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Guarded Souls
Amanda Carol - 2021
We were brothers long before we were brothers-in-arms, and when we buried him, I buried a piece of my soul right along with him.I wasn’t looking for a fresh start. Especially not back in River Falls.Until I meet her.The girl next door.Aubrey Daniels is a thorn in my side, but she could be the one thing that could put my soul back together…if I don’t let my demons get in the way.But there’s a predator on the loose, and they will stop at nothing to get her. They want her, but they can’t have her. I was assigned to keep her safe, and if I don’t find whoever it is soon, it might be too late.
Tears of Tess
Pepper Winters - 2013
Happy, content, everything neat and perfect.Then it all changed.I was sold.”Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with possibility. For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico. Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul-connecting sex set the mood for a wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a passion filled week, Tess is on top of the world.But lusty paradise is shattered.Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror. Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can’t save her from the horror of being sold.Can Brax find Tess before she’s broken and ruined, or will Tess’s new owner change her life forever?A New Adult Dark Contemporary Romance, not suitable for people sensitive to grief, slavery, and nonconsensual sex. A story about finding love in the strangest of places, a will of iron that grows from necessity, and forgiveness that may not be enough.
Hidden
Ivy Nelson - 2021
Instead he got investigative journalist Carrie Davenport. His hatred of journalists runs deep, but she's going to get herself killed. So he'll do what he must to keep her safe and his conscience clear.Carrie Davenport didn't look for trouble but it always found her. This time it came in the form of a human trafficking ring involving D.C.'s most powerful. And she could expose it all and turn it into the biggest story she’s ever written. Or get herself killed. And Peter Mercer seems hellbent on preventing her from doing either.When he shows up at Club Exposure, she thinks he's following her again. Turns out they have more in common than either realizes.
Forbidden
Yolanda Olson - 2020
Seven authors bring you seven forbidden romance stories with a twist.Prepare for the ride of your life.This gripping collection of angsty tales will have you turning the pages non-stop.Get lost in this set of brand-new, never before released, deliciously ILLICIT romances where the DECEIVED are revealed.The SIN KEEPER will be exposed and ENFORCE HER to abide by the LOVELESS rules where LOLITA is ALL WE KNOW.
Knotted
Pam Godwin - 2018
It’s impossible. Growing up together, Conor and I shared all our firsts. First love, first kiss, first… Not all our firsts. We were sixteen the night she was violently assaulted while I helplessly watched. I’ll never forget the sounds of her suffering. Or my inconsolable agony when she left Oklahoma. Years later, she returns to honor our teenage pact. Except the boy she loved is gone, replaced by a ruthless cattle rancher knotted with secrets. She doesn’t know my dark cravings or the trails of sin that lead to her. I don’t deserve her, but one truth remains. She’s mine. TRAILS OF SIN series (HEAs with no cliffhangers - must be read in order): Knotted #1 Buckled #2 Booted #3
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.
Defiant
Ann Denton - 2021
Only…he doesn’t believe that I’m what I say I am. He insists that I’m part of a rival pack and locks me up in his basement.Black’s twice my age, insanely powerful, and has a streak of darkness running through him a mile wide and an ocean deep.He’s exactly the type of man that I always swore I’d stay far away from. I should stick with Jonah, the beta I know and trust, the man who’ll give me everything I ask for.But what if there are things I didn’t know I ever wanted before? Things I don’t know how to ask for?The shadow Black casts drenches me, his depravity soaking into my skin.He’s going to destroy me if I don’t escape him.
Black
I discover pretty little Elena helpless in disputed territory.At first, I want to crack her open, this wide-eyed temptation who derails me. I want to shatter her and those who sent her into tiny pieces. I will not be manipulated or deceived by her false innocence.That’s what I tell myself. But even as I say it aloud, my obsession grows and the spell she weaves leaves my wolf and I both panting.But once I realize Elena’s a special type of shifter, the rarest of the rare, and the most precious of them all… I don’t want to crush her. I want to chain and keep her. I want to make her beg for mercy, but not because she’s broken.Because she’s mine.I want her desperate and aching for me in ways she’s never been before.My wolf and I will claim her, mark her, marry her and keep her.Only one thing’s stopping me.The entire shifter world wants her too.Author’s Note: This is a dark ménage romance. Please read the author's note at the beginning of this book before you dive in.
Black Swan Affair
K.L. Kreig - 2016
He wears scruff like he invented it and ambles with a swagger that makes panties drop. Killian Shepard. Shep. We grew up together. We played Ghost in the Graveyard. Had our own rock band. It didn’t matter that he was five years older than me. It didn’t matter that he looked at me as a kid sister even as I grew into woman. It didn’t even matter when he left me behind to go to college and start his adult life. He’d be back. He was always meant to be mine.He came back, all right. But instead of smelling of promises, he stunk of betrayal. And he destroyed me—us—the day he married my sister instead of me.So I did the only thing a girl like me in my position could do. I got my revenge. I married his brother, Kael. Now we’re one big happy f*cking family.***mature content appropriate for 18+
Collared
Nicole Williams - 2016
. .Brings her home. Jade Childs spent ten years in captivity, but now that she’s back, the real battle for survival begins. The media shadows her. Flashbacks haunt her. Her old life evades her. Her so-called new life rejects her. She spent too many years in the dark to recognize the light. She spent too long repressing her feelings to remember how to express them. She spent a decade abandoning hope and cannot dare letting it back into her life. Jade’s not just defined by what happened to her—she’s collared to it.When the twenty-seven-year-old woman is found,A community wants to know the story,Parents want to forget the story,Friends want to be a part of the story,And the man who still loves her faces the greatest challenge yet: letting her go.
