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123 past books matching Dark Romance
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Red Thorns
Romance · Dark Romance
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Dark. Addictive. Scorchingly twisted. Red Thorns by Rina Kent is the dark college romance you won’t be able to quit. A dangerous bet leads to obsession, desire, and a spiral into fantasies best left unexplored. With 4.3 stars and 30K+ Goodreads ratings, this BookTok favorite is part one of a duet. Start reading—but don’t say we didn’t warn you.
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He made a bet. I became the game.
Sebastian Weaver is everything I hate—cocky, rich, and dangerously charming. The campus heartthrob and star quarterback has girls lining up to worship him. I planned to be the exception. To stay invisible.
But when Sebastian sets his sights on me, resisting becomes impossible. He says he wants a challenge, but this feels like war. Every glance is a trap. Every touch, a dare.
I didn’t mean to play. I didn’t mean to want. But Sebastian unlocks desires I didn’t know I had—twisted, dark fantasies that blur the lines between hate and need.
Now I’m spiraling into a game where obsession is the prize... and losing might just destroy me.
He made a move. I fell harder than I ever expected.
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Best for readers who like dark paranormal romance with haunted houses, forbidden attraction, stalker romance, and gothic danger.
Phantom
Romance · Dark Romance · Paranormal Romance
Our take
A #1 Best Seller in Ghost Paranormal Romance, Phantom follows a married woman in Parsons Manor in 1944 whose terrifying yet hypnotic phantom becomes a source of dark temptation, dangerous desire, and solace from the husband she fears, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 23,200 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dark paranormal romance with haunted houses, forbidden attraction, stalker romance, and gothic danger.
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The married woman of the manor. The stranger outside. An intoxicating novel of dark temptation and dangerous desire by the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Cat and Mouse Duet.
November 12, 1944. This house holds on to souls for a lifetime. I thought I had given it to my husband when I vowed to love him until the end of time. I lied. Nothing could have prepared me for the day my phantom appeared outside my window. He was terrifying, yet hypnotizing, and I couldn’t deny my intrigue. I never intended to fall into a whirlwind romance with my stalker. Especially because he’s so much more than that. A criminal. A mobster. The man who offers me solace from the monster in Parsons Manor. There are many that haunt these halls, yet it’s only my husband I fear.
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A strong match for readers drawn to dark sapphic bully romance, enemies-to-lovers tension, secrecy, and complicated attraction.
Tryst Six Venom
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Dark Romance · Lesbian Romance
Our take
Queen bee Clay rules the halls of Marymount Academy while tormenting school outcast Olivia Jaeger, but behind closed doors, their relationship becomes something neither of them can reveal. A strong match for readers drawn to dark sapphic bully romance, enemies-to-lovers tension, secrecy, and complicated attraction.
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Away games, back seats, and the locker room after hours... Get ready for a new sapphic bully romance!
CLAY
Marymount girls are good girls. We're chaste, we're untouched, and even if we weren't, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut.
Not that I have anything to share anyway. I never let guys go too far. I'm behaved. Beautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirt's always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place. I own the hallways, walking tall on Monday and dropping to my knees like the good Catholic girl I am on Sunday.
That's me. Always in control. Or so they think. The truth is that it's easy for me to resist them, because what I truly want, they can never be. Something soft and smooth. Someone dangerous and wild. Unfortunately, what I want I have to hide.
In the locker room after hours. In the bathroom stall between classes. In the showers after practice.
For me, life is a web of secrets. No one can find out mine.
OLIVIA
I cross the tracks every day for one reason—to graduate from this school and get into the Ivy League. I'm not ashamed of where I come from, my family, or how everyone at Marymount thinks my skirts are too short and my lipstick is too red.
Clay Collins and her friends have always turned up their noses at me. The witch with her beautiful skin, clean shoes, and rich parents who torments me daily and thinks I won't fight back.
At least not until I get her alone and find out she's hiding so much more than just what's underneath those pretty clothes. The princess thinks I'll scratch her itch. She thinks she's still pure as long as it's not a guy touching her.
I told her to stay on her side of town. I told her not to cross the tracks. But one night, she did.
And when I'm done with her, she'll never be pure again.
*TRYST SIX VENOM is a standalone, new adult, bully romance suitable for readers 18+.
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Thomas’s drawings have come to life.
Don’t Let the Forest In
Literary Fiction · Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Body Horror · Dark Romance · Gay Romance
Our take
Thomas’s drawings have come to life. And they’re killing people. When Andrew follows his best friend into the forbidden woods, he discovers a horrifying truth—together, they must fight the monsters or risk losing everything. But as their obsession deepens, the creatures grow stronger. A New York Times bestseller, The Boy Who Steals Houses is dark, mesmerizing, and utterly unforgettable.
