watching.My life is falling to pieces.My boyfriend is hiding a secret and I’m determined to find out what it is. Why has he gone from cherishing me to hurting me?But there is someone else determined to catch my attention... -
Dubious by Mila Crawford
Once upon a time, there were three men forged in suffering. They lived their lives in servitude to the monster who created them. Broken boys became vicious men.Years of brutality stripped them of their humanity and hardened their hearts.Each man retreating further into darkness.Until her.She is the beacon of hope and the spark that re-ignites their damaged and demented hearts... -
On Good Authority by Briana Una McGuckin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRepressed desires, irresistible obsessions, and perception-twisting games.When lady’s maid Marian Osley and footman Valentine Hobbs assume their positions at the cliff-top estate of Valor Rise, they already share a history. Raised together as paupers in a London workhouse, they escaped through games of imaginary crimes and sublime punishment... -
On Good Authority by Briana Una McGuckin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRepressed desires, irresistible obsessions, and perception-twisting games.When lady’s maid Marian Osley and footman Valentine Hobbs assume their positions at the cliff-top estate of Valor Rise, they already share a history. Raised together as paupers in a London workhouse, they escaped through games of imaginary crimes and sublime punishment... -
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A Rose at Midnight by Anne Stuart
Once a daughter of the aristocracy, lovely Ghislaine "Gilly" de Lorgny lives for the destruction of Nicholas Blackthorne—the notorious rake she holds responsible for the cruel loss of her virtue, family and fortune. Now that the rogue has reentered her life, she seizes the opportunity to enact a poisonous revenge—but is abducted by the dashing villain before the deed can be done...Categorized as:
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The Earl on the Train by Kerrigan Byrne
He’s the Villain she never forgot…Sebastian Moncrieff is a villain, a traitor, and a pirate, who has recently inherited an Earldom he never wanted. As a man who’s committed every sin imaginable, he knows his only chance at redemption is the one woman who ever reached through to his soul of ice...Categorized as:
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Dark Side of the Sun by Addison Cain
Arabella, the Baroness of Iliffe, knows her life is nearing its end. For years the young widow has been hunted across England, running from her past, thrust onward into desolate wastes until there is nowhere else to hide. With the little time she has left, her desperation has driven her into the arms of an extremely sinister man who desires more than just her company... -
Once in a Blue Moon by Penelope Williamson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThose who knew spoke of the infamous Trelawny men in hushed, shocked whispers. But to flame-haired Jessalyn Letty, wild, captivating child of the storm-tossed Cornish moors, McCady Trelawny was the most fascinating man she had ever met. Few knew of the dream that burned in McCady's secret soul - a dream destined to change the world. But Jessalyn knew and shared his passion... -
Papa's Little Pain Princess by Zoe Blake
A new age play book by Zoe Blake, #1 Best Selling Author in Victorian and Historical Erotica. Escaping a dull life through her fanciful imagination, Winnie has pictured herself as a fairy, a mermaid, even a princess. One fateful night at the theatre, she attracts the attention of a man very far from the prince charming of her dreams... -
Lemonade by Nina Pennacchi
As a young woman in Victorian England, Anna Champion knows all too well the social mores that value prettiness over sense, and etiquette over honesty. But when she stands up to the boorishness of dashing Christopher Davenport at a summertime ball, Anna unwittingly attracts his wrath—and becomes entangled in his malicious scheming...Categorized as:
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The Portrait by Megan Chance
The reigning master of the New York art world, Jonas Whitaker was brilliant and compelling, a man of dark passions and uncontrollable emotions. Terrified of his own dangerous nature, and scarred by the horror of his past, he hid behind his talent in a world of glittering emptiness--until Imogene Carter pushed her way into his life...Categorized as:
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Breathless by Anne Stuart
Ruined beyond repair and shunned by London society, lovely Miranda Rohan rebelliously embraces the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose. However, this dangerous course throws her under the power of the darkly enigmatic Lucien de Malheur—known to many as the Scorpion...Categorized as:
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Trained by T.M. Chris
In the competition to find a husband for Princess Atalanta, Thoros has a certain advantage. He happens to know that he and Atalanta appreciate the same things in a man: an attitude so rebellious it demands to be punished, a spirit so dauntless it can only be tamed by a single master... -
The Twin's Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLucy Sexton is stunned when a disheveled woman appears at the door one day…a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lucy's own beautiful mother. It turns out the two women are identical twins, separated at birth, and raised in dramatically different circumstances. Lucy's mother quickly resolves to give her less fortunate sister the kind of life she has never known... -
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Ritual Sins by Anne Stuart
Rachel Connery is on a seek-and-destroy mission, out for revenge against the mysterious, charismatic man who enticed millions of dollars from her dying mother and cheated her out of her inheritance. She wants retribution and is willing to use every seductive trick at her disposal to obtain it... -
