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Dagger
Kennedi Darling - 2021
My body was no longer my lover’s temple, but a madman’s canvas. Instead of quivering with pleasure, I shuddered in pain. Now I’m back, a shell of a woman with a shattered mind and a tattered soul. There’s no way Dagger would see me for the woman I was.And the loneliness is going to kill me.Dagger:I promised her forever, only one call became never.Dreams of the future were no longer peaceful, but shattered by nightmares.The woman who held the key to my soul was gone, though I never moved on. Now she’s back, though tattered and broken.She’ll never believe she still owns my heart.But I’m determined to avenge her.Dagger is the first book in the Tattered Souls MC. This story includes a HEA, no cliffhanger, and no cheating.**Trigger Warnings**This book contains instances of past torture, past mental and physical abuse, as well as an instance of suicidal thoughts and a stopped attempt. If any of these subjects affect you negatively, this book may not be suitable for you.
One Temptation
Nicola Jane - 2019
Not only because he has a huge amount of respect for her father and brother but because he’s known Ava since the day she was born so falling in love was never an option.That is until Gunner joins the army and decides that one night together before he leaves won’t hurt anyone, boy was he wrong. His actions leave Ava broken hearted and send her down a path of self-destruction. Years later when Gunner returns, they both have to find a way to live together. It isn’t going to be easy but then who said the path of true love was.Will Gunner discover the secrets that Ava holds close? And if he does, will he stick around and fight for what he’s secretly wanted from the beginning?
Destroy For Her
R.B. Hilliard - 2020
For years, he’s watched over his fallen brother’s wife and daughter while refusing to let his true feelings get in the way.He loves her, but he can’t have her.Sage is in love with Alex Easton. A feeling he does not reciprocate. She’s an obligation—a painful reminder of his fallen brother—and, therefore, off-limits. After years of rejection, Sage decides to move on—to move past the club, to move past her love for Alex.
It’s a move that will cost her everything.
When Sage lands herself in some serious hot water, the club comes to her rescue.Can Ax and the Steele Raiders keep her and her daughter safe?Will Ax finally reveal his feelings for Sage, or will this new threat tear them apart for good?
Sometimes you have to fight for love, but sometimes you have to destroy for it.
Jordan's Shadow
T.R. Cupak - 2017
It's a dark romance that will shatter your heart and leave you with a massive book hangover.JordanThis story isn’t about love, like, lust, or a happily ever after. This story, my story, is about struggle, pain and suffering. Fighting to stay afloat while being pulled under by what feels like the murky and powerful undertow of the ocean. Fighting for strength I so desperately need when all I am feeling is desolate and weak. I’m a girl who exudes hatred when a normal girl of my age and pedigree should be the picture perfect portrait of love. Alcohol consumes me. Drugs numb me. Sex for money feeds the hollow abyss deep within me. How does a soon-to-be twenty-five year old escort turn her life around when the last several years of her life has been spent traveling down a very dark path?The ShadowShe became my obsession, my every thought. She is the reason I wake up in the morning, plotting, scheming, exacting a revenge she so desperately deserves. But will she take my offer once she learns my true identity; sees the darkness within me, or will she hate me for lying to her all of these years, leading her to lose herself to the drugs and alcohol that have kept her ghosts at bay? Will she be my Precious?
Fighting for Phoenix
Lynne Leslie - 2018
A dark obsession. A tragic destruction.Four years ago, Jayden Carter was everything to me, but one mistake is all it takes for my world to crumble. While fighting through foggy memories, I watched as she tore off her engagement ring and tossed it to my feet, leaving me behind with hateful words and tear-filled eyes.Regrets have left me cold and empty until I step into her bar. Where love once fueled us, bitterness now fills the tank. Jayden deserves the truth of that night four years ago, but when she hears it, she scoffs in my face. Then she drops her own truth on me—I’m a father. I’m speechless and furious until my son’s tiny body barrels into mine.Old feelings resurface and before long I’m fighting for love and family.With outside forces trying to tear us apart, our road to a second chance will not be easy. Their endgame? Destruction. Our endgame? Love.**This book contains subject matter that may be sensitive to some readers. Please read at your own risk.**
Wicked Revenge (A Wicked Angels MC, #1)
Zoey Derrick - 2017
He hid me away to keep me safe. Protected me from those who would destroy me after they destroyed my family. He wasn’t innocent, he was going to be the president of the Wicked Angels MC. I knew he had secrets, we all do.But then, he was gone. And I was alone.Six years after his death, I see the world with new eyes, but those eyes still want revenge on those who took my safe haven, my family, away from me. I find myself with two choices. Let it go and move on, or what I'm going to do - get revenge.Knowing what I have to do, what I need to do, Logan ‘Loki’ Williams stands in my way, loyal to the man who protected me all my life. I have loved him since I was three. He was my brother’s best friend. But right now, he isn’t my priority. I’m so close to getting my revenge.He may figure out my secrets, but I can’t escape him. I won’t give up my plans for him. No matter how much he worships my body and calls to my heart.I will get my wicked revenge. Even if it kills me.
