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"If you're so concerned about my humanity, Elena, then reach into my soul and find it, because I'm not sure I have any left."According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills.What do they call me after fifty-two?They call me the Silencer.One final bullet would have been all it took to stop me from taking another soul, and I would have been doing Meridian City a service by pulling that trigger.An angel crying for help stopped me, and that night, I took three lives for her. Then three turned into eight. Then eight turned into twenty. Twenty turned into twenty-one. Twenty one turned into twenty-three.Elena Young is the hero in my story, but I’m the villain in hers.And this is the kind of story where the villain gets the girl, even if it kills her.This is a dark romance novel intended for mature readers only. Please check trigger/content warnings. This book does not have an HEA. Read more

The high-octane sexiness of Katee Robert meets the addicting thrills of Rachel Hawkins with a delicious twist in this dark romance from indie superstar J. T. Geissinger!The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence:I’ll wait forever if I have to.It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know.Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. His reply?You.I told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. He said he didn’t. I said we’d never met, but he said I was wrong.We went back and forth, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. Then one day, the letters stopped. When I found out why, it was already too late.Dante was at my doorstep.And nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Read more

The ManipulatorI can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.He's always there, watching and waiting.And I can never look away.Not when I want him to come closer.The ShadowI didn't mean to fall in love.But now that I have, I can't stay away.I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.The way she undresses...I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.And once she is, I'll never let her go.Not even when she begs me to.While not required, it is highly suggested to read the novella, Satan's Affair, first.Warning: This book ends on a cliffhanger. Read more

A twisted Hades and Persephone meets the enthralling suspense of The Secret History in a new scorchingly hot dark academia tale of unforgettable, legendary love from RuNyx, the New York Times bestselling author of Gothikana.There are secrets she must uncover.There are secrets he must keep.Salem Salazar is a Mortimer University legacy and the black sheep of her scandal-ridden, wealthy family. Obsessed with death, she arrives at Mortimer on the hunt for answers about what happened to her perfect, missing older sister. There, she discovers that her sister is far from the only girl to have gone missing at Mortimer. Salem will do anything to discover what dark forces are killing Mortimer's students... even if it means using herself as bait.And Cazimir van der Waal has caught her scent. He has a dark past, a hidden agenda, and a ravenous appetite for a beautiful, golden-eyed girl who seems determined to risk her life. But he is far from the most dangerous thing at Mortimer.In this magnificent, steamy dark academia romance filled with taut suspense, sparks will fly, rivals will become lovers, terrible truths will be revealed, and an epic love will change everything.A Macmillan Audio production from Bramble Books. Read more

I've been watching her. Wanting her. Stalking her. I'm obsessed with the shy, innocent barista who works at my favorite coffee shop.She doesn't know that I bought the house across the street from her apartment so that I can watch over her.I secretly collect her paintings and hang them in my bedroom.And I won't hesitate to break into her home to find out what kind of books she likes to read.I'll do whatever it takes to win her heart.As a doctor, I know my own diagnosis: psychopath.But my obsession with her makes me feel almost human for the first time in my life.I can't resist this...compulsion.I can't resist her. Read more

AlessandraMy entire life changed when he walked into my father’s café in Tuscany…Il Mostro. The monster. The devilishly handsome mafia don Dario Rosolini.He and his brothers run this region… and they take everything they want.Including me. Although Dario has made clear that I am his and ONLY his.But I’ll fight back, no matter how hard it is.Not just because I’m afraid of him (although I am)…But because, deep down, I WANT him…And I know that giving in to him will ruin me forever.DarioAs soon as I saw her, I knew I had to have her.She was innocent and beautiful… so unlike everything else in my world.I’m the head of my family now.Every mafioso in Italy wants me and my brothers dead.I live with a sword dangling over my head…But none of that matters when I look into her eyes.I want her.I have to have her.And no matter how much she protests and fights…I WILL possess her, body and soul.Mafia Kings: Dario is the first in a dark Mafia Romance series.There is no cheating. There IS an HEA.Warning: this book contains adult situations, profanity, violence, and dark romance themes. Read more

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 hauntingly beautiful way. Her work is unique and addictive—she really is one of a kind.”--Hannah Grace, New York Times bestselling author of ICEBREAKER“Original, innovative, and unlike anything I’ve read before.”―L. J. Shen, USA Today bestselling authorAn unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong?An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit, and death.An enigma his entire life, Vad Deverell likes being a closed book but knowing exactly everything that happens in the university. A part-time professor working on his thesis, Vad has been around long enough to know the dangers the castle possesses. And he knows the moment his path crosses with Corvina, she's dangerous to everything that he is.They shouldn't have caught each other's eye. They cannot be. But a chill-inducing century-old mystery forces them to collide. People have disappeared every five years over the past century, Corvina is getting clues to unraveling it all, and Vad needs to keep an eye on her.And so begins a tale of the mysterious, the morbid, the macabre, and a deep love that blossoms in the unlikeliest of places.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Read more

