If you loved
Books like God of Malice
You want an elite school, a hero who admits he's a monster and a heroine who won't be his victim. These eight get closest: secret societies, dark academia and obsessive men who don't take no gracefully. Most are as heavy as God of Malice, so read the warnings on each before you pick.
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1. Tryst Six Venom
Penelope Douglas · 2021
ExplicitNew adultClay Collins is the rich girl at Marymount who makes Liv Jaeger's days miserable, and Liv, who crosses the tracks to get to school, is done taking it. Then she gets Clay alone and finds out what she's been hiding. A sapphic bully romance where both girls bite, high spice, happy ending.
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2. Deviant King
Rina Kent · 2019
ExplicitNew adultElsa only wants to get through her last year at Royal Elite School and into her dream university, and Aiden King, who rules the school, has decided to destroy her. He's cruel, he's obsessed with her, and he doesn't ask before he touches. Dark bully romance with dubious consent, high spice, and it ends on a cliffhanger.
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3. Gothikana
RuNyx · 2021
ExplicitAdultCorvina has always been the odd girl out, so an admission letter from the University of Verenmore, a castle on a mountain where someone disappears every five years, feels like fate. So does Vad Deverell, the professor she is absolutely not allowed to touch. Gothic dark academia with a ghost-story mystery, high spice, happy ending.
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4. Satan's Affair
H. D. Carlton · 2021
ScorchingAdultEvery Halloween a travelling fair rolls into town, and Sibby, who escaped a cult, runs its haunted house with her masked henchmen and hunts the evil people who wander in. Short, savage and very explicit, set in the world of Haunting Adeline. Read the warnings first.
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5. Den of Vipers
K. A. Knight · 2020
ScorchingAdultHer father runs up a debt with the Vipers, the four men who run the town, and pays it by selling her. They expected a pawn; they got a woman who bites back. Why choose, mafia, very explicit, and some of the darkest content on this site, so check the warnings first.
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6. Credence
Penelope Douglas · 2020
ScorchingAdultAfter her parents die, Tiernan is sent to live in the mountains with her late father's stepbrother and his two sons, cut off from everything for the winter. It's taboo, isolated and very explicit, and it doesn't stay with one man. Read the content warnings before you go in.
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Stolen TrophyK. A. Knight & Kendra Moreno
7. Stolen Trophy
K. A. Knight & Kendra Moreno · 2022
ScorchingAdultHer life was perfect: the fiancé, the business, the parties. Then four men in masks take her and tell her all of it was a lie. Captive why choose with a lot of heat and a heroine who fights back. Very explicit, happy ending; check the warnings first.
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8. Lights Out
Navessa Allen · 2024
ExplicitAdultAly is a trauma nurse who spends her nights leaving thirsty comments under a masked man's videos, and the man behind the mask decides to make her break-in fantasy real. Then someone far more dangerous starts watching her too. Masked stalker romance played for laughs, high spice, happy ending.