This post is all about 15+ Binge-Worthy Dark Romance Books, that’ll have you sweaty and dripping in a good way!
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Hey Y’all, thanks for stopping by booked and bewitched! This week we are talking about all things Dark Romance Books related.
For those of you who don’t normally read this genre, a little information.—Dark romance novels are novels with darker themes, mature content, and aimed at mature readers, 17+.
They can explore BDSM, role-playing, abduction, rape fantasies, and kidnapping and captivity, to name a few tropes and or hooks used in this genre. Some dark romances do explore a lack of consent, so if any of these things are triggering to you make sure to tread lightly while exploring our recommended titles.
So without further ado, let’s get into these Dark Romance Books! Oh, and if you’re looking for more fun reads, head on over to 9 Dark and Enthralling Paranormal Romance Books for more good fun!
O-Mazing Must-Read Dark Romance Books
1. Darkest Flame : A Dragon Romance
By: Donna Grant
The Dark Kings have fought for centuries to preserve their dragon magic. But one of the most powerful warriors of his kind will be put to the ultimate test.
HER BEAUTY IS A WEAPON.
Denae Lacroix is a beautiful MI5 agent on a deadly mission. Sent to the Scottish Highlands to spy on the mysterious Dreagan Industries, she discovers too late that she’s been set up–as human bait. She is an irresistible lure for a man who has not seen or touched a woman for centuries.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles So who doesn’t love good dragon dark romance books, I can’t wait to dive into this goody!
2. My Brother’s Wife
I need money and he can give it to me. One problem: he’s my ex-husband’s brother…
After leaving her husband, Linnet must care for her daughter who has a heart condition that needs immediate surgery.
In hopes of finding a sponsor, she joins the suave and sophisticated “gentlemen’s club”. It is there that she meets Bryan, her ex-husband’s brother.
A tall, sexy surgeon who is confident and ultra-wealthy. Linnet tries to ignore him, yet his confident and alpha personality seduces her slowly.
He is focused and he wants her. He’s dominant. Masterful. Despite all her resistance, she cannot escape his grasp.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: I can’t pass up a good BWWM Dark Romance. So if you need me I’ll be over here reading.
3. Letters to the Lost
Juliet is drowning in grief after her mother’s death.
Declan is trying to escape the demons of his past.
Leaving handwritten letters on her mother’s grave is the only way Juliet can process her loss. When Declan finds a letter and answers it anonymously, they continue writing back and forth, not knowing who is on the other side. Juliet is instantly intrigued by this stranger who understands the loss she feels. Declan discovers someone who finally sees the good in him.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: While this one feels more dark romance books for teens to me, I’m still looking forward to reading it.
4. Ruining Dahlia
by C.R. Jane
I should know all about how to survive monsters though, I come from a family of them.
We aren’t Butchers in name only, and surely the Rossi family can’t be as bad as the devil that’s been destroying me since I was eight years old.
New York City, the powerful head of the Cosa Nostra, is my new home. Where Lucian, Raphael, and Gabriel Rossi now think they own me.
The thing they don’t realize is that I’m more than I seem.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So I can’t pass up a mafia dark romance books. I just can’t, it’s a weakness.
5. The Soulblood: Blood at Dusk
KORA; Everything changed when the vampires arrived. I’m starving, alone in a dark cave, and grieving those who I lost.
ALDEON; I am dhampir, and I’ve been lost to the bloodlust like many of my people.
Yet I awaken from the haze, only to find myself in a strange world, drinking from even stranger beings.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: If you grew up loving Twilight, then this Dark Vampire Paranormal Romance Novel is just for us!
6. Crazy, Wicked Love
What happens when the player gets played?
Sidney Carver has a big problem, and he goes by the name of Dwayne “Gunner” Wicked: six-plus feet of muscular, motorcycle-riding, animal-loving deliciousness. Gunner is her boss, roommate, and best friend. They’ve seen each other through life-altering injuries and unimaginable losses, and they work side by side at Wicked Animal Rescue, fulfilling their passion to save animals.
