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Top 16 Dark Stalker Romance Books You Must Read in 2026

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Stalker romance books are a dark little corner of the romance genre that explore relationships where one partner exhibits some seriously obsessive or possessive behavior, often trampling all over the boundaries of consent and privacy. These stories can range from dark and intense to more romanticized versions, sometimes highlighting the tension between desire and danger. While they can be totally enthralling for some readers due to their rich emotional and psychological dynamics, they also spark important conversations about consent and the necessity of healthy boundaries.

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Hide and Seek by Sheridan Anne

Forensic Pathologist, Harper-Rayn, is no stranger to darkness. She has seen it all in the cold silence of Blackstone’s one and only morgue, revealing the mystery of death on her autopsy table—until the bodies start speaking to her in eerie, calculated ways.

When corpses begin to reveal chilling, hidden messages meant only for her, she realizes she’s been playing a twisted game she never intended to play. The game intrigues her, drawing her in, but if she takes one wrong step, it’s game over.

The line between fear and obsession wavers, shifting this game from one of desire into a terrifying, murderous lust, the strings being pulled by a cryptic masked killer with one unforgiving intention—to claim her as his own, dead or alive. The shadows are real. The fear is crippling. But the lust is wild and ferocious.

Fear sends her spiraling into the arms of the delicious SWAT team leader, Knight Slater. He’s everything she’s ever desired, but everything she shouldn’t want. He’s more than off limits. He’s her step-uncle, but she draws him in, and protecting her becomes more than just duty. It becomes a relentless need.

As this deadly game tightens around them, Harper must decide: Is she ready to risk it all for her heart and put everything on the line, or will she literally die trying?

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Unveil by Greer Rivers

Rebellious ballerina Luna Bordeaux may be the darling of the New Orleans elite, but she’s destined to dance in her parents’ shadows. Her twenty-second birthday was supposed to be her escape. One last performance, one necessary breakup, then? Freedom.

Except her white knight of a boyfriend just proposed on stage. And now her masked stalker has crashed the engagement party…

Orion Fury has protected Luna for years, counting the seconds until he can claim his future wife, honoring a vow made between their fathers decades ago. His discipline has only ever slipped once, but his enemy just crossed the line. All bets are off, and a night that began with a party ends in kidnapping and murder.

Now Luna is a stolen bride with blood on her slippers and a target on her back, trapped in the wilderness with the man who hunted her. But Orion isn’t the only predator in these woods, and the men coming for her will do anything to stop the Fury-Bordeaux alliance.

Her villain may be the one person she’s determined to hate, but is he the only one dangerous enough to keep her alive?

X Marks The Stalker by K.N. Wilder

Crime journalist Oakley Novak has built her career exposing Boston’s darkest secrets, but she never expected a serial killer to turn the tables and stalk her.

Xander Rhodes spent weeks watching her through hidden cameras, captivated by her sharp mind and relentless drive, until she catches him red-handed and, instead of running, challenges him with a glare that could melt steel.

Xander’s either found his soulmate or lost his damn mind. Probably both.

When Oakley recruits him for her revenge plan against the man who murdered her parents, their partnership shatters every rule of Xander's secret murder society.

Now they're being hunted by both sides—the law and the shadows—while racing against time to take down the untouchable enemy who took everything from her.

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Depraved Devotion by Morgan Bridges

My patient is stalking me… and he’s a psychopath.

I’ve dedicated my life to understanding the darkest corners of the human psyche, but nothing prepares me for him. Ghost. The man is a brilliant, ruthless serial killer who thrives on chaos. Just like his cult following enrapt by his brutality and beauty, he’s completely unhinged. And he’s obsessed with me.

So when Ghost turns himself in and demands to speak to me, I’m forced to confront the beautiful monster sitting across the glass. And the one inside—the one lurking in my own fractured soul. Ghost's rapt attention brings goosebumps to my skin and sends chills down my spine. I choose to believe my reaction is based in fear. When I'm alone in bed, it's harder to convince myself.

As boundaries fade and the line between doctor and patient blurs, Ghost proves to know more about me than possible. Soon, I’m faced with a question: What am I willing to pay to unveil the truth about my haunted past? Because to Ghost, the price is me. All of me.