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Once upon a time, Andrew gave Thomas his heart. Now, he might have to destroy him.
Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the fairytales he writes—dark, twisted stories that only his best friend, Thomas Rye, truly understands. But something is wrong with Thomas. His parents have vanished, blood stains his sleeves, and his once-vivid artwork has fallen silent.
Then Andrew follows Thomas into the forbidden woods and discovers the horrifying truth: Thomas’s drawings have come to life, and they’re killing anyone who gets too close. Now, the boys must battle these monsters night after night, desperate to contain them. But the stronger their obsession grows, the more deadly the creatures become.
An Instant New York Times Bestseller, Don't Let the Forest In is a mesmerizing blend of psychological horror, dark romance, and eerie fairytale magic.
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Fame turned a first love into a stranger, and eight years of silence left scars neither of them escaped.
Midnight Stage
Romance · Dark Romance
Our take
Fame turned a first love into a stranger, and eight years of silence left scars neither of them escaped. In Midnight Stage, a woman accepts a high-profile job that forces her back into the orbit of Ezra Knight, the rockstar who once chose the world over her. This dark second-chance romance explores betrayal, buried trauma, and the volatile pull between love and ambition.
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Ezra Knight is the biggest rockstar to ever walk the planet, but before he belonged to the world, he belonged to me.
He was my brother’s best friend, my soulmate and protector, and when their band—Demon’s Curse—took off, so did he.
He was like a roaring tornado, crashing through my world and sweeping me off my feet, and just when I had it all, I was abandoned. Left to fend for myself at the hands of a monster. For eight long years, I blamed him for everything that was out of his control.
But one phone call changed it all.
And when Lenny Davidson—the head of Louder Records—calls to offer you the world, you scoop it up with both hands. Only that offer comes with strings attached. Strings that are tied directly to Ezra Knight, leaving me with one hell of a choice to make.
Take the job as the new head of marketing for Demon’s Curse and have to face the man who crushed me every single day, or wave goodbye to everything I’ve ever worked for.
What could possibly go wrong?
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A masked fantasy becomes real when a single message invites danger into the dark.
Lights Out
Romance · Dark Romance · Romantic Suspense
Our take
A masked fantasy becomes real when a single message invites danger into the dark. Aly and Josh blur the line between desire and obsession, until a far more dangerous watcher emerges. Lights Out delivers high-heat tension, morally gray romance, and escalating stakes, with 4.4 stars on Amazon and hundreds of thousands of Goodreads ratings.
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#1 New York Times and instant USA TODAY bestselling series!
The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?
I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.
Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.
I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.
Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.
Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.
Lights Out is a fast-paced dark romance with a morally gray male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the TWs at the beginning of the book.
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I’ve killed for less—but Emma’s different.
Killing Emma
Romance · Dark Romance
Our take
I’ve killed for less—but Emma’s different. Tasked with taking her life, I end up questioning everything I know. In Killing Emma (4.4 stars), a dark captive romance that pulls no punches, I’m forced to confront my darkest desires, risking it all for her. Intense, thrilling, and twisted, this is a must-read for lovers of dark romance. Get it now.
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Rule number one: show no mercy. That’s all I’ve lived by—until Emma. Tasked with hunting her down and ending her life, I thought it’d be just another job. But Emma isn’t like the others. She fights back, unafraid of the darkness I hide. Now, instead of taking her life, I find myself willing to risk my own—fighting my inner demons for her.
But there’s one catch: I don’t know if either of us will make it out alive.
Killing Emma is more than just a mission—it’s an obsession. In this dark captive romance, violence, desire, and danger collide in a twisted game of life and death. Will love save them—or destroy them both?
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Gia is a monster in disguise, Lyot is in love with her darkness, and Gale is the predator who sees their shadows as a feast.
Wristlocked
Romance · Dark Romance
Our take
Gia is a monster in disguise, Lyot is in love with her darkness, and Gale is the predator who sees their shadows as a feast. In the dark world of cirque royalty, desires collide, and pain becomes pleasure. But when monsters play, someone always gets devoured. A twisted, steamy tale of obsession, power, and the freedom found in shadows.
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Monsters don’t cry… they devour.
Gia
I’m a monster wrapped in glitter and grace, but beneath the circus prodigy facade lies a darkness only Lyot has glimpsed. While my best friend wrestles with my shadows, Gale Shepard—dangerous, sadistic, and caged—might just be the kind of nightmare I crave.
