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  • Luck of the Devil by Lark Taylor

    Luck of the Devil by Lark Taylor

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    One demon. One angel. A relationship that’s failed so many times. Could it really be just one human they’ve been missing?DagonFor centuries, Dimitri and I have tried to make it work. Each time we’ve been torn apart by our dominant natures, neither of us willing to back down. A hundred years ago, I thought he’d betrayed me in the worst possible way...
  • How to Defy a Vampire by Alice Winters

    How to Defy a Vampire by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    FinnStumbling into a crime scene is pretty typical for me. As a human, joining the VRC has done everything but keep me out of trouble. And now I seem to be playing a part that I’d really rather not play… if I want to keep my head, that is.By my side is my partner Marcus, a vampire who has vowed to tear the world apart—and even a mattress—to keep me safe...
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  • Forged by Malice by Elizabeth Helen

    Forged by Malice by Elizabeth Helen

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 46 ratings
    I’ve found a new home and fallen in love with four cursed fae princes. But everything could be taken from me in an instant. If I’m to save the Enchanted Vale and the High Princes, this rose is going to need to grow thorns. Being a part of the fae is wonderful...
  • Devourer of Men by Nikki St. Crowe

    Devourer of Men by Nikki St. Crowe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    I have few friends and fewer allies. What I do have on the island of Everland is a lot of people who want me gone. So when the Crocodile and Captain Hook reappear in my life, I am in no mood. And worse, they’re unknowingly endangering themselves by asking for me by a name I long considered dead...
  • Last Man Standing by Augustus Roth, Daniel May

    Last Man Standing by Augustus Roth, Daniel May

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 5 ratings
    “You know, if anybody was going to give death the middle finger, I would have thought it would be him.” Ezekiel 'Kel' Warbis is the last of them - the only one left after his two best friends (and childhood sweethearts) died tragically and gruesomely young.Over a decade later, their loss is still a fresh wound...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  paranormal  m-m  dark  m-m-m  contemporary  fantasy
  • Echo by Chani Lynn Feener

    Echo by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    *As there was a problem with the original cover, while we wait, a special edition of the book has been released. The story itself is the same, but the special edition includes bonus material not in the original, as well as this new cover. The Devils of Vitality always hit their mark.Rabbit Trace is a musical prodigy with a secret...
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    queer  mafia  from hate to love  angst  anal sex  m-m  dark  fantasy
  • Shadow Men by Adira August

    Shadow Men by Adira August

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 72k word novel, the seventh in the Hunt&Cam4Ever BDSM-MYSTERY series. This is the book the author calls "The hardest book I ever wrote."AN ASTONISHING TWIST IN THE EPIC LOVE STORY~ A HIGH SEAS DEATH ON A BILLIONAIRE'S YACHT"No matter how hard you fight the darknessevery light casts a shadow;The closer you get to the lightthe darker that shadow becomes...
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    mystery  angst  queer  bdsm  m-m  suspense  dark  contemporary
  • Sleepwalkers by Daniel May

    Sleepwalkers by Daniel May

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    My immortal ex was the last person I wanted to be stuck in a coffin with, and yet here we were.Broken up for over a century, I stayed in touch with Bonifacio out of necessity only. An amoral horndog and possessive leech, Bonifacio was toxic beyond words, but there was no one better at eradicating vampire hunters. I needed him...
  • Malum Discordiae by Ashlyn Drewek

    Malum Discordiae by Ashlyn Drewek

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Like all Necromancers, Cassius Corbin grew up knowing one irrevocable truth: death comes for us all. It was a lesson he learned well when his mother was murdered by fellow witches. Six years later, he is back in the town of Winslow, Massachusetts to attend Tennebrose University. But that's not the only reason...
  • Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Everything in Ben's life was perfect. He had it all. The good career. The perfect partner, Evan. The happy home. They were even talking about turning the extra bedroom into a nursery. But things start to splinter. Evan begins missing time, not knowing where he was or how he got there...
    Categorized as:
    angst  tortured hero  queer  m-m  suspense  dark  paranormal  fantasy
  • His by Daniel May