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Darkest Sins by Neva Altaj

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In a night of blood and death, Fate brought us together. I thought I was saving the life of an innocent man, A man I'd never see again. I was wrong. A slight shift in the air. A glint of silver eyes in the darkness. I may not see him, but I know he's there. My angel of death, Lurking in the shadows, Watching over me. Protecting me, Before disappearing into thin air, Until we meet again. A man who took a bullet for me, But he won't touch me, Love me, Or even share his name.

KAI

Darkness. Pain. Blood. It's all I have ever known. An empty shell of a human being, No heart. No soul. No dreams. Surrounded by death, I was a dead man walking. But then, her light shone through my darkness, Breathing life into my dead soul. My fearless tiger cub, My only reason to keep living. Every time I have to leave her in the light, My black heart breaks and bleeds, As I retreat to the shadows, Where I belong. I cannot change the past, Cannot take back what I have done. My darkest sin.

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Lights Out by Navessa Allen

I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.

Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.

I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.

Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.

Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.

The Ecstasy of Sin by Kay Alastor

I’m invisible. I’m a girl with no family, no friends, and no future. Chronically ill. Homeless. Cast aside.

Death is beginning to look like mercy.

Then, he sees me. An enigmatic stranger who holds me together like I’m not ripping at the seams.

And when he kills someone to save my life, I finally see the monster hidden behind his beautiful eyes.

He’s dangerous, and I should run...

But his obsession becomes my addiction. His darkness becomes my sanctuary. By the time the truth of what he is comes to light, it’s already too late.

Dominic Kael will burn the world to ash before he ever lets me go.

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King of Depravity by Tammy Andresen

Waitressing isn’t a calling, it’s a way to pay for my art degree. Until Killian Smith walks into the bar and turns my world upside down. It isn’t that he’s drop-dead gorgeous. Rich. Powerful.

It’s that he’s unhinged.

I know the dead look in his eyes. I’ve seen it before. And he sees me too.

Every night is some twisted game of cat and mouse and he’s drawing closer to catching me.

Until one night when I step into a back alley and I’m a witness to a Bratva murder.

There is only one man I can turn to for help. The one man who petrifies me is the only one who can protect me.

Killian Smith. A beautiful monster. He’ll keep me safe.

But what will he want in return?

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Her Saint by Harmony West

He’s a writer who’s finally found his muse . . . and he’s never letting her go.

Briar

My student is stalking me. Saint de Haas follows me around campus, to my car, to my house. He insists I’m his muse, no matter how much I object, and he wants to keep me all to himself. So when my date turns up dead, I know whose fingerprints are all over the crime scene. Saint is smart, but I’m smarter. I’m going to prove he’s stalking me and get him thrown behind bars. And no matter what he says, I’m sure as hell not going to fall for my stalker.

Saint

I’ve finally found my muse, and I’m never letting her go. But Briar is so busy hiding and running from me, she doesn’t notice how I’m improving her life. I get rid of her loser date who’s hiding a few girlfriends and venereal diseases. I follow her around campus so her boss doesn’t try something worse than groping her in class. I can make all her dreams come true. Give her anything her heart desires. If she’d just stop running and give in. She’s my muse, and when I finally make her mine, I’ll be her saint.

Sweet Venom by Rina Kent

I accidentally witnessed a brutal murder. I froze, pretended I saw nothing, hoping I could leave it behind. But my plan backfired, and my life spiraled downward.

Now, I’m the target of cold-blooded revenge.

Jude Callahan isn’t just a hockey god—he’s a devil no one dares to cross. My existence disrupts his stardom, prestige, and possible serial killer career choice. And he’s set out to make me pay for that moment of silence.

No matter how much I run or hide, he finds me, watching from the shadows. Like a predator.

I thought he’d stop at the stalking. Or even better, he’d kill me and finally end my misery. But Jude has other plans. He says I can’t die. I have to pay for my sins.

And just like that, he drags me into his depraved world, kicking and screaming.

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Hunting Pretty by Sienna Blake

Watch her. Crave her. Covet her.

I’m the monster in the shadows—but she’s addicted to monsters.

