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123 past books matching Dark Romance
Best for readers who like YA romantic thrillers built around grief, guilt, forbidden attraction, and unsettling secrets.
Everything We Never Said
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Dark Romance
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Months after the accident that killed her best friend, Ella returns to school and grows closer to Hayley’s boyfriend, Sawyer. When Hayley’s journal reveals troubling secrets about their relationship, Ella must question how well she knew them both, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like YA romantic thrillers built around grief, guilt, forbidden attraction, and unsettling secrets.
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Dark romance, high stakes, and plot twists abound in this paperback original YA thriller that's perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover.
What you don't know can hurt you....
It’s been months since the accident that killed Ella’s best friend, Hayley, and Ella can’t stop blaming herself. Now Ella is back at school, and everywhere she looks are reminders of her best friend—including Sawyer, Hayley’s boyfriend. Little by little, they grow closer, until Ella realizes something horrifying . . .
She’s in love with her dead best friend’s boyfriend.
Racked with guilt, Ella turns to Hayley’s journal, hoping she’ll find something in the pages that will make her feel better about what’s happening. Instead, she discovers that Sawyer has secrets of his own and that his relationship with Hayley wasn’t as picture-perfect as it seemed.
Ella knows she should stay away but finds herself inextricably drawn to him—and scared of everything she never knew about him. Perhaps it’s his grief. Or maybe his desires, cut short by tragedy. Or could it be something twisted only Hayley knew about?
A dark, romantic thriller perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Laura Nowlin, Everything We Never Said explores the secrets in even the best of friendships and asks how well you ever know the ones you love.
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For fans of HD Carlton and Rina Kent.
Detonate
Romance · Dark Romance
Our take
A BookTok mafia romance with teeth. Detonate by Luna Mason pairs a battle-scarred hitman with a sunshine heroine who refuses to stay away. This steamy bestseller (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) delivers grit, heat, and heartbreak in one explosive package. For fans of HD Carlton and Rina Kent. Tap into the darkness everyone’s raving about.
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He kills in the shadows. She lights up every room. Together, they might just ignite the whole world.
Grayson walked away from the military and built a double life in New York: boxing legend by day, mafia enforcer by night. He thought he was done with emotional entanglements. Then sunshine-in-heels Maddie crashed through his walls with one devastating kiss.
Maddie is sick of being the family screwup. She swore she would never fall for a man like Grayson—cold, calculating, impossible. But his darkness calls to her in ways she never expected.
Just as they start to believe they could have something real, fate throws a grenade into their lives. Trust is fragile, and enemies are closing in.
How do you build a future with someone whose past is soaked in blood?
Or worse, what if you can't?
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Best for readers who like dark second chance romance with obsession, forced proximity, secrets, violence, and cliffhanger endings.
Ruining Her
Romance · Dark Romance · Romantic Suspense
Our take
Emily seeks shelter and a place to hide after escaping danger, but her plan falls apart when Josh finds her and becomes determined to uncover the secrets she cannot reveal, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 4,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dark second chance romance with obsession, forced proximity, secrets, violence, and cliffhanger endings.
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This Book contains scenes and discussions of non-consensual sexual acts, profanity, sexual content and violence. If any of these are triggers for you, you should consider skipping this read. This is book 1 in a 2 part duet, a cliff-hanger can be expected.
Emily
I never thought I would be seeking shelter here of all places.
I’m out of options though. I needed a place to hide out.
Somewhere I could get my bearings and develop a plan to get myself out of the mess I’ve landed in.
It was a fail-proof plan. Then he found me.
I’ve escaped one monster, only to be captured by another.
He’s determined to break me, to uncover the secrets I’m hiding. But this is one secret I can’t let him discover.
Can I escape him before he ruins everything? Before he ruins me?
Josh
She was meant to stay away.
Emily, the only person in the world who’s made me feel like I actually have a heart.
She made me hope that my soul wasn’t as black as people say.
Hope’s a dangerous bitch though, one I killed before those embers ever had a chance to flame.
Now she’s back. And she’s keeping secrets, ones I plan to uncover using any means necessary.
I warned her that if I ever laid eyes on her again, I’d keep her.
In keeping her, I know I’m going to do the one thing I never wanted to do.
RUIN HER.
