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Unholy Terrors by C.M. Stunich
Seriously? You didn't think I'd give anything away, did you?I have more to say, but you'll have to wait.Blurb Coming Soon; Release date may be moved forward.Love, Scarlett Motherf*cking ForceUNHOLY TERRORS is a 135,000 word mature high school/new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. This book contains a lot of foul language and sexual scenes; any sex featured is consensual... -
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Heartbreak Bay by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThey’re hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists.A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory... -
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![Summer and Smoke by Coralee June]()
Summer and Smoke by Coralee June
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSummer Bright is just a name on a tombstone. A whispered mystery on the long-forgotten Woodbury Lane. Her ghost teases me with fear and perfection. She knows I’m not strong enough to do what I should’ve done years ago. The Bullets are united once more, bonded by their demand for blood. There’s a vulnerability in their friendship, though. Gavriel craves control. Blaise fears losing me... -
![Skirt by K.L. Savage]()
Skirt by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere are few things people know about me.I'm Scottish.I really hate pants.And Poodle is me best friend.But.There are always buts.There is one thing people don't know.Me love for fightin'.I come from a long line of fighters.I live it.I breathe it.Flesh.BloodAnd brass knuckles.It's me way of life.So I fight, legally. No one knows.I wanted to keep it a secret, but MC life exposes everyone's secrets... -
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![Can't Go Back by Debra Webb]()
Can't Go Back by Debra Webb
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe past and the present collide in the final installment of USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series, threatening everything these two detectives care about.Birmingham detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco arrive at the scene of a double homicide to discover that nothing makes sense... -
![Love and Lead by Coralee June]()
Love and Lead by Coralee June
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOne. We’re alive, for now. Two. Gavriel’s totally lost control. Three. Santobello is hunting us. Four. Someone will die... -
![It Breaks Me by Penelope Sky]()
It Breaks Me by Penelope Sky
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAxel betrayed me.As hard as I tried to keep him out of my heart, he broke through it like shattered glass. Even though my father didn't approve and our relationship would always be a secret, I didn't care. He was worth it...until he wasn't.Six months have passed, and that's exactly how long it's taken me to get over what he's done. I never see him at my father's estate... -
![Tool by K.L. Savage]()
Tool by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBeing the VP of the Ruthless Kings has made me jaded and scarred, a savage bloodthirsty beast.Grit, pain, blood, the three constants in my life.Love?I wouldn't burden anyone with loving me. I'm a hard man to love.Until she walks through the garage doors, looking perfect in her little blue dress and high heels.She's neat and clean and too damn good for me, but I'm determined to get her filthy... -
![The Enigma by Jodi Ellen Malpas]()
The Enigma by Jodi Ellen Malpas
A fatal blend of revenge and desire.After leaving her fiancé at the altar and quitting her job as a Miami cop, Beau Hayley stumbles through life, feeling only resentment. Injustice. Loss. Her mom’s death was called an accident. She’s not convinced. Grieving, she becomes numb to everything except the constant, biting pain of heartbreak and hate. She can see no light... -
![The Fall of V by Jessica Gadziala]()
The Fall of V by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey knew she was going to strike back for taking down her empire, for imprisoning her for years. All those years stuck in a cell gave her a lot of time to think, to plot, to plan her revenge. But they couldn't have anticipated this . * This can not be read as a standalone. ** This is also not a romance... -
![Steel & Hammer's Hellcat by Ciara St. James]()
Steel & Hammer's Hellcat by Ciara St. James
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsArchangel’s Warriors MC: Brothers by choice, not blood. Born to ride until they die. All they want is to ride free until lightning strikes them without warning. Consumed by desire, surrounded by danger, they find the “one” who will consume, enchant, frustrate, and ultimately love them. They only see each other... -
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Untamed by M. O'Keefe
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMarriage has always meant violence. I don’t trust it, but it’s the only thing keeping me afloat in these dark undercurrents. I married for safety but I got the most dangerous thing in the world—Ronan Byrne for a husband.Now we’re returning to Bishop’s Landing to face our demons. Mine. His. We have real enemies to conquer, but it’s the fear in my heart that beats the loudest... -
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Counterfeit Love by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFinch can spot a fake a mile away.Raised in the Bayou with crime in his veins, he managed to turn his talent into a career. Making money. Racking up a few enemies along the way.On the run from one of those, he starts overin a new town. Where he meets her. Full of lists and guards and attitude.Someone beautiful enough to make even blackmail seem sexy.Chris has lived through hell... -
