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Books like Neon Gods
You want a possessive god, a woman who walks into his world on purpose and a myth turned very explicit. These nine get closest: two more takes on Hades, villains who get the girl and a few kings and monsters. Some are much darker and one is much milder; the spice and warnings are listed for each.
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1. A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair · 2019
ExplicitAdultPersephone is a goddess whose touch withers flowers, hiding as a mortal journalism student in New Athens, until one card game with Hades binds her to a contract: create life in the Underworld or stay there forever. Banter, a controlling mother, high spice, happy for now.
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2. Scarred
Emily McIntire · 2022
ExplicitAdultLady Sara Beatreaux comes to court to marry King Michael and wipe out his family from the inside, and the king's scarred younger brother Tristan, who has his own reasons to want Michael gone, sees straight through her. The Lion King's villain as the man she falls for, high spice, happy ending.
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3. King of Battle and Blood
Scarlett St. Clair · 2021
ExplicitAdultTo end a war, Princess Isolde is married to Adrian, the vampire king who conquered her people, and she plans to kill him. He knows, and he's patient. Dark, sensual and full of court danger, high spice, and it ends on a cliffhanger.
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4. Wretched
Emily McIntire · 2022
ExplicitAdultEvelina runs her family's drug empire with a gun and a greenhouse, and the man from last night's one-night stand just started working for her father under another name. He's undercover, and he's there to bring her down. The Wizard of Oz with a villain heroine, high spice, happy ending.
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5. The Games Gods Play
Abigail Owen · 2024
SteamyAdultLyra files paperwork for the Order of Thieves and has been cursed since before birth, by Zeus, so that no one can love her. Then Hades names her his champion in the Crucible, the deadly contest for the throne of Olympus, and offers a deal: win, and he breaks the curse. Gods playing dirty, steamy, and a cliffhanger.
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6. Bride
Ali Hazelwood · 2024
ExplicitAdultMisery, a Vampyre who grew up as a hostage among humans, is handed over to marry Lowe, the Alpha of the Weres, to hold a fragile peace together. She has her own reason for saying yes: her best friend has vanished, and she thinks the Weres know something. Funny, high spice, happy ending.
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7. Pestilence
Laura Thalassa · 2018
ExplicitAdultThe Four Horsemen have come, and Sara shoots the first one off his horse. He doesn't die. He takes her prisoner and drags her across the country while he spreads his plague. Enemies to lovers at the end of the world, high spice, happy ending.
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8. Rhapsodic
Laura Thalassa · 2016
ExplicitAdultCallie owes the Bargainer hundreds of favors, one bead on her wrist for each, and after years of silence he comes to collect. A siren, a fae king, and a second chance they've both been waiting for. High spice, slow burn, cliffhanger.
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9. A Soul to Keep
Opal Reyne · 2022
ScorchingAdultReia is the village bad omen, so when the skull-faced Duskwalker comes for his offering, they give him her. He's lonely, gentle in his own monstrous way, and nothing like she was told. Tender monster romance with a lot of gore around the edges, very explicit, and a guaranteed happy ending.