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Seduced in the Dark

C.J. Roberts · 378 pages

Captor and CaptiveDark RomanceTortureMorally Gray Love Interest
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Last Argument of Kings

Joe Abercrombie · 647 pages

The King of the Union lies on his deathbed, the peasants revolt, and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No one believes that the shadow of war is about to fall across the heart of the Union. Only the First of the Magi can save the world, but there are risks.

TortureIntenseBleakRebels and Resistance
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Lover Unbound

J.R. Ward · 509 pages

The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-unt

Morally Gray Love InterestTortureIntenseCaptor and Captive
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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · 416 pages

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a youn

TortureBleakIntenseSexual Assault Content
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Captive Prince

C.S. Pacat · 342 pages

With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master Prince Laurent must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot. Forced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent. But as the fledgling trust between the two men deepens, the truth of secre

Captor and CaptiveSlow Burn RomanceEnemies to LoversMorally Gray Love Interest
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Hunting Adeline

H D Carlton · 684 pages

The final installment to the Cat and Mouse Duet... The Diamond: Death walks alongside me, But the reaper is no match for me. I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem. They won't keep me forever. I no longer recognize the person I've become, And I'm fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night. They call me a diamond, B

Dark RomanceMorally Gray Love InterestTortureIntense
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Tormentor Mine

Anna Zaires, Dima Zales

Captor and CaptiveDark RomanceMorally Gray Love InterestTorture
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Feathers So Vicious

Liv Zander · 414 pages

Captor and CaptiveDark RomanceMorally Gray Love InterestEnemies to Lovers
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Poison Study

Maria V. Snyder · 409 pages

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace-and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay

Slow Burn RomanceMorally Gray Love InterestEnemies to LoversTorture
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Tears of Tess

Pepper Winters · 380 pages

Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with possibility. For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico. Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul-connecting sex set the mood for a wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a pas

Captor and CaptiveDark RomanceIntenseTorture
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The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

Carissa Broadbent

The Bookish Box Exclusive Luxe Edition of The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King Love is a sacrifice at the altar of power.In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the only family she ever had, and reeling from a gutting betrayal, she no longer even knows the truth of her own blood. She's left only with one certainty:

Captor and CaptiveMorally Gray Love InterestEnemies to LoversIntense
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Famine

Laura Thalassa · 512 pages

Captor and CaptiveMorally Gray Love InterestEnemies to LoversSlow Burn Romance
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Scarred

Emily McIntire · 416 pages

Dark RomanceMorally Gray Love InterestCaptor and CaptiveEnemies to Lovers
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IntenseEnemies to LoversMorally Gray Love InterestRebels and Resistance
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · 624 pages

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

Rebels and ResistanceEnemies to LoversRomantasyTragic
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A Court of Mist and Fury

Sarah J. Maas · 626 pages

Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two diff

Morally Gray Love InterestSlow Burn RomanceIntensePTSD
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Tragic Bonds

J. Bree · 542 pages

Dark RomanceMorally Gray Love InterestRomantasyIntense
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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 736 pages

Sexual Assault ContentBleakPTSDIntense
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Kushiel's Dart

Jacqueline Carey · 702 pages

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafi

TortureRomantasySexual Assault ContentForbidden Love
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Den of Vipers

K.A. Knight · 654 pages

Dark RomanceCaptor and CaptiveMorally Gray Love InterestIntense
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The Dragon Republic

R.F. Kuang · 654 pages

The searing follow-up to 2018's most celebrated fantasy debut - THE POPPY WAR.

IntensePTSDRebels and ResistanceWar and Its Aftermath
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Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum · 496 pages

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by

War and Its AftermathSexual Assault ContentTragicDual Timeline
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A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold

George R.R. Martin · 656 pages

Fear cuts deeper than swords The Starks are scattered. Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown. And while his youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains their captive, trapped in marriage with Joffrey's deformed

TortureIntenseSexual Assault ContentBleak
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Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins · 408 pages

The last book in the Hunger Games Series. This book is filled with excitement and action regarding the ongoing war with the capital.

TortureRebels and ResistancePTSDBleak

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