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Endgame
Chloe Walsh - 2017
1. Don't fall in love in high-school.2. Get through senior year and snag a full-ride scholarship to college.3. Get the hell away from my irresponsible mother.I didn't think that was too much to ask for, and I've worked damn hard to make it a reality. Until my mother went and did the unthinkable!She's pregnant.Yep, the woman-child only went and got herself knocked-up by a man who lives on the other side of the country.As if it wasn't bad enough to uproot my life six weeks before senior year, Mom's new beau comes with baggage.A sweet stepsister, Amelia.And the b*stard of all b*stards, Rourke.Rourke is a senior like me, and he doesn't want me in his town, much less his home. He's also hell bent on making sure I know it. Thing is, I don't want to be there either, and if Rourke expects me to swan in and kiss his ass to make him like me, he has another thing coming.I'm nobody's bitch and he's about to learn that...Endgame is a feisty standalone romance. Due to its explicit content, bad language, and graphic sexual content, Endgame is recommended for mature readers of seventeen years and above.
Need
K.I. Lynn - 2015
Maybe it was love at first sight, but I was only ten.She became my best friend.My crush.The girl I can’t live without.But I have to.She was almost mine, but my father took away my chance.Now she lives across the hall from me. Instead of possessing the title of girlfriend, she’s now my stepsister.But that doesn’t stop how I feel, how I want her. Thankfully, I’m off to college two hundred miles away, but even that doesn’t help.She’s under my skin, all around me, and all I can do is watch her morph from a sexy teenager to an irresistible woman.I can’t take it anymore, I need her.Is it possible to ever be happy without the one person you need?
Flip Trick
Amo Jones - 2018
I had a one-night stand. Then in true me fashion, I left my phone at his house during my desperate venture to escape. I tried hard to ignore the texts sent to my best friend’s phone... Amethyst: Sup, these selfies are cute as shit, but your lips looked better wrapped around my… I did NOT text him back. I DID vow to never speak of him, or that night again... I’m Amethyst Lily Tatum, and up until this point, I’d managed to maintain a fairly low-key life. I’m what you would call a socially unacceptable hot mess. Instead of partying, I’m skating, flipping ollie’s over guys who loved to underestimate me. Then I started college, met a wild girl who I would soon call my best-friend, had my first drunk one-night stand, left my phone at his house, and then, when I finally managed to meet my mom’s new boyfriend, I found out that my one-night stand, was now my new stepbrother. *this is a standalone novel*
Hu$h Money
B.L. Mute - 2021
Seducing a man for the sole purpose of blackmailing him never crossed my mind. Until it was my only option. I thought it would save my family, and all my father worked for. Instead, I found myself running from Bexley Falls to escape what I did. Broke and alone, I had no choice but to return to my life as an heiress and face my mistake. Only Malcolm McLane isn’t the forgiving type. He’s been gathering information on me and launches into a game of cat and mouse that could destroy us both. At first, I thought I could handle him. Now, I find my control slipping in a battle that could swallow me whole. My only way out is with the help of his son, Carter. I shouldn’t be attracted to Carter. He’s forbidden. Dangerous. Yet as he helps me plot my escape, I feel an undeniable magnetism drawing me to him. It's a game of emotional warfare, and I'm not sure that either of us will make it out alive. NOTE- Reader discretion is advised. This book contains mature content and themes some may find offensive, distressing and a potential trigger. Recommended for 18+.