    His by Daniel May

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucas Russo was never a child. He was raised like a soldier, trained like a dog to hunt down his master’s enemies.Shane Case was barely a man. Unraveled by grief, he kidnapped two children to follow in his footsteps, to shape in his image and continue his mission of vengeance.Lucas never forgave Shane, because forgiveness is something reserved for the living. So is hate...
  • Beyond by Katie May

    Beyond by Katie May

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    There's one place scarier than hell.And we're in it.There's a series of tunnels beneath the school that we must travel through in order to escape Tory's School for the Troubled.But the world on the other side? It's a land of nightmares and monsters. A place where your worst fears come to life. A world of darkness and pain and suffering...
  • Kitto by Harper Fox

    Kitto by Harper Fox

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Now Lee is free from the malevolent ghost of Morris Hawke, his clairvoyant gifts are expanding fast. Too fast for comfort, and he and Gideon find themselves wrestling with his unsettling capacity to see the future. In some ways this new power is wonderful, and Lee finds himself a local hero after predicting a flood...
  • Shift of Morals by K. Webster

    Shift of Morals by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I found him when he was a boy.Bloody. Mangled. Near death.If I’d been a merciful alpha, I would’ve snapped his neck and ended him right then.Except, I didn’t.Something in his big brown eyes tugged at my heart strings.I kept him. Healed him. Raised him to be fierce, loyal, and brave.Now that he’s an adult, everything’s changing.He’s no longer the soft, scared beta I once thought he was...
  • Feel My Pain by K.A. Merikan

    Feel My Pain by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    Two enemies cursed to feel each other’s pain. Zane. “I will burn your life to the ground.”Roach. “I’m a cockroach. I’ll survive.”Two years ago, the Rabid Hyenas MC ripped Zane apart like a pack of starving wolves. But he’s not only a survivor, he took revenge that same night.Turns out, one of the bikers is still alive, and as long as that’s the case, Zane will not know peace...
  • 그 끝에 있는 것 1 [At the End of the Road 1] by Haribo

    그 끝에 있는 것 1 [At the End of the Road 1] by Haribo

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    레진코믹스에서 연재 당시 전 연령 BL랭킹 TOP1을 기록하며 웹툰 독자들과 BL마니아들의 인기를 끌었던 『그 끝에 있는 것』이 드디어 아르테팝에서 단행본으로 출간됐다. 웹툰『그 끝에 있는 것』은 완결이 된 지 일 년이 되어가지만 여전히 레진코믹스 전 연령 BL랭킹 TOP3을 유지하며 큰 인기를 끌고 있는 작품이다. 한국뿐만 아니라 미국, 중국, 일본에서 연재하며 연재된 국가에서 모두 높은 순위를 유지하고 있다. 또한『그 끝에 있는 것』을 원작으로 한 러브시뮬레이션 게임이 제작될 정도이니 작품의 재미와 인기를 가늠해 볼 수 있을 것이다.『그 끝에 있는 것』은 한국 BL장르의 발전을 볼 수 있는 작품이다...
  • The Curse of Redwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    The Curse of Redwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Secrets lie within the walls of Redwood Manor.The murders, alleged curse, and ghost stories have fascinated Carter ever since he moved to Ivy Grove. After attending a Halloween ball at the mansion and meeting a man almost too beautiful to be real, Carter is captivated even more.But the man disappears after that, leaving Carter with nothing but the memory of a kiss...
  • Wicked Girl by A.J. Merlin

    Wicked Girl by A.J. Merlin

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 21 ratings
    The murders may be over, but my heartache is back in full force, thanks to my mother and my own misgivings.When I return to Winter Grove early and end up relying on the pack to help me out, I’m sure it’s a new form of torture. Instead, I find myself growing closer to August and Foster...
  • Rule Four and Five by Adrienne Wilder

    Rule Four and Five by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This is book two of three. All books are full-length novels and must be read in order. All books are available now. The My Brother's Keeper Trilogy The town of Gilford has a Big and Terrible secret hidden in the ground. Infecting those it touches. Exploiting their darkness. Consuming their souls. It’s hungry. It’s vile. It’s evil. And it wants out...
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    anal sex  angst  queer  contemporary  dark  abuse  suspense  paranormal
  • Greenwode by J. Tullos Hennig

