Dark Romance

Colt is a perennial favorite with Galatea readers around the globe

Summer thought her life couldn’t get any darker after enduring years of abuse from her husband, Elliot. But when Colt Hudson, a dangerous figure from her past, walks back into her life after being released from death row, things take a sharp turn.

Colt is on a mission to reclaim his place in the underworld, and he’s dragging Summer’s family into the chaos.

As Summer is pulled deeper into a world of violence, betrayal, and dark secrets, she must find the strength to fight for her freedom. Colt is a gripping, edge-of-your-seat romance that explores love, danger, and the power of redemption.

Sabina has been hiding her true identity for eight years when the past comes back to claim her. Soldiers raid her town for slaves—and the king recognizes her as the only woman he ever loved. Sabina knows she can never be with the king, but can she bear the physical and mental torture of revenge from a sovereign who will not take no for an answer?

Age Rating: 18+

Rebecca walks into the underground poker room with one goal: win enough money to pay off her father’s debts before men come to collect. She thinks she can cheat the table, read the players, and slip out unnoticed.

But the moment the door locks behind her, she realises she’s stepped into the wrong game. This isn’t just a poker ring. It’s a trap built by Kenzo Robernero, the cold, calculating leader of the Società Oscura. All of the players in the room answer to him. Each card on the table is stacked in his favor and every newcomer is watched.

Now Rebecca is caught in a room where the stakes are lethal, the rules are unwritten, and the man across the table doesn’t tolerate cheats, but he does notice them. And once Kenzo notices you, the night stops being about cards and starts being about survival.

Age Rating: 18+

From New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author Pepper Winters comes The Goddess Isles Series.

He bought her. He trapped her. She belongs to him.

Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes her travel-loving boyfriend can save her when her freedom is snatched and sold. Squirrelled away to an island at dawn, delivered to a man even darkness won’t touch, she’s bound by a contract. Sullivan Sinclair is the giver of fantasies. Any wish, any desire—he is the master at quenching even the filthiest appetites. His private paradise and perfectly trained goddesses are there for one purpose: to ensure every guest is extremely well satisfied.

Age Rating: 18+

Him: Soon to be capo of the Italian Mafia, heartless and cruel Valentino Acerbi has agreed to an arranged marriage to benefit his family.

Her: A perfectly happy and normal eighteen-year-old, Elaina Duval is completely unaware she’s the daughter of the head of the Russian Mafia and destined for a life of obedience and pain.

Dragged into a twisted world of mafia men and mayhem, Elaina is forced to endure things no human should have to… but what if she begins to like it?

Age Rating: 18+

"I hate you," Isla spat at him.

Ebon laughed. "That is an excellent place to start."

When Isla swipes a purse, she has no idea that her victim is the most feared pirate captain of all. Her daring act lands her as a captive aboard his notorious ship, where danger lurks at every corner. Ebon sees something in Isla—a fire, a darkness to match his own—and he’s determined to draw it out. As their fiery clashes ignite into something neither can deny, Isla must navigate her own fears and desires. Will she escape the pirate’s hold, or will her heart betray her and bind her to the darkness she swore to defy?

Maybell and Isiah share an intense and complicated love, marked by a painful history they are trying desperately to overcome. When a traumatic event robs Maybell of their unborn child and leaves her with haunting memories of violence, it seems their relationship may be beyond repair. However, with the help of a cunning hacker, Maybell and Isiah are given a chance to find their way back to each other, reigniting a flame that refuses to die. But sinister forces threaten to destroy them, and a shocking betrayal lurks in the shadows, waiting to tear their world apart once more. This is a story of survival, longing, and two souls who will stop at nothing to protect the love they share—even if it means sacrificing everything.

Age Rating: 18+

From New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author Pepper Winters comes the Monsters in the Dark series

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, her boyfriend Brax surprises her with a romantic trip to Mexico, but their little bit of 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 that alone 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?

Age Rating: 18+

Original Author: Pepper Winters

We are enemies, lovers… soulmates. We harbor secrets and scandals. We embody both loss and love. We are the second generation of the mafia. May the best man or woman be left standing. Blood in. Never out. May God bless our tainted souls.

Age Rating: 18+

After the town Champion catches Lilitha out of bounds, he becomes obsessed with her and accuses her of ensorcelling him. Escaping his attacks again and again, Lilitha finally flees deep in to the monster-filled forest with her friend Clara, only to come up against the horrific slaughter that accompanies the presence of a ravenous beast. By some miracle, Lilitha does not die, and meets Damon, a mysterious stranger who promises to lead them out of the forest. But she senses the monster all around her. What does it want? Why isn’t it attacking? And why does she feel like something inside her is... changing?

Age Rating: 18+