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
#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
Paper Book
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...
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...
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...
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-...
Credence
Douglas, Penelope
Paper Book
Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. And when her parents suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But she's always been alone, hasn't she? Jake...
Crossed
McIntire, Emily
Paper Book
He is righteousness. She is sin. Father Cade Frédéric 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 to...
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 not about...
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...
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
EXCLUSIVE 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...
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
Instant NYT Bestselling Author USA Today Bestselling Author Viral Booktok Sensation The conclusion to the Cat and Mouse Duet is here... The Diamond Death walks alongside me, But the reaper is...
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...
Madame X
Wilder, Jasinda
Paper Book
"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
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...
Pretty Reckless
Shen, L. J.
Deberíamos haber sido mejores amigos, pero acabamos siendo enemigos Dicen que la venganza es un plato que se sirve frío y Penn Scully tardó cuatro años en urdir la suya. Me robó mi primer beso, me pidió que reservara para él mis primeras veces, y ahora ha vuelto para...
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...
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...
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 father...
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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