Darma Day
Darma Day is an American indie author who loves reading steamy romance novels as much as she does writing them.
Writing relatable characters in multiple genres (including paranormal, mafia, and more to come) she continues to write the stories that live rent-free in her head.
When she isn’t reading or writing, she is busy with her full-time job in industrial sales, being a wife, dog mom, and coffee connoisseur.
If you’ve happened upon this, know that I truly appreciate that you are here reading my works.
You can follow @Darma_Day on Instagram for updates on her latest works.
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A.K. Draven loves to write about strong female characters and anti-heroes. Her books are a mix of dark themes, possessive MMC and a touch of humour.
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She started writing in her early teens, and was inspired by dark moody legends like Edgar Allan Poe. Art and photography were a staple in her creative development and remains that way into her adulthood. Her main genre and focus is Romance, though she's acquired a good many hats within that spectrum.
Fantasy is a gateway.
Historical fiction is a drug.
Dark romance is non-negotiable.
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M. Violet
M Violet is a dark romance author with a flair for the dramatic. She likes whiskey, rainy nights, and writing by the fire. When she's not creating scorching hot villains for you to fall in love with, you can find her eating chocolate and binge watching her favorite shows.
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D. Vessa
D. Vessa is a romantic suspense author who loves a morally gray alpha, the color black and a good Aperol Spritz. She lives on the east coast with her family. When she is not writing she spends her time running from her problems, and wondering what color to dye her hair next.
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Chantal H
My name is Chantal.
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And I am a writer and also booklover from Holland.
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Nicole M. Rubino
Nicole Rubino is a lover of fantasy, though she loves a steamy contemporary romance for good measure. Monstrous is her debut adult novel, and is the first of a three-book series. Morticia Addams is her role model, and you will often find Nicole belting out the tunes to any Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac song (alas, not well). The mother of four young dragons (children), Nicole manages the beautiful chaos of her home by channeling it into her poor characters instead. Nicole lives in New York with her 100% Aries of a husband and said dragons.
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K.M. Rogness
KM Rogness is an indie author known for writing dark, twisted, and smutty why choose romance novels. She doesn't shy away from addressing real issues and draws from personal experiences, with a focus on intense and emotional storytelling. Residing in North Carolina with her husband and three sons, she is expecting a daughter. Rogness is inspired by nighttime and rainy, stormy days. Her books are packed with intense themes and captivating male main characters, promising an enthralling reading experience.
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Leann Belle
Leann Belle was born and raised in Los Angeles as an eternal dreamer, a hardcore gamer, and obsessive anime, manga, and JRPG nerd. Having fallen in love with countless villains, she immediately fell in love with the dark side of romance, and her lifelong love affair with Japanese horror and fantasy has heavily influenced her writing style as she crafts vicious and magical worlds.
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When she’s not typing away behind her laptop, she’s living out of a tent off the back of her motorcycle on her quest to ride around the world. The wilderness is the best place to catch up on reading, after all! -
Misti Wilds
Just a smut-lover listening to angsty love songs on repeat.
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Misti Wilds loves watching characters pine after one another from afar--until a tall, dark, and brooding alpha male says f*ck this and claims his woman. But one man isn't enough these days--Misti's got her hands full when it comes to writing multiple dark and delicious men with violence in their hearts and a declaration of love etched on the barrel of their guns.
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Candice Clark
Candice Clark is an avid romance reader-turned-writer who lives in South Carolina with her man-child husband and small daughter, who her mother always warned would be just like her. She was right.
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In addition to writing, she works full-time, owns an Etsy bakery, and has a thousand other hobbies that allow her to complain about how stressed out and stretched thin she is.
She’s a down-to-earth, middle-aged woman who feels 97 most days and suffers from chronic pain and massive anxiety. She hopes to use these challenges to write relatable characters with relatable personalities in an effort to help improve the real-life perception of mental health struggles.
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K.T. Maddan
Katie has always possessed a talent for crafting captivating stories. She loves crafting characters with profound depth and is passionate about narrating their stories. When she's not busy creating your next literary delight, she enjoys indulging in PC gaming sessions with her partner or showering affection on her beloved fur babies.
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Ab. Cynthe
Ab. Cynthe is an International Best Selling author who decided to create this specific pen name to showcase her darker, spicier, more horrific works. She is known for her retellings and monsters and has close to a dozen published works in total, with many more set to release within the next year.
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K.T. Maddan
Katie has always possessed a talent for crafting captivating stories. She loves crafting characters with profound depth and is passionate about narrating their stories. When she's not busy creating your next literary delight, she enjoys indulging in PC gaming sessions with her partner or showering affection on her beloved fur babies.
