Dark Romance

Prefer your romance with a hard edge? Here is a collection of romance stories containing dark themes and mature content.

Updated April 17, 2024
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Afterburn : aftershock
Day, Sylvia
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day Never mix business with pleasure. Never bring politics into the bedroom. In a way I did both when I took Jackson Rutledge as a lover. I can't say I wasn't warned. Two years later, he was back. Walking into a deal I'd worked...
Birthday girl
Douglas, Penelope
Paper Book
From New York Times Bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new forbidden love story...JORDANHe took me in when I had nowhere else to go.He doesn't use me, hurt me, or forget about me. He doesn't treat me like I'm nothing, take me for granted, or make me feel unsafe. He remembers me, laughs with...
Brutal Prince
Lark, Sophie
Paper Book
They're a match made in Hell. The Griffins and the Gallos have been battling for control of Chicago's underworld for generations. Their rivalry has always been flammable, but it reignites with a fury when Aida, the youngest and wildest Gallo sibling, crashes a party at the...
Butcher & Blackbird
Weaver, Brynne
Paper Book
Discover the serial killer romance thriller everyone is talking about! 'Hilarious, heart-warming, sexy . . . and gory. The perfect cocktail that will have you swooning and laughing. The funnest read of the year!' H. D. Carlton, international and USA...
Butterfly in frost : a novella
Day, Sylvia
Paper Book
A Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestseller. From #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Sylvia Day comes a hotly anticipated and passionate new love story. Once, I would never have imagined myself here....
Court of the vampire queen
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
Three Powerfully Alluring Vampire Men And One Queen to Rule Them All All Mina ever wanted was to escape her father's control. Half human, half vampire, she lived eternally torn between two worlds, never fully experiencing the pleasures of either-until...
Credence
Douglas, Penelope
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Douglas, comes a new standalone!Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue...Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up...
Cruel seduction
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
He was my enemy. My lover. My husband. And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (and Pandora and Adonis).* Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's...
Entwined with you
Day, Sylvia
Paper Book
The third book in the "New York Times"-bestselling Crossfire Trilogy following "Bared to You" and "Reflected in You." Day has written more than a dozen novels across multiple subgenres and has won the "Romantic Times" Reviewers' Choice Award and the National Readers' Choice Award twice.
Hunt On Dark Waters
Robert, Katee.
Paper Book
Sail the high seas between worlds with this first book in a new fantasy romance series from Katee Robert, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash-hit Neon Gods. 'Sizzling chemistry . . . High stakes, taut pacing, and enticing characters'...
Hunting Adeline
Carlton, H. D.
Paper Book
The conclusion to the Cat and Mouse Duet is here...The DiamondDeath walks alongside me,But the reaper is no match for me.I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem.They won't keep me forever.I no longer recognize the person I've become,And I'm fighting...
King of greed
Huang, Ana
Paper Book
He had her, he lost her...and he'll do anything to win her back. Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything--a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a...
Neon gods
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
He was supposed to be a myth. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell...he was, quite simply, mine. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that's as sinful as it is sweet.* Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the...
Radiant sin
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
There's nowhere more dangerous than Olympus...and no one more captivating than its golden god: Apollo. Keeper of secrets, master of his shining realm...and the only man I am powerless to deny. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Apollo and Cassandra.* As a disgraced member of a...
Rhapsodic
Thalassa, Laura
Paper Book
From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited first book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to. Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into...
The ritual
Tessier, Shantel
Paper Book
THE CHOSEN ONEBarrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all-the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one.I VOW. YOU...
Say you swear
Brandy, Meagan
Paper Book
If she isn't mine in the end, I'll still be hers. It's torture, but it's true... For years, I've dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant. It didn't matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run,...
Scarred
Mcintire Emily.
Paper Book
A dark contemporary romance from viral BookTok and USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire, featuring reimagined characters from popular fairy tales and other stories. *** She doesn't belong to him...she belongs to the crown. Prince Tristan...
Stolen Heir
Lark, Sophie
Paper Book
Love is the one thing you can't steal. Nessa Griffin leads a lonely life. Too compassionate and gentle for the underworld business she grew up in, she fills no role in her family's mafia empire, struggling to prove herself both at home and in her highly competitive ballet...
A strange hymn
Thalassa, Laura
Audiobook
There are no saints
Lark, Sophie
Paper Book
She knows he's no saint, but she has no idea she's dancing with the devil. Cole Blackwell values control. He's the hottest sculptor in San Francisco-wealthy, successful, and respected. His only weakness is the dark impulse he carefully conceals. In truth, he's not just an...
Twisted love
Huang, Ana
Paper Book
Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Ana Huang! Read Twisted Love now for a brother's best friend romance. He has a heart of ice . . . but for her, he'd burn the world...
Vengeance road
Feehan, Christine
Paper Book
Christine Feehan takes romance full throttle in the second gripping novel in her #1 New York Times bestselling Torpedo Ink series. Breezy Simmons was born into a ruthless motorcycle club--and now that she's out, she's never going to be that girl again. But when her past...

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