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  • Finder Volume 4: Prisoner in the View Finder by Ayano Yamane

    Finder Volume 4: Prisoner in the View Finder by Ayano Yamane

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    "Don't tell me you actually believe Asami is in love with you?" The gorgeous and devious Fei Long has kidnapped Akihito and taken him all the way to Hong...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  bdsm  suspense  m-m  rape  contemporary  dark  queer
  • Ruined Castles by Amo Jones

    Ruined Castles by Amo Jones

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Nothing is going to make sense once you flip open this first chapter. You’re going to wonder why the fuck I made the decisions I did. Why he did what he did. I’m not going to make this easy for you. I’m going to guide you through loops that you’re going to wish I had just skipped, but I’m not going to do that either. You’re going to feel my pain, my loss, and my heart breaking in my chest...
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  • It Breaks Me by Penelope Sky

    It Breaks Me by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Axel 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...
  • Finder, Volume 3: One Wing in the Finder by Ayano Yamane

    Finder, Volume 3: One Wing in the Finder by Ayano Yamane

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Chinese crime lord Fei Long comes to Japan hoping to lure freelance photographer Akihito into his web of intrigue and sex. But when his friends fall prey to Fei Long's diabolical schemes, Akihito has only one person he can ask for help, the person he despises more than anyone else on Earth: the Yakuza boss Asami, who once made Akihito his sex slave...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  bdsm  suspense  m-m  contemporary  rape  dark  queer
  • The Enigma by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    The Enigma by Jodi Ellen Malpas

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    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...
  • Edge of Nowhere by Freya Barker

    Edge of Nowhere by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Open roads and honor meets poke bowls and self-controlI’m a homesick nomad.A protégé, a mountain man, an ally, and a seeker.My name is Wapi.I’m a work in progress looking to belong, and though my road has been a winding one, my heart has found focus.I’m a straightlaced hellcat.A princess, a fool, a target, and a handle.My name is Lindsey...
  • Remorseless Devilette by Kylie Kent

    Remorseless Devilette by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Izzy Sugar, spice, and everything nice. That’s what little girls are made of. Unless that little girl is me. Mafia royalty, the heir to the Donatello Family. I was eight years old when I made my first kill. My own blood, my sperm donor. That was the day I discovered I liked it. Killing. Hunting. Chasing. Winning . This latest contract is no different. Mikhail Petrov. He’s already a ghost...
  • Rescuing Isabelle by Ellie Masters

    Rescuing Isabelle by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Keeping 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...
  • Luca by Eden Summers

    Luca by Eden Summers

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Luca 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...
  • The Joker by Ashley Munoz

    The Joker by Ashley Munoz

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    Kyle James cashed in my V card and then disappeared like I was the finishing act in a magic show. I vowed to hate my best friend, turn the longing and secret obsession with him into toxic hate and maybe a poorly chosen tattoo. But as the years passed, I let go of any notions I'd ever see him again...until he sauntered on campus my senior year as a new transfer student...
  • Drew by Siobhan Davis

    Drew by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The explosive finale in the highly addictive Rydeville Elite series. Mistakes and secrets. My life is littered with them. And it’s not always me who pays the price. So, I do something I swore I wouldn’t do—become the monster my father raised me to be. To shield my loved ones from the predators I hunt, I keep family and friends in the dark, but I won’t apologize for protecting them...
  • Bed of Roses by D.V. Fischer

    Bed of Roses by D.V. Fischer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I never thought I'd fall for a murderer. As an old employee at a funeral home, Tegan's life had been full of corpses. When her parents died, she couldn't take being surrounded by death anymore. She had to get away, and to do that, she moved to a small, sleepy town in Utah. When Tegan rented a house sight-unseen, she had been told it would need a lot of work...
  • Sinner by Sheridan Anne

    Sinner by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Death surrounds me.Every step I take, there’s someone waiting for me in the shadows.There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and now, I’m out here on my own, my hands stained with the blood of those I’ve killed to survive.Zade DeVil was my executioner, my most feared enemy, but he was also my protector. I wasn’t willing to cross that line with him, despite how much I may have wanted to...
  • The Nomad by Amelia Shea

    The Nomad by Amelia Shea

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Broke and bitter, Karia Mitchell is just done. So damn tired of it all. After spending a decade in a loveless and toxic marriage, she’s finally breaking free and rebuilding her life. The prospect of starting over at forty-one is gut wrenching, but she’s willing to do whatever it takes as long as she’s rid of her ex...
  • Oath of Possession by Jane Henry

    Oath of Possession by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vivia Montavio is a traitor, and it’s my job to see to her punishment and interrogation. What a tragedy. She’s the hottest little number I’ve ever seen with that defiant little chin and eyes that spark with wit and boldness. I love a good challenge. We’re left with little choice when the truth outs. So I take her far, far away to La Cabina, a rustic cabin in the middle of nowhere...
  • Mac by Jane Henry

