ON GOOD READ SO YOU CAN ADD TO YOUR COUNT Dark Romance • Mafia • Possessive MMC • Consent-Complex Dynamics • Morally Grey/Black Hero After scattering her brother's ashes into the Italian sea, Ariella Kensington is left drowning in a grief no one can touch. Her parents hover, her world has collapsed... and the only time she feels anything is in a bar in Naples, when a stranger looks at her like he sees straight through the numbness. One night. One reckless moment. One man she should never have met. ⚠️ Trigger Warnings / Content Advisory This story contains adult themes and dark romance elements, including: Coercion & Power Imbalance Possessive / Controlling Behavior Threats of Violence Violence and Death Depiction Non-Consensual Surveillance Objectification & Sexual Threat Emotional Manipulation Criminal Activity Grief & Loss Profanity, Explicit Adult Language 💛Please know your triggers and be safe 💛

In the heart of Toronto, Alessia Morgan Blake lives quietly between duty and dreams. Her days smell of old paper and coffee in her little bookshop. Her nights belong to her dying father.....the only family she has left. Her world is fragile, yet full of love. A devoted boyfriend. A future that finally seems kind. But under the wrong sky, fate listens. One wish upon a falling star tears her from her world and hurls her into another....a realm where kingdoms rise on blood and oaths rot in silence. Here, the moon is colder, the air heavier, and the throne belongs to one man: King Alaric Draxen Vortigern The ruthless ruler of Valemorra.....the Land of the Fallen Oath. A monarch forged in chaos and cruelty. Feared by his enemies, worshipped by his people, hated by the gods themselves. When Alessia appears in his throne room, lost, trembling, wearing clothes no one in his world has ever seen, she becomes his fascination. His curse. His obsession. The king who never wanted a queen finds himself consumed by a girl from another world..... a girl whose defiance lights the fire he thought long dead. But his desire is not gentle. It's possession. And his love is not salvation. It's captivity. She was light. He was ruin. And fate decided they would meet. To Alaric, love is not a word....it's a weapon. And Alessia is the battlefield. To him, she is not a guest. Not a stranger. Not even a prisoner. She is his..... to break, to worship, to keep. And if time dares to take her back, he will destroy it itself. Trapped between two eras, Alessia must choose: the world she left behind or the one that refuses to let her go. Because once the King claims something... he never returns it. ____________________ Read Prologue for details description

Cassian Drevault is a prisoner of his own madness. Born into a kingdom of cruelty and cold control, he wears his legacy like chains - and beneath the polished mask, he punishes himself for every tear Ziva Mace sheds. Three years ago, she stained his world with a single careless spill. Since then, she has been his obsession, his torment, the fracture in his fractured soul. She doesn't remember him. She never knew the man who watches her from the shadows, who lures her into a gilded cage beneath his cold estate's iron gates. He cages her body with iron rules, surveillance, and ruthless demand. But she cages his soul with silent defiance. Every tear she refuses to shed, he bleeds thrice over. Every act of resistance, he scars himself in the dark, invisible to the world. To the outside, he is the captor - the man who owns her. But in the prison of obsession and pain, the roles are blurred. She is the jailer. He is the captive. And in this poisoned dance of possession, love is a weapon, agony a currency, and freedom a cruel illusion neither can afford. --- "He built a cage of walls and whispers - but she holds the key to his prison." "She is the lock he cannot pick, the silence he cannot break." "In the end, captivity is not about chains - it's about who holds your soul."