Unfortunately, Gunner is also the man Sidney is in love with, and he’s the ultimate player. As her former military comrade, Gunner sees her as his buddy—just one of the guys. Sidney is at her wit’s end, ready to risk the friendship and job she adores for a chance at forever love with the man she can’t live without. Like any good Marine, she comes up with a mission. Enter Operation Get My Guy.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So I typically don’t go for a military dark romance trope-style book. But that being said, you throw in motorcycles and rescue animals. Uh yes, please!
7. Promises and Pomegranates
Doctor Death. Hades incarnate. They say he stole me.
Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises.
Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me free.
They’re not wrong, per se. Except it was my choice to stay.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So, let me tell you, I got about two chapters in, and this dark fantasy romance books hit with the straight-up BDSM smut.
8. Devil of Dublin
by Bb Easton
As a child, I believed every fantastical word. But when grandfather warned me about the mute boy who also lurked in those woods, the one the priest had declared to be the spawn of Satan himself, I refused to listen. Kellen wasn’t evil. He was kind, beautiful, special, and hurting. He was my friend. And with every summer I spent stolen away with him in those enchanted woods, he grew to become so much more.
But when I return to Glenshire as an adult, grieving and engaged to someone else, all those legends quickly morph into nightmares.
My grandfather had been right about everything, especially the boy.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: This is another Dark Irish Mafia Romance Book that will be added to my TBR list!
9. Wicked Beauty
by Katee Robert
Zeus may have decided Helen is his to give away, but she has her plans. She enters into the competition as a middle finger to the meddling Thirteen rulers, effectively vying for her hand in marriage.
Unfortunately, some would rather see her dead than lead the city. The only people she can trust are the ones she can’t keep her hands off—Achilles and Patroclus. But can she believe they have her best interests at heart when every stolen kiss is a battlefield?
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So anything that Katee Robert writes lands on my TBR list. She never fails to produce some of the best dark romance books.
10. Dreams of the Deadly
I was never meant to fall in love with her. We were children when they betrothed us—an obligation I didn’t want.
Before long, her amber eyes had pierced right through me, transforming my indifference into gentle devotion.
Then, they stole her from me—banished me from my home and robbed her of my protection.
They damaged her in my absence, and the girl I cared for hardened into a woman I cannot resist. I’ve bided my time, amassing my strength; now none who stand in my way will survive.
The time has come to take back my kingdom. The time has come to make Thalia mine.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles Stolen mafia bride. Yup. This mafia dark romance books will be added to the top of my TBR list.
11. Fallen Heirs
by Laura Lee
You must read Wicked Liars and Ruthless Kings prior to this installment to follow the story properly. Due to mature content, it is recommended for readers 17+.
They say money can’t buy happiness.
Well…I’m here to tell you, it can certainly broker a deal with a devil. And the funny thing about dealing with devils? They always come to collect.
Too bad for them, I’m going to put up one helluva fight. I’m stronger. I’m ready.
And I’m going to love watching them fall.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles: I can’t wait to dive into this dark high school MF bully romance book, asap!
12. The Dark One
It wasn’t until Pan and Neverland that I finally felt alive.
But things are not all full of magic and sunlight on the island. There’s something darker and more sinister haunting the forest.
War is brewing — can the Never King get his shadow back and assume his rightful throne? And if he does, where will I fit?
NOTE: The Dark One is book two in the Vicious Lost Boys series. It is a dark reimagining of Peter and Wendy. The Dark One ends on a cliffhanger.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles: So it’s an enemies-to-lovers dark romance book. And it’s based on a re-telling of Peter Pan and Wendy. Shut the front door and take my money.
13. Greed
by Eva Charles
Antonio Huntsman comes to call soon after my father dies. Unannounced, unapologetic, and unmistakably in charge.