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Rescuing Isabelle by Ellie Masters
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsKeeping her safe from a deadly cartel might be the easy part of our relationship…As a former NAVY SEAL and Guardian, rescuing Isabelle LaCroix was my job.Falling for her was not.But that didn’t stop me.Boy, did I fall hard.Just my luck… Izzy isn’t looking for happily ever after. Especially not with a guy like me... -
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![Fractured Angel by L. Ann]()
Fractured Angel by L. Ann
She’s a disgraced pop star. He’s the frontman of Black Rosary.Their worlds are about to collide and nothing will ever be the same again.Ten years ago, I fell in loveThe pop princess and the rock star.On paper, we should never have worked. In public she was a sweet girl-next-door bubble-gum pop singer.But when we were together, her passion matched mine... -
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Luca by Eden Summers
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLuca dragged me from hell and delivered me to salvation.At least that's what I thought.I hoped this would be a new life. A fresh start.But the pain followed.I'm certain the monsters did, too.I'm told it's paranoia. Trauma. PTSD.Nobody believes my truth.But they'll soon learn.We all will.Because as much as I want to forget the mantra from my nightmares, it hasn't stopped being true... -
![Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe]()
Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan she accept an offer of help from a patient she’s attracted to?Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again... -
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Chasing The Dragon by T.K. Leigh
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe’s trying to protect his heart… She’s a shell of the girl she once was… Can he chase away the demons threatening to destroy her? Mackenzie Delano craves control. After tragedy strikes during her freshman year of college, she compensates for the helplessness she felt by micro-managing every aspect of her life, from her business life to her social life…to her love life... -
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Killman Creek by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsEvery time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away.Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn’t over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text…You’re not safe anywhere now... -
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Road To Fire by Maria Luis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I'm not scared of you."I meet her gaze. "You should be."Bound by a secret oath spanning generations, I am loyal to no one but the queen.Spy.Defender of the Crown.To all of England, I'm Saxon Priest. Traitor. Murderer. Owner of London’s most infamous anti-loyalist pub.And then she appears. Isla Quinn may claim that she’s only looking to bus tables, but I’m no fool... -
![Carson: A Dark Irish Mafia Romance (Dangerous Doms) by Jane Henry]()
Carson: A Dark Irish Mafia Romance (Dangerous Doms) by Jane Henry
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMegan: Carson Flynn is dangerous and brooding.Intensely possessive.Angry, fierce...Haunted.He’s a member of the Clan. A criminal.And a single father who’d burn the world for his daughter.But when he turns his eye on me, I know I should run.I should definitely hide.But it’s already too late...Because when Carson sets his mind on something, he gets what he wants.And what he wants... is me... -
![A Sinner's Promise by Kylie Kent]()
A Sinner's Promise by Kylie Kent
GioBeing the eldest son has always been a blessing and a curse. I was raised to be one thing and one thing only.A monster.My father did everything in his power to make sure that’s exactly what I became too.He wasn’t expecting that the monster he created would be the one to take him out though.Now I’m in charge. Of the family, the empire. Everything... -
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Unholy Bonds by Maya Raine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree serial killers connected by an unholy thread, tangled in a twisted chase for revenge and blood. In this game of hunters, who will become the ultimate prey?***He is every sin she wants to commit. Yara West spends her day as a Medical Examiner. At nights, she dons the mask of a twisted killer to satiate the demons in her head... -
![Savage by K.L. Savage]()
Savage by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI'm on the road, but there's only one thing on my mind.Eden...Problem is, this isn't me.I don't chase.I don't pursue.But I can't help myself.Eden is stubborn.Headstrong.The toughest woman I know.My mistake was letting myself have a taste.It wasn't enough.I'm addicted.I'm breaking my own rules.I don't care how complicated it is.But the complications keep coming.. -
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![Club Mafia – The Demon by Stella Andrews]()
Club Mafia – The Demon by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey call me The Demon for a reason and Eliza Ortega is about to find out why.A runaway mafia princess who stumbled from one nightmare to an even bigger one.She has something I want and I intend on collecting.I will stop at nothing to deliver my promise and if there are casualties I will consider it a good day at the office.My hobby is testing limits... -
![The Jack & Jill Series by Jewel E. Ann]()
