Welcome to the Dark & Spicy Book Club! Have you ever felt outside or alone in book clubs because what you write didn't fit in with most of the other books in the club? You read other people's books, hoping they'd read yours, but never really got much in return? Have you ever felt wrong or misunderstood because you write the characters and topics you do? Do you want to meet others like yourself, get feedback on your work, and read books within your niche? Well, look no further. The Dark & Spicy Book Club, run by The Dark & Spicy Community, might be the place for you. Take a look inside and see if this club is the perfect for for you and your books.

🥇 The Amby Awards 2023, Romance 🥇 The Hot & Bothered Awards 2024, Dark Romance 🥇 The GrandLibrary Awards, 2022, Romance 🥇 The Writer's Recognition Awards, 2021, Romance 🥇 The BooksAndBeyond 2021 Awards, Romance To the world he is everything you could want in a man. Tall, dark, and handsome. A sharp business profile, respected, and with a prestigious family name. He has everything; looks, money, and a dangerous sexual attraction. In the underground, he is known as The Dragon. Leader of one of the largest factions of the Russian mafia with claims all over Europe. Ruthless, cold, and rules his territories with an iron fist. When he wants something, he goes for it and he does not know how to fail. She is what he wants. But how will he win her back after having ghosted her and been gone for four years without explanation? Will she even give him a chance? And what if the reason he ghosted her is the one reason she would not want him at all? What if her secrets are the ones he will have to battle and not his own? Fighting a ghost of an enemy under the veil of a past he has no knowledge of, he is trying to keep his men safe, win the woman he loves, and protect the heritage of his family name. The sins of the past, wrapped in secrets to never be revealed, will haunt him without him even knowing what happened long before he was born, long before he became the leader and had to take responsibility for it. It is his job to take up the gauntlet and fight, in the name of honor and family. Will he succeed in his endeavors and solve the feud? Maybe find happiness and redemption? Or will he fail for the first time in his life...? 18+ Topics in the book include but are not limited to: Mafia affiliation. Murder. Torture. BDSM. Non-consensual sex/Rape. Violence. Abuse. Psychological terror. Most described in graphic detail.

🥇 1st place winner, The Hot & Bothered Awards, LGBTQ+ 🥇 1st place winner, The Hot & Bothered Awards, Best Male Character - Phoenix 🥇 1st place winner, The Hot & Bothered Awards, Best Spicy Chapter, chapter 32 🥇 1st place winner, The Hot & Bothered Awards, Best Heartwarming Chapter, chapter 56 🥇 1st place winner, Pretty in Punk Awards 2023. Best Action/fight scene, chapter 28 🥈 2nd place winner, The Gloria Regali Awards 2024, Best Male lead - Phoenix 🥈 2nd place winner, The Ecstatic Awards, Action This is the second book in the Russian Roulette series. It can be read independently, though it will make a lot more sense if you've read Russian Roulette: Family secrets first. It's a grumpy x sunshine - friends to lovers story about overcoming trauma, body positivity, and sexual acceptance with an ND lead. Please read the introduction chapter before venturing into reading this book! *** On the day of their wedding, Jace and Phoenix look back on everything leading up to the day when they finally say 'I do'. In flashbacks, they remember over a decade of events in their lives that shaped their love for each other. Events that took them from colleagues to lovers, and formed them into men ready for a life together. The friendship. The parties. The steamy nights. The misunderstandings and insecurities. The heartaches. The longing. The demons from their pasts, threatening to tear them apart. A story of friendship, brotherhood, and love. *** This story is a man x man (gay love) story and contains gay sex, explicit language, BDSM, and triggering subjects such as violence, drugs, non-con, and abuse. All described in graphic detail. Read at your own discretion!

Life is a journey with roads that split. One simple choice that at first seemed so harmless can lead to a path of darkness, too easy to get lost in. For in that darkness, monsters dwell and do their best to swallow you whole. It's the year 1997. Michael is an ordinary high school student in Plymouth, England. He's popular among his peers and lives a good life under the roof of his loving Catholic parents. But he has been holding a secret he's afraid to tell. He's in love with his best friend, Tommy. Then one kiss that gave him hope ends up crumbling everything. Betrayed by his friend, outed for the entire school, and as the gossip spreads, he is left with no choice but to tell his parents. The reaction is as he feared. They couldn't accept it. Lost and inconsolable, he meets a man who lures him with his sweet talk. Seduces him with his kindness and comfort that is lost elsewhere. The promise of heaven was easy to accept, and so Michael does, only to discover himself trapped in hell instead. Fear shackles him and keeps him silent until it's time for those shackles to break. For even from the darkness, there can be a path towards the light when you get the chance and choose to find it. Can Michael still make his way back home? *Silent* is Michael's story of survival and the healing power of love. 🥇Dark romance in Gloria Regali awards

