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
#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...
Alpha
Wilder, Jasinda
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...
Butcher & Blackbird
Weaver, Brynne
A New York Times 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, chaos, and sizzling...
Butterfly in frost : a novella
Day, Sylvia
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
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
Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue in this steamy dark romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, now with bonus material. Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of...
Crossed
McIntire, Emily
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
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.
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...
Exposed : a Madame X novel
Wilder, Jasinda
My name is Madame X.My life is not my own.But it could be . . . 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,...
The fearless King
Robert, Katee
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
Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! The Gothikana Hardcover Edition: featuring sprayed edges, a foil case stamp, gorgeously detailed endpapers, an updated map and deliciously moody art throughout. The eternal romance of...
Headmaster
Me, Tara Sue
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
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....
King of greed
Huang, Ana
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...
Madame X
Wilder, Jasinda
"Wilder pulls out all the stops for this spellbinding novel of identity, passion, and fear... Once readers fall into X's story, they'll be desperate for the next installments."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)    From the New York Times...
Misconduct
Douglas, Penelope
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
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
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.
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...
Scarred
McIntire, Emily
Sweetest Taboo
Kenner, J.
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...
Twisted
McIntire, Emily
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
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
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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