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Top 14 Dark Revenge Romance Books You Must Read in 2026

"You have a very attractive revenge streak in you. I like it. A lot.”

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Revenge romance books are a spicy little subgenre where the plot thickens around characters on a quest for vengeance, usually due to past slights or betrayals, which somehow morphs into a love story. These tales often dive into themes of betrayal, redemption, and the magical transformation that love can bring, with characters kicking things off with some serious grudges that eventually blossom into passionate romances. Think of stories where the main character is out for blood against an ex or a rival, only to stumble upon love in the most unexpected places.

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Make Them Bleed by Logan Chance

He’s secretly stalking her inbox. She’s secretly hiring masked killers. Love’s never been this twisted—or this deadly.

Mega influencer Arby Kate’s murder shocked the world when five masked men ended her livestream… and her life.

Now, months later, her sister Juno Kate is obsessed with revenge, turning to the dark web for vigilante justice.

Arrow Finn, Juno’s best friend and hopelessly devoted secret admirer, panics when he discovers her dangerous plan—thanks to the spy software he’s secretly installed on her computer.

Determined to protect her, Arrow poses as an online masked vigilante expert to help Juno track down the killers. But as they chase shadows through the neon-lit streets of Saint Pierce, the lines between friendship, obsession, and love blur dangerously.

Can Arrow keep his identity hidden while Juno’s quest for justice spirals hilariously, chaotically out of control? Or will their twisted game of masks finally expose the truth they’re both too scared to admit?

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War Games by Sheridan Anne

What do you do when the killers come out to play? When it’s hunt or be hunted? You sharpen your knives and prepare to get bloody because nobody does it better than a woman scorned with something to prove.

Welcome to the 23rd annual serial killer war games, where the adrenaline runs high, the blood is fresh, and the revenge is best served cold.

Descending on the town of Blue Springs, Montana, twenty of the most cunning and skilled killers and assassins will come together for a month-long war, battling it out to claim their place at the top of the food chain, claiming the ultimate victory.

It’s callous, cruel, and brutal. They will be hunted. They will become prey. And when the time comes, they better be ready to fight. Because only one will make it out alive.

It’s a game of endurance. A game of depravity and horror. But what happens when the man who stands between an early grave and victory is the one man who could bring you to your knees?

Will you have the courage to take what’s yours and claim the title you’ve always deserved, or will you falter at the tip of his double-edged blade?

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Beautiful Revenge by Brynne Asher

What do you get when you mix the newest luxury resort in small-town America with greed, rival billionaire families, and murder? The five-star unraveling of my life.

Devon Donnelly is a former British secret agent with ties to clandestine organizations. He’s also the proud new owner of The Manor at Winslet, and the host of my wedding from hell. It may be a wedding, but there will be no marriage.

It all started six weeks ago when my world turned on a dime. Or, since I’m a Madison, it turned on a cool billion.

Now I’m in trouble, and everything is at stake. Stock valuations and power grabs, sure. But also life and death.

I have no one to save me, but I have a plan… Dish up revenge with a side of spite. And stay alive.

What isn’t a part of my plan is Devon. When I ask him to deliver a message to the devil waiting at the altar, he has no idea the disaster he’s about to step into. Our past and present becomes laced into one—in and out of the sheets.

But when my demons collide with his ghosts, Devon gives vengeance new meaning.

They call me the American Princess, and I’m running home. My former British spy is running from his painful past.

And we meet at The Manor.

Craving Revenge by Michelle Heard

For years, I've been groomed to be my brother's shadow. To protect my father's heir, who will one day take over from him as the Kumichō of the Yakuza, I'mforced to dress and act like a man when I'm out in public.

The ruse works, and when I'm grabbed off the street by the Sicilian mafia, I'm in for a world of pain.

Augusto Vitale, a ruthless and unforgiving capo, wants revenge for what the Yakuza did to his younger brother, and I'm the one paying in blood.

That's until Augusto realizes I'm a woman and I'm set free.

