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Dark Romance Must Reads
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items Read romance but want to take a walk on the wild side?? We have the perfect list of recommendations for you. Please always read trigger warnings before falling in love with the book.
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Standalones
All the books in this list are standalones spicy must reads for over 18s only.
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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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.
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
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
(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)
(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)
(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)
(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)
(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)
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
(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)