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This will appeal to readers who want claustrophobic thrillers with captivity, psychological survival, and hidden household secrets.
Just Play Along
Thriller
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Just Play Along follows Erin after a flat tire and a seemingly kind stranger lead to her waking trapped in a child’s bedroom, where her captor demands she pretend to be his sickly sister, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want claustrophobic thrillers with captivity, psychological survival, and hidden household secrets.
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Survival isn't always fight or flight.
When tragedy strikes, Erin races to the hospital to be by her brother's side—but never makes it. A flat tire on a lonely road. A stranger with a kind smile. A car ride straight into a nightmare.
She awakens in a child’s bedroom. Pink walls, glittery drawings, a collection of dolls… and no way out. Erin’s captor offers her a mind-boggling proposition: play the part of his sickly sister, and in return Erin will be freed when all is said and done.
But the truth is far darker than Erin imagines. This house hides many deadly secrets, and she will need to rely on more than basic instincts if she hopes to escape. Because survival isn’t always fight or flight.
Sometimes you must play along to stay alive.
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A strong match for readers drawn to apocalyptic horror with small-town dread, contagion, possession, and family-in-crisis stakes.
The Missing
Horror · Occult Horror · Supernatural Horror
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Called “one of the best dark fiction writers of our generation” by Brian Keene, The Missing follows a small Maine town as a bite-spread virus turns victims into predatory monsters and forces librarian Meg Wintrob to find a way out, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 80 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to apocalyptic horror with small-town dread, contagion, possession, and family-in-crisis stakes.
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A virus infects a small Maine town, unleashing an apocalypse in this Bram Stoker Award–winning horror novel.
It is always hungry; it is never satisfied . . .
It laid waste to the town of Bedford, Maine. A cocktail of toxic chemicals conjured up by the runoff product of a paper mill. But that was merely one ingredient of the poison that killed Bedford's people, whose lives were haunted by their unforgivable sins.
Now, the neighboring community of Corpus Christi is facing its own epidemic. A fourth-grader vanished during a field trip to Bedford's woods. And when he returned, he wasn't alone. Something took possession of him, driving him to hunt and . . . feed. He carries a contagion that spreads with every bite, turning wounded victims into predatory monsters.
Town librarian Meg Wintrob has her own problems when the virus comes. Her marriage is hanging by a thread. Her teen daughter wants to run away. It was an ordinary suburb with ordinary problems—until it wasn't. As the sick begin to outnumber the healthy, Meg will need to find a way out. Because this virus infects more than the body; it eats the soul.
"With The Missing, Sarah Langan solidifies her position alongside Joe Hill, Tim Lebbon, Tom Piccirilli, and a handful of others as one of the best dark fiction writers of our generation." —Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award–winning author
"The Missing is reminiscent of Stephen King's Salem's Lot with wicked drops of Koontz, Barker and Straub. Sarah Langan is the new jack-o'-lantern on the doorstep. Walk around her cautiously." —Madison Country Herald
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A strong match for readers drawn to fantasy romance with dragons, enemies to lovers tension, survival stakes, clan politics, and dangerous bonds.
Firebond
Sword and Sorcery · Romantasy
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Firebond follows Alina, a dragonborn trapped among flesh-eating monsters and rescued by her enemy, as war between dragon clans, a deadly disease, and the hunt for a new Queen threaten Talman, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to fantasy romance with dragons, enemies to lovers tension, survival stakes, clan politics, and dangerous bonds.
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They say mated dragonborns can hear each other. I never believed it.
Not until I was trapped in an abandoned building, surrounded by flesh-eating monsters, terrified and alone.
My body was failing, but my mind reached into the void, begging for someone to hear me.
Then the door burst open.
The man who came for me was the last person I ever expected—my enemy. Strong, fearless, and endlessly captivating, Tynan works for the people who imprisoned me, and I hate him even more because I can’t stop staring whenever he shapeshifts.
His dragon is black as night, with eyes that pierce my soul. He stopped beside me, and I already know I’ll fight him till my last breath.
In Talman, war rages between dragon clans. The last Queen struggles to hold her throne while a deadly disease spreads across the realm, turning her subjects into bloodthirsty beasts. Everyone says she’s too old to rule. Clans plot. Alliances break. And the hunt for a new Queen has begun…
What Readers Are Saying:
“Firebond is Fourth Wing and Game of Thrones meets the zombie apocalypse—add romance, and you have everything a fantasy lover could want.”