I think it's the last I'll ever see of him, but then my father comes up with a plan that will ensure I live the rest of my life in hell.

Once again, I find myself at Augusto's mercy, but this time he has no intention of letting me go.

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Breaking Hailey by I.A. Dice

CARTER

Hailey Scarlett Vaughn was meant to be a pawn in my revenge plan. I was supposed to break her. Use her. Discard her. But the moment I looked into her wide eyes, I knew I’d rather ruin her instead. She’s soft where I’m sharp, innocent where I’m cruel. And when she trembles beneath me, I know she’s caught in my web. Catching feelings as fast as I am. She can’t see the lies. Doesn’t realize that I’m trying to retrieve what’s locked inside her pretty little head... the key to my father’s freedom. But as her memories resurface, I realize I’m not the only monster in this story.

HAILEY

I came to Lakeside to heal, but the moment I stumbled into him, I knew peace wasn’t an option. He’s is a storm. Dark, dominant, utterly relentless. He never asks—he takes what he wants. And right now? He wants me. He owns me. Takes my body, mind, and soul. Breaks me apart and puts me back together, one filthy whispered promise at a time. But soon, my lost memories trickle back, and it’s obvious I’m not at Lakeside to heal—I’m here to hide.

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Blood of My Monster by Rina Kent

I’m out for revenge. He’s out to rule the world.

Kirill and I are as different as day and night. We shouldn’t have been in the same frame or universe.

But we meet under the strangest circumstances.

He’s my superior in the military and the man who’ll introduce me to carnage.

His charm and exterior perfection shouldn’t have tempted me. Behind the smokescreen lurks a manipulative emotionless monster.

And that monster might find out all my secrets, including the reason why I’m pretending to be a man.

He might also lure me to the point of no return.

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Secret Vendetta by Kathy Lockheart

LUNA: I’ve become the obsession of a masked killer with serious stalker tendencies. Apparently, now that I have an army of hitmen after me, he’s decided to become my knight in shining armor. If by “knight” you mean a dark, ruthless protector who unalives anyone who dares hurt me… and enjoys it.

Hunter Lockwood—my grumpy billionaire alphahole neighbor—warns me I’m playing with fire, but I can’t resist the urge to uncover my masked vigilante’s identity. I need to know why he’s risking everything to keep me safe.

Because I suspect this serial killer is someone close to me. And I fear I might be a pawn in his deadly, twisted game—where the ultimate prize… is me.

VIGILANTE: I’m the most dangerous man in the city. Hiding in the shadows, stalking my next victim. I watch them take their last breaths before bathing the city in their blood.

Now, I watch her. I end the lives of the men who come for her, leaving a trail of bodies in my wake. I tell myself I’d never hurt her.

But what if the darkness—this twisted devotion I’ve chosen to embrace—is about to make her… its ultimate prey?

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12:01 by Bella Jay

Picture this: Your fiancé cheats on you the night before your wedding with someone he claimed was his cousin. Then, just months later, he's at the altar with the same "cousin".

What would you do?

A: Crash their wedding and unleash chaos.

B: Accept an invite to attend a play party with his brother.

C: Get the ultimate "lick back" by having a fling with his brother at that very party.

For Tyme Henley, it's all of the above.

But things take an unexpected turn when Tyme finds herself falling for Midnight Drayton, the very person she's despised for a solid two years. As emotions and schemes collide, Tyme navigates a path filled with revenge, unexpected attraction, and a messy entanglement.

Step into Tyme's shoes as she seeks to rewrite the narrative she once knew, exploring the thin line between vindication and unanticipated romance.

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Black Sheep by Alexa Harlowe & Brynne Weaver

Serial killer. That’s not the first thing you’d think when you meet Bria Brooks.

She’s reserved. Polite. Charming, when she wants to be. But delve a little deeper. She’s cunning. Brilliant. Ruthless. Bria Brooks is not just a black sheep. She’s a wolf. And she has her heart set on a very elusive prize.

