Scorching: the spiciest books

1. 

   Butcher & Blackbird

   Brynne Weaver · Book 1 of 3 in The Ruinous Love Trilogy

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   Two serial killers, a yearly kill competition and the funniest dark romance on the shelf.

   • Rivals to lovers
   • Touch her and die
   • Found family
2. 

   Fifty Shades of Grey

   E.L. James · Book 1 of 3 in Fifty Shades

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   The book that put BDSM romance on every nightstand. A billionaire with a contract and a red room.

   • Billionaire
   • Possessive MMC
   • Virgin heroine
3. 

   Haunting Adeline

   H.D. Carlton · Book 1 of 2 in Cat and Mouse Duet

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   The stalker romance with the most infamous content warning list on BookTok. Read the warnings. Seriously.

   • Stalker hero
   • Possessive MMC
   • Gothic
4. 

   Lights Out

   Navessa Allen · Book 1 in Into Darkness

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   A masked hacker watches a lonely nurse through her window. She watches back. The stalker romance that went mainstream.

   • Touch her and die
   • Stalker hero
   • Possessive MMC
5. 

   Credence

   Penelope Douglas

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   Mountain isolation, three men and a taboo setup. Very much a check-the-warnings read.

   • Forced proximity
   • Age gap
   • Forbidden love
6. 

   Den of Vipers

   K.A. Knight

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   Her father pays his debt to four mafia men with her. They were not expecting her to be this unhinged.

   • Captor / captive
   • Possessive MMC
   • Morally grey MMC
7. 

   God of Malice

   Rina Kent · Book 1 of 6 in Legacy of Gods

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   A college psycho decides she is his new favourite game. Dark academia meets stalker romance.

   • Bully romance
   • Villain gets the girl
   • Enemies to lovers
8. 

   Neon Gods

   Katee Robert · Book 1 in Dark Olympus

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   Modern Hades and Persephone in a city run by the Thirteen. Very kinky, very fast.

   • Retelling
   • Forbidden love
   • Morally grey MMC
9. 

   Praise

   Sara Cate · Book 1 in Salacious Players' Club

   Spice 5/5 · Scorching

   Her best friend's dad runs a sex club and offers to teach her. Praise kink, front and centre.

   • Age gap
   • Forbidden love
   • BDSM / dom-sub
10. 

    Pucking Around

    Emily Rath · Book 1 in Jacksonville Rays

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    One woman, three hockey players and a team doctor. Why choose, MM spice included, maximum chaos.

    • Found family
    • Hockey player
    • BDSM / dom-sub
11. The RitualShantel Tessier

    The Ritual

    Shantel Tessier

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    A secret society of powerful men, a ritual and a heroine marked by one of them. Shock-value dark romance.

    • Morally grey MMC
    • Possessive MMC
    • Dark academia
12. 

    Bared to You

    Sylvia Day · Book 1 of 5 in Crossfire

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    Two broken people with explosive chemistry and a lot of trauma. Steamier than Fifty Shades.

    • Hurt / comfort
    • Billionaire
    • Possessive MMC
13. 

    Beautiful Bastard

    Christina Lauren · Book 1 in Beautiful Bastard

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    An intern and her infuriating boss hate-hook-up in every room of the office. Started life as Twilight fanfic.

    • Boss x employee
    • Enemies to lovers
    • Workplace romance
14. Captive in the DarkC.J. Roberts

    Captive in the Dark

    C.J. Roberts · Book 1 of 2 in The Dark Duet

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    A captor with a revenge plan and the girl he is training to sell. A foundational, brutal dark romance.

    • Captor / captive
    • Revenge plot
    • Morally grey MMC
15. 

    Her Soul for Revenge

    Harley Laroux · Book 1 of 3 in Souls Trilogy

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    A witch summons a demon to take revenge on the cult that hurt her. He is wildly, filthily devoted.

    • Revenge plot
    • Villain gets the girl
    • Morally grey MMC
16. 

    Losers: Part One

    Harley Laroux · Book 1 of 2 in Losers

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    The rich girl who made their lives hell in high school, and the four "losers" who now own her. Divisive and delicious.

    • Revenge plot
    • Morally grey MMC
    • Small town
17. 

    Priest

    Sierra Simone · Book 1 of 3 in Priest

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    A priest. A confession. A broken vow. Exactly as sinful as it sounds.

    • Forbidden love
    • Age gap
    • BDSM / dom-sub
18. 

    Tears of Tess

    Pepper Winters · Book 1 in Monsters in the Dark

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    Kidnapped and sold, she ends up with a man darker than the ones who took her. Very dark, very intense.

    • Captor / captive
    • Morally grey MMC
    • BDSM / dom-sub
19. 

    The Never King

    Nikki St. Crowe · Book 1 of 5 in Vicious Lost Boys

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    Wendy's granddaughter, a feral grown-up Peter Pan and his Lost Boys. A deliciously dark Neverland.

    • Retelling
    • Villain gets the girl
    • Captor / captive
20. 

    A Lesson in Thorns

    Sierra Simone · Book 1 of 4 in Thornchapel

    Spice 5/5 · Scorching

    A librarian, a gothic manor and a group of beautiful, haunted people who reawaken old pagan rites.

    • Forbidden love
    • Gothic
    • Dark academia

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