“I was obsessed from the start—zombies, dragons, found family vibes, and some spice. This book had it all!”
“Strong characters, unpredictable twists, and a jaw-dropping finale. A breathtaking fantasy that WILL NOT disappoint!”
“Alina and Tynan’s dynamic hooked me—the pining, the secrets, and their fight for survival made this an unforgettable read.”
“This story holds secrets and surprises that kept me on the edge of my seat. I’m still reeling from that ending!”
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Best for readers who like dark MM romance with trauma recovery, touch aversion, mental health representation, and co-dependent slow burn tension.
Only the Small Bones
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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Only the Small Bones follows William Mayes, a famed composer and founder of Freedom Fighters, after he brings a frightened, non-verbal trafficking survivor into his home and finds their isolated bond pulling both of them toward secrets, blurred lines, and painful truths. With a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dark MM romance with trauma recovery, touch aversion, mental health representation, and co-dependent slow burn tension.
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“What makes him so special?”
“He reminds me of someone I once knew…”
As the founder of Freedom Fighters, famed music composer, William Mayes, is often the first port of call when the FBI needs assistance with human trafficking victims.
After receiving such a call one night, William abandons everything to catch the next flight home. Arriving at Manhattan Memorial, he finds a beautiful young man restrained to a gurney. His eyes are wild with fear, and blood stains his skin. No one has been successful in getting him to speak.
When even he can’t get the young man to cooperate, William does something he may later come to regret—he extends an invite to his home.
The young man is non-verbal, angry, and at times openly hateful. All of which gives him control over William’s emotions.
William slowly begins to spiral from his own struggles with his tormented past. His nightmares return, sleep becomes a lost cause, and the dark voices in his head are out for blood.
Amid their co-dependent isolation, William’s feelings evolve. Lines are blurred, and then crossed altogether as they start down a path riddled with secrets and lies of omission.
The only thing that can set them both free is the truth. But maybe some things are better left buried. Because if the ugliest parts of William are ever unearthed, no one will be spared.
Only the Small Bones is an MM romance, and book 1 in the standalone series Slow Burns & Tragic Beginnings. This story features a non-verbal MC with touch aversion, and mental health representation.
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A good pick for readers who like candid memoirs about midlife reinvention, grief, humor, travel, and starting over.
Blue Yarn
Biographies & Memoirs
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A #1 bestseller in African Travel, Blue Yarn follows Carrie Classon after she loses her marriage, career, and home while working in Lagos, Nigeria, then stays in Africa with her deaf cat as she pieces together an unexpected new life. With a 4.2-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like candid memoirs about midlife reinvention, grief, humor, travel, and starting over.
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In the space of a few days, Carrie loses her marriage, her career, and her home—all while working in Lagos, Nigeria. She is blindsided by the losses and realizes the story she painstakingly knit together over the past two decades—the story explaining her life and who she is—has unraveled.
With no plan for the future and only her deaf cat, Lucy, for company, Carrie decides to remain in Africa until she figures out what has just happened.
What happens next is an awkward, amusing, and ultimately inspiring journey as Carrie slowly lets go of who she thought she was and starts from scratch at middle-age: making unlikely friends, acquiring dump trucks, tumbling into an improbable love affair, and eventually learning to listen to the elusive and sometimes annoying voice helping her discover who she is, find the neglected artist inside, and piece together her unexpected new life.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to locked-room thrillers, workplace secrets, survival pressure, and isolated settings.
One by One
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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An instant New York Times bestseller called “an excellent mystery/suspense novel” by Stephen King, One by One follows a London tech start-up team trapped in a snow-covered French Alps chalet after a corporate retreat turns tense, an avalanche cuts them off, and the group begins to dwindle. With a 4.2-star rating from more than 19,100 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to locked-room thrillers, workplace secrets, survival pressure, and isolated settings.
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“An excellent mystery/suspense novel that will remind you of Dame Agatha at her best.” —Stephen King
This instant New York Times bestseller and “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) from Ruth Ware follows a group of employees trapped on a snow-covered mountain.
Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide.