Thy Kingdom Come
Monica James - 2021
My father says it’s my birthright, but all I see is a curse. It’s because of the Kelly name my mum was slain by the Doyles—our enemies in Dublin, the fellas livin’ on borrowed time. All of Belfast fears my family, especially me. I’m Puck Kelly, otherwise known as Punky; the lad ye don’t want to double cross. I don’t do feelings or emotions. I never have…until she walks into my world.Babydoll is a liar and a thief, but I can’t stay away. We both thrive in the darkness because that’s where our demons can play.No word af a lie, sixteen years later, those monsters still haunt my dreams. But every monster is scared of somethin’…and that somethin’ is me.No more hiding in the shadows because I’m huntin’ youse. Run, wee monsters, run.
Savage Dom
Jane Henry - 2020
The biggest, the bravest, the most brutal. Programed to discipline. Dominate Destroy. It's a fight to the death Only one will survive. But there's one complication.... Me. Please note: Savage Dom is book one in the Savage Island duet and ends with "happy for now." Book two, Savage Love, completes the Savage Island duet.
The Disciples: A Dark Romance Collection
Izzy Sweet - 2020
Then comes love and a baby carriage...Rich, powerful, and untouchable, Lucifer and his merry band of killers rule the streets of Garden City, their sheer strength and brutality unmatched.Possessive and obsessive, they take the women they want, knowing no one will stop them.Stealing them from the very bed they share with their husband...Or grabbing them as they walk down the aisle towards another man.No deed is too dark or twisted to ensure they completely own the women that fall unwillingly into their hands.In this life, and into the next..."I'll never let you go. Never. They'll have to pry you from my cold, dead hands."The first five books available for the first time in one collection, these ruthless men will leave you breathless, and questioning what you would do if you were suddenly taken.Would you hold on to your morals and everything you've ever believed in?Or, like Lily, would you accept your new fate and give in?"This book is all kinds of wrong - but that is what makes it a fun read in a very dark way" - Amazon reviewer, Keeping Lily."Please please please write hundreds...no, no, thousands of these! You've made me obsessed now!" - Amazon reviewer, Stealing Amy."If you want to run away for a couple of hours to a place that's dangerous and exciting then BUYING BETH is it and Garden City is the place." - Amazon reviewer, Buying Beth.Includes: Keeping Lily, Stealing Amy, Buying Beth, Breaking Meredith, and Taking Meghan.Plus an exclusive, extended preview of Trapping Sophia and five never before published short stories.Before God Himself - LuciferHo, Ho, Ho - AndrewRun Lily - LilyPromise - AbigailThe Bad Man - James
Corrupt Idol
Dinah Harper - 2019
In every aspect of my life I’m a model citizen except when it comes to you." Once upon a time, he was her everything—protector, best friend, hero. She looked up to him and trusted him with her life. In one selfish move, he ruined everything and broke her in the process. It’s been five years and the moment she hoped to avoid is here. She’s about to come face to face with her step-brother, Jesse Sampson, corrupt idol and her personal nightmare. She’s going to show him how little he affects her. She’ll never let him back in. …But he has other plans. Author's Note: This is a dark, taboo romance novel with triggers and mature themes that may make some readers uncomfortable.
Striker
Rachel Leigh - 2020
MarniI wasn't supposed to be at that house.I should have never wandered away from the party.And I definitely shouldn't have pressed my ear to that door.The words I heard play in my mind like a record on repeat.Now, they want my silence.The four guys who terrorize the streets of Redwood as a sport will stop at nothing to make sure that my lips are sealed.What they don't know is that I refuse to go down without a fight. TalonMarni Thorn thinks she's holding all the cards. She believes she's harboring our secret. Little does she know, it wasn't ours to begin with. We made a rule that she's off limits.But a body like that is meant to be touched. Limits are pushed, and rules are broken. But one thing is for certain, I have my little rebel right where I want her.Striker is a Dark Bully Romancethat contains explicit sexual content,graphic language, and situations that somereaders may find uncomfortable.
Merciless
Willow Winters - 2018
Women like her are made to destroy men like me. I couldn’t resist her though. Given to me to start a war; I was too eager to accept. But I didn’t know what she’d do to me. That she would change everything. She sees through me in a way no one else ever has. Her innocence and vulnerability make me weak for her and I hate it.I know better than to give in to temptation.A ruthless man doesn’t let a soul close to him.A cold-hearted man doesn’t risk anything for anyone.A powerful man with a beautiful woman at his mercy… he doesn’t fall for her.