    Greenwode by J. Tullos Hennig

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Novel of Robyn Hood The Hooded One. The one to breathe the dark and light and dusk between.... When an old druid foresees this harbinger of chaos, he also glimpses its outcome...
  • Threading Carefully by Ashlynn Mills

    Threading Carefully by Ashlynn Mills

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Lonely and bored with life, I was talked into going on a trip to the Monster world.I planned on seeing new things and visiting places different from what I'm used to, but I never planned on him.Nova wasn't like the others of his kind or anything like me. He was a combination of several humans but didn't think like one or share the same experiences...
    Categorized as:
    queer  dual-pov  monsters  m-m  suspense  paranormal  fantasy  rape
  • Into her by J.A. Huss

    Into her by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When AJ and Logan walked into Yvette Nightingale’s bar they didn’t expect to be there long. They certainly didn’t expect to be dancing with her, or having sex with her, or spending the night with her. Because they were sent there to kill her. Not fall for her. Not feel sorry for her. Not want to take care of her, or protect her, or be in to her . But sometimes people enter your life for a reason...
  • Shadows Fall by J.K. Hogan

    Shadows Fall by J.K. Hogan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For him, the whole world is a graveyard...A gift—or curse—gives Titus McGinty the unwanted ability to talk to ghosts. When he starts seeing the same few apparitions repeatedly, appearing with similar gruesome injuries, he begins to wonder what they want from him.Detective Charlie Hale has a serial killer on his hands...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  m-m  paranormal  contemporary  fantasy  suspense  magic
  • Black Magic by Megan Derr

    Black Magic by Megan Derr

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    When High Paladin Sorin discovers the brutally dismembered body of his cousin Alfrey, a much loved priest in the royal palace, he is left baffled as to who would do so terrible a thing to so good a man...
  • Should the Sky Fall by Amithia Raine

    Should the Sky Fall by Amithia Raine

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    After a terrible accident, most people would spend day and night at their husband's side, praying for him to pull through. To wake up.Dawson isn't most people. Then again, it's not unreasonable to want to be rid of the man who's made your life a living hell for the past six years...
  • The Final Rule by Adrienne Wilder

    The Final Rule by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is the last book in this trilogy. All books are full-length novels and must be read in order. All books are available now. The My Brother's Keeper Trilogy The town of Gilford has a Big and Terrible secret hidden in the ground. Infecting those it touches. Exploiting their darkness. Consuming their souls. It’s hungry. It’s vile. It’s evil. And it wants out...
  • Nor Iron Bars a Cage by Kaje Harper

    Nor Iron Bars a Cage by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    First I was a sorcerer. Then I was a hermit. For so long—for years that seemed to go on forever—I couldn't bear to be touched. I put up not just walls but whole stone bunkers to keep everyone out, emotionally, and physically as well. I was protected from people, from ghosts, from specters real and imagined. Sure, I was alone. But I felt safe...
  • Taming Savage by R.S. McKenzie

    Taming Savage by R.S. McKenzie

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    AbelAfter the death of our parents, I was taken in by my brother, who has been taking care of me more out of obligation than love. When he doesn’t come home from a job—if burglary can be considered a job—I discover he’s been taken by a beast of a man with soulless eyes. Even with his scars he’s hot as hell, but his cold eyes chill me to the bone...
  • Cold by Wendy Rathbone

    Cold by Wendy Rathbone

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Cold and Avani find comfort and compatibility with one another until the Beta Council decides a mistake was made in placing them together. Torn apart by a secret scandal, the two must convince beta authorities they have already formed an unbreakable bond...
  • Visible Friend by K.Z. Snow

    Visible Friend by K.Z. Snow

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Christopher Borgasian has spent the last seven months painstakingly breaking up with a lover he's adored for three years: heroin. Now he's trying to make it on his own-without the drugs, without the family that rejected him for being gay, and, seemingly, without a friend in the world...
  • Her Ex-Boyfriend's Werewolf Lover by Cassie Alexander