When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech start-up, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other: presentations and strategy sessions broken up by mandatory bonding on the slopes. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a lucrative but contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. Even worse, one Snooper hadn’t made it back from the slopes when the avalanche hit.
As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further…one by one.
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Best for readers who like college hockey romance, roommates-to-friends tension, pining, and slow-burn emotional stakes.
Shots on Net
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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Carter Morgan III lives for hockey, but his final stretch at South Carolina University gets complicated when Zeke Cassidy becomes his roommate, his friend, and the person Carter cannot stop wanting, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 5,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like college hockey romance, roommates-to-friends tension, pining, and slow-burn emotional stakes.
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"Shots on Net is a sweet, low-angst gay college romance with great chemistry, believable miscommunication, and a grumpy hockey player worth falling for." - Apropos Books
Carter Morgan III hates everything about South Carolina University except for one thing: hockey. As the starting netminder for the team, he lives for those moments when he can step onto the ice and between the pipes. Unfortunately, his time at school and on the team is slowly coming to an end; although he’d love nothing more than to pursue a career in the NHL, he knows better than to get his hopes up.
Zeke Cassidy needs a place to live. When he answers an advertisement for a roommate, he’s not sure what he is expecting except that it isn’t Carter Morgan III. Carter is unfriendly, aloof, and they have nothing in common; even so, the pair hit it off immediately and become friends.
Carter knows Zeke isn’t interested in being anything beyond friends and roommates. Unfortunately, knowing this doesn’t stop him from hoping for more, no matter how much he tries to convince himself it’s impossible.
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Ideal for readers looking for folklore-esque monster romance with dark atmosphere, locked-door fear, and dangerous obsession.
Starve
Horror · Jaime's Picks · Occult Horror · Paranormal Romance
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Starve follows a woman who escapes Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium only to be followed by an ancient, hungry presence that knows her scent and blood, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,700 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for folklore-esque monster romance with dark atmosphere, locked-door fear, and dangerous obsession.
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All it took was one time.
One breakdown and I ended up behind the locked doors of Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium.
Something is wrong here.
It whispers through the cracked windows, coils beneath the floorboards, and breathes in the frozen Washington air that never truly warms, even in the summer.
Something hungry.
At night, the screaming starts. I’m locked in like prey, and the dark watches with hollow eyes. When someone—or something—finally sets me free, it isn’t a mercy. Because whatever haunted Bluebone Ridge followed me out. It’s ancient… starving. And now it knows my scent and the taste of my blood.
He doesn’t know whether to devour me or claim me.
But either way, I’m sure I won’t survive unchanged.
STARVE is a MF standalone, folklore-esque monster romance. It does not end in a cliffhanger, and contains quite a few aspects readers should be aware of. For a full list of potential triggers, please check the front of the book.
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Ideal for readers looking for dark gothic romance with obsession, mystery, emotional intensity, and a major twist.
Pen Pal
Romance · Jaime's Picks · Gothic Romance · Psychological Thriller
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An instant USA Today bestseller and #1 best seller in Gothic Romances, Pen Pal follows a widow whose mysterious letters from a stranger named Dante turn intimate before he appears at her doorstep, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 90,800 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for dark gothic romance with obsession, mystery, emotional intensity, and a major twist.
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"A gripping romantic suspense about starting over, secret letters, and a twist ending that will absolutely blow your mind. Go in blind. You won't regret it." - Apropos Books
An instant USA Today bestseller!
It all began with just one line.
“I’ll wait forever if I have to.”
The BookTok sensation PEN PAL is a high-octane, tautly written dark romance with an unforgettable twist that will leave readers gasping. Now with a brand new bonus chapter, this breathtaking romance about undeniable love from superstar J.T. Geissinger is not to be missed!
The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence:
I’ll wait forever if I have to.
It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know.
Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. His reply?
You.
I told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. He said he didn’t. I said we’d never met, but he said I was wrong.
We went back and forth, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. Then one day, the letters stopped. When I found out why, it was already too late.
Dante was at my doorstep.
And nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark romance with serial killers, obsession, mind games, and lovers-or-enemies tension.
