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...
Asking for it
Pace, Lilah.
Paper Book
Graduate student Vivienne Charles is afraid and ashamed of her own fantasies: being taken by force by a man who will claim her completely. When the mysterious Jonah Marks learns her secret, he makes a stunning offer: they will remain near-strangers and meet in secret so that he can fulfil her...
Begging for it
Pace, Lilah.
Paper Book
Jonah and Vivienne's erotic bond began as no-strings sex between strangers. Now their intimacy is turning into love, but it's built on fantasies so extreme that exploring them makes guilt inescapable. But the risks they're taking are far more dangerous than they'd imagined. A stalker is terrorizing...
Birthday girl
Douglas, Penelope
Paper Book
Jordan has nowhere else to go when her boyfriend offers to let her move in with him and his dad. Working a dead-end job, with her relationship sputtering, she jumps at the opportunity, expecting to help out around the house in exchange. What she doesn't anticipate is for her heart to race every time...
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 Griffin mansion...
Butcher & Blackbird
Weaver, Brynne
Paper Book
#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
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...
Crossed
McIntire, Emily
Paper Book
He is righteousness. She is sin. Father Cade Frederic is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there's a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he's tasked...
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.
Exposed : a Madame X novel
Wilder, Jasinda
Paper Book
Everything Madame X has ever known is contained within the four walls of the penthouse owned by her lover, her keeper, the man who controls her every move and dominates her desires. While Caleb owns her body, someone else has touched her soul. X's awakening at the hands of Logan's raw, honest...
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
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--featuring beautiful purple sprayed edges, a foil case stamp, gorgeously detailed endpapers, an updated map and deliciously moody art throughout. Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! The eternal romance of Beauty and...
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...
Hunt on dark waters
Robert, Katee
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! A stern captain meets his witchy match in this captivating first fantasy romance novel in the Crimson Sails series from Katee Robert, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash-hit Neon Gods....
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...
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...
Misconduct
Douglas, Penelope
Paper Book
A compelling standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Fall Away series--who never fails to deliver a "powerfully written contemporary love story"(Booklist). Former tennis player Easton Bradbury is trying to be the best teacher she can be,...
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...
Release me : a novel
Kenner, Julie.
Paper Book
NATONAL 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...
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
From TikTok sensation Meagan Brandy comes the first in the heartfelt, romantic Boys of Avix series. Her brother's best friend broke her heart, but what happens when his new teammate wants to put it back together? Arianna Johnson has been dreaming of what college life might bring,...
Scarred
McIntire, Emily
Paper Book
From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale in her fan-favorite Never After series. She doesn't belong to him...she belongs to the crown. Prince Tristan Faasa was never destined for the throne. That was always his brother, Michael. The same...
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 corps. ...
Sweetest taboo : a Stark International novel
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...
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 artist: he's a...
Twisted
McIntire, Emily
Paper Book
From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Aladdin. She's his diamond in the rough. He's her worst nightmare. Yasmin Karam, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, has never known strife. So, when her beloved...
Twisted love
Huang, Ana
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang comes a billionaire brother's best friend romance! He has a heart of ice...but for her, he'd burn the world A diverse new adult steamy romance from Tiktok sensation and USA Today bestselling author Ana Huang. ...
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...
Wretched
McIntire, Emily
Paper Book
From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Wizard of Oz. A woman can be great, and terrible too. Evelina Westerly has always been the bad guy. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family's drug empire, she's her...

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