Saving His Princess
M.T. Ossler - 2017
I drink all day, f*ck all night and fight whenever the opportunity arises. Not the life I wanted as a kid, but it’s a good one. I have a family that has my back and vice versa. I have no heart, that was left back home a decade ago never to return. My heart belongs to a woman I can never have, or so I thought. I’ve been connected to Bella’s soul since the day she was born. I knew I loved her as a pre-teen and as a teenager, I knew I had to leave her. Her father is the head of the families, the Italian Mafia families, and me a Capo’s son. I’m also five years older than her. It was never in the cards for us, never meant to be in this lifetime. So like a fool, I left her and the only home I ever knew as soon as I turned eighteen. I thought it was for the best, but turns out I hurt her more by leaving. Hearing her name after all these years, lite a fire under my ass. Now, I have to save her, and once I have her back, I won’t be letting her go again. I will spend the rest of my life making my mistakes up to her. She is my one true love, and I swore a long time ago to protect her, and I failed in the worst way. Never again, I will lay my life down for her from this day forward. And kill the monster that has hurt her and took her innocents. I just hope I can get to the monster before he gets to her again? Bella (Princess) I’m the Mafia’s Princess and have whatever I desire except for the man I love. He left me a long time ago. I’m a shell of a woman. I struggle to make it through each day since he left me. Since he left I haven’t felt whole. I’ve loved Gio since I was five years old. He may be older than me, and my brother’s best friend, but my heart and soul was his from the day I was born. The day he left me, I pledge to be alone for the rest of my life. I have my family, my friends and my career that’s enough. Then the monster comes for me and hurts me in the worst way imaginable. Now I’m broken and have me baby sister to care for alone. I don’t know how I’ll survive all this pain. My knight comes back and saves me when I need him the most and helps put back the pieces of my broken life back together. The second my eyes meet his, I know our lives will never be the same, and I will never let him leave me again. My life may be changing in more ways than one, and I will have to be stronger to survive in my new roles in life. I hope he takes out the monster before it’s too late? Will my life ever be safe again?
The Other One
Isobel Hart - 2019
. . Two lonely people . . . Three good reasons to learn to love again After spending months alone, Jessica Jameson’s hellbent on numbing the pain of losing the love of her life to cancer by drinking enough whiskey that she can forget. Even if it’s only for one night. In the hotel bar, the last thing she expects is to meet a guy. A blonde-haired, green-eyed god, whose own experience of loss speaks to her bruised heart. But afterwards, when she just wants to forget all about Daniel McIntosh she finds that’s easier said than done. After all, he’s the lead singer of Scoundrel, one of the world’s biggest rock bands. He’s also the reason for her missing period. Now, having finally found her again, Daniel’s thrilled to be reunited with the woman he never forgot. There’s just one problem: Daniel doesn’t know he’s a dad. Can their relationship withstand him finding out? And, even if he can forgive her, will she risk her heart for a second chance at finding love.
D-City Chronicles: Aja and Ro
Annitia L. Jackson - 2018
She has lost her family, boyfriends, and her peace of mind. She has given up on a happily ever after because everyone she loves has either died or been threatened because of her. When she decides to come out of hiding due to unexpected circumstances, she meets a man just as broken as her. The attraction is undeniable but will her demons come to kill the new love that is developing. Twenty- five year old Roland "Ro" Symir Casey deals in death. His whole world is killing, money, and revenge. He is cold- hearted and doesn't care about anybody but his family, his brother Raymond, his father Rodney, and his best friend Ace. He has no room in his heart for love or so he thought. That changes when he collides with Aja, Ace's little sister. When he's asked to protect her he finds his cold heart thawing. The problem is he has a situation with Tyesha and an even darker enemy. His anger. "Unknown" She has always been mine and no one can have her but me. Many have tried and failed it cost them their lives. She is my angel and I will do anything to keep her.............