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All The Lies opens with a life rebuilt on fragments and a truth that refuses to stay buried.
All The Lies
Romance · Alpha Male Romance · College Romance · Dark Romance · New Adult
Our take
All The Lies opens with a life rebuilt on fragments and a truth that refuses to stay buried. After losing her memory, Reina Ellis wakes to a carefully constructed world and a fiancé who controls what she is allowed to know. Asher Carson’s rules promise punishment, not protection, and the past begins to surface through fire, guilt, and violence. This is a dark new adult romance driven by power, amnesia, and moral uncertainty.
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From New York Times Bestseller and BookTok sensation Rina Kent comes a thrilling amnesia romance, part of the first generation of the Legacy of Gods series.
When lies become truths.
My name is Reina Ellis.
Popular.
Beautiful.
Untouchable.
Problem is, I remember none of it.
His name is Asher Carson.
Gorgeous.
Silent.
Dark.
Oh, and my future husband.
He has three rules for me:
I’ll bow.
I’ll break.
I’ll pay for what I’ve done.
Problem is, I don’t remember what I’ve done, but I have a clue.
There was a fire.
A dead girl.
And I was there.
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He stalked her in the shadows.
No Control
Romance · Dark Romance · Romantic Suspense
Our take
He stalked her in the shadows. Now he wants her in his bed. No Control is a dark, gritty romance featuring a dangerously obsessed hitman and the woman who makes him lose what's left of his control. With 4.1 stars on Amazon and a guaranteed HEA, Annie Wild’s standalone delivers heat, obsession, and the kind of love that cuts deep.
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He found her through her words. Now he can't let her go.
She is light, purity, and everything he never thought he deserved. But he’s made up his mind—she will be his. Even if she doesn’t know it yet.
At first, he plays the game. Carefully crafted temptations, a deal with the devil she never signs. But when she refuses to walk willingly into his arms, he takes the only path left.
He forces her hand.
No Control is a twisted, obsessive dark romance that dives deep into the mind of an unhinged hitman and the woman who becomes his salvation. Gritty, intense, and brutally romantic, it’s a standalone with an HEA that will have your pulse racing and your morals spinning.
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In Mad as a Hatter, Wonderland bleeds.
Mad as a Hatter
Romantasy · Dark Romance
Our take
In Mad as a Hatter, Wonderland bleeds. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Kendra Moreno’s horror romance throws Clara into a world of gore, prophecy, and one very sexy, very unstable Hatter. This isn’t whimsy, it’s war. Twisted, terrifying, and darkly romantic, it’s Wonderland like you’ve never seen it before.
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Clara thought she’d seen it all. Then a man with rabbit ears dragged her through a portal and ruined her day.
Now she’s in Wonderland, a land where the Red Queen reigns, the trees try to kill you, and prophecy is apparently a valid career path. Clara’s mission? Stop the Knave, survive the monsters, and win the heart of a dangerously unstable Hatter.
Easy. Just ignore the gore, madness, and creatures with too many teeth.
But Clara didn’t survive the legal system just to be taken down by a tea party. To save this twisted realm, she’ll have to embrace the chaos, face her fears, and figure out what it means to fall for someone who’s lost his mind.
Wonderland wants blood. Clara came ready.
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Best for readers who like MM romance with friends-to-lovers tension, damaged characters, found family, crime, and substantial suspense.
Loose Cannon
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Dark Romance
Our take
Called “a meaty romance that you can’t put down” by RT Book Reviews, this romantic suspense novel follows Edgar-Allen Church as he leaves the foster system and tries to build a stable future after serving time for assault. When violence and unresolved questions threaten that future, his relationship with Miller Quinn becomes tangled in the danger. Best for readers who like MM romance with friends-to-lovers tension, damaged characters, found family, crime, and substantial suspense.
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"An edge-of-your-seat tale of suspense paired with a heart-stopping romance . . . Love blooms amid the gritty realism of Sidney Bell's harrowing plot." —Sarina Bowen, USA Today–bestselling author
Released after five years in the system for assault, streetwise Edgar-Allen Church is ready to leave the past behind and finally look to his future. In need of a place to crash, he's leaning on Miller Quinn. A patient, solidly masculine pillar of strength and support, Miller has always been there for him—except in the one way Church has wanted the most.
