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Arianna Fraser’s Perilous is a scorching dark college mafia romance where one forbidden night changes everything.
Perilous
Romance · Gothic Romance
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Arianna Fraser’s Perilous is a scorching dark college mafia romance where one forbidden night changes everything. When a Mafia princess discovers her mystery man is now her professor, sparks ignite at the brutal Ares Academy. With 4.6 out of 5 stars and fierce enemies-to-lovers heat, this stand-alone delivers obsession, danger, and a ruthless HEA.
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She wanted one night of freedom. No titles. No Mafia bloodlines. No rules. Just her and the dangerously hot stranger who caught her on a London street. No names. No strings.
The mistake? He’s no stranger anymore. He’s her new professor at Ares Academy. The ruthless college where crime families send their heirs to sharpen their claws. And he’s just as furious about their night together as she is.
He thinks he can dismiss her, pretend nothing happened. She knows better. Because she’s not just any student—she’s a Mafia princess with as much fire as she has power.
Lines blur, secrets burn, and obsession simmers in the shadows. At Ares Academy, love isn’t just forbidden. It’s perilous.
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SenLinYu’s Alchemised, a #1 new release in Dark Romance, is a 4.4-star dark fantasy debut of alchemy, necromancy, and obsession.
Alchemised
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Dark Romance · Gothic Romance
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SenLinYu’s Alchemised, a #1 new release in Dark Romance, is a 4.4-star dark fantasy debut of alchemy, necromancy, and obsession. When prisoner Helena is sent to a ruthless necromancer to unearth her missing memories, she discovers secrets that could change everything. Lush, dangerous, and unforgettable, this enemies-to-lovers tale blends survival, power, and desire in a war-torn world.
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Helena Marino once dreamed of changing the world with alchemy. Now she is a prisoner, stripped of her past, her allies slaughtered, and her memories fractured. The war is over, and Paladia’s victors, guild families and necromancers with their vile undead armies, have remade the land in their image.
The Resistance believed Helena was only a healer, someone insignificant. But her captors suspect otherwise. Her lost memories may hold the key to the Resistance’s last desperate plan. To uncover the truth, she is sent to the High Reeve, a ruthless necromancer whose estate is as dangerous as the man himself.
SenLinYu’s Alchemised, a #1 new release in Dark Romance, is a spellbinding debut of memory, power, and obsession where survival means surrendering everything.
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Shelley Leigh Crane’s Wicked Beasts is a gothic paranormal romance inspired by Beauty & the Beast and Dr.
Wicked Beasts
Romance · Gothic Romance
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Shelley Leigh Crane’s Wicked Beasts is a gothic paranormal romance inspired by Beauty & the Beast and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. When Amara Rose takes a job at Black Manor, she’s drawn into the dangerous allure of two brothers with secrets as dark as the skeletal woods around them. Haunting, sensual, and atmospheric, this novel is pure gothic temptation.
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Amara Rose arrives at Black Manor expecting nothing more than a demanding job as a personal assistant. The remote estate in northern O’ahu is isolated, mysterious, and unnervingly beautiful. But it is the men who inhabit it that unsettle her most.
Mr. Black is brilliant, magnetic, and secretive. His older brother, Dr. Shadow, is seductive, dangerous, and impossible to resist. Both draw Amara deeper into their orbit, even as the skeletal woods whisper of terrors lurking just beyond sight.
As strange events mount and the brothers’ polished charm begins to crack, Amara must confront a truth darker than any tale she’s ever heard.
Shelley Leigh Crane’s Wicked Beasts is a gothic romance of Beauty and the Beast shadows and Jekyll and Hyde temptation.
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Winner of the Readers’ Favorite Book Award, Yolanda Olson’s The Lies Between Us is a 4.2-star dark romance of forbidden love, fractured trust, and family secrets.
The Lies Between Us
Romance · Gothic Romance
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Winner of the Readers’ Favorite Book Award, Yolanda Olson’s The Lies Between Us is a 4.2-star dark romance of forbidden love, fractured trust, and family secrets. When Gracie returns home to confront her father on death row, long-buried truths, and her dangerous feelings for her childhood best friend, threaten to unravel everything. Dark, emotional, and unforgettable.
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Gracie Blackburn swore she would never go back. But when her estranged father sits on death row for her mother’s murder, she returns home to confront the past she’s tried to bury. Every step closer to the truth brings memories she can’t trust and doubts she can’t silence.
At her side is Jori Davidson, the childhood best friend who once knew every secret she carried. But Jori has a secret of his own, one that could shatter everything Gracie thinks she knows about love, loyalty, and that night.
A Readers’ Favorite Award winner, Yolanda Olson’s The Lies Between Us is a haunting dark romance of forbidden love, fractured trust, and choices that demand sacrifice. Some lies protect. Some truths destroy. Which will Gracie choose?
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With 4.2 out of 5 stars, RuNyx’s Enigma blends Hades and Persephone allure with dark academia suspense.