    Her Ex-Boyfriend's Werewolf Lover by Cassie Alexander

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I loved Vincent and he loved me. Undoubtedly, incontrovertibly, with the fire of a thousand suns.But before me? He loved Max. The man who broke his heart, and the reason he had a wolf print tattooed upon his chest.I didn’t expect Vincent to get gunned down, but Vincent knew he was in danger -- and he knew only one man could save me from dying too...
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    mafia  queer  paranormal  fantasy  m-m  bdsm  dark  contemporary
  • Once Upon A Haunted Moor by Harper Fox

    Once Upon A Haunted Moor by Harper Fox

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Gideon Frayne has spent his whole working life as a policeman in the village of Dark on Bodmin Moor. It’s not life in the fast lane, but he takes it very seriously, and his first missing-child case is eating him alive...
  • 그 끝에 있는 것 1 [At the End of the Road 1] by Haribo

    그 끝에 있는 것 1 [At the End of the Road 1] by Haribo

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    레진코믹스에서 연재 당시 전 연령 BL랭킹 TOP1을 기록하며 웹툰 독자들과 BL마니아들의 인기를 끌었던 『그 끝에 있는 것』이 드디어 아르테팝에서 단행본으로 출간됐다. 웹툰『그 끝에 있는 것』은 완결이 된 지 일 년이 되어가지만 여전히 레진코믹스 전 연령 BL랭킹 TOP3을 유지하며 큰 인기를 끌고 있는 작품이다. 한국뿐만 아니라 미국, 중국, 일본에서 연재하며 연재된 국가에서 모두 높은 순위를 유지하고 있다. 또한『그 끝에 있는 것』을 원작으로 한 러브시뮬레이션 게임이 제작될 정도이니 작품의 재미와 인기를 가늠해 볼 수 있을 것이다.『그 끝에 있는 것』은 한국 BL장르의 발전을 볼 수 있는 작품이다...
  • Forgive Me by Ariana Nash

    Forgive Me by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Father Francis Scott knows he’s damned, but at twenty-four years old, he has a lifetime to make up for past mistakes. Newly ordained, he’s determined to clean the stain off his soul, one day at a time. Until an angel walks into his church, asking Francis to take his confession. One look into Vitari (Angel) Angelini’s eyes, and it’s clear, the man is made of sin...
  • Bonded by Thorns by Elizabeth Helen

    Bonded by Thorns by Elizabeth Helen

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 114 ratings
    Four beastly princes. One awkward bookworm. An enchanted world of fae, magic, and danger.I’ve always loved fairytales. I never imagined I'd actually be in one.When my father wanders into the enchanted realm of the fae, I know I have to go after him. And when he gets imprisoned, I'll do anything to save him... Even trade my freedom for his...
  • His to Lead by E.V. Olsen

    His to Lead by E.V. Olsen

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    New Day. Fragile Bonds. Lurking Danger.I've been a lone wolf in this broken world for four years, never expecting companionship.Until one fateful night with Cal exposes our secret desires, forging an unexpected bond despite our age difference.But the lingering pain of how he ran away afterwards continues to haunt me, even after he returned and expressed his love for me...
  • Soulless by T. Baggins

    Soulless by T. Baggins

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Man of Science Nicholas Robinson is a chemist decades ahead of his time. Crippled by a riding accident and embittered by his injuries, he shuns the world, focusing on his laboratory and experiments. But when the sale of his country estate, Grantley, leads to an encounter with a vampire, Nicholas realizes there is more in heaven and earth than he ever dreamed possible...
  • The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

    The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath—Gil, for short—a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a cousin sold into slavery, Gil sets out to track her down...
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    anal sex  queer  contemporary  fantasy  military  war  magic  dark
  • I Am God's Dagger by K.A. Merikan

    I Am God's Dagger by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    “I know what’s been done to you, and I will see you avenged.”Gabriel. Broken. Lonely. Scarred. Delusional?Abaddon. Lord of Locusts. Master of the Bottomless Pit. Angel of Destruction and Vengeance… But is he real?After a psychotic episode in his childhood, Gabriel is left shattered and unable to join society...
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