Neon Halo
When Lazarus Crowe falls from the burning spires of Halo Dominion, he brings ruin, and something far more dangerous, through the cathedral doors. Elara Voss, bound by a decade of d
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Dark Romance books
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Dark Romance on the shelf
The Taste of Ruin
Bianca Moretti steps off a tram in Milan after thirty-one sleepless hours, arriving to the news that Nonna Clara's trattoria , the heart of her family's culinary legacy , has burne
Vows Written in Venom
Elara Vance has hidden the serpent mark on her wrist since childhood, the living proof of a bloodline bound by vow to the Wraith-King, an ancient horror waiting beneath the ash for
Carmilla Varno
Maren Ashford is the best deposition attorney at Whitfield, Crane and Associates, precise, unflinching, and willing to break any witness to find the truth. But when a high-profile
Bound by the Shadow Mark
A single lantern swings above the iron gates of Thornhaven Academy as Elara Voss arrives carrying a secret she cannot name , a shadow mark that burns beneath her skin and marks her
Thorns of the Eternal
Snow falls in slow curtains across the Thornwood's edge, and Elara Venn is running out of time. Her sister Mara is fading, her spirit claimed by the ancient, hungry forest that has
Embers of a Selfish Heart
Three weeks after receiving a summons he should have burned, Damon Castellan crosses the salt-rotted threshold of Thornhaven and finds decay thicker than the brine on the wind. The
Thorns of the Hollow Court
The iron gates of Blackthorn Manor groan open for Rowan Ashworth, pulling him back to an estate he swore never to return to, and into the shadowed dominion of Lord Cassian Thorne a
Cursed Beneath a Thorned Moon
On the night of a blood moon, Octavia Blackwood steps out of a rain-lashed carriage and into Ravenshollow Manor, the estate her grandmother died protecting and the heir she swore s
The Saint of Salt and Smoke
When Vivienne Ashworth returns to the storm-lashed cliffs of Sorrow Bay for her grandmother's funeral, she carries a sealed envelope and a grief she has never been allowed to name.
Vicious merger
Eloise Whitfield-Carrigan swore she would never set foot inside the glass tower of Vantreeger Capital again, but her mother's will leaves her no choice. With the controlling shares
The Devil's Vow
Elena Vasquez arrived at a California cemetery expecting closure, not a collision course with destiny. Among the black iron gates and marble angels, she crosses paths with Dominic
The Vow He Breaks
Nerissa Calloway has spent years waiting for the man who ruined her family to die. When word finally comes that Rafe Ashworth has perished in disgrace abroad, she travels to his cr
Throne of Hollow Frost
Elara Voss has spent three years learning the language of the dead in the copper-lit depths of Hollow City's morgue, until the night a nameless child's body is delivered to her tab
The Devil's Vow
The red wax seal pressed into Eleanor Ashworth's dreams the night before Sebastian Voss arrived to claim what her family owed him. Wrenched from nightmares of her brother's ruined