Dark Romance

Dark romance is a subgenre of romance fiction that explores complex, taboo, and often disturbing themes like obsession, danger, captivity, and power imbalances. It focuses on intense, often toxic relationships featuring "dark" anti-heroes, maintaining a romantic focus with a, usually, positive or happily-ever-after ending despite challenging content. ...more

Harvest Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #2)
Tempting Venom (Vipers, #3)
Shattered Gods (Dark Olympus, #10)
Loving the Wicked (The Wicked Trilogy, 2)
Depraved Desires (Villains & Vices, #2)
The Wildborn (Starborn, #1)
REQUIEM (Falling Star Trilogy #3)
Hold Me Close (Dangerous Obsession, #3)
Frozen Heart (Perfectly Imperfect, #12)
High Water (The Quiet Horsemen #4)
Tyler's Rule (Skeleton Crew, #3)
Love You To Pieces
Keep Me Safe (Dangerous Obsession Book, #2)
Tainted Embrace
Offside (Villalargos University #2)
Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3)
Alchemised
Vows of Blood and Deception (The Hirathean Path, #2)
Woman Down
Daggermouth (The Heart, #1)
Releasing 10 (Boys of Tommen, #6)
Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
Bonds of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #2)
A Requiem for Fallen Stars (Cadence of the Fallen, #1)
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
Rose in Chains (The Evermore Trilogy, #1)
The Bond That Burns (Bloodwing Academy, #2)
The Wings That Bind (Bloodwing Academy, #3)
Anathema (The Eating Woods, #1)
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Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1)
God of Malice (Legacy of Gods, #1)
The Ritual (L.O.R.D.S., #1)
Hooked (Never After, #1)
The Sweetest Oblivion (Made, #1)
Does It Hurt?
The Predator (Dark Verse, #1)
Little Stranger (The Web of Silence Duet, #1)
God of Wrath (Legacy of Gods, #3)
Kill Switch (Devil's Night, #3)
Insatiable (The Edge of Darkness, #1)
Brynne Weaver
A snow globe,” I say slowly, waiting for her to look up, which she doesn’t do. “You made a severed finger into a feckin’ snow globe.” “It was almost Christmas,” she says with a shrug. “It felt … festive.
Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

Leigh Rivers
The idea of anyone thinking they can have her after me makes my blood boil. Dangerous. This is so fucking dangerous. I think I'm falling in love with Stacey Rhodes. ...more
Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

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