Brutal King
Nikita. - 2021
BLURBWINTERMason King...Brutal, cold and so filled with hate.Hate for what? The simple answer is ME.Our families have hated each other for years, or at least that’s what I used to think.But us? We didn’t care because we were in love.That is until he saw what they wanted him to see.We went from soulmates to enemies in a matter of minutes.Once upon a time, I loved Mason with every fibre of my being.Until he shattered my soul and left me to pick up the pieces alone.Now I’m back in Ravenwood and I’m about to find out just how brutal my king has become,Only he isn’t the only one after me...MASONWinter Crowne...Liar, fake and the thing I intend to break.I thought I was in love with her but that was before I saw her betrayal first-hand.The last time I saw her I told her I’d make her pay if she ever came back here,She didn’t listen and now that she’s back I can finally exact my revenge on her.She never should have come back to Ravenwood and I’ll be the one to make sure she knows it.TRIGGER WARNING: this book contains material that is suitable for ages 18+ with themes that may be triggering to some which includes bullying and non-conNOTE: This is book 1 in a trilogy and it does end in a cliffhanger.
Mine
A.K. Rose - 2022
Didn’t care their father was behind bars.Didn’t care he betrayed the notorious Stidda Mafia boss, Benjamin Rossi, and now their lives were in danger.All I cared about was her.Ryth.I wanted to hurt her. Wanted to make her squirm.I wanted to make her pay for the moans coming from my father’s bedroom.When he slipped a ring onto her mother’s finger, Ryth became mine.Mine to bully.Mine to break.And I’ll use my brothers to do it.She’ll become our favorite obsession.Our sick, tormented game.She’ll become the only thing I think about, until not thinking about her tears me apart.I’ll hate her. I’ll hate her so much it hurts…
Kings of Blood and Money
Ker Dukey - 2021
My father was supposed to be there that night. He should have been there. Should have protected them—us.When you strip a man of all he cares about, you’re left with a soulless entity seething with primal rage. He promised to turn Gallo's bloodline to dust to get his retribution.And he did.All but one.FreyaI was seven years old when I was taken in the night. I don’t remember much of life before that. All I know now is the glaring eyes of a boy who hates me, and the comfort I find in the boy whose face mirrors his.I’m not part of this family, but they’re all I have familiar as one. To hate is easy.And I do hate them.But to love even in hate is what hardens you, strengthens you, gives you reason.The truth is I shouldn’t love them, that all these years are leading somewhere I won’t want to go.But I do…Love them.I love them both. The only question left now is, do they love me?
Quarantined
Drethi Anis - 2020
The last thing I expected was to be back in this city, after all these years. And I definitely did not expect to be back in this house, where it all started. I have spent years avoiding this place, and the cold hard reality of what happened here. But I have no choice. We are all back here and quarantined together. It took, the end of the world, for me to come back here. And to face him. Milo Sinclair. Once my legal guardian and savior in life. The person who saved me from drowning in loneliness. Who gave me everything I ever wanted. But then he took everything away from me. Plus interest. He broke me. He will not break me again.PLEASE READ THE WARNING: Dark romance is subjective. Some readers have found this book to be a light read while others have found it triggering. This book contains dubious and non-consent sexual scenes, virus outbreak, mental health issues, and sexual acts between a 17-year-old and her 21-year-old guardian. This fictional series is ONLY meant for readers who enjoy a specific trope in the realm of fantasy.**This book is part of a SERIES and NOT a standalone. This is a work of fiction and not based on real characters or incidents.❤️✒️ What to know more about Milo & Raven? Find Drethi Anis on FB & IG.
Feuds and Reckless Fury
K. Webster - 2021
Grades, money, track—he dominates it all despite his short, insignificant frame.Was one dad not good enough that Alis had to take mine too?Soon, we’ll be stepbrothers.Until then, I vow to make his life a living hell.Maybe Dad will regret his terrible mistakes.Maybe he won’t.I know I won’t regret wrecking their lives like they did mine.I’ll give up everything, even my girlfriend and football, if it means I get a chance for retribution.It’s reckless and risky, but I don’t have much to lose.The havoc I wreak might ease some of the pain Dad caused my mother.I’m willing to give it a shot.What starts as a family feud will become a war… one I plan on winning no matter the cost.There’s only one small problem.I may have underestimated my opponent.