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Juniper After a cult tried to sacrifice me to their wicked God, I went on the run, doing whatever was necessary to survive. Until a demon offered me a deal: give him my soul and he'll help me claim the vengeance I seek. Blood will be spilled, and the monsters I once ran from will soon be running from me. But damning my soul was just the beginning - it's my heart the demon wants next.ZaneI've been hunting souls for centuries, but she's the ultimate prize - vicious and feral, with a broken soul as dark as my own. I thought claiming her would be a simple game, but Juniper is far from simple. I chose to follow her on a path drenched with the blood of her enemies, but it's our blood that may be spilled next. As an ancient God wakes from Its slumber, neither of us may survive.Her Soul for Revenge is book 2 in the Souls Trilogy. Each book within the Souls Trilogy is interconnected, following a different couple through a similar timeline in the fictional world of Abelaum.Content NoteThis book contains sexual scenes, kink/fetish content, horror elements, drug use, and depictions of hard kink/edgeplay. Please see the book preview for complete CW. Read more

It’s been months since the day we stood above that empty grave that stunk of burnt flesh and secrets. All of us were dressed to the nines, one of us wearing a wedding dress, a day that was supposed to mark the beginning of a new adventure.It marked the bitter end of our vengeance.We have done things that have marked our souls for eternity.But before we get there, we have to go back.Back to where it all started.The place I could find in my sleep.Hollow Heights University in the macabre, somber seaside town of Ponderosa Springs.A college for prestigious, wealthy children to receive the highest education. A town drowning in treachery and secrets that became our damnation.But it wasn’t the forest surrounding the grounds or even the mysterious hidden mausoleum that haunted me.It was them.The ones that lurked in the night, things so wicked, so twisted, so evil, they would become the rulers of my nightmares.The Hollow Boys.One wrong move and I landed myself directly in their line of fire.This is not a story about love, it is not a story of happy endings.Love just happened to blossom in our sorrows, in our pain, our fear, our blood.Every terrible thing they ever did, we watched, we helped, we loved them anyway.Some run from their monsters, we fell in love with ours. Read more

Even the most powerful love can't save a condemned soul.Pain is an abyss. How naive of me to think I’d already reached the very depths of it when fate shook my world with a crushing blow. It turns out there are fathomless levels of pain, like a winding labyrinth of doors leading to shadowy figures and long-forgotten secrets. The kind of inescapable descent into madness that twists nightmares into reality.What lies at the end of this obscure path I have yet to discover. But where it begins is a place called Infernium: an asylum feared by those in Nightshade and untrodden by the angels who’ve forsaken its many lost souls.Some say it’s the gateway to hell. Others believe it’s where you go when the last flicker of hope dies out. For me, it’s where I’ve damned myself for eternity—my penance for a crime against the heavens and home to the demons that claw at my mind. Yet, not even they stand a chance against my dark angel, Jericho. He fears nothing—except losing me.The longer I remain trapped, though, the stronger this darkness inside me grows: a duality dividing my heart between love and revenge. Soon, saving me may no longer be an option. Read more

☆NOW A TOP 30 AMAZON BESTSELLER☆*PART ONE OF A DUET*No good ever comes from a red-head in a stolen dress with her worldly possessions at her feet.I should have known she was trouble when smoke and sin followed her into my bar and she challenged me to a game.She may have won my watch, but she started a war.As she slipped my Breitling off my wrist and onto her own, she gleefully announced she was the luckiest girl in the world.Yeah, lucky to everyone but me.Because the moment her muddy boots stomped down the stairs and up my spine, my empire started to crumble.My cashmere charm is wrinkling.My gentlemanly facade is cracking.My enemies are closing in.Maybe the fortune teller was right:The Queen of Hearts will drag me down to hell. At least it’s wonderfully warm among the flames.DARK MAFIA ROMANCE - ENEMIES TO LOVERS - AGE GAP - SLOW BURN *** SOMME’S NOTES: Sinners Condemned is part one of a duet, and because of this, it ends on a cliffhanger. Rafe & Penny’s story continues in Sinners Consumed.For a better reading experience, please read Sinners Anonymous before reading Sinners Condemned.You should know that I write dark romance, and my stories–including this one–aren’t for the faint of heart. They contain several triggers, so aren’t suitable for everyone. Read more

The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier -- winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century -- is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.   "Daphne du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings." --Stephen King Read more

Meet the Devil of Blackthorne Manor.When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born.Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined.In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.Lucian Blackthorne is as cursed as I am, and equally shunned by the locals, the fishers of men, who believe him to be the devil in the flesh.Perhaps he is, with the way his amber eyes draw me in, ignite me like an infernal blaze. And the sins he whispers in my ear are as wickedly intoxicating as the man himself.Yet, his touch is heaven and his will is my weakness.He calls us forbidden, an unsalvageable tragedy, with no happy end. Maybe we are. But in this story, he’s the one who needs saving.Master of Salt & Bones is a dark, modern gothic contemporary standalone romance. Read more

