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85 editor’s picks matching Romance
A vengeful cinnamon roll.
Unhinged
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Dark Romance
Our take
A vengeful cinnamon roll. A possessive psychopath. And one very dead father. Unhinged is a brutal, filthy, and deliciously twisted romance that kicks off the Necessary Evils series. Think found family, vigilante justice, and enough steam to short-circuit your Kindle. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this dark MM romance pulls no punches and takes no prisoners.
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Adam Mulvaney is a killer. Raised by a billionaire with a twisted sense of justice, he’s one of seven psychopaths trained to eliminate the worst of the worst. It’s not personal—until it is.
Noah Holt has spent years preparing to avenge his father’s death. But when he finally confronts the man responsible, he learns the truth: his father deserved what he got.
Now Noah is questioning everything. His memories. His past. Even his morality. And the one person willing to help him figure it out is the very psychopath who pulled the trigger.
Adam doesn’t believe in love. He doesn’t feel it. But he wants Noah, and he’s not going anywhere.
What begins as vengeance becomes obsession. And maybe, just maybe, something a little like love.
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It all ends here.
Paint It All Red
Romance · Thriller · Romantic Suspense
Our take
It all ends here. Paint It All Red, the explosive finale to S.T. Abby’s viral Mindf*ck series, delivers vengeance, heartbreak, and a love story written in blood. With 4.7 stars and over 98,000 reviews, this is the dark romance BookTok won’t let go.
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The end has come—and it’s soaked in blood.
Lana Myers was never meant to have a happily-ever-after. But she dared to love the man hunting monsters… even as she became one. Now, everything’s at stake: her revenge, her secrets, and the man who just might destroy her—or save her.
In Paint It All Red, the jaw-dropping conclusion to the Mindf*ck series, vengeance reaches its final crescendo. Lana’s enemies are closing in, the body count is rising, and Logan must finally choose between justice and love.
Lines blur. Truths burn. And when the final shot is fired, only one question will matter: who walks away alive?
Dark, visceral, and unforgettable, this is the finale BookTok can’t stop screaming about.
The truth is painted in red.
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The lies are piling up—and so is the body count.
All The Lies
Romance · Thriller · Romantic Suspense
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The lies are piling up—and so is the body count. In All The Lies, book four of the Mindf*ck series, Logan is finally seeing the truth behind the case that’s destroyed everything he thought he knew. Can love survive this much blood?
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He thought the lines were clear. Right and wrong. Truth and lie. But nothing about this case—or Lana—is simple anymore.
FBI agent Logan Bennett has always trusted his instincts. He reads people for a living. Knows when they’re hiding something. And yet, every step closer to the truth buries him deeper in lies—his town’s, his case’s, and worst of all… his own.
In All The Lies, book four of the viral Mindf*ck series, everything begins to unravel. Secrets come to light. Loyalties are tested. And Logan is forced to confront the unthinkable: what if the woman he loves is the very monster he’s hunting?
Dark, emotional, and razor-sharp, this is where obsession turns into devastation—and nothing will ever be black and white again.
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She's in love with the FBI agent hunting her kind.
Scarlet Angel
Romance · Thriller · Romantic Suspense
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She's in love with the FBI agent hunting her kind. He thinks she's fragile—until her past bleeds into their future. Scarlet Angel, book three in S.T. Abby’s Mindf*ck series, takes twisted love and brutal justice to the next level. With 4.5 stars and BookTok buzz, this is obsession you won't shake.
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To love a monster, you have to become one.
Lana Myers is still killing. Still hunting. Still haunted. But Logan Bennett—FBI golden boy, the man she's supposed to fear—makes her crave something more. A future not built on blood and vengeance, but one where her heart doesn’t feel like a weapon.
Too bad that future isn’t here yet.
In Scarlet Angel, book three of the darkly addictive Mindf*ck series, Lana walks the razor’s edge between cold justice and burning love. Logan doesn’t know the whole truth, but his protectiveness feeds the part of her that remembers how to feel.
They think she’s weak. They think she’s the girlfriend.
They forgot to check her kill count.
Dark, violent, and shockingly tender—this is romance at its most dangerous.
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She’s a killer.
Sidetracked
Romance · Thriller · Romantic Suspense
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She’s a killer. He’s the FBI agent falling for her. Sidetracked is book two in S.T. Abby’s Mindf*ck series—BookTok’s favorite morally gray rollercoaster. With 4.5 stars and over 86,000 reviews, this dark, delicious thriller-romance dives deeper into the secrets Lana keeps... and how far Logan will go to protect her.