Heart of Stone: Demons Head MC
McKenzi Lake - 2019
They’re one-percenters, Rylie. Outlaws. Gun-running, drug smuggling, human-trafficking outlaws. Their business…Stone Fab & Paint…it’s just a front. And, Griffin Stone…he’s the biggest outlaw of them all. I didn’t know why my boss thought the Demons Head MC was an appropriate choice for my idea. It didn’t matter. What mattered now was the kids. With so little funding, we needed this. And, Griffin had contacted us. Something about giving back to the community. I could do this. I wouldn’t let Griffin Stone get to me. Present the facts. Sign the contract. Easy peasy, right?. What a ridiculous thought that turned out to be. Griffin: I was Griffin Stone. Road name...Gryphon. A one-percenter. An outlaw. President of my club. A man with a heart of stone. I didn’t do attachments. Didn’t do commitments. Never gave it a thought. If no one gave a shit going in, then no one gave a shit coming out. That was until… She came strutting into my life with those bedroom eyes, tight little skirt, and smart mouth. I had no idea that falling for her would threaten her life. My life. That we’d both risk losing everything we held dear.
Road Demons (Book 3 Ryder)
T.L. Drake - 2021
My grandfather didn’t want this life for me, so he put a do not touch order on me with his club, keeping me at arm’s length for more than half my life. I’ve made it known, painfully, that I wanted him. But Ryder had never shown a hint of interest in me. That is, until I finally noticed a man who’s been under my nose for months. A man on the verge of making it big. Now Ryder was all in, and my heart is torn between the two men. One of them makes me feel wanted, and the other has held my heart since the moment he walked into our club twenty years ago.RyderMy life officially began when Breaker took a chance on me and offered me a place within his world. Patching in as a Road Demon gave me the family I lost as a kid. His only rule was that Mia, his granddaughter, was off limits. It seemed easy enough, since she was only a kid back then, but something changed when the skinny fourteen-year-old girl I first met suddenly turned into a woman I can’t stop craving. What makes it worse is that I knew she wanted me, and I’ll never be able to have her. After two decades of ignoring her advances, I finally get the green light, only to find her in the arms of another man because she’s done waiting. Fighting for her is the only option, and I don’t care if I have to walk through hell to get her. I’m determined to claim what was always mine—my Mia.
Sordid Seduction
B. Bennett - 2016
At nineteen years of age, Willow is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong, but her illicit affair with her father's business partner blurs the lines between both. Pierce Serban is a powerful man. Feared yet revered. Ruthless and cold. He's the man mothers warn their little girls about. He's the man who wants his business partner's daughter. When his desire becomes an obsession, things take a drastic turn for both of them. As Willow fights to escape, answers to questions she never knew she had reveal themselves. Soon, the truth behind her captivity comes to light, and neither Willow nor her captor will ever be the same again. Sordid is the first book in a trilogy. Sordid is a dark, erotic, taboo, romance. Take note of the word Dark, this book contains explicit sexual content, language, and violence.
Don't Make Me Beautiful
Elle Casey - 2013
If you liked the movie "Sleeping With the Enemy", then you might like this story too. No one knew a woman lived there or that she even existed. A monster, living in darkness...At twenty-two, Nicole doesn't even look human anymore. The beast made sure of that. So she hides. A monster, consigned to a life of fear and solitude. This is all she deserves, she is quite sure of that. And then one day out of the blue, the autographed baseball caught by Brian Jensen at the latest Marlins game enters her prison and manages to turn her world completely upside down.Temptation comes in the form of pity at first, and then perhaps something more. Does she dare to believe the things she's told, that this is not the life she was meant to live? That being a monster is not her forever-fate? And will she be willing to risk everything, to reach out and accept the helping hands around her and share her deepest, darkest secrets? She knows only too well that hands can hurt. Finding out whether they can also heal is a risky proposition, especially when the beast is still out there. Looking for her.Content warning: Violence, foul language, and adult situations. Not meant for younger readers. A note from Elle about this book: A really long time ago, I read an article in a newspaper or a magazine (I haven’t been able to locate the original) about a woman who was so badly beaten over a long period of time, she couldn’t leave her house. I thought about that woman a lot over the years and about what her thoughts might have been, her fears, her reality … and this book was my attempt to both exorcise those thoughts from my brain and also shed some light on a subject —domestic violence— that I feel should never be left in darkness.