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Must Read 18+ Spicy Books
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items Want to dive into the world of spicy romance but not quite sure where to start??? We have created a list recommended by us for you to have a look through and choose what catches your eye whether that is a standalone or a series we have lists for both...
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Standalones
All the books in this list are standalones spicy must reads for over 18s only.
(Small town forced proximity age gap step family spicy romance) When she's forced to live with her father's stepbrother and his 2 sons in the remote in the woods where lines blur and rules are broken. One of them has her, the other one wants her but ...
Credence - Penelope Douglas
(Friends to lovers single mother touch her and die vibe spicy romance) As an adopted heir to one of Princetown’s founding families, I was thrust into a life of riches, and later, trapped into a role that I hate. With a debt to be paid, I have no choi...
The Thug And His Doll - Bea Paige
(Enemies to lovers forced proximity thriller dark romance) Who am I? I've forgotten the answer to that question long ago. Ever since I ran from that house, so desperate to escape, I left with only the clothes on my back and socks on my feet. After th...
Does It Hurt? - H.D Carlton
(Step siblings horror erotic dark spicy romance) They’re dead. I watched them die. That’s the only reason we’re here in the no-name town, living in this creepy old house, whose shadows promise more than just darkness. The only thing worse than the ho...
Conjure - Harleigh Beck
Sometimes a queen needs a king…or three. My name is Madelina Mancini and as the younger sister to New York City’s most powerful mafia don, I’ve lived most of my life in the family’s protective bubble. Until I didn’t. Until evil found me and tried to ...
Kings of Kink: Why Choose Standalone Novel
(childhood friends to lovers small town second chance tragic romance) Two hearts. One love story. An ending you will never forget . . . Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. But their world...
A Thousand Boy Kisses - Tillie Cole
(magic realism kisses that predict the future family curse single pov romance) Amy has been keeping a secret most of her adult life... The women in her family have a gift, or is it a curse? Since her first kiss, Amy has had visions of how her relatio...
Skip to the End - Molly James
(MMF why choose dark spicy romance) I had 1 job, look after my brothers girl, a girl he had never even spoken to. I didnt mean to kiss her, to touch her. One thing is for sure im not going to lose her even to my own brother.
Graves - Katelyn Taylor
(Why choose hockey bully spicy romance) After been forced to switch school after an incident, the hockey captain and his goalie wont accept me in their school, they have me in their sights and i am not welcome. As much as they dont want me here im no...
The Pucking Coach's Daughter - S. Massery
(forbidden primal play dark romance) Shes the daughter of a serial killer hiding in plain sight trying her hardest to fit in. He chose me as his dare, f**k the daughter of a serial killer but it soon turned into something more. When a copycat killer ...
Sinister Legacy - Harleigh Beck
(Age gap ex boyfriend dad spicy romance) She moved in with her boyfriends dad, little did she know he would become her obsession. Should she actually on it or keep it her little secret??
Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas
(Next door mystery man dark spicy romance) Dancing keeps me from falling apart, I was forced into an abusive marriage with no hope until him. My mysterious neighbour. Can he save me or is he the devil in a mask?
Velvet Chains - Lillie Alexander
Series
All the books in this list are a part of a series of books so please make sure you check the order before reading as not all these are the first book in their series.
(why choose BDSM bully enemies to lovers mafia dark romance) The night my sister died, a piece of me died with her, so I made a vow. I'm going to enroll at Spine Ridge University just like her, find the person responsible ... and make them pay. Until...
Sick Boys - Clarissa Wild (Spine Ridge University)
(Forced proximity why choose academy dark romance) Rivers of red changed my life in inexplicable ways. Leaving behind my happy, carefree London existence, I found myself across the pond at the exclusive Highgate Preparatory Academy—an institution cat...
Captured - Rosa Lee (Highgate Preparatory Academy)
When a stupid prank goes wrong, Amelie thinks she’ll be getting a slap on the wrist at best, community service at worst. The last thing she expects is her absentee mother to swan into the court room and whisk her off to an English reform school....fo...
F*ck You: Knox Academy - Term One
Into the Darkness I'll go Ember Solis is a sweet girl from a not-so-innocent world. When it comes time for her to venture out to the real world to the college of her dreams. Ember is released from the shelter of her home, straight into bad boy and sw...
Into The Darkness (University of Isles)
They captured me, broke me. Molded me into their perfect weapon. I sullied my soul, seducing and murdering strangers. Then a hitman killed my captors and set me free.
Taming Seraphine (Morally Black)
Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya . . . The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from so...
Powerless: TikTok Made Me Buy It! Romantasy
(Enemies to lovers brothers rival college hockey possessive spicy romance) Hockey is my life. It’s my only goal, my only escape, and everything was going according to plan. All I had to do was focus on the game, keep my head down, then get drafted in...
The Puck Secret - G.N Wright (Fairfield U)
My new boss is a CEO Billionaire who hired me to be a nanny for his son. This should have been easy for me considering my experience with children. Except the man I’m working for is Thomas Ford. A man I never thought I would see again, especially not...
That First Night (Firsts In The City)
Escaping her seemingly perfect wedding, Naomi Witt arrives in rough-around-the-edges Knockemout, Virginia, running to the rescue of her estranged twin, Tina. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn't changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi's car ...
Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout 1)
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates s...
Fourth Wing: (The Empyrean)
Feyre is a huntress, but when she kills what she thinks is a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor, Tamlin, is ...