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He’s an FBI agent chasing justice. She’s the serial killer rewriting his definition of it.
Logan has always lived by the book—until Lana walked into his life. She’s gorgeous, brilliant, and full of secrets he’s not supposed to want to uncover. But the deeper he falls, the more he suspects she’s hiding something dark.
What he doesn’t know? She’s already drenched in blood—and not just metaphorically.
In Sidetracked, book two of the viral Mindf*ck series, obsession, deception, and desire collide in a twisted love story where the line between right and wrong is razor-thin. Lana might be fragile... or she might be the most dangerous woman he’s ever met.
Dark. Addictive. Morally unhinged. You’ve been warned.
This isn't a love story. It's a mindf*ck.
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Good for readers who want friends-to-lovers romance with fake engagement stakes, immigration pressure, and chemistry that complicates a lifelong bond.
The Broposal
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom
Our take
Two best friends fake an engagement so one can get a green card, but their pretend relationship starts feeling real as their wedding date approaches, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 120 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want friends-to-lovers romance with fake engagement stakes, immigration pressure, and chemistry that complicates a lifelong bond.
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From the author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School, two best bros fake an engagement–but will their friendship survive?
It’s about time roommates Alejandro and Kenny get married. Or at least, that’s what all their close friends and family think when they announce their engagement. The kicker? The two are faking their whole relationship so Alejandro can get a green card. But if Han was going to marry anyone, it would be his ride or die since second grade.
Han has never been able to put down roots, and the only one who truly breaks through his walls is Kenny. Sweet, sensitive Kenny is newly single, and what better distraction from his soul-sucking relationship than proposing marriage to Han? Kenny can’t think of anything more fun than spending his life with his best friend, even if it’s just for a piece of paper. But as Kenny keeps up the charade, he’s soon struggling to resist their sizzling chemistry.
The line between fact and fiction begins to blur the closer they get to their wedding date. With all eyes on Han and Kenny—including a meddling ex and immigration officers—will these two bros make it down the altar for real?
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A fanfic-writing, newly turned vampire and a jaded vampire-rights activist strike a deal in Sell Your Blood, the 4.8-star MM paranormal romance you didn’t know you needed.
How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Paranormal Romance
Our take
A fanfic-writing, newly turned vampire and a jaded vampire-rights activist strike a deal in Sell Your Blood, the 4.8-star MM paranormal romance you didn’t know you needed. Featuring a-spec yearning, bite-for-hire tension, and dangerously unethical biotech, this standalone sequel is equal parts snarky, tender, and thirstier than it wants to admit.
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Dr. Clementine Hughes is an Ivy League researcher, asexual fanfic writer, and freshly turned vampire working at a company that really shouldn’t find out he’s undead.
After a failed bite attempt in an alley goes sideways, local vampire advocate Justin Yu offers him a lifeline: feed from him—for a fee. Clementine accepts, desperate to avoid both bloodlust and becoming a corporate lab rat.
Justin’s blood is disappointingly bland. Justin himself? Not so much.
As the two reluctantly bond over trauma, fandom, and late-night snack exchanges, Clementine starts craving more than blood. But hunters from Vitalis-Barron are closing in, and secrets never stay buried for long.
Sell Your Blood is sharp, swoony, and unapologetically queer—with more salt and pepper shakers than you ever asked for.
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With 4.8 stars on Amazon, it’s perfect for fans of bite kink, scientific vampirism, and characters who pine hard before they kiss harder.
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Paranormal Romance
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How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager is a slow-burn MM romance full of vampire angst, mutual thirst, and unexpected tenderness. With 4.8 stars on Amazon, it’s perfect for fans of bite kink, scientific vampirism, and characters who pine hard before they kiss harder. Sweet, sharp, and utterly addictive.
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Vincent Barnes is a broke, miserable vampire with a guilty conscience and a serious case of accidental thirst. Feeding from strangers in their sleep is bad enough—but when he bites Wesley Garcia, his childhood crush turned potential meal ticket, everything spirals.
Wes needs a vampire for a revenge plan involving corporate corruption, a pharmaceutical giant, and some extremely unethical experiments. His offer? Stay, bite me, and help me take them down.