Enigma
Romance · College Romance · Gothic Romance · New Adult
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With 4.2 out of 5 stars, RuNyx’s Enigma blends Hades and Persephone allure with dark academia suspense. At Mortimer University, Salem hunts for her sister’s killer while resisting the dangerous artist who wants her. Rivals, lovers, and prey in a world of secret societies and forbidden passion, this is a romance for those who crave the dark.
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An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!
From New York Times bestselling author RuNyx comes Enigma, a twisted Hades and Persephone meets scorching dark academia romance―a tale of love and obsession between two rivals.
There are secrets she must uncover.
There are secrets he must keep.
Salem Salazar is fascinated with death. The black sheep of her scandal-ridden, wealthy family, she arrives at Mortimer University as a legacy on the hunt for answers about what happened to her perfect, older sister. There, she discovers that her sister is far from the only girl to have gone missing at Mortimer. Salem will do anything to discover what dark forces are killing Mortimer's students...even if it means using herself as bait.
And Cazimir van der Waal has caught her scent. The mysterious artist and teaching assistant has a dark past, a hidden agenda, and a ravenous appetite for a beautiful, golden-eyed girl who seems determined to risk her life.
Where she is ice, he is fire. Where she is organization, he is chaos. Where she is precision, he is passion. Together they are explosive--their fates linked as secret societies and death stalk them both.
Enigma is a sensual, epic love story for those who also crave the frightful, the puzzling, the suspenseful, the dangerous and the dark.
Welcome to Mortimer.
Enigma
*Dark academia romance
*Steamy suspense
*Rivals to lovers
*Secret societies
*Forbidden love
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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From acclaimed horror writer Thomas Ligotti comes a terrifying work of nonfiction.
The Conspiracy against the Human Race
Horror · Gothic Romance
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From acclaimed horror writer Thomas Ligotti comes a terrifying work of nonfiction. The Conspiracy against the Human Race blends philosophy, neuroscience, and literary critique into a chilling case for pessimism. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and a cult following, this book confronts the darkest question of all: what if the real horror is life itself?
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What if the true horror of existence isn’t the monsters we imagine but the act of being alive?
In his first nonfiction work, acclaimed horror author Thomas Ligotti pulls back the veil not on fantasy, but on reality itself. Combining philosophical pessimism, literary analysis, and neuroscience, Ligotti constructs a chilling argument: human consciousness is a cosmic mistake, and our desperate belief in meaning is a comforting illusion.
This is not horror for entertainment. It is horror as revelation.
Ligotti invites readers into a mirror-dark world where suffering is universal, free will is a myth, and optimism is just another delusion. Bleak, brilliant, and strangely freeing, this book doesn’t ask if you’re ready to face the truth.
It quietly suggests you never were.
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Ghosts, riddles, and a cemetery that refuses to rest.
The Visitor
Horror · Gothic Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Ghosts, riddles, and a cemetery that refuses to rest. In The Visitor, Graveyard Queen Amelia Gray faces her darkest case yet. This 4.5-star Goodreads Choice nominee delivers atmospheric chills, a long-dead cult, and secrets hidden in stone. As the past rises and a killer waits, Amelia’s next step could be her last. The dead have been waiting.
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Amelia Gray speaks to the dead. But this time, the dead are speaking back.
As the Graveyard Queen, Amelia restores forgotten cemeteries and unearths the secrets buried within them. Her newest task leads her to Kroll Cemetery, a haunted resting place for a cult that died under mysterious circumstances fifty years ago.
Their souls remain trapped. Their riddles are carved into headstones. And their release hinges on a puzzle that has driven others to madness.
Each clue brings Amelia closer to a killer who has waited decades to strike. Solving the mystery may free the spirits—but it could cost Amelia everything, including her sanity and her fragile relationship with John Devlin.
The Visitor blends eerie gothic atmosphere with high-stakes suspense in a series that won’t stay buried.
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A forced marriage.
Deceit
Romance · Gothic Romance
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A forced marriage. A secret society. And four dangerously irresistible men. Deceit by Katelyn Taylor kicks off the Gallows Hill trilogy with 4.4 Amazon stars, dark academia intrigue, and tangled romantic tension. If you love morally gray heroes, secret alliances, and gothic university settings, this one’s for you. At Gallows Hill, nothing is what it seems.
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A forced marriage. A secret society. And four dangerous men who refuse to let her go.
When she’s sent to Salem for a life she never chose, she expects misery. A stranger for a fiancé, a mysterious private university, and whispered rumors of a secret society twisting through the shadows of Gallows Hill.
But it’s not just her fiancé who demands her loyalty. His ruthless uncle, his charming best friend, and his bitter enemy all want a piece of her—and none will give her up without a fight.
Betrayal lurks behind every smile. Desire sparks in every dark corner. And as alliances shift and secrets unravel, survival might cost her heart… or her soul.
Deceit is a twisted dark romance of power, obsession, and the lies we tell to protect what we love.