A Court of Thorns and Roses: (ACATOR Series)
When I discover my boyfriend is cheating on me, I move out right away taking what I love most – my dog. As I fly out the door, I make sure to swipe the thing my ex loves best. The VIP tickets he won to a hockey game, complete with the chance to spend...
Double Pucked: A Roomies-to-Lovers Hockey Romance
Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moving to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her comfort zone and into a ...
My Fault: Mercedes Ron (Culpable)
Whit Lancaster is the cold, heartless and devastatingly handsome bad boy at Lancaster Prep. Beautiful Summer Savage has no time for Whit. But his intense gaze traps her under a spell. Fills her with a longing she doesn't understand. When Whit gets in...
Things I Wanted To Say: Monica Murphy
President of the Lost Kings MC, Rochlan "Rock" North, hasn't managed to find a woman capable of making him want to curb his wild ways—until he meets sweet, innocent, married lawyer Hope Kendall. Forced to represent the outlaw biker, Hope is rattled b...
Slow Burn: Lost Kings MC, Book 1
(masked man/stalker secret society dark college romance) I Vow, You Vow, We Vow. The words that bind her to her own spicy hell but will she submit to the devil??
The Sinner - Shantel Tessier (LORDS Series)
(Why choose small town heartbreaking spicy romance) The first book of a 3 book series about a girl who fell in love with 2 boys until a 3rd walks into her life. Will she love them all or will she choose just 1 ...
Flock - Kate Stewart (The Ravenhood Series)
(forced proximity sports forbidden love spicy romance) Book 1 in the Windy City series. When she's his flight attendant and he's the bad boy hockey player everyone loves but all he loves is to push her buttons until he realises the lines get blurred.
Mile High - Liz Tomforde (Windy City Series)
(foster siblings obsessive psychopath dark romance) She has fantasies about her adopted brother but little does she know he has them too ... (please read trigger warnings)
Little Stranger - Leigh Rivers (The Web of Silence Duet)
(Mafia best friends sister spicy romance) Book 5 of the dark kingdom series. Now I know what hell looks like because I’m living it. But just when I think I can finally be free, it all comes crashing down, and the King I thought would end me is the on...
Bones - Shantel Tessier (The Dark Kingdom)
(best friends little sister posessive spicy romance) Its a love that was never supposed to happen - but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both . . . and everything they hold dear. He's my brother's best friend and She's my be...
Twisted Love - Ana Haung (Twisted Series)
(professor student forbidden spicy romance) Book 1 of 8 in The Hunted Series. When she ran into a stranger in a coffee shop she didnt expect the next day to then run into him in her classroom as her professor. Tempation is in the air for them both bu...
Temptation - Ivy Smoak (The Hunted Series)
(Small town why choose spicy romance) Book 1 of 2 of Briar Valley Series. She was on the run with her daughter from her abusive husband with only a letter from a distant relative for hope. What she didnt expect was to end up in the middle of the moun...
Where Broken Wings Fly - J Rose (Briar Valley Duet)
(Mafia/Gang kink why choose dark romance) What happens when your father sells you to the russian bratva?? You run and hide is what you do but me i ran into 3 shadowmen for help but they want my body in exchange for protection. What i didnt realise wa...
Kissed by Shadows - Rosa Lee (The Shadowmen Series)
(Masked man stalker kink dark spicy romance) Trauma nurse Aly escapes her hard-working days by thirsting after masked men online. To her, nothing could top the fantasy of her favorite tattooed and masked man hunting her down. But she never could have...
Lights Out - Navessa Allen (Into The Darkness Series)
(masked man forced proximity gang dark spicy romance) I never planned to fall for my skeleton-masked captor, but now there's no turning back. I hated the gangs that ruled my city. After my friend was killed and my father vanished, I had no choice but...
Arran's Obsession - Jolie Vines (Body Count Series)
(secret society college unhinged dark romance) Dravin takes without consequence. He is a sinner and never a saint. His words drip with lust. His touch... sinful. That is what girls whisper after one night with him. He even has scratches to prove it. ...
Thirst - Carmen Rosales (Prey Series)
(erotic horror circus pitch black dark romance) As the old saying goes, “Run away to the circus,” and it seems that is exactly what I have done.Attempting to adjust to my new life of madness, I find myself plunged into a waking nightmare: Hellion, th...
Hollow Hellion - Jodie King (The Hollows Trilogy)
(bully college why choose spicy romance) Everything changed the night my dad died. The night I met Saint, Galen, Caz, and Theo. Those manipulative a-holes set out to ruin me after our hot night together, but they didn’t realize you can’t destroy some...
Resurrection - Siobhan Davis (The Sainthood Series)
(Gang why choose enemies to lovers spicy romance) 3 boys set me up to take the fall for Riot Night, little did they know they set up the wrong chick when months later getting out of prison i had one thing on my mind … HATE … i was supposed to feel th...
Hate - Tate James (Madison Kate)
(Gang leader why choose spicy romance) Five years ago, I masterminded the infamous massacre of the Tri-State Timberwolves. The streets outside the Wolves HQ ran red with the blood of the old guard, and not one of the members loyal to my father was gr...
7th Circle - Tate James (Hades Series)
(cowboy forced proximity spicy romance) The rules were simple . . . Keep my hands off his daughter and stay out of trouble. But now I'm stuck with her. There's only one bed. And, well, rules are made to be broken. I'm the golden boy of professional b...
Flawless - Elsie Silver (Chestnut Springs)