She looks so pretty when she cries out in her sleep. I’m obsessed by her gasps when she hears me coming for her. I'm hooked on the way she fights me when I pin her down.

When she starts investigating the wrong missing girl, I have to punish her to keep her from digging—or her dark past will swallow her whole.

Chase her. Taunt her. Torment her.

No matter what I do, she won’t back down.

Now it’s too late… I’m not the only monster hunting her. But will I be the one to claim her?

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Sweet Little Obsession by Teresa Wolf

Teacher by day, stalker by night. Who ever thought college could be this interesting?

I’m teaching a hundred students. But my eyes are only on one. She’s my obsession – and I’ll stop at nothing to make her mine.

I followed her back to her apartment. Then I broke in while she was asleep.

She wants me. I can feel it when I touch her. But she can’t know who I am. I’m her new step-brother.

My family’s enemies are legion, and our little game puts her right in the firing line. But protecting her is what big brothers are for, right?

The more we fight, the more I want her. And my nocturnal visits make her want me, too.

Am I her guardian angel? Or a devil in disguise?

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Phantom by H.D. Carlton

November 12, 1944

This house holds on to souls for a lifetime. I thought I had given it to my husband when I vowed to love him until the end of time.

I lied.

Nothing could have prepared me for the day my phantom appeared outside my window. He was terrifying, yet hypnotizing, and I couldn’t deny my intrigue.

I never intended to fall into a whirlwind romance with my stalker. Especially because he’s so much more than that.

A criminal. A mobster. The man who offers me solace from the monster in Parsons Manor.

There are many that haunt these halls, yet it’s only my husband I fear.

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Love Me Stalk Me by Laura Bishop

When overworked department store manager Izzy Russo downloads an AI boyfriend app to fill the emotional void left by her inattentive real one, she thinks she’s just venting to a harmless chatbot named “Caleb.”

In reality, she’s been pouring her deepest, dirtiest fantasies into the ears of Callahan Knight—her store’s brooding new head of security.

Because Cal? He’s been listening. The moment he saw Izzy, he knew she was his. Did he hack her phone? Absolutely.

But who could blame him? A woman like Izzy deserves to be cherished by someone who truly knows her worth—and he’ll do anything to be that man.

So when Izzy finally sees her boyfriend for who he really is, and the danger she’s unknowingly been caught up in, Cal is ready to protect her, no matter the cost. Even if it means revealing the truth.

She might not have meant to build the perfect man. But he’s here now. And he’s never letting her go.

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The Wallflower by J.L. Beck

She needs me, because she needs money. I don’t need her. Just her complete submission…

Maybel Jacobs is the Wallflower, quiet, shy, socially awkward and hell-bent on hiding even from herself, that is until a chance encounter takes place between us. Instantly she hates me and for good reason. I'm a walking-red-flag. Filthy rich jock, short tempered, and violent. I can have anyone and anything I want.. except her.

Little does she know her disgust, anger, and hate for me fuels my obsession to own her, completely in every single way.

Maybell resists, predictably... but her fight only makes her more desirable and I have plans that will lead her right into my lap and never want to leave.

When she joins the sinful tradition put on by the elite of the town, the Hunt, I’m shocked. The pretty little thing has no idea how much danger she’s in if she decides to become my prey.

Sweet, innocent, and fragile like a flower. I'll have to be careful or risk breaking her.

Because I’m the ultimate predator and when I play there are no rules. I don’t chase. I capture. And I like to own my bait.

Rook & Rebel by Kate Crew

REGAN

I used to have big dreams. Finish college, make beautiful art, and take over my dad's business. But his illness wasn't part of the plan. Neither was his sudden need to keep me locked up in his mansion. Until one night, I came face-to-face with a street biker. Rook Emberson is everything I should fear, yet he's the only one who's ever made me feel alive. But loving him means risking everything.

ROOK

Revenge has always been my plan. I've spent years plotting the perfect way to take back everything Regan Fletcher's father stole from me. When fate puts us together, I know I've found the key to his destruction. Regan is everything I didn't expect, and my plans begin to unravel. What starts as a twisted game of vengeance turns into an obsession. The lines between love and vengeance blur, and I'm not sure where one ends and the other begins.

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