Born, Madly
Mystery · Jaime's Picks · Romance · Thriller · Dark Romance · Psychological Thriller · Romantic Suspense
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From USA Today best-selling author Trisha Wolfe and called “deliciously twisted” by readers, Born, Madly follows Dr. London Noble and Grayson Sullivan as a buried past, psychological warfare, and a copycat killer threaten their bond, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 2,300 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark romance with serial killers, obsession, mind games, and lovers-or-enemies tension.
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From USA Today best-selling author Trisha Wolfe comes her most dark and dangerous romance that readers say is: "deliciously twisted"
Duet: a performance by two.
But who is acting, and who is devolving?
A buried past is unearthed, and Grayson Sullivan--AKA The Angel of Maine--retaliates against the system who made him, deploying psychological warfare on the woman who initially set him free. Dr. London Noble probes deep into the mind of the killer she's fallen for, searching for answers, as a copycat killer threatens their unity. Are they partners, lovers, or enemies? One final trap will reveal all.
*CW: Find a complete list of content information on the author's website
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Best for readers who want pitch black psychological thrillers with dark romance, trauma, vigilante violence, and heavy emotional themes.
In You
Mystery · Jaime's Picks · Romance · Thriller · Psychological Thriller · Romantic Suspense · Suspense
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In You follows Tamryn, a woman searching for love and protection, and Caleb, a lonely vigilante killer whose connection with her forces both of them toward their darkest secrets, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,000 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who want pitch black psychological thrillers with dark romance, trauma, vigilante violence, and heavy emotional themes.
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My name is Tamryn.
I am a woman with a job, a home, and a mother who loves me. Not whole, but not quite incomplete, either. I have many faces, but they all want one thing; someone to protect me. Someone to love me. And then I find him...He's everything I thought I ever wanted. Handsome, suave, gentlemanly, my knight in shining armor with a hand stretched out to make everything perfect. And everything is perfect, that is, until my true savior comes along and shows me just how broken I am, and works to piece me back together... At the end of the day, all I really know my name is Tamryn, and I've always wanted to live by the sea. Preferably in a kingdom, but a small house will do...
My name is Caleb.
I am a survivor, a killer, a loner. Ruthless in my pursuit of justice, I fill my time moonlighting as a vigilante, cleansing the world of the filth that walks upon it. I handle what needs to be taken care of, then I retreat back to my thousand acres of woods until I'm needed again. Though the kills aren't ever enough to erase the touch of my abuser, the bloodlust I feel is sweet, and so far, it's been enough to soothe the aching loneliness that threatens on a daily to swallow me whole. I've accepted my heart is dead, that is, until I meet Tamryn. This fragile woman touches something inside of me, and forces me to realize that I need so much more than that what I've been settling for. She makes me crave more, and enables me to face my deepest, darkest secrets.
This book is a psychological thriller and pitch black romance. As well as various aspects of abuse, it also features heavy themes depicting Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). It is recommended to read the trigger warnings before proceeding. 18+ only.
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A strong fit for readers drawn to military thrillers with Special Operations suspense, divided loyalties, revenge, and high-stakes betrayal.
Cold Barrel Zero
Mystery · Thriller · Military Thriller
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Cold Barrel Zero follows disgraced Special Operations legend John Hayes as he returns to the United States on the run, while Thomas Byrne, a former combat medic and old friend, is pulled back into danger to help capture him, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. A strong fit for readers drawn to military thrillers with Special Operations suspense, divided loyalties, revenge, and high-stakes betrayal.
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In this heart-pounding military thriller, Special Operations legend John Hayes finds himself disgraced and on the run as he returns to the United States to get back to his wife and daughter—and take revenge on his accusers. Only one man can stop him: Thomas Byrne. He once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic, but he gave up the gun. Now a surgeon, he moves from town to town, trying to forget his past, until he is called upon by a high-ranking government official to help capture the man he once called a friend. Hayes and Byrne were once as close as brothers, but with the fate of the nation hanging in the balance and nothing as it seems, both men must decide whom to trust—and whom to betray. In a final, explosive battle for justice, they face off along a rifle's cold barrel. Cold Barrel Zero brings together the blistering pace of Lee Child, the nonstop action of Brad Thor, and the richly drawn characters and moral stakes of Daniel Silva. An experienced reporter armed with deep behind-the-scenes research into America's Special Operations Forces, Quirk takes the military thriller to a new level of suspense.
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