Vincent agrees. Not because he’s falling for Wes. Definitely not because of the fangs-and-feelings thing brewing between them.
But Wes never planned to fall for his bait—and Vincent never planned to trust again.
Science meets seduction in this fangy, funny, slow-burn romance full of pining, betrayal, and bite kink.
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For readers who like post-apocalyptic M/M fantasy romance with monsters, danger, and violence.
Soul Eater
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a monster-ruled wasteland, Soul Eater follows a young soldier who survives an encounter with Wyn, a feared death monster known for leaving only husks behind. Instead of killing him, Wyn becomes intrigued, pulling them into an unexpected connection, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 11,800 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like post-apocalyptic M/M fantasy romance with monsters, danger, and violence.
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Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization.
One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own.
Including Wyn the Soul Eater.
He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks.
I’ve only been in the military for six months, but now I’m part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. And when I’m the only soldier out of hundreds that the Soul Eater leaves alive, I realise that… something about me has intrigued him.
But what is it? What could a twenty-three year old guy from the south, with no one and nothing in the world, have possibly done to capture the attention of a death monster with horns, blackened fingertips and a face hidden in the dark depths of his hood?
Soul Eater is the debut novel of Lily Mayne. It is the first in a planned post-apocalyptic fantasy series featuring monsters and human men falling in love. Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit content and is not suitable for young readers. There are also graphic depictions of torture and violence.
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He dared her.
I Promise You
Romance · Dark Romance
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He dared her. He destroyed her. Then he fell for her. I Promise You by Shantel Tessier (4.4 stars on Amazon!) is the second dark and twisted entry in the Dare Series. Packed with secrets, possession, and heartbreak, this is a high school bully romance where sharks fall in love—and bleed. I Dare You must be read first.
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It started as a game. A dare. A plan to destroy her.
We brought her into our world for fun. For control. I never meant to fall for her—but I did. Hard.
Now, the girl who was supposed to be my pawn owns my heart. But love doesn’t erase secrets, and mine are the kind that could blow everything apart.
We were born sharks. We hunt, we take, we conquer. No one tells us no—and we don’t ask for forgiveness.
But loving her? That might be the one rule I can’t break without losing everything.
I Promise You is the explosive, emotional second book in the Dare Series—a dark high school bully romance filled with ruthless games, shattered trust, and love that cuts deeper than any dare.
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New girl.
I Dare You
Dark Romance
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New girl. Old secrets. One deadly dare. I Dare You by Shantel Tessier (4.4 stars on Amazon!) is a dark, addictive high school bully romance where fear turns into obsession and games turn lethal. If you love enemies-to-lovers with brutal boys, bold girls, and jaw-dropping twists, this one's your next binge. Ready to play?
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What do you do when the devil dares you to play his game?
Austin Lowes is used to surviving. She’s new in town, crashing at her distant father’s place after fleeing a mother who couldn’t care less. With just a few months to go before freedom, all she wants is to lay low and disappear.
Then she meets him.
Cole Reynolds is danger in a varsity jacket—rich, ruthless, and magnetic in all the wrong ways. He doesn’t want her love. He wants her fear. Her pain. Her surrender. And he won’t stop until she gives him all three.
But Austin isn’t a girl who breaks easily. Not without a fight.
I Dare You is a dark high school bully romance filled with twisted games, brutal secrets, and a dare that could destroy them both.
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A fierce heroine.
Twisted in Obsession
Romance
Our take
A fierce heroine. Three dangerous men. One obsession-fueled, mafia-laced collision course. Twisted in Obsession (4.4 stars on Amazon) is a dark, high-heat FMMM romance packed with secrets, danger, and a heroine too broken to break. Book one of two in the Destructive Devastation duet—brace yourself for the cliffhanger and read now.
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I had one plan: rescue my sister and disappear. No entanglements. No trace. No him.
But fate doesn't follow rules—it shatters them. Now I'm trapped in a mansion with three dangerous men: Jericho, Sheppard, and Arrow. Mafia heirs with obsession in their blood, and only one target in sight—me.
They say I belong to them. That I’m theirs to keep, control, and break.
But I’ve been broken before. I survived the monster who turned my world to ash. And I won’t go down without a fight.
Yet secrets have weight. And mine? They could ruin everything.
What happens when chaos meets obsession—and I’m caught in the crossfire?
They want my past. My truth. My soul.
But I’m not sure I have anything left to give.
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