Metamorphosis by: Erin Noelle

Scarlett MacGregor has lived a very sheltered life courtesy of

her over-the-top controlling parents. Having never been to a co-ed party, much less on a date, Scarlett has relied on her books, her music, and living vicariously through her best friend Evie to keep her sanity as she's patiently awaited her freedom from their rule.

When Scarlett and Evie go away to college, Scarlett quickly meets Ashton, Dylan, and later, Mason, and is thrown into a crash course of like, love, and lust. With Evie's help, she must figure out the difference in the three and which one she wants before she ends up without any of them.

Metamorphosis is the story of Scarlett's transformation from a young, naive girl to a strong, mature young woman and her search for self-discovery and true love.

What a fun story!!

It's seriously as if one of us book nerds got to live out the fantasy of our book boyfriends! What a fun concept!

I adored Scarlet and thought she was way better adjusting to her life outside of her jail of a home life she had, with a great sense of humor to boot!

Very emotional parts and a few twists and turns throughout...made for a great/fun read!

Souls Unfractured by: Tillie Cole

"For fractured souls are like magnets.

Drawn to collide into an impossible bliss…"

Labeled a ‘Cursed’ woman of Eve from birth, Maddie has endured nothing but pain and repression at the hands of The Order’s most abusive elder, Moses. Now living with her sister in The Hangmen’s secluded compound, finally, Maddie, is free. Free from the suffocating faith she no longer believes in. Free from endless years of physical and mental torment.

Just… free…

At age twenty-one, the timid and shy Maddie is content to live within the confines of her new home—safe from the outside world, safe from harm and, strangely, protected by the Hangmen’s most volatile member; the heavily pierced and tattooed, Flame. 

Flame. 

The man who ceaselessly watches over her with his midnight dark and searing eyes. The man who protects her with a breath-taking intensity. And the man who stirs something deep within her numbed heart. 

But when circumstances conspire for Flame to need HER help, Maddie bravely risks it all for the broken man who has captivated her fragile soul. 

The Hangmen’s most infamous member, Flame, is ruled by one thing—anger. Plagued by haunting demons from his past, an all-consuming rage, and isolated by an abhorrent hatred of being touched, Flame's days are filled with suffocating darkness, pierced only by a single ray of light—Maddie. The shy, beautiful woman he cannot purge from his thoughts. The woman he has an overwhelming need to possess… 
... the only person who has ever been able to touch him. 

Flame’s mission in life is to protect Maddie, to keep her safe. Until a trigger from his troubled past sends him spiraling into madness, trapping him in the deepest recesses of his disturbed mind. 

His Hangmen brothers fear that Flame is beyond saving. 

His only hope of salvation: Maddie and her healing light.

Dark Contemporary Romance.
Contains explicit sexual situations, violence, disturbingly sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language, and very mature topics.
Recommended for age 18 years and over.

Such an amazing and inspiring story!

I don't think I could adore Flame and Maddie more if I tried...their back stories and their paths that lead them to each other is such so heart felt and epic.

I'm a late recruit on the Hangmen series...having only read the first two books in the past week by chance before I found out when this story was coming out...so I know I was one of the lucky few...that I didn't need to wait very long to get right into Flame and Maddie.

There are so many hard topics to deal with in this book...so many times you just cry for the characters. But Tillie Cole is absolutely such an amazing writer and she just leaves you on the edge of your seat.

I think this was everything it was hyped up to be! 

You Loved Me At My Darkest by: Evie Harper

Blood is thicker than water…



Having endured more than their share of tragedy, sisters Lily and Sasha embark on a dream holiday—only to find themselves in hell. Kidnapped by a rich madman, Sasha is sold into slavery, while Lily is forced to join The Collection, a unique bevy of exotic beauties enduring frequent horrors at the hands of elite bidders. However, no amount of pain and suffering will break Lily, who will stop at nothing to save her younger sister. Possibly with help from an unlikely ally. 

Love is stronger than loyalty…

Attempting to prove his allegiance to his employer, Jake is tasked with guarding the unruly and uncontrollable Lily. He can’t afford to help her in her quest to free Sasha—not if he hopes to fulfill his own agenda. But in their dark, gritty, tension-filled world, solace is taken wherever it’s found. Bonds are formed and hearts engage despite Jake’s resistance and both their attempts at self-preservation.