The Submission of Little Emmie by Zoe Blake
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlternate cover for this ASIN can be found here and here.Amazon #1 Bestseller! "I want you to listen very carefully. According to the law, I own you. I am responsible for every facet of your life. I clothe, feed and shelter you. You do nothing without my knowledge or permission. Some men treat a marriage as a partnership; I am not one of those men. This is not a partnership... -
The Humiliation and Imprisonment of Count Leopold de Rohan by K.A. Merikan
Count Leopold de Rohan spends his days gambling, drinking, and indulging in flesh for coin. But all that is cut short when his debts catch up with him and none of his friends stick around to help him. One stuck-up bastard even offers to employ Leo as his valet... -
Barons Adore Curves by Jemma Frost
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAn evil aunt intent on auctioning off her innocent niece.An obsessed baron who'll stop at nothing to claim the curvy woman for his own...Categorized as:
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The Sins of the Sire by Emily Royal
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratings"A vengeful man must also dig a grave for himself" It was a meeting of souls...Two years ago, Elyssia de Montford first looked into the eyes of the captured Highlander, who stood, brave and defiant, while being tortured by English soldiers, and she risked everything to free him.Tavish MacLean is consumed by hatred... -
Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA novel of seduction, mystery, and danger set in New York’s Hudson Valley in the nineteenth century, by the author of Foxfire. There was, on the Hudson, a way of life such as this, and there was a house not unlike Dragonwyck . . . In the spring of 1844, the Wells family receives a letter from a distant relative, the wealthy landowner Nicholas Van Ryn... -
This Other Eden by Marilyn Harris
"The secret of the entire world is whispered here at Eden...." — Since time out of memory, Eden Castle had ridden the storm-swept Devon cliffs like a ghostly figurehead on a ship of the damned. — He was the last Lord of Eden Castle, Thomas Eden, a man of brooding desire and sudden passion ..Categorized as:
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Deceived by Mary Balogh
Seven years ago, Christopher Atwell, newly and happily married to Lady Elizabeth Ward, was framed for several misdemeanors. When no one, even his wife, would believe his protestations of innocence, he fled to Canada, while Elizabeth's powerful father arranged for a divorce... -
Bringing the Nation's Husband Home by Ye Fei Ye
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsQiao Anhao and Lu Jinnian had secretly longed for each other for thirteen years, and now that there's a possibility for them to be together, even though the circumstances may be unconventional, neither one can refuse their inner desires any longer...Categorized as:
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A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. A brooding stranger seduces her from the remote island onto his yacht. Trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit, she flees to Italy, France, Germany, from Paris garret to mental asylum, from convent to chateau - stalked by obsessed Phillip Tempest... -
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Wicked Games by Zoe Blake, Will Thorne
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsShe's caught in my game... she just doesn't know it. For weeks, I've been watching her. Stalking her. Now, it's time to start playing with my beautiful little pawn. From the moment I first saw her from afar, I knew she would become my prized possession. I will gaslight her into thinking she is my obedient ward, trapped in the Victorian era... -
Lie Down In Roses by Shannon Drake
The willful Lady Genevieve would do anything to save her beloved Edenby Castle--even if she had to share the name and the bed of her most treacherous foe, Lord Tristan. They were born to be enemies and destined to be lovers--players in a perilous game of intrigue and passion where the price was one woman's innocence and the prize was one man's heart...Categorized as:
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Disciplining the Maid by Zoe Blake
#1 Amazon Bestseller! From best-selling age play author Zoe Blake comes a new glimpse into a Victorian world of complete sexual dominance and submission. For wealthy and worldly Lord Stockton, there has been no shortage of mistresses available to grace his bed and offer him the one thing he demands - sexual submission. But this handsome member of the Victorian ton wants something deeper... -
Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair by Elizabeth McNeill
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe classic erotic memoir of an intense and haunting relationship that spawned the film.This is a love story so unusual, so passionate, and so extreme in its psychology and sexuality that it takes the reader’s breath away. Unlike The Story of O, Nine and a Half Weeks is not a novel or fantasy; it is a true account of an episode in the life of a real woman... -
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthinepassages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy... -
Silk and Shadows by Mary Jo Putney
He called himself Peregrine, the wanderer, and he came to London for revenge... Like the falcon he named himself for, Peregrine is wild and free, an exotic prince who fascinates 1839 London with his wealth, mystery, and dangerous allure. He emerged from his mysterious Asiatic past to exact retribution for an appalling crime. Nothing and no one can stop him—except perhaps Lady Sara St...Categorized as:
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Captive Bride by Johanna Lindsey
The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton. Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave -- desperate for the freedoms denied her..Categorized as:
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