★ TOP 10 AMAZON BESTSELLER! ★★ NUMBER 1 GOTHIC ROMANCE BESTSELLER! ★He’s coming for you.Death is meant to come on a chariot of broken dreams or in the dark trenches of a storm, not in love letters and gifts.He did not take my soul when I was meant to die. He did not want it all the other times that I’ve offered it to him on a silver platter. Yet, time and time again, he reminds me that I am his: His night monster, his dark love, his perfect other.Death was the only thing keeping me alive. He watches me from his corner, taunts me with sweet messages, marks my body with his touch as I sleep.He took the people that I love away from me. Still, no one believed me when I said that I saw the faceless man on the night of the accident.No one can escape death.Me? I’m chasing it. Read more

EverlyI am the servant of a merciless God. I am the daughter of Its preacher. All my life, my power has been controlled by others. They raised me to be meek and stifled my magic.But no more.A brutal murder led me to discover a mysterious house full of magic - and the ancient, powerful demon within. He says my power can change the world, that I can kill the evil creature I once worshipped.But at what cost?CallumFor two thousand years, I've been alone. Slaughtering fallen Gods as I searched for the witch that haunted my dreams, begging for my help.Now that I've found her, I will protect her with my life. But when the fate of Earth, Heaven, and Hell hangs in the balance, not even her soul is safe from destruction.If a choice must be made, I'll let the world burn if it means having her as my own.Soul of a Witch is book 3 in the Souls Trilogy. Each book within the Souls Trilogy is interconnected, following a different couple through a similar timeline in the fictional world of Abelaum.Content NoteThis book contains sexual scenes, kink/fetish content, horror elements, and drug use. Please see the book preview for complete CW. Read more

From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men (inspiration for the hit series Sex/Life on Netflix) comes the highly anticipated sequel to her dark Irish mafia romance, Devil of Dublin.Growing up, I spent every night tucked under my mother’s arm, dreamily listening to tales from her favorite book series—Legend Has It by Darby Donovan, a collection of spooky folklore about a town called Glenshire and the lonely, gray-eyed fairy prince who haunted the woods there. I knew they were just stories, but when my mother died and left me in the care of my cold, abusive father, that fictional fairy prince suddenly became very, very real to me. It was as if he was always there, hiding in the shadows, offering me his silent comfort. I turned him into an imaginary friend when I needed one most.And thirteen years later, I’m doing it again.When my coastal Irish town is bombed by the new Russian president, a Bratva leader seeking revenge on the United Irish Brotherhood, those missiles destroy everything I’ve ever known—my home, my family, and evidently my sanity—because when I pull an injured Russian Navy officer out of the sea, a man who led the charge against my town, I can’t bring myself to let him die.Secluded together in my secret hiding spot, we’re safe from the Mafia war raging outside, but the overwhelming connection I feel to this stranger is a battle I fight every single day. I hate him with everything that I am, but when he looks at me with those smoky gray eyes, all I see is my friend. When he touches me, all I feel is desire. And when he wraps his lips around the sustenance I offer him, all I want is to feel them pressed against mine, loving me, putting me back together.But no one can live in a fantasy world forever, and when reality finally finds us, the truth about him is worse than anything I could have imagined.The man I rescued is no fairy prince.He’s the goddamn Devil himself. Read more

*PART 2 OF A DUET* My world is on fire, and I’m obsessed with the girl who lit the match. Bloodied knuckles and a lifeless body at my feet confirm it: Penny is my demise.My gentlemanly facade is nothing but a memory.My sins are seeping through my shirt like ink.I tried to leave her. Couldn’t do it.I tried to snuff the life out of her. Couldn’t do that, either.So we’ll slow dance in the flames until I’m nothing but ash and embers.I’ll only rise like a phoenix when she’s gone.The problem is, I’d never let her go.No, she’d have to run far, far, away to escape me.And maybe she will if I just told her the truth:I own the Sinners Anonymous Hotline. And I’ve listened to every call she’s ever made. DARK MAFIA ROMANCE - ENEMIES TO LOVERS - AGE GAP - SLOW BURN***SOMME’S NOTES:Sinners Consumed is part two of a duet. Rafe & Penny’s story starts in Sinners Condemned, which will be out September 7.For a better reading experience, please read Sinners Anonymous before reading Sinners Condemned & Sinners Consumed.You should know that I write dark romance, and my stories–including this one–aren’t for the faint of heart. They contain several triggers, so aren’t suitable for everyone. Read more

If I weren’t pregnant with his baby right now, I’d be dead. I chose Cato in the end, but that decision came too late. Not only does he not trust me, but he wants me dead too.I’ve explained my dilemma, that either choice was the wrong one, but he ignores every word. When I told him I felt for him, I meant it, but that falls on deaf ears too. Once the baby comes, he said he’ll kill me. Not only do I need to convince him to spare my life—but to give me another chance too.If he does allow me to live, he’ll take away my child. He’ll keep them to himself and force me to live a life without ever knowing the person I grew for nine months. And if I can’t convince him that my love was real, I’ll have to settle for someone else. Someone I’ll never love the way I love Cato.I’ve lost my family—and I have to get it back.Pick up the next installment of this dark romance bestseller 2023 now by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page. This alpha male dark romance trilogy is also available in Kindle Unlimited! Read more