    Mac by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bryn Aitkens is the daughter of my enemy.And my enemies must pay.Vengeance for the wrong done my family has driven me.Consumed me.And collateral damage means nothing.So I’ll charm the innocent girl.Seduce her.Win her over, heart and body.Ruin her for anyone but me.And then strike the Aitkens family when they least suspect it.For no enemy of the Cowen Clan goes unpunished…Including her...
  • Born in Blood Collection Volume 1 by Cora Reilly

    Born in Blood Collection Volume 1 by Cora Reilly

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The first four books in the bestselling Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles in one big book!Bound By HonorBound By DutyBound By HatredBound By...
  • Road To Fire by Maria Luis

    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 ratings
    Megan: 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  mafia  contemporary  dark  length-medium
  • Whistleblower by Kay Cove

    Whistleblower by Kay Cove

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    When you find something precious... You defend it with your life. Eden Where I come from, there’s no forgiveness for a whistleblower, even if I saved countless lives. Unemployed, with a wrecked reputation, my only option is a pity job as a leadership consultant for a secret, government-employed team of assassins...
  • A Sinner's Promise by Kylie Kent

    A Sinner's Promise by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    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...
  • Unholy Bonds  by Maya Raine

    Unholy Bonds by Maya Raine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three 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...
  • Torin by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Torin by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Evil comes in many forms, and right now it’s a beautiful, raven-haired woman hanging upside down on a stripper pole. Here in Vegas, they call her Destiny, but I know exactly who she really is. Lexi Cruz and her father ruined my life. They blackmailed me for millions. And then, when I refused to pay them another dime, they murdered my old lady and our unborn son...
  • The Savage by Stella Andrews

    The Savage by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ivan may be my name but I am best known as The Savage.Born and bred Bratva heir and loving every delicious minute of my life. That's why it was easy to kidnap the entitled Charlotte Richmond from her finishing school in England. It was my pleasure to hide her away while her depraved father searched for her.I have no heart, no emotion, and no morals.She is a bargaining chip, a means to an end...
  • Captivated by Him by Measha Stone

    Captivated by Him by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When the mob came after me, Jakub Staszek kept me safe. But his protection has a price... Me. When he caught me drinking underage in his club five years ago, Jakub spanked my bare bottom like a naughty little girl. But when he took off his belt today, he had a different use in mind for it. It was to bind my arms and leave me helpless for a much rougher, much more shameful lesson...
  • Club Mafia – The Demon by Stella Andrews

    Club Mafia – The Demon by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    They 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 Devil's Lair by Penny Dee

    The Devil's Lair by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Massimo De Kysa.The man who stole my first kiss.And now my boss.I learned early how life can turn on a dime.That’s how it is when you grow up as a mafia princess.One minute you’re rich, spoilt, and betrothed to the most revered man in the city—the next your broke and selling your designer bags so you can eat.But I’m not the kind of girl who gives up without a fight...
  • Captive Heart: Armani by Stella Gray

    Captive Heart: Armani by Stella Gray

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing lasts forever… except the Bellanti’s hatred for the Bruno family.My family prepared me to fight.My best friend taught me loyalty.My husband showed me who I am.And now I’m caught between them all.The thing about secrets is that they always come out.The past is never gone.No one expected it to explode.I finally understand why my life led me here...
  • Pearl by Freya Barker

    Pearl by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    a privately-funded organization operating independently in the search for-and the rescue and recovery of-missing and exploited children. Although at times working in conjunction with law enforcement, GEM aims to ensure the victims receive justice...by whatever means necessary.____Operator Pearl; layered, mysterious, a protector. She masks as delicate, analyzes, and moves stealthily...
  • Pretty Evil by Stella Andrews

    Pretty Evil by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When 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...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  suspense  dark  contemporary  length-medium
  • Emerald Bruises by Pepper Winters

    Emerald Bruises by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I made a bargain with a monster. A vow to save both our lives. I thought our commitment would stay true. It didn’t.” I’ve spent my entire life alone. I’m well used to loneliness and the endless pain of having no one. Sure, we made a bargain. We shared our secrets and made a vow. But I warned her not to do one tiny thing. One very important thing. For a while, she obeyed me...
  • Wicked Secrets by K.B. Winters

    Wicked Secrets by K.B. Winters

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Charlie Ellison found me broken, beaten and bruised. Another biker in a long line of bikers in my life. Except he’s not like the others,And he has me questioning everything. He’s tough, strong and hotter than hell. Could he be my knight on a chrome stallion?Or the devil in a leather kutte?All I know is, he’s different. He makes me feel things I never thought possible...
  • King of Pain by Piper Stone

