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Knight (Unfinished Hero, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.91 — 57,036 ratings — published 2012
The Highwayman (Victorian Rebels, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,247 ratings — published 2015
Breathless (The House of Rohan, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,790 ratings — published 2010
Duke of Sin (Maiden Lane, #10)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,349 ratings — published 2016
Torture to Her Soul (Monster in His Eyes, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,406 ratings — published 2014
Sinister Kisses (SKALS, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.33 — 3,514 ratings — published 2013
Lothaire (Immortals After Dark, #11)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.36 — 49,981 ratings — published 2012
Ruthless (The House of Rohan, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,450 ratings — published 2010
Stroke of Midnight (Cinderella, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,522 ratings — published 2020
Target on Our Backs (Monster in His Eyes, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.34 — 10,816 ratings — published 2016
Ghost (Boston Underworld, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,664 ratings — published 2016
Blackbird (Redemption, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,681 ratings — published 2017
Buttons & Lace (Buttons, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,446 ratings — published 2016
The Hunter (Victorian Rebels, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,283 ratings — published 2016
Raze (Scarred Souls, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,298 ratings — published 2014
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.90 — 13,650 ratings — published 2014
Archangel's Blade (Guild Hunter, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.24 — 35,583 ratings — published 2011
Death Angel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,067 ratings — published 2008
Deviant (Blood & Roses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,024 ratings — published 2014
Twist Me (Twist Me, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.83 — 33,785 ratings — published 2014
Carter Reed (Carter Reed, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.99 — 38,411 ratings — published 2013
Last Hit (Hitman, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,524 ratings — published 2013
Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.97 — 44,308 ratings — published 2013
Consequences: A Dark Wealth and Power Romance (Consequences, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.91 — 43,594 ratings — published 2011
Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.93 — 75,539 ratings — published 2011
Angels' Blood (Guild Hunter, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.06 — 99,563 ratings — published 2009
To Love a Dark Lord (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,240 ratings — published 1994
Cry No More (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,317 ratings — published 2003
Claiming the Courtesan (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,496 ratings — published 2007
Ice Blue (Ice, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,918 ratings — published 2007
Black Ice (Ice, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,217 ratings — published 2005
The Pucking Wrong Number (Pucking Wrong, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.53 — 102,538 ratings — published 2023
Veiled in Hate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,485 ratings — published 2023
Run Posy Run (Underboss Insurrection, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.73 — 14,100 ratings — published 2021
The Ritual (L.O.R.D.S., #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.05 — 389,036 ratings — published 2021
Stolen Heir (Brutal Birthright, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.83 — 97,300 ratings — published 2020
Twisted Pride (The Camorra Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.10 — 63,498 ratings — published 2019
Prince Charming (Cinderella, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,054 ratings — published 2021
Beautifully Cruel (Beautifully Cruel, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.12 — 59,401 ratings — published 2020
Fear Me (Broken Love, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,590 ratings — published 2015
Ruthless King (Mount Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,013 ratings — published 2017
Crime Lord's Captive (Crime Lord, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,216 ratings — published 2016
Buttons & Pain (Buttons, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,267 ratings — published 2017
Grievous (Scarlet Scars, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,059 ratings — published 2017
Menace (Scarlet Scars, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,055 ratings — published 2017
Buttons & Hate (Buttons, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,203 ratings — published 2017
Crown of Lies (Truth and Lies Duet, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,868 ratings — published 2017
The Pawn (Endgame, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,353 ratings — published 2016
Reaper (Boston Underworld, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-hero)
avg rating 4.07 — 26,108 ratings — published 2016
“The faeries took no notice of my cry. No doubt they were used to lost travelers screaming for help. One of them grabbed me by my cloak and wrenched me painfully back and forth, like an animal wishing to drag me to the ground. But I did not need to call for Wendell again.
He stepped out from behind a tree---or perhaps from the tree; I didn't see. He reached a hand out and snapped the neck of the faerie gripping me, which I had not expected, and I staggered back from both him and the crumpling body. He saw the mark on my neck, and his entire face darkened with something that seemed to go beyond fury and made him look like some feral creature. The faeries scattered like leaves, though they were too intrigued and too stupid to run.
"Are you hurt?"
"No." I don't know how I made myself speak. I have seen Wendell angry before, but this was something that seemed to surge through him like lightning, threatening to burn everything in its path.
He moved his hand, and a hideous tree rose up from the snow, dark and terrifying, all thorns and knife-sharp branches. The boughs darted out, and he skewered the faeries on them. Once they were all immobilized, held squirming and screaming above the ground, he moved from one to the other, tearing them apart with perfect, calm brutality. Limbs, hearts, other organs I did not recognize scattered the snow. He did not rush, but killed them methodically while the others howled and writhed.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
He stepped out from behind a tree---or perhaps from the tree; I didn't see. He reached a hand out and snapped the neck of the faerie gripping me, which I had not expected, and I staggered back from both him and the crumpling body. He saw the mark on my neck, and his entire face darkened with something that seemed to go beyond fury and made him look like some feral creature. The faeries scattered like leaves, though they were too intrigued and too stupid to run.
"Are you hurt?"
"No." I don't know how I made myself speak. I have seen Wendell angry before, but this was something that seemed to surge through him like lightning, threatening to burn everything in its path.
He moved his hand, and a hideous tree rose up from the snow, dark and terrifying, all thorns and knife-sharp branches. The boughs darted out, and he skewered the faeries on them. Once they were all immobilized, held squirming and screaming above the ground, he moved from one to the other, tearing them apart with perfect, calm brutality. Limbs, hearts, other organs I did not recognize scattered the snow. He did not rush, but killed them methodically while the others howled and writhed.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“Wendell marched down a winding path in the mountainside--- he must have conjured it himself--- to engage the elder horsemen in a square of meadow tucked between two crags. I don't know if it was some inane faerie custom or simply the custom of the horsemen, but the one who appeared to be their leader--- judging by the size of his horse and the number of scars he bore--- stepped forward as if to challenge Wendell to single combat. Wendell, still with that calm detachment, somehow cut out the beast's heart in two sharp movements and hurled it at the rider in a stomach-churning spray of blood, knocking him from his saddle.
At that point, the remaining horsemen decided to abandon honor and charge him together, but their horses were, wisely, terrified of Wendell by this point, and shied away when he neared, some throwing their riders off, which Wendell dispatched in various appalling ways, sometimes appearing to forget about his sword entirely. Rose stood there the whole time, aghast, but I was familiar with Wendell's murderous moods and turned away after the third or fourth death, drawing Ariadne with me to the fireside. I was still shaking with fury. So he would risk killing himself rather than pausing to think our way out of things, would he?”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
At that point, the remaining horsemen decided to abandon honor and charge him together, but their horses were, wisely, terrified of Wendell by this point, and shied away when he neared, some throwing their riders off, which Wendell dispatched in various appalling ways, sometimes appearing to forget about his sword entirely. Rose stood there the whole time, aghast, but I was familiar with Wendell's murderous moods and turned away after the third or fourth death, drawing Ariadne with me to the fireside. I was still shaking with fury. So he would risk killing himself rather than pausing to think our way out of things, would he?”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