The Jack & Jill Series by Jewel E. Ann
“This book is phenomenal! My favorite read of 2015. Don’t read anything else about it. Just buy it. Now.” - Ella James, USA Today bestselling author of Sloth: A Sinful Secrets Novel END OF DAY (Book 1) Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in the sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life. Four caskets. Two bodies... -
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Key to Hell by Alex Grayson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe highly anticipated conclusion of the Hell Night Series. Emo's story.Death. Destruction. Pain. A soulless void. It's his life. It's his reality.Emo doesn't feel. Anything. His soul is dark and filled with hatred. People in the small town of Malus watch him with fear, with reverence. Exactly the way he prefers it.Guilt surrounds him, caging him in an ominous past he refuses to let go... -
![When Darkness Ends by Marni Mann]()
When Darkness Ends by Marni Mann
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn all new angsty, dark, stand-alone Contemporary Romance in the Moments in Boston Series ...You never forget your first love … even when he becomes a memory.There was before.When we were together, when we were happy.When we had nothing but dreams.When not a single bad thing could ever happen because we were young and in love.And there was after... -
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Blackout by Janine Infante Bosco
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvery fairytale is just a tragedy with a twist. And happily-ever-after is a fantasy.Give me the real, ugly love of two people battling their demons to make it work. Two people like us. When the stakes have never been higher, I turn to my past. After all, it's our favorite sins that always do us in.But even in the midst of my blackout, there she is. The beacon of light I don't deserve... -
![Texas Bodyguard: Chance by Janie Crouch]()
Texas Bodyguard: Chance by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe has secrets she prefers to keep hidden.Too bad he’s so good at getting to the truth.When a violent attack puts Maci Ford in the hospital, security expert Chance Patterson learns that she’s carrying his baby. Even though she ended their relationship, he’s determined to do whatever it takes to protect her and their child... -
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Pretty Evil by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the cage door opens, freedom is a difficult temptation to ignore.Serena VieriMafia princess, protected her entire life for a very good reason.There is a target on her back.Her family believed she was better off not knowing but with knowledge comes a certain kind of power that she could sure use right now... -
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Out of Nowhere by Sandra Brown
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 21 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a fast-paced, emotional thriller where the lives of a young mother and a high-rolling consultant collide under devastating circumstances—culminating in a desperate manhunt that will change their futures forever... -
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Tangled Promise by Ella Miles
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI can’t keep my promises. I’ve made too many, to too many people. All the promises have tangled into a web of sin and truths. But there is one thing I’m certain of…I have to end this—us. This is Book 4 in the Sinful Truths series... -
![Broken Anchor by Ella Miles]()
Broken Anchor by Ella Miles
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI’m broken. He’s broken. We are broken. But sometimes you have to shatter to pick up the pieces. To start over. To overcome our enemies. And find out if we can love again. He’s my anchor, but can our love be repaired? This is the final book in the Sinful Truths series... -
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![Deranged: A Dark MC Romance by Bella J., Lori Whitwam]()
Deranged: A Dark MC Romance by Bella J., Lori Whitwam
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratings~ DERANGED is the third book in the American Street Kings series from International Bestselling Author Bella J. The complete series is available now! ~ Temptation. It's a powerful thing.It possesses you. Corrupts you. Turns a pure soul into a reckless beast.Once it has you in its clutches, you can't escape it. It won't let go, not untilit perverts everything innocent... -
![Psycho by Michelle Lancaster, Blake Blessing]()
Psycho by Michelle Lancaster, Blake Blessing
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThis dark, corrupt world threatens to drown me.While the Institution is fracturing, I am certain of only one thing—the brothers.They’re mine and I’m theirs. We’re going to survive no matter the cost. I won’t let it be any other way. I can’t…I’ve learned that it’s adapt or die, and I’m embracing it. For them. For me.Yet, just when we should be more united than ever, the brothers are breaking apart... -
![Layered Lies by Kaylie Hunter]()
Layered Lies by Kaylie Hunter
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo years after her son was abducted, Kelsey Harrison rebuilds a new life for herself. She opens a store, makes new friends, and settles into a peaceful existence. At least, that’s what she hopes the world believes.Behind closed doors, Kelsey hunts her enemies, living a life of lies. She hasn’t forgotten, hasn’t forgiven. She searches for answers still... -
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Hell And Back by Natasha Madison