In Misha's opinion, Joni is a brat. He is the spoiled best friend of Misha's younger brother, and much too used to getting what he wants. Not to mention, Joni now seems to have developed a foolish crush on him. But Misha isn't falling - most certainly not! However, the beautiful boy with captivating amber eyes is proving rather difficult to ignore. His stunning looks, combined with the foolish games he plays, make it nearly impossible. But Misha is a tough nut to crack. Until those games lead to a situation where Misha can't ignore the brat any longer. The story sets in Finland and covers around three years of the characters' lives.

🥇 1st place winner in The Hot & Bothered Awards 2024, Best Prologue 🥇 1st place winner in The RoyalNobles Awards 2020, Werewolf/Vampire 🥇 1st place winner in The BooksGotTalent Awards 2021, Werewolf/Vampire 🥇 1st place winner in The WinterSpell Awards 2021, Vampire/Werewolf 🥈 2nd place winner in the Books and Beyond Awards 2021 Werewolf/Vampire 🥉 3rd place winner in The Pizza Awards 2021, Werewolf/Vampire 🏆 Best title, The Maybe Awards 2020 What do you do when you're a 2000+ year old werewolf living alone with no pack because everybody hates you? When the crimes of your past haunts you on a daily basis and you have no point in living? Drinking, whoring and killing off annoying rogues seems the logical choice. Being cursed with immense powers, he does not understand, powers which takes over and brings devastation to everybody around him, he decided to condemn himself to a life of few pleasures. Spending his days prowling for chicks in the nearby towns and drinking, he devotes the rest of his time to looking in on life in the local pack from a distance. He helps them on occasion with killing attacking rogues, just for the hell of it. He longs for what he does not have and does not understand. Being the big bad everybody is afraid of he does not know why he is alive. Until that day when he finds a purpose. Updates on Mondays. Disclaimer: Strong language. Explicit sexual content. Graphic violence. Read at your own discretion All rights reserved 2020

Nineteen-year-old Jesse is happy with his first love and first boyfriend Joni. However, their sexual drive is very different and it's the only thing that bothers both in their relationship. Marko, Mr. Paris Hilton, as Jesse likes to call him, is someone he's known since junior high but has never been friends with. They are way too different after all. Marko is dating an older, wealthy man who has invited them to his luxurious cabin for the weekend. This one weekend changes all of their lives. Hearts are broken and new loves formed, with perhaps unlikely sources. (Joni's and Misha's characters from Foolish games were created in this story, but I altered them to suit foolish better. The stories are not connected in any other way.)

🥉 3rd place in the Purple Choice Awards 2021, Romance category. An international movie star, filming in Europe at the border of a country fighting a civil war, gets taken hostage along with some of her crew by the militia of that country. Brutally beaten and raped, she's hanging on for her life until the resistance frees them. A young resistance doctor nurses her back to health. They spend weeks together in a small hut in the mountains where they slowly develop feelings for each other. What will happen when she goes back home? Will they forget about each other? How does a movie star with physical and mental trauma fit into the world of a resistance doctor fighting a war? And vice versa.

Denver believed her life was ordinary, and nothing would happen to change that. She loved living her best life accompanied by her three best friends. But then one day, her whole world turned upside down when she ran into none other than Sirius Storm, the high school's hot-tempered yet handsome bad boy. Unbeknownst to her, he also happened to be the Night Walker Pack's alpha, one of the most notorious and dangerous wolf packs. He chose her as his prime target and became determined to make her his. Would she ever escape his claws, or would he mark her forever and change the course of her life?

L is the 'villain' that reigned in tyranny for over 300 years. Finally, one day, she was captured and killed. At least that's popular knowledge. L is alive, though restrained. And what happens when another threat threatens the world? Well...it seems you ask the previous threat to fight it for you. ........... Places are burned to the ground. Strange symbols are found. Magic is getting stolen. And L's the one who needs to discover the culprit. With the help of heroes-in-the-making and some old allies, L will travel to the Demon realm, where a new Demon King has appeared. He also happens to be the main suspect. But first, L has to regain control of her magic(that went mad), the heroes-to-be have to get trained (they're kids) and the militaries have to find out who the spy is (yes, there's a spy).