With his staunchly conservative upbringing, Miller has been playing it straight his whole life. Now with Church so close again, it's getting harder to keep his denial intact. As they fumble their way back to friendship after so many years apart, Miller struggles to find the courage to accept who he really is. What he has with Church could be more than desire—it could be love. But it could also mean trouble.
Church's criminal connections are closing in on the both of them, and more than their hearts are at risk. This time, their very lives are on the line.
Don't miss the next titles in Sidney Bell's male/male romance series: Hard Line and Rough Trade.
"Bell writes a meaty romance that you can't put down, and it's a worthy addition to the M/M contemporary romance genre." —RT Book Reviews (Top Pick)
"A friends-to-lovers tender romance, a suspenseful mystery . . . Sidney Bell pulls it all off and makes it appear effortless." —Gay Book Reviews
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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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Good for readers who want angsty contemporary romance with grief, second chances, and a complicated love triangle.
Beautiful Graves
Romance · Contemporary Romance · Dark Romance
Our take
From USA Today bestselling author L.J. Shen comes Beautiful Graves. A woman who lost everything finds herself torn between her safe relationship and the man who awakens her passion, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 21,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want angsty contemporary romance with grief, second chances, and a complicated love triangle.
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From USA Today bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a passion- and angst-charged story about a woman caught between a secure relationship and a once-in-a-lifetime spark with her muse.
They say first loves are oftentimes the end of one’s innocence.
Those words couldn’t ring truer for Everlynne Lawson, whose first brush with romance came with a heartbreak…and the thing that seems to follow her everywhere she goes. Death.
After a great tragedy, Everlynne loses all she cares about—her dreams, her family, and her soulmate, Joe.
Guilt-ridden, Everlynne decides to isolate herself in Salem, Massachusetts. A shell of the woman she once was, she takes her days one at a time, careful not to allow herself the joy she believes others in her life were robbed of. But when the mysterious, handsome Dominic storms into her life, it becomes more difficult to stay in solitude. Dominic is different: adventurous, joyous, with lust for life and a passion to make her his.
Everlynne is on the cusp of reinventing herself once again when the old wounds of her past are resurrected, rawer than ever. There is nothing worse than being in love with two men.
Especially when one of them hates you.
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Best for readers who like dark shifter romantasy with rejected mates, growly alphas, forced proximity, and touch-her-and-die tension.
Starlight Mates
Dark Romance · Romantasy · Paranormal Romance
Our take
Starlight Mates follows a rejected Nexus shifter dragged back to the remote pack community and the five alpha mates she fled years ago, where forced proximity, mistrust, dangerous bonds, and the monster inside her threaten to break loose, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 9,200 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dark shifter romantasy with rejected mates, growly alphas, forced proximity, and touch-her-and-die tension.
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She’s the one they shouldn’t want—and the one they’ll never let go.
Five years ago, she rejected them. Five years ago, she ran. But they’ve found her, and this time, there’s no escape.
Born a Nexus shifter, her life has always been defined by three unshakable truths: her parents despised Nexus shifters, everyone was taught to fear her, and they were right to. She’s a monster, bonded to five souls she rejected at the mating ceremony before vanishing with her parents.
Now, dragged back to the remote pack community, she’s a prisoner of the very men she betrayed. They enforce their rules with unrelenting dominance, keeping her under constant watch while the tension between them threatens to explode.
Onyx, the charmer with deadly alpha instincts hidden behind polished suits.
Aleksander, whose hazel eyes conceal dangerous secrets—and a thirst for ruin.
Hollis and Rhodes, twins who capture hearts with ease, but one is determined to shatter hers.
And Finnegan, the most lethal of them all, harboring a hatred that burns brightest.
They are powerful, dangerous, and unyielding, alphas blessed by the Wolf Gods. She is the reject who destroyed their bond, their hearts, and their trust. But what they don’t see is the monster within her, a darkness clawing to the surface, waiting for the moment to unleash its fury.
If they push her too far, it will awaken. And when it does, there may be nothing left to save.
STARLIGHT MATES is a dark romantasy full of irresistible tension and dangerous desire. Dive into a story teeming with growly alpha shifters, rejected mates, forced proximity, and electrifying “touch her and die” moments. This is a tale where love is fierce, bonds are unbreakable, and monsters lurk just beneath the skin.
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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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