Dark Romance

Romance of The Year- Bookstagram Awards 2025

In a world of predators, she was always the deadliest.

Some love you. Some destroy you. Some do both.

Monsters don’t hide under the bed. Sometimes, they lie in your arms.

Some monsters are born. Others are made.
Caroline Landers has always known the darkness lived inside her. Not hidden. Not controlled. Simply waiting for the right moment to be unleashed.
That moment came the night she crossed paths with Samuel Corby—a man who stalked her from the shadows, only to awaken a hunger in her that even she couldn’t tame.
Samuel is everything the world warns you about: obsessive, lethal, untouchable. But the most dangerous thing about him isn't what he does—it's how deeply he loves her. How completely he sees her for what she truly is... and still demands she belongs to him.
When a sadistic new enemy rises from the wreckage of her past, threatening everything Caroline has fought to protect, she doesn’t break. She doesn’t run. She does what monsters do best.
She hunts.
As secrets unravel, betrayals ignite, and another shadow steps forward—one who has loved her from the dark all along—Caroline must face the brutal truth:
She was never the prey.
She was always the predator.
And sometimes... you don't have to choose between your monsters at all.
You can have them both—and let the world burn.

She’s a witch. He hunts killers.
Solving murders is just the foreplay.
Maggie Maxwell didn’t mean to become the town’s newest scandal.

But moving into her dead uncle’s haunted manor came with more than creaky headboards—it came with murders. Multiple. Right in her backyard.

And a six-foot-four officer, built like a wall of muscle and her filthiest desires, babysitting her like she’s breakable. He’s brooding, bossy, and overprotective—and Maggie? She’s sworn off quick flings. Especially since her love spell has a new side effect: obsessive, zombie-like exes who abandon their families just to worship the ground she walks on.

Oops.

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Life for Officer Graham Locke was simple. Thought he’d buried his past. But the new girl in town is the kind of trouble that unearths everything. Protecting her was supposed to be his job—not his kink. And all those years he’d spent denying the unexplainable? Yeah, they were for nothing.

Now it’s one supernatural nightmare after another.

But all he really wants—besides her—is a drink and maybe a slice of pie.


❤️‍🔥1st in Series

🖤NOT a HEA - yet *cliffhanger*

❤️‍🔥Insta-lust but slowburn

🖤Dirty talkers

❤️‍🔥witty & unhinged banter 

🖤Forced Proximity

❤️‍🔥Grumpy/Grumpy

🖤*Toys*

❤️‍🔥He's coded like Dean...🫠

🖤Ob$es$ive / Pr0tective MMC

❤️‍🔥light 🐝DSM

🖤Tragic past

❤️‍🔥Found Family

🖤FMC/MMC over 35

Blurb

Goddammit, she's MINE!
This manhunt across the country is going to end in one way.
With her in my possession, and anyone who gets in my way, beneath the fucking dirt!

Nadia

Dad raised me to be a hard ass and that trait didn't dissolve when I moved out of his house. In fact, when I finally got my 'big girl' job at the prison it got worse. I have been observing Kace for a year now. Once he jumped on my radar, he fucked up. I make his life hell, little did I know my own was about to railroad me.

Kace

I fucked up one damn time and got thrown into this prison. Judge took one look at me, with the governor whispering in his ear, and threw away the fucking key. No second chances, nothing. It took a few years, and unlikely friendships but my prison life turned around. Now though? I have a bitch of a guard on my ass. Slowly ruining what life I have left.

Lucien

She doesn't know me, but I know her. I have known her all of my life-- watching her from afar. When I got sent to the prison she is a guard at, I snapped when I found out she was being a fucking whore for one of the inmates. She is mine and I will fucking kill anyone who lays a hand on her.

A dangerous man with a legacy. A stolen woman with a fierce heart. A man bound by duty.

Antony

As the head of the Bernardi Family, my destiny is sealed. Marrying Lilliana Rossi is my fate, and my family’s existence depends on her submission. Which is why I have entrusted my best friend, Césare, to protect her and care for her in my absence.

But trust comes at a price, and soon I find myself entangled between heaven and hell. Loyalty is what I demand, but can I trust Lilliana and Césare will deliver me from my sins? Or will the salvation I seek be my undoing in more ways than one?

Lilliana

When the Devil of Chicago comes to take me as his bride, I know I should put up a fight. But the desire to submit to the devil’s whims is too strong to resist.

Which is why when Antony’s right hand, Césare Gallo, steps in to help, I know it’s only a matter of time before the fire between us burns us all.

Will the game we’re playing destroy more than our hearts? Or will our love be the salvation that will save us all?