Meeting him was a fluke. Dating him was a mistake. Watching him become a drug addict put me through hell. Running was my only option. *** I'm running from my demons and when I find out she's trying to escape her past, I know what I have to do. One broken cop. One woman fighting for her life. A fragile love. Sinister secrets that threaten to tear them apart. They've been to hell... -
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Torian by Eden Summers
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom International bestselling author, Eden Summers, comes a seductive forbidden romance destined to leave you breathless. I fell for the enemy.A man whose actions resemble the devil so closely it frightens me.We were meant to hate each other.To despise and detest.But his appeal is so much greater than the playboy smile and body built for sin.What I'm doing is wrong.What I'm feeling is immoral... -
![Inferno: Part 1 by T K Leigh]()
Inferno: Part 1 by T K Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI never believed in fate. That was something for the dreamers, the romantics, not someone as practical and pragmatic as I. Fate had nothing to do with me walking in on my soon-to-be husband in a compromising position with his secretary. Fate had nothing to do with me hopping on a plane to Rome, effectively standing up my former fiancE on our wedding day... -
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Savior by Eden Summers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI was stolen. Hidden. Trapped in a hell beyond salvation. Until him. Luca. The man who changed everything with his soothing words and vows of protection. I shouldn't trust him. What he promises is something I gave up on long ago. And yet here I am, falling under the spell of a reality I crave. I want him to save me. I need it... -
![Knight's Bright Eyes by Ciara St James]()
Knight's Bright Eyes by Ciara St James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKnight’s life completely changes once he finds out he has a daughter. The months he spends learning to be one and forming a relationship with her have been bumpy but good. He loves her and his club. The only thing his life is missing is female companionship. He has doubts he’ll ever have anything permanent, but he’s come to accept his daughter is his priority, not his love life... -
![A Shade of Evil by Stella Andrews]()
A Shade of Evil by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRevenge is a dish best served cold.Shade Vieri has no mercy. No compassion and no empathy.He is cruel, enigmatic, and deliciously dark.His instructions are clear.Find the Achilles heel of the enemy and destroy it.The enemy is a woman who slides across his soul like spun silk.A breath of fresh air in a dark, depressing world... -
![The Mercer Curse by Pepper Winters]()
The Mercer Curse by Pepper Winters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsQ Mercer from Tears of Tess meets his half-brother Henri Ward from Ruby Tears for the first time...……….I’ve fought a curse all my life.A curse inherited by my sick father. There is no cure.No antidote for what I am. For years, I existed alone. Fighting the urges, doing my best to stay good.Until Esclave 58 entered my life and I didn’t have to fight so hard... -
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Big by L. Wilder
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow much would you risk to save the one you love? From NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author L. Wilder comes book six in the Satan's Fury Series, a standalone MC romance. Big: I don't use a knife or a gun to get the guy I'm after. I find that my weapon of choice has a much longer, more crippling effect. With just a few keystrokes, I can have him scrambling for his life... -
![Duty by Bethany-Kris]()
Duty by Bethany-Kris
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThey say heavy is the head that wears the crown … Andino Marcello’s world is turned upside down when he becomes the next heir apparent to the Marcello empire. He was comfortable in his place as a Capo, but comfort is for the weak in the world of mafioso. The boss’s seat is waiting... -
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Blowback by Monica James
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis was supposed to be simple. Vengeance was mine. But I should know by now that nothing in life is easy.My endgame has changed all because I met someone who wishes I was dead. Yet her hatred is the only thing saving her from The Big Bad. My lies protect her, so the harder she hates, the safer she is.The thing about love and hate—it skates a very thin line. I need to stay away... -
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Never Look Back by Mary Burton
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsExpect the unexpected in this gritty, tense, and page-turning mystery from New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.After multiple women go missing, Agent Melina Shepard of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation makes the impulsive decision to go undercover as a prostitute... -
![The Woman on the Jury by Jessica Gadziala]()
The Woman on the Jury by Jessica Gadziala
The last thing in the world she needed was to be stuck on a murder trial for some mafia capo. All she wanted to do was hear the facts and get this all over with, so she could get back to rebuilding her family’s crumbling antique business... -
![The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith]()
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case.When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation...
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