Caron Berger. Trouble is, she’s not the only one.

Dr. Elijah Kaplan is also on the hunt for the enigmatic leader of the Legio Agni cult. Caron Berger is a phantom, and Eli is keen on catching the ghost. What he doesn’t need is a beautiful and brutal doctoral student haunting his steps. Especially not one who seems so breakable, or who tempts him to bend every rule until it snaps, or who calls to each of his darkest desires. No. He does not need that. At all.

When the pursuit of their elusive prey pulls these two hunters together, they find that their demons might not be so different after all. But just like bodies in a bog, secrets have a way of surfacing, and the ones that Bria and Eli keep are the deadliest kind.

As they draw closer to capturing their prize, can Bria and Eli harness their beasts before they destroy one another? Or will they learn that it’s not what you’ll do to win that matters, it’s what you’re willing to leave behind?

Forever After All by Catharina Maura

Desperate and out of options, Elena Rousseau walks into a gentlemen’s club, ready to sell her body in a last attempt to save her mother’s life.

She didn’t expect Alexander Kennedy to be there, and she certainly didn’t expect him to propose a marriage of convenience instead.

Marrying Alexander means knowingly becoming a tool in his revenge plan.

But what choice does she have?

Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.

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Shallow River by H.D. Carlton

Shallow Hill is where souls suffer slow and miserable deaths.

When River McAllister escaped from Shallow Hill, she left her innocence behind--and some of her sanity, too. Now she's rebuilding her life with her dream man and life couldn't be better.

Ryan Fitzgerald is everything you'd want in a man. Attractive, rich, an aspiring lawyer, and would do anything to keep River. But that's not the only thing that attracts her. It's his attentiveness, his possessiveness... maybe not so much his temper.

When her relationship takes a dark turn, Ryan's estranged brother, Mako, is the only one who sees it. He knows exactly what Ryan is capable of, and it's not the first time he had to be a knight in shining armor.

River came from Shallow Hill, though. She's never needed saving before. What Mako doesn't see, is that River is perfectly capable of taking care of herself.

The only one who should be scared is Ryan.

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Devious Lies by Parker S. Huntington

“She could enjoy her pretty, perfect world a little longer. Soon enough, everything she owned would be mine.”

I had a plan to escape the friend zone. Step one: sneak into Reed’s room. Step two: sleep with him.

But when the lights turned on, it wasn’t familiar blue eyes I saw. These were dark, angry, and full of demons. And they belonged to Reed’s much older brother.

Four years later, Nash Prescott is no longer the help’s angry son. I’m no longer the town’s prized princess.

At twenty-two, I’m broke, in need of a job. At thirty-two, he’s a billionaire, in need of revenge.

Who cares if my family ruined his? Who cares if he looks at me with pure loathing? Who cares if every task he assigns me is designed to torture?

I need the money. Simple as that. I’ll suffer his cruelty in silence, knowing there’s one thing he wants more than revenge… Me.

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Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone

A double life with a single purpose: revenge.

Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man.

No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven.

But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her.

Nothing can distract Jane from going straight for his heart: allowing herself to be seduced into Steven’s bed, to insinuate herself into his career and his family, and to expose all his dirty secrets.

It’s time for Jane to dig out everything that matters to Steven. So she can take it all away.

Just as he did to her.

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The Risk by S.T. Abby

Lana: I didn't expect him. I didn't want to fall in love. But I can't let him go.

Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place. He's brilliant. He's a hero. He locks away the sick and depraved. But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.

Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead. They should have made sure I stayed dead. Now I'm taking from them. One name at a time.

Logan doesn't know how they hurt me. He doesn't know about the screams they ignored. He doesn't know how twisted that town really is. He just knows people are dying. He doesn't know he's in love with their killer.

No one suspects a dead girl. They're looking for a monster. Not a girl who loves red. Not a girl in love.

I'm a faceless nightmare. At least until I tell them the story they've pretended never happened. But in the end, will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?