Lyot
I’ve loved Gia forever, but love isn’t enough to save me from her destruction. While my dreams crumble, she offers me something darker: a twisted escape that includes Gale Shepard, the green-eyed monster who might unleash shadows of my own.
Gale
I’m the top monster at this circus school, trapped in a cage until Gia Laurent walks in. She’s my ticket to freedom, but her darkness tempts me to claim her pain—and the man she’s left on his knees.
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Firethorne promised salvation but delivered nightmares.
Firethorne
Dark Romance · Gothic Romance
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Firethorne promised salvation but delivered nightmares. When Maya Cole moves into the mysterious estate, she’s caught in a web of lies spun by its dangerously alluring family. But while they obsess over her, someone else watches from the shadows. In a place where nothing is as it seems, Maya must outwit devils at every turn to survive.
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They said Firethorne would be salvation. Instead, Maya Cole found nightmares hiding behind its grand façade.
When Maya’s father accepts a live-in post at the mysterious Firethorne estate, it seems like the answer to all their prayers. But Firethorne is no ordinary mansion—it’s a place steeped in dark myths and sinister secrets. And the Firethorne family is far more devilishly alluring, dangerously corrupt, and twisted than Maya could have imagined.
Drawn into their games of lies and deceit, Maya becomes their irresistible obsession. But while the Firethornes chase her, someone else is lurking in the shadows—watching, waiting, and ready to strike.
In a world where trust is deadly and desires are dangerous, Maya must navigate a path through darkness to survive the devils chasing her.
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Callum’s haunted by grief and trapped behind a mask of anger, but Stone’s persistence threatens to break through.
Ricochet
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Dark Romance
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Callum’s haunted by grief and trapped behind a mask of anger, but Stone’s persistence threatens to break through. When their pasts collide, hatred and obsession twist into something neither can resist. As their darkest secrets surface, will they find solace in each other—or are they destined to shatter under the weight of their pain?
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Callum Hayes has mastered survival—first through the loss of his mother, then through the trauma of finding his stepfather’s murdered body. But emotional armor doesn’t come without cracks. Enter Stone Wakefield, a wildcard on the college hockey team who’s seen Callum at his weakest.
Stone knows Callum’s sharp edges hide something fragile, but he’s not here to coddle. He’s here to win—on the ice and in life. The catch? His growing obsession with the guy who’d rather skate into a wall than trust him.
As their lives collide, secrets unravel and lines blur between hatred and something far more dangerous. Can they escape the shadows haunting them—or are they destined to be each other’s undoing?
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Ethan reunites with old friends, hoping to heal his broken life.
Our Deadly Reunion
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Dark Romance
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Ethan reunites with old friends, hoping to heal his broken life. Instead, he uncovers a betrayal by Chris, their once-admired success. In a secluded cabin, long-buried anger explodes into a chilling plan for revenge. But as night falls, trust erodes, and vengeance takes a sinister turn. How far will they go before friendship turns to ruin?
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Ethan’s life is in shambles—his business failed, and his future feels empty. Hoping to reclaim some happiness, he reaches out to his childhood friends, Chris, Anthony, and Jay. But the reunion brings more than nostalgia. It reveals a shocking betrayal by Chris, the group’s once-celebrated success story.
As buried grudges resurface, Ethan and the others uncover the devastating ways Chris derailed their lives. Determined to make him pay, they plot revenge at a remote cabin steeped in their shared past.
But vengeance is a dangerous game, and as the night spirals into chaos, trust fractures, morality blurs, and bonds of friendship become deadly traps. In this haunting exploration of loyalty and retribution, four men discover just how far they’re willing to go to settle the score.
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Desire turns dangerous when anonymity gives two enemies permission to want what their real lives forbid.
Chokehold
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Dark Romance
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Desire turns dangerous when anonymity gives two enemies permission to want what their real lives forbid. In Chokehold, a masked encounter pulls two stepbrothers into a secret, volatile connection shaped by obsession, betrayal, and the thrill of being pursued. This dark MM romance fits readers drawn to taboo tension, toxic chemistry, hidden identities, and emotionally messy forbidden romance.
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ONE MOMENT. TWO MASKS.
THREE CHASES INTO THE NIGHT.
They’re supposed to be enemies.
It takes one night with a masked man to change that all. They crave the next touch of the person they hate the most. Desperate for that next taste of the person they can’t stand. Waiting for that anonymous text message to accelerate their heartbeats. The thrill of the chase with the forbidden fruit is enough to blur the lines and the world around them.
The first problem? They both have girlfriends.
The worst problem? They’re stepbrothers.
This story comes with extremely triggering content. Please read the triggers before continuing.
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