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 and aftershock
Day, Sylvia
Paper Book
A New York Times BestsellerFrom the #1 bestselling author of the Crossfire series come the two sizzling stories that launched Cosmo Red-Hot Reads from Harlequin.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...
Alpha
Wilder, Jasinda
Ebook
The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle. Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. Mom's hospital bills. My baby brother's tuition. My tuition. Rent. Electricity. All of it on my shoulders. And I had just lost my job. There was no hope, no money...
Asking for it
Pace, Lilah.
Ebook
"This is who I am. This is what I want. Now I need a man dangerous enough to give it to me." Graduate student Vivienne Charles is afraid of her own desires--ashamed to admit that she fantasizes about being taken by force, by a man who will claim her completely and without...
Butcher & Blackbird
Weaver, Brynne
Ebook
#1 New York Times bestselling series and USA TODAY Bestseller "I want to ruin her so that she's mine, my beautiful disaster. My wild creature. My goddess of chaos." The viral TikTok friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder,...
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
An Instant USA Today Bestseller 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-...
Cruel seduction
Robert, Katee
Audiobook
Entwined with you
Day, Sylvia.
Paper Book
The worldwide phenomenon continues as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires in the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crossfire series. From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized...
The fearless King
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Contract comes a sexy romance full of family secrets, riveting suspense, and a pretend boyfriend who makes one woman start to feel things that are all too real. Named one...
Gothikana
RuNyx
Ebook
The eternal romance of Beauty and the Beast meets the gothic suspense of Dracula in this erotic dark academia story of epic love from bestselling author RuNyx. "RuNyx immerses her readers in the dark worlds she builds and then injects life into them in the most...
Headmaster
Me, Tara Sue
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of the Submissive novels delivers a scintillating new erotic romance, where two instructors redefine the phrase "teacher's pet" . . . . Lennox MacLure, owner of the RACK Academy, has sworn off the Dominant/submissive lifestyle. Years...
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...
Immersed in Pleasure/Submit to Desire
Reisz, Tiffany
Ebook
The Manhattan Mermaids: Believed to be the most beautiful women in the city, they entertain wealthy, powerful men in an exclusive club called Fathoms...and are all virgins. Derek Prince doesn't believe they really exist, until he meets the stunningly sensual Xenia. She drives him wild with desire,...
The last king
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
Opposites attract in this sexy new contemporary romance series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Contract. The rebel. That's how Samara Mallick has always thought of Beckett King. And he's absolutely living up to his unpredictable ways...
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...
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...
Release me a novel
Kenner, Julie.
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The first book in the sexy, emotionally charged Stark trilogy--a romance between a powerful man who's never heard "no" and a fiery woman who says "yes" on her own terms Wealthy, powerful, and exceedingly dangerous, Damien Stark wants to own me. . . . Or at...
Rhapsodic
Thalassa, Laura
Ebook
A strange hymn
Thalassa, Laura
Ebook
Stripped
Wilder, Jasinda.
Ebook
So how did I get myself into this situation, you ask? Simple: desperation. When you're faced with being homeless and hungry or taking off your clothes for money, the choice is easier than you'd imagine. That doesn't make it easy, though. Oh no. I hate it, in fact. There's nothing I'd like more than...
Sweetest taboo
Kenner, Julie.
Paper Book
In this irresistible Stark International Novel, J. Kenner ups the ante on Dirtiest Secret and Hottest Mess, proving once again with the S.I.N. series that she "may very well have cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swoon for them" (RT...
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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