When certain secrets come to light, the resulting explosion has breathtakingly bittersweet consequences that, by the end, may not leave everyone whole…or alive.

Where the hell did this book come from!?!? How did I just happen upon it a week ago and be able to read it with amazing speed in just 10 hours today because I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!! 

• Take the tablet with me to the bathroom? Check
• Place it on the counter so I can make the kids lunch while reading? Check
• Totally ignore my role as a mother so I could stay with these characters? Check

OMG this book so so great. I felt so connected to Lily and the totally awful situation she found herself in being selected as part of the "collection". Yes, I do feel these two hotties kinda fell into each other a little more quickly than it would seem normal,...especially considering the whole kidnapping thing, lol. But that's kinda true in most books anyway. It definitely didn't deter the story in any way, shape, or form.

Being who I am, I couldn't just let the book play out as is, I had to have my suspicions of Jake's real intentions during the book. But at least I can say some items were accurate and some weren't! So it still kept me on my toes.

So yea, I really enjoyed this darker romance style book and I recommend it to anyone that has similar tastes in book styles (but be warned, there is a rape scene).

The Broken Girl By: Gracie Wilson

All Becca Potts seems to know is darkness, pain and loss.

Every time she gets ahead another secret or event sends her spiraling back.

Dillon's attack has left her fighting for all she holds dear. 

Now she has to be brave and pick up the pieces.

Hearts will be shattered and love will be rewritten.

Becca has to navigate through the chaos that is plaguing her life and figure out what she wants.

Nothing is going as planned but it never has.

Everything she thought she knew is about to be challenged.

Truths will be exposed. 

New threats will be revealed. 

Promises will be destroyed and life as Becca knows it is about to be broken.

Man, I'm just speechless.

Book 3....ok I need book 3 like now!!!

There are so many emotions rolling through me! This series is so not your typical love story, but it is just as amazing as if it were!

Feelings I've had for characters not only change throughout this story, but grow as well! You really feel for everyone involved! 

Promises and trust can be broke. Love can be toxic. But, real love, man real heart wrenching deep love, can withstand the harshest of elements!

I can't stand who much I need the next book already!

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Quintessentially Q By: Pepper Winters

“All my life, I battled with the knowledge I was twisted… fucked up to want something so deliciously dark—wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight entered my world. Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence where two wrongs make a right."

Tess is Q’s completely. Q is Tess’s irrevocably. But now, they must learn the boundaries of their unconventional relationship, while Tess seeks vengeance on the men who sold her. Q made a blood-oath to deliver their corpses at Tess’s feet, and that’s just what he’ll do.

He may be a monster, but he’s Tess’s monster.

What an amazing story!

Not everything in life is hearts and flowers and really these books depict what could feasibly really happen in a dark situation!

Mental abuse/physical abuse, it all has a toll on our bodies. Once broken, near impossible to come back from. 

Q and Tess are so perfect for each other. I loved that at one point Pepper Winters termed them "mirror opposites". Though it sounds like they wouldn't be good for each other using that term, you actually realize that literally it's everything! It's what makes them so amazing together! What one person desires above all other things is what the other person requires as well, but in the opposite fashion. One needs to hurt, the other needs the pain. It's such an amazing connection!

I really loved this book, through all the hardship and challenges that arise, I just fell more in love with Q and Tess. I felt their sorrow and agony, and I couldn't give up on them!

Fantastic read!

Tears of Tess By: Pepper Winters

“My life was complete. Happy, content, everything neat and perfect.
Then it all changed.
I was sold.”

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 passion filled week, Tess is on top of the world.

But lusty paradise is shattered.

Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror. 

Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can’t save her from the horror of being sold.

Can Brax find Tess before she’s broken and ruined, or will Tess’s new owner change her life forever?

I came upon Tears of Tess when I was looking for a really dark book. If written well, dark erotic books can be absolutely amazing reads. Though they aren't books I can read all the time, they do well to break up the everyday occurrences in regular erotica books. 

I found everything I could have possibly been looking for in Tears of Tess. And more!

This was so well written and so captivating I just couldn't put it down.

Q Mercer, such a tortured soul, such dark desires fights everyday with his deepest desires.

Tess...she's always known she is "different" from the average person in what turns her on. But she's tried to ignore those feelings and just SETTLE to not come off as a 'freak'. 

When Q opens her eyes to what she needs, Tess is never going to be the same. Hell, I'm never going to be the same!