    King of Pain by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My vows didn't make me his. My body did. Diego Santos may be wealthy, powerful, and sinfully gorgeous, but his slick veneer doesn't fool me. I know his true nature, and I had planned to end this arranged marriage before it even began. But it wasn't Diego waiting for me at the altar...
  • Psycho by Michelle Lancaster, Blake Blessing

    Psycho by Michelle Lancaster, Blake Blessing

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    This 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...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  suspense  contemporary  dark  rape  length-medium
  • Wrath by Cala Riley

    Wrath by Cala Riley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    WrathAll I have in life is my brothers and my club. It’s all I ever needed.Until Tara.Seeing her broken and bruised called to a part of me I thought was long dead.She can’t handle my brand of crazy though.So I’ll offer her the only thing I can. My claim, but in name only.TaraBeing a sweetbutt, I never let myself imagine finding my happy ever after within the walls of the Lotus MC...
  • Torian by Eden Summers

    Torian by Eden Summers

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From 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...
  • Sixth Sin by Cora Kenborn

    Sixth Sin by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Previously published as StarletHollywood. Mafia. Secrets. Corruption. A dark and twisted enemies-to-lovers retelling of Anastasia. They call me America’s Sweetheart.Hollywood royalty. The last of an era.Sole survivor of LA’s most infamous crime.I’m not any of those things. He forced me into the spotlight.Dominic McCallum—a torn page from my tainted past...
  • Vengeful Devilette by Kylie Kent

    Vengeful Devilette by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Izzy It’s funny how the things we most desire are usually the same things we’re meant to avoid. Just like Eve’s temptation with that damned apple, Mikhail Petrov is the one person I can’t seem to resist. Even though our union incites war in the streets of New York, causing more bloodshed than the city’s seen in a long time...
  • A Shade of Evil by Stella Andrews

    A Shade of Evil by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Revenge 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...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  suspense  dark  contemporary  length-medium
  • The Mercer Curse by Pepper Winters

    The Mercer Curse by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Q 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...
  • Taken by Him by S.R. Jones

    Taken by Him by S.R. Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He took me like a thief in the night, but I was already his from the moment I laid eyes on him. Maxim Volkov. A name I had never heard before but one that my heart now beats for.He’s not an easy man to love. He’s hard. Brutal. Unforgiving. A weapon forged in the fire and pain of his early life. I will take that weapon and use it to bring down all who betrayed me...
  • Illicit Captor by Maggie Cole

    Illicit Captor by Maggie Cole

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He kidnapped me to avenge my husband. The husband I’ve never loved. The cruel man my father forced me to marry to teach me a lesson. My husband didn’t think twice about how to carry out those lessons. Now, I’ve gone from one prison to another. My captor is just as ruthless as my husband. He’ll kill, torture, and do everything to hurt my family until no one is left. Except for me...
  • Corrupted Obsession by Kiana Hettinger

    Corrupted Obsession by Kiana Hettinger

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    I’m on a mission.My paths cross with the dark and dangerous Dante Luca.And here I am, his captive.For the past six months, I’ve spent every waking minute looking for my lost sister, Camilla.I’ll stop at nothing to find her, my own freedom wouldn’t make me think twice.My recklessness incites a devastating turn of events that collides my world with Dante Luca.The rumored vigilante hero...
  • Duty by Bethany-Kris

    Duty by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    They 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...
  • The Woman on the Jury by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman on the Jury by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mafia  contemporary  dark  length-medium
  • Surrendered Innocence by Measha Stone

    Surrendered Innocence by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He didn't ask for my surrender. He took it...
  • Nicoli: Dark Mafia Romance by Bella J

    Nicoli: Dark Mafia Romance by Bella J

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’ve never had a life.I’m not talking about the freedom money can buy because I have that in spades.I’m talking about the freedom a girl gets from growing up with four overprotective Del Rossa men…which is zero.Zero freedom to have a social life. Zero freedom to date.Men in this city know better than to look my way...
  • Harder Betrayal by Penelope Sky

    Harder Betrayal by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    I knew a relationship with Cauldron wouldn't be easy.But I underestimated just how challenging it would be...
  • Breaking Rosalind by Gigi Styx

    Breaking Rosalind by Gigi Styx

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I wove a deadly web, but it became my trap.Rosalind I’m a cold-blooded killer, a femme fatale with a long list of victims. My latest target being Cesare Montesano. I must kill him and his brothers to protect my innocent young daughter. He catches me in the middle of the mission, but I’m not scared. I might be his prisoner yet I’m not without weapons...
  • Cross by Shantel Tessier

    Cross by Shantel Tessier

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    CROSSHave you ever stood next to a fire and felt the heat of it on your skin? Stared into the flames and thought how amazing it would be to be that free? It changes direction with the wind, destroying everything in its wake.That's what she felt like.Alexa was a wildfire that torched everything she touched, and I couldn't wait to be consumed by her.She was off-limits...
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