If you loved
Books like Lights Out
You want the man in the dark who watches her, a heroine who likes it more than she should and a lot of heat. These eight get closest. Lights Out keeps its darkness consensual and a few of these don't, so read the warnings on each before you pick.
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1. He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Alta Hensley · 2024
ScorchingAdultChloe, a jewelry influencer facing another Christmas alone, finds herself drawn to two men: an anonymous fan of her secret online persona and the fireman who keeps checking on her. One of them has been watching her for a long time. Festive, short, very explicit stalker romance.
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The Pucking Wrong NumberC. R. Jane
2. The Pucking Wrong Number
C. R. Jane · 2023
ExplicitAdultMonroe answers a text meant for someone else just to be rude, and the stranger turns out to be Lincoln Daniels, the golden boy of the Dallas Knights. He decides on the spot that she's his, and his idea of courtship includes a private investigator. Obsessive hockey romance that goes much darker than the cover, high spice, happy ending.
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3. Tourist Season
Brynne Weaver · 2025
ScorchingAdultCape Carnage is a pretty seaside town with a body count, and Harper, its gardener, makes sure the worst tourists never leave. Nolan has come to town for revenge. When a true crime investigator starts digging, two killers have to call a truce. Dark romcom, very explicit, happy ending; check the warnings first.
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Ruthless CreaturesJ. T. Geissinger
4. Ruthless Creatures
J. T. Geissinger · 2021
ScorchingAdultFive years after her fiancé vanished the week of their wedding, Natalie is still in Lake Tahoe, still waiting. Then Kage buys the house next door with cash: a Bratva enforcer whose business in town has everything to do with her. Mafia romance with a hero who's gone from the first look, very high spice, happy ending.
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5. Haunting Adeline
H. D. Carlton · 2021
ScorchingAdultThis is the book people mean when they say dark romance. A writer moves into her great-grandmother's manor, and the man watching from the woods decides she belongs to him. It is obsessive, violent and very explicit; read the content warnings first, then decide if you're in.
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6. 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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7. The Professional
Kresley Cole · 2014
ScorchingAdultNatalie is a grad student who finds out her father is a Russian billionaire, and the enforcer he sends to protect her decides she belongs to him. He whisks her off to Russia and makes all the rules. Filthy, possessive, very explicit, happy ending.
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Stolen TrophyK. A. Knight & Kendra Moreno
8. 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.