This is an amazing story and filled with everything someone desires when they look for a dark erotica book.

Waking Kiss By: Annabel Joseph

A stranger in the wings, a traitorous pair of toe shoes, and a traumatic turn dancing with The Great Rubio… For ballerina Ashleigh Keaton, it’s been one hell of a night.

But it’s not over yet. When Rubio drags her to a private BDSM party at his friend’s house in the ritzy part of London, she meets Liam Wilder, a lifestyle dominant and frighteningly seductive man. Liam pursues Ashleigh, attracted by her strength and talent, but she has secrets—an abusive past and a crippling fear of intimacy that prevents her from connecting to anyone, especially a kinky playboy reputed to be legendary in bed.

Eventually he wins her trust and sets out to heal the troubled dancer, awakening her to a world of erotic obedience and sensual abandon in a series of “sessions” at his home. But how pure are his motives? Is he helping her or endangering her fragile soul? Liam hides his own destructive secrets, and so does Fernando Rubio, their temperamental friend. Over time the three become embroiled in a tangle of artifice, fears, and lies that threaten to undo everything they’ve worked for.

Will Ashleigh and Liam find the strength to defeat their demons? Or are they cursed to sleepwalk through life forever, afraid to experience the passion and intimacy of love?

Not quite what I was expecting when I was looking into "dark" books, but a very cute story none-the-less.

Waking Kiss has emotions all over the place. From reliving child abuse, to BDSM, to bullying, to trying to overcome sexual responses.

Ashleigh is trying to get past her hangups with sex and wants to try to submit to Liam while trying to stay away emotionally....like that could ever happen.

Liam is the "big bad Dom" though I really didn't get a Dom feel off him at all, at least not compared to the other Doms I've read. 

I think I was just expecting a bit more "darkness" to Waking Kiss, but I still enjoyed the story.

Broken Bonds By: Katherine Rhodes

The door read: Club Imperial 
The truth was: It could never hide all your secrets.
Emmy learned that the hard way. 

Behind Club Imperial’s doors lay all of those Emmy never wanted to share. Secrets she wanted to hide forever from the world. And Nathaniel. 

As Emmy lay unconscious in the hospital, beaten and bruised, Nathaniel never left her side. He didn't want her lifestyle—their lifestyle—to take away from the justice her attack deserved. 

Slowly, as Emmy started to recover, she started to accept all the good in her new life... Until the day her phone rang and her world, all those secrets, came crashing down around her. 

Terrible things she left behind suddenly reappeared, and her scars were ripped open. Emmy wasn’t sure she could survive the pain, again, and she had to let Nathaniel go to protect him from the hell of her past... 

But Nathaniel wasn't walking away. 

Ok, so....wow...just...WOW. What an amazing second story in to the Club Imperial series!

Heart wrenching, emotional, beautiful. An absolutely breathtaking story!

I really loved Broken Bonds! Being able to continue watching Nathaniel and Emmy work through the obstacles they face while trying to hunt down the men that hurt Emmy.

Emmy...strong and amazing Emmy, she's has been though so much in her life and she deserves the happiness she's found with Nathaniel.

The Lonely Girl By: Gracie Wilson

What if one day you woke up and found your heart had been 
shattered? You lost the one person you loved more than anything. 

What happens when you learn to move on even though you thought you'd never be able to again? Is it worth the risk to try and let someone in? Is it better to be left alone then take the chance of more heartache? 

This time will be different. Becca slowly starts to put the shattered pieces of her heart back together only to have it broken again by someone she trusted. Can her heart that was barely healed in the first place be fixed, again? 

Becca falls for someone new, but will her heart be safe. Will she survive the secrets that come out from the past? Love is worth the risk. Can she really believe that? The question is: is he worth the risk? 

Holy mother trucker of an emotional roller coaster!

I loved this book! Oh my gosh I didn't want it to end at all!! Oh man, loved it.

Poor sweet, Becca, trying to move on after the unexpected death of her high school love. Moving away to school to be closer to her brother and finding new attraction where she least expected it.

Close friendships that help her through difficult times, and a new love interest play heavily on Becca's emotions.

If only her psycho ex-boyfriend was less on the crazy side.....zomg!!!!!!

Seriously, loved this story! I couldn't put it down and I just didn't want it to end! 

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

Don't forget to check out book two, The Broken Girl!

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