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A mafia princess.
Dark Heir
Gothic Romance
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A mafia princess. Her former bodyguard turned captor. In Dark Heir, betrayal and obsession collide in a sizzling enemies-to-lovers romance. Faye Pierce delivers a dark, twisted follow-up to Dark Prince with 4.4 stars on Amazon and heat that burns slow and brutal. This is the mafia world, where power is everything and love might be the deadliest game.
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She was born into power. He was born to steal it.
Midnight has always known danger. As the mafia princess of a ruthless dynasty, trust is a luxury she can’t afford. Especially not with the man who once protected her, and now holds her captive.
Cato was her bodyguard. Now he’s her jailer. And beneath the heat of his revenge lies a fire he can’t extinguish. Midnight’s brother destroyed everything he loved. Now Cato’s determined to take back what was stolen, starting with her.
But tangled loyalties and scorching desire blur the line between vengeance and obsession. Midnight isn’t the innocent pawn he remembers. And Cato? He’s far more than just a threat.
In this underworld of shadows and legacy, one truth remains: only the most ruthless can survive.
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Every fairy tale has a villain—and this one just kidnapped the heroine.
The Bad Guy
Gothic Romance
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Every fairy tale has a villain—and this one just kidnapped the heroine. The Bad Guy (4.4 stars on Amazon) is a dark, addictive romance about obsession, control, and forbidden attraction. Celia Aaron flips the script on good vs. evil in this dangerously hot story where the "bad guy" might just be everything she needs.
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Camille is sweet, smart, and very much spoken for. She’s everything I want—and nothing I should have. But that’s never stopped me before.
She belongs to someone else, but I’ve never played by the rules. I don’t wear shining armor. I don’t ride in to rescue. I destroy, take, and dominate. So when I decide Camille will be mine, I do the only thing a monster like me knows: I take her.
She calls me a villain. Maybe I am. But she doesn’t run. She doesn’t fight. And the longer she’s in my world, the more she forgets the man she thought was her savior.
This isn’t a love story. It’s a battle between obsession and devotion. And I always win.
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A princess surrenders herself to end a war.
The Wraith King
Romantasy · Gothic Romance · Paranormal Romance
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A princess surrenders herself to end a war. A dark king claims her as his prize. But neither expected to fall into obsession. The Wraith King by Juliette Cross (4.2 stars on Amazon) is a gothic romantasy full of betrayal, prophecy, and passion. Fans of enemies-to-lovers with a dark twist—this one’s for you. Start reading today
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The war against the Wraith King has left the light fae decimated. To save her people, Princess Una Hartstone agrees to the unthinkable—surrendering herself, body and soul, to the enemy she loathes most.
Gollaya Verbane, feared ruler of the dark fae, is a monster cloaked in prophecy. When a vision reveals Una as the key to his rise, he demands her submission. But what begins as conquest turns into obsession—and a passion neither can deny.
Within the haunted palace of Näkt Mir, secrets stir. Betrayal threatens Goll’s throne, and Una’s long-dormant powers awaken with terrifying force. As a traitor rises and war looms, Goll must decide: will he sacrifice his kingdom, or burn the world to protect the one woman he was never meant to love?
Is she a pawn—or his destiny?
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A cursed princess becomes a weapon the moment she escapes the kingdom built to contain her.
Ruin
Romantasy · Gothic Romance
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A cursed princess becomes a weapon the moment she escapes the kingdom built to contain her. In Ruin, Oralia Solis falls into the hands of Renwick, ruler of the rival land of the dead and the only person who can survive her lethal touch. This slow-burn romantasy blends enemies-to-lovers tension, dangerous magic, hidden lineage, and a choice between power and love.
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“Ruin is a captivating romantasy that masterfully blends steamy tension with breathtaking world-building. . .a must-read that will leave you bewitched and eager to read the next book.” — Amanda Richardson, USA Today Bestselling Author
Oralia Solis hasn’t felt the touch of another in 245 years. Not without them crumbling to ash at her feet. Cursed by the bite of a daemoni, she has been sequestered away for the greater good of Aethera by her adopted father, King Typhon.
King Renwick rules the rival kingdom of Infernis, the land of the dead. When Oralia flees the palace of Aethera after her power is let loose with deadly results, he recognizes her potential as a weapon and aids her escape.
Oralia finds herself the prisoner of the man she has been taught to fear most, and Renwick is surprised to find there is more to this princess than her untamed powers. Despite the gulf of secrets and magic between them, Renwick can’t deny the pull he feels towards her, and Oralia struggles to resist the one person who cannot only survive her touch, but craves it.
As Oralia uncovers the truth of her parentage and masters her magic, she will discover that the power to raze or save either Aethera or Infernis lies in her hands. War between the two kingdoms looms and she must decide who she can trust and which she wants more: power or love.
Ruin is a true slow burn romance, with enemies to lovers, nods to multiple mythological stories reimagined into new lore, LGBTQIA+ representation (supporting characters).
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