Summer O'Toole

When your best friend is murdered, I recommend not falling for the serial killer responsible. A hot new dark crime romance perfect for lovers of JT Geissinger’s Queens & Monsters series and Sophie Lark’s Underworld Series. Serial killers, secret identities, an unhinged crime boss with a dirty mouth and one explosive enemies-to-lovers romance. When Harlow is a witness to her best friend’s murder by the serial killer terrorizing June Harbor, she grows frustrated with the police’s lack of progress and decides to take matters in her own hands. She soon falls head first into in intricate plot of deception, dark family secrets and one dangerous criminal who is dead set on making her his. This is a dark, spicy romance, for a detailed list of content please visit author's website.

Marrying for love is for princesses in fairy tales, not princesses in the Mafia. The war between the Fox family and the Luciano Mafia is in the past. But when the decade-long truce is broken, history threatens to repeat itself. Effie Luciano is the throwaway daughter. To her power-hungry father, her hand in marriage is her only value. When her father gives her an unexpected opportunity, she is pitted against the one man she’s spent the last ten years avoiding: Finneas Fox. Finneas Fox is the family’s second-born son, hardened by his father’s tragic death. The gentle and kind boy Effie nearly fell in love with before the war is now a cold, ruthless and unforgiving man. For them, the line between hate and love is razor thin—and just as sharp. After a heist, a murder and countless betrayals, Effie and Finn must reconcile their pasts and learn to live with their scars or risk losing everything. Battling both themselves and each other, they discover that the deeper the darkness, the fiercer the love.

I only want one thing out of my fleeting time on earth: to love and be loved by Stella Wright. The intensity of that realization is enough to make me scared of death for the first time in my life. A dark, murder mystery and friends-with benefits-romance, perfect for fans of Glass Onion and Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti’s Harlequin Crew series. Ten years ago, Stella Wright never thought a hostess job at an Irish pub would lead to working for the Foxes, the most infamous and dangerous mobsters on the East Coast, let alone to calling them family. After tragically losing his parents when he was just a boy, Lochlan Fox was raised by his hotheaded brothers. He never had to grow up, but he never had a childhood either, perpetually the wild, youngest brother Taking on more responsibility in the family business, Stella and Lochlan are sent to close the deal to acquire Summerland, a private island resort known for its dark and secretive sex club. They've been pretending their drunken one night stand five months ago never happened, but as the island and its vices lure them in, denying the attraction becomes impossible. Their tropical work trip takes a dark turn when Stella wakes up the morning after a masquerade party missing her memory from the night before and covered in someone else’s blood. With their hearts on the line, they have to sort through secrets, betrayals, blackmail, and murder if they want to make it out of this deadly paradise alive. This is a dark, adult romance. For a detailed list of content, please visit author's website.

I’m fascinated by the stories dead bodies tell. And murdered bodies tell the most interesting ones. A dark, enemies-to-lovers, bodyguard romance, perfect for fans of Sophie Lark’s Broken Vow and Brynne Weaver’s Black Sheep. When bodies start turning up with connections to her father’s cartel, Regenia Cortez is pulled back into a dangerous world she left behind years ago. She doesn’t know who she can trust, least of all Roan Fox, the man hired by her father to keep her safe. Forced into each others lives, Reggie and Roan find themselves tangled in a sinister plot that runs much deeper than they ever thought. Tensions rise and the lines they swore not to cross start to blur. Their own demons threaten to tear them apart, but one thing is for certain–he will stop at nothing to keep her safe. This is a dark, adult romance.

Alfie, everyone's favorite lactose intolerant Foxy sidekick, is getting his own story in Hung, part of the DNF series. Alfie is a man in love the second he sees Georgie and quickly becomes as obsessed with her as he is with Pumpkin Spice lattes. Georgie finds herself equally smitten by Alfie, but a little intimidated by the not so little thing in his pants. Come along for this goofy ride as they make it fit--I mean, work.

In Cape Aurelia, everything begins and ends with the Echelon—a dismantled aristocracy reborn in the shadows—as powerful as they are secret. After generations of loss and suffering, three alphas from the exiled Cerulean family are fighting for reentry into the Echelon’s clandestine ranks by competing in the Trials, a set of five deadly tests. Before they can begin, each pack is supposed to be gifted a noble omega. Instead, the Ceruleans get me. Pulled from a brothel, I’m forced into the Trials at threat to my family. I’m not a noble. I’m not even an omega. My very presence is an insult, and they don’t hesitate to remind me. If they're determined to shackle me, I will become their reckoning.