A Lesson in Blackmail: Black Mountain Academy / A Club Alias Novel
K.D. Robichaux - 2020
This school is mine—literally, my family built Black Mountain Academy generations ago—and I own everything in it. And I, Nathaniel Black IV, won’t stop until that includes her. She just started this year, my senior year, her first job right out of college. She calls it her dream job, but I’ve had the sick pleasure of making my study period with her every day more a nightmare. I’m fixated on her, obsessed with her, and all I want is to feel the skittish little mouse beneath me.I can’t get her out of my head, not even while partying at my friend’s house, every girl vying for my attention. But they don’t stand a chance, not when my focus is on Ms. Evelyn Richards. She makes me feel… things I don’t understand. Possessive yet… protective. I can f— with her, but no one else can. Compulsion strikes, the other half of my disorder, and that night I set out to find where she lives. And what I discover changes both our lives.The perfect information for blackmail. The perfect secret to hold over her head to get what I want.Her.A Lesson in Blackmail is a full-length novel in the Black Mountain Academy series. It is a crossover standalone with KD Robichaux's Club Alias series.
Veiled Innocence
Ella Frank - 2014
Tick, tick, tock.Time.That’s all I have now.A small room, a photograph, and time.They want me to trust them and confess my sins.They told me they wouldn't judge me—they lied.I thought we could convince the world that this wasn't a crime.We were wrong.Time doesn't stand still.The clock keeps ticking, the world is unconvinced, and now…Now he is gone.
Stepbrothers' Darling
K.A. Knight - 2021
I never thought I would end up here, moving halfway across the country on my mother's whim, and then I meet them… My new stepbrothers. Cyrus, Bray, Asher. Sin incarnate, dangerous, dark and deadly. Everything I crave in a man, but they are off-limits and they make that perfectly clear. However, when my past comes back with a bang, the rules begin to mean nothing and lines start to blur. The only way we will survive this is together. They are my Crew and I’m about to be their Darling. Screw what people think, I’m going to make them mine. *This book contains dark elements which some readers may find triggering. All characters in this story are over eighteen and all sexual interactions are fully consensual.*
Stepbrother Inked
Violet Blaze - 2015
It also shouldn't hurt so much. How could the one person I can't have be the only person I truly need? Florian Harper Riley has my heart and he doesn't even know it. I used to think that was okay, that I'd get over him, but no matter how hard I try, I can't purge his sharp green gaze from my thoughts. He's a tattoo artist, the love of my life, the man of my dreams. But he's also my stepbrother. Fate can be wicked cruel. *This is a 98,000 word, full length stand-alone novel from debut author Violet Blaze (and it's hot!)* A Bad Boy Stepbrother Romance.
Tyrant Twin
Isabella Starling - 2020
Unfortunately for me, so is my twin brother.But I'm not letting him have her. June is mine. MINE.And I'm going to own her, even if it means hurting the one I love most - my other half.JUNEMy stepbrothers and I have been torn apart because of the inheritance our parents left us.I didn't ask for the money, but it's mine now. And they both hate me because of it.But I've loved one of them in secret for years...PARKERI'm the bad seed. The black sheep. And I'm sick of being looked down on.One way or another, I always get what I want. And what I want is my sweet, angelic stepsister.Tyrant Twins is a full-length, STANDALONE dark romance novel from USA Today and Amazon bestselling author Isabella Starling. This is NOT a menage romance.
Huge
Stephanie Brother - 2015
It’s his fault for leaving his door open while he was getting changed. I've seen my stepbrothers gorgeous, ripped body before, and have been half in love with him since he moved into my house. He’s cocky and sexy and when he calls me princess I want to punch him in the mouth. But I’ve never seen a d*ck that big, and now that I have I can’t seem to think of anything else. I want him, but crossing the line could risk the happiness of our new home. Harrison would never make the first move, so I guess I’m going to have to find a way. And the masked Halloween party at his best friend’s house seems like too good an opportunity to pass up.