Looking for the best dark romance books to read? If you want dark romance book recs, you’ve come to the right place! But be warned: these dark romance books are not for the faint of heart and contain topics such as kidnapping, abduction, stalking, and much more. It’s always a good idea to check the trigger warnings before choosing your next dark spicy book to read.

Below you will find my dark romance book recommendations for the 5 best dark romance books on kindle you have to stuff your kindle with immediately. So sit back, relax, and let your darkest desires run free with one of the sinfully delicious books from this list!

The Best Dark Romance Books

The Predator by Runyx

Synopsis:

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object in the field of death?

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.

Something Darker

by Michael Wellington

Synopsis:

It’s been three months since I escaped from my abusive ex-boyfriend, Ryan, but my life hasn’t gotten any easier. The large gap in my employment history, thanks to Ryan refusing to allow me to work, means no one wants to hire me. But I can’t stay in my best friend Ava’s spare bedroom forever. Especially since Ava and her husband are in the midst of turning it into a nursery for the baby they are so loudly trying to conceive every night.

To make matters worse, the bills for my mother’s stay in an Alzheimer’s care facility are racking up fast. And if I don’t find a way to pay for them soon, Ryan will make good on his threats to make himself my mother’s power of attorney, thereby controlling me through my mother until the day she dies.

So when I get offered a job for a live-in maid position at a mysterious mansion for a gorgeous wealthy couple, I take it, despite Ava’s protests. But what I don’t realize is that my new bosses want me to service more than just their house. And to my surprise, I find myself wanting to service more.

To service them.

But when I discover the truth about what happened to the couples’ previous maid, everything changes…

Once You’re Mine by Morgan Bridges

Synopsis:

The Tormentor
Calista belongs to me… she just doesn’t know it.
The first time we met, I wanted her. The next time, I was obsessed.
I watched her. I followed her. It only deepened my need to possess her.
Once she’s mine, I’m never letting her go.

The Target
Hayden Bennett is a monster, in and out of the courtroom. Unfortunately, I need his help.
What was supposed to be a simple transaction turns into something else. Something intense.
He’s always there when I need him, but I don’t know if trusting him is a good idea…

Toxic by Nicole Blanchard

Synopsis:

My life has been a series of bad decisions.

Marrying an abusive man was the first… but falling for a dangerous inmate where I’m a nurse may be the worst.

He’s brutal, heartless, and twisted.

But he’s also the only one to notice the bruises on my skin.

His forbidden touch becomes my addiction.
His drugging kisses my obsession.

After I learn the truth about why he’s in prison, I try to escape, but he finds me.

The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

Synopsis:

THE CHOSEN ONE

Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one.

I VOW. YOU VOW. WE VOW.

People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it’s not. My entire life has been planned out for me. I never got the chance to do what I wanted until Ryat Alexander Archer came along and gave me an option for a better life. He offered me what no one else ever had—freedom.

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 out as a game soon became a fight for survival. And the only way out was death.

Twisted Game by Eva Ashwood

Synopsis:

I was the girl no one looked at twice. Until they saw me.

My whole life, no one has had my back. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars.

So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence.

On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I’m certain they’re going to kill me too.

They don’t… but they don’t forget about me, either.

These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. I’m a loose thread to them—but somehow, I’m becoming more than that too.

I’m becoming an obsession.
A temptation.
A craving.

And no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don’t find a way out of this tangled web soon…

Their darkness will swallow me up.

Saint by Eva Simmons

Synopsis:

From the moment I spotted him on the side of the road, I knew he was trouble.

Now I’m kneeling at the mercy of a masked devil with my boyfriend’s blood on my hands.

He tells me to call him Saint because he saved me… that I should be thankful he spared me a worse fate.

I’m tempted to fight him or bargain. But when Saint tells me to run, a twisted part of me wonders if he’ll chase.

Hooked by Emily McIntire

Synopsis:

He wants revenge, but he wants her more…

James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.

Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.

Little Stranger by Leigh Rivers

Synopsis:

She betrayed him, and now he wants revenge against the foster sister who became his forbidden obsession the second he laid eyes on her. After she sends him to prison for years, he’s free and ready to haunt her.

Everything about Olivia belongs to Malachi Vize.
Her mind
Her body
Her soul
Her fear
Her pain

On Halloween night, he can no longer lurk in the shadows. All he has left to own is her heart, even if he needs to take it.

Pretty Monster by Sheridan Anne

Synopsis:

I’m addicted to my stalker.

He watches me at night, sneaking in through my living room window and making my blood turn to ice. I feel him all around me as chills snake down my spine. Each night he becomes bolder, getting closer and welcoming himself into my bedroom, feeding his addiction.

When I feel the warmth of his skin brushing over mine, I pretend to sleep, terrified of what he plans to do with me. But when he touches me … my whole body comes alive.

I’ve never seen his face, and don’t even know his name, but I want to. Every part of me knows this is wrong, but I can’t bring myself to lock the window, to tell him no.

He thrills me, but living life on the edge doesn’t come without consequences.

He’s sick in the head, addicted to this infatuation, and obsessed with his messed-up mind games. But maybe I’m just as sick as he is because, whether I like it or not … I’m addicted to my stalker.

Michael Wellington is the dark romance author of Something Darker and Darker Still. His writing is provocatively sexy, steamy as hell, and unapologetically erotic with plot twists you'll never see coming. Learn More