DARK ROMANCE!!! "Tsk." "See, what your disobedience did." He rasped in a mocking tone. His head tilted to the left as he peered down at her with a smirk so malicious, that one would immediately know that he was the cause of the disaster around her. Sasha scooted back in horror and turned around, she stood up on her trembling legs, and just as she took a few steps to get away from the monster behind her, she ended up facing him. He was pale, he had red eyes and he was everything but a gentleman. Only if that one unfortunate night, she didn't help him, hell wouldn't have cocooned her in its embrace. ********* Sasha Walton known as the kindest princess among the kingdoms was a twenty-two years old sunshine of her kingdom that once bloomed in glory. Every other person admired her because of her kind and friendly nature. With her kindness came her bravery...but with her kindness she ended up falling in the claws of a merciless beast who wasn't even a human to begin with. Ragnar, a king no one had ever seen but was feared by the whole world. He lurked in the shadows of the night and feasted on his enemies. He was known as the cruelest king and on one fortunate night, he came across someone so opposite to his world. He was intrigued and obsessed with her. He yearns to possess her, claim her, and captivate her in every possible way he can because little Sasha belongs to him. WARNING! This story contains a non-consensual relationship, a toxic male lead, and a lot of gore. 18+

The woods were my home-quiet, safe, and far from the reach of monsters. Until the day they came for me. Dragged from the only life I knew, I was taken to a castle ruled by King Vaelorn-a monster whispered to be more legend than man, feared even by his kind. They say his golden eyes can freeze the air, his wrath can level villages, and his cruelty has no equal. I swore I would keep my head down, stay invisible, and survive. But the closer I get to him, the more I feel his gaze burning through me, unraveling every ounce of fear I have left. He's dangerous. He's inhuman. And no matter how much I should run, something inside me keeps pulling me toward him... toward the one thing I fear most.

Desperate and out of options, Esme signs a marriage contract with a stranger, carrying scars she learned to hide. She expects safety. Instead, she finds danger, dominance, and pain. Their marriage is cold and soon, her ancient wolf awakens, urging her to run. Every step she takes away from her husband leads her closer to a darker future. Caught between loyalty to the past, temptation in the present, and a creature far more dangerous waiting in the shadows to claim her, Esme clings to denial as her last defense. Because in a world like this, fate doesn't chase. It waits. +18 | Violence | Sexual Content (Mild to Erotic)

**STOP! This is book 3 of The Twilight Stars. Please check out Book 1 first, Spears of U'u'kata*** Cali's had a rough time of it ever since her entire farming colony was kidnapped off the deep space asteroid they inhabited. She lost everything. Her home, her career, her livelihood. What is an entomologist supposed to do in a beautiful, harsh world where no one cares about insects? When she and her best friend, Ezra, join a crew intending to locate a natural source of iron for the colony, their ship ends up capsized and Cali finds herself alone on a hostile island, her only hope for survival is one of the Uu'k'asht she's long held resentment toward. But he has no intention of helping her get back to her people. No, Thenta had a mission, and she just became a part of it.

Scarred and broken from a disastrous marriage, Laura Maidstone vows never to love again. And it's not love, when she seduces Richard Armiger, Lord Albroke, on her library room floor. It's only desire. And anger. And loneliness. Which, as she discovers, can be quite as dangerous... COMPLETED

When Barbara, aka the Ice Queen, agrees to fake-date Ryan, their relationship unexpectedly develops as they struggle to move on from their past. *** Barbara Owens is known as the Ice queen for her cold personality and ruthless business morals. When she agrees to a blind date as a favor to a friend, the last person she expects to see is Ryan Davies, and the last thing she expects to hear is a fake-dating offer. As their relationship develops and their feelings grow past friendship, their past catches up with them. Will their love be able to weather the winter storm? *** A reverse grumpy X sunshine story of love, family and healing.

Summer is a thief with morals and an outcast in her town. She finds a pendant floating in the creek one evening and pawns it off for money to help her only friend. Little did she know, that pendant would make her a wanted criminal and put her in the crosshairs of the mysterious outsiders who recently arrived to town. Leon's search for a stolen artifact lands him in a small southern town of the kingdom. He finds the artifact and a thief with violet eyes who denies stealing it. They embark on a journey to the capital to clear Summer's name and find out the real culprit behind the heist. Faced with trouble along the way, Leon and Summer's relationship develops as the two learn to trust each other. Six of Crows meets Lord of the Rings in a riveting tale of magic, love and self-discovery.