With a dangerous gaze and bespoke suit, he looks every bit like the man who haunts my dreams. I’m sure he wants my family’s priceless vineyards.
They’ll be the crowning jewel of his empire. But I’m wrong. He wants me.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles: So this bad boy of dark romance books has landed itself right at the top of my TBR list.
14. Lucky Me
Seven Delaney runs his corner of Dragonfly Hollow with the insufferable arrogance you’d expect from someone born lucky. The sexy billionaire leprechaun is responsible for the most humiliating experience of my life and is the reason I fled that fae city sixteen years ago.
I promised myself I’d never get involved with him again, but his dark charms prove hard to resist. Playing Seven for my heart is going to take more than a gambling strategy. It’s going to take luck-and lots of it.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles: So this dark fae romance books sounds like a good way to spend a weekend.
15. The Ritual
I chose to be his. He made me believe that anyway, but it was just another lie. A way that the Lords manipulate you into doing what they want.
After being sucked into the dark, twisted world of the Lords, I embraced my new role and allowed Ryat to parade me around like the trophy I was to him. But like all things, what started as a game soon became a fight for survival. And the only way out was death.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles; So this stand alone dark romance book is one I can’t wait to read!
16. Wolf King
by Bella Jacobs
As a shifter from the wrong side of the tracks who’s just been rejected by my abusive fated mate, I don’t have a lot of options in this city. I have no choice but to make a deal with the devil.
But that doesn’t mean I’m powerless. I have an ace up my sleeve, a bargaining chip Maxim can’t resist. He wants revenge on my pack leaders for poisoning his father, and I hold the key to his enemy’s destruction.
In exchange for one month of protection from my ex and his friends, I promise to give Maxim what he wants—me.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles: So, I can’t wait to read this dark mafia shifter romance book. It’s the type of story I just love!
17. Surviving December
by Callie Moss
Elora and Jasper have always been together, it’s them against the world. Bound together, souls marred by pain only the other can balm. They pursued their love of music together forming an anonymous band, everything is exactly the way it should be…
Until she meets the mysterious and intense Lucian. Little does she know he’s had his eye on her for a while and nothing is going to get in his way. She finds herself trapped between two dangerously possessive men, both hell-bent on one thing, her.
What happens when her traumatic past comes back to haunt her? Will she ever feel safe again?
Booked and Bewitched Babbles: So first and foremost, the cover doesn’t do the book justice. After reading the jacket, I can’t wait to jump into this dark romance thriller book!
18. The Trouble with Whiskey
She’s the only woman he’s ever loved, and the one he could never have…
Years after losing one of their best friends to a dare gone wrong, Devlin “Dare” Whiskey continues to live up to his name, endlessly testing fate, while Billie Mancini buried the best parts of herself.
Billie is beautiful and tough, and battling demons Dare has no idea exists. But Dare is done watching her pretend to be something she’s not and takes on his most important challenge yet-showing the woman he loves that some dares are worth the risk.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles: Did you see the cover? No more needs to be said about this dark contemporary romance book.
19. The Predator
by RuNyx
In the dark underbelly of the mob, Tristan Caine has been an anomaly. As the only non-blooded member in the high circle of the Tenebrae Outfit, he is an enigma to all – his skills unparalleled, his morality questionable, and his motives unknown. He is lethal and he knows it.
As does Morana Vitalio, the genius extraordinaire daughter of the rival family. What Caine does with weapons, Morana does with computers. When a twenty-year-old mystery resurfaces, Morana infiltrates Caine’s house, intent on killing him, unaware of a tie that binds them together. Hate, heat, and history clash together with unexpected sparks.
But something bigger, something worse is happening in their world. And despite their animosity, only they can fight it down.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles: So I’ve yet another, enemies-to-lovers dark romance book, to add to my TBR list. I’m just gonna have to quit writing and start reading!
This post was all about 19 dark romance books you need to read right now! Seriously, what are you doing, go? Read something!
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