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Misti Wilds
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Dana LeeAnn
Dana LeeAnn lives for the dark side of romance—the stalkier, the better. She originally used writing as an outlet to heal herself, but found it addictive, and has never stopped. Her books are packed with suspense and questionable love interests that will leave your heart racing at the turn of every page. When she’s not dreaming up new ways to torture her characters (and readers), she can be found in northern Colorado, exploring the mountains or dragging her husband into a new project around the house.
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Leila Starling
Leila Starling is a lover and writer of many types of romance: mafia, reverse harem, fantasy, paranormal, dark, and contemporary. She can usually be found in front of her computer writing her next novel (or bingeing a show). You can find her on Instagram and TikTok @leilastarlingauthor.
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Audrey Rush
Audrey Rush writes kinky dark romance and erotic horror. She celebrates spooky season every day, and she is obsessed with Disney. You can find her in the South, drowning in coffee.
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Kitty King
Corruptio mentis. Devotio carnis.
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Author of cinematic dark romance. Hitchcock tension. Tarantino action. Blazing spice.
Kitty King is a best-selling romance author and retired physician entertaining readers with her dark and twisted stories. She is the author of over thirteen books and counting.
Kitty enjoys reading all kinds of books, listening to ASMR, and building houses with her mind (or in Sims).
Prior to writing, she was a psychiatrist that trained medical students, residents, and worked in various institutions, as well as performed psychotherapy. Her expertise in trauma and personality disorders seeps through her works in a way that provides a unique perspective on dark romance.
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Saige Parker
Saige Parker lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest with her ever-supportive husband. A lifelong bookworm, she took the plunge into indie publishing after sharing her dark romance stories with a passionate reader group—and realized it was time to go bigger.
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Drawn to the sinister side of storytelling, Saige creates pitch-black love stories featuring villainous characters you can’t help but fall for…mostly. With a passion for diving deep into the messy, complicated emotions that make us human, she loves exploring what makes people who they are by crafting characters that are often seen as irredeemable, unlovable, and purely chaotic.
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K.J. Johnson
K.J. Johnson writes dark fantasy and romance, starring fierce heroines and the kind of morally grey men that are guaranteed to leave your sense of right and wrong deliciously scrambled.
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With a taste for danger and desire, K.J.'s stories serve up spice with a side of moral chaos — perfect for readers who like their love stories a little wicked.
Fueled by a lifelong love of reading and a passion for storytelling, she finally let her imagination off its leash and wrote her debut novel, A Heart of Fire and Flame.
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Kati McRae
Growing up, I was always unsatisfied with fade-to-black romance scenes in books and movies. So I took matters into my own hands and started writing about what happens after the happily ever after. As I got older, these romantic fanfictions and one-shots became original full-length novels—with lots of steamy action.
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When I’m not writing, you can find me exploring my home state of Arizona with my husband, stepdaughter, and three dogs (two Shih Tzus and a wacky golden retriever). -
Kitty King
Corruptio mentis. Devotio carnis.
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Author of cinematic dark romance. Hitchcock tension. Tarantino action. Blazing spice.
Kitty King is a best-selling romance author and retired physician entertaining readers with her dark and twisted stories. She is the author of over thirteen books and counting.
Kitty enjoys reading all kinds of books, listening to ASMR, and building houses with her mind (or in Sims).
Prior to writing, she was a psychiatrist that trained medical students, residents, and worked in various institutions, as well as performed psychotherapy. Her expertise in trauma and personality disorders seeps through her works in a way that provides a unique perspective on dark romance.
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Sonia Palermo
Sonia Palermo writes spicy contemporary, paranormal, and erotic romance. When she’s not immersed in writing, she enjoys cosying up on the sofa with a cup of tea and indulging in a good horror or romance movie. A true beach lover, Sonia finds inspiration along the beautiful south coast of England, where she lives. The serene seaside surroundings bring a touch of real-life magic to her stories. Sonia's work reflects her passions—spooky atmospheres, intense romance, and the charm of everyday moments, inviting readers to discover where the ordinary meets the extraordinary, with a happily ever after guaranteed.
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Leila Starling
Leila Starling is a lover and writer of many types of romance: mafia, reverse harem, fantasy, paranormal, dark, and contemporary. She can usually be found in front of her computer writing her next novel (or bingeing a show). You can find her on Instagram and TikTok @leilastarlingauthor.
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Hana Meadows
Hana Meadows is a dark romance author from the UK. She loves anime, horror and metal music; all of which inspire her to write the most deliciously unhinged book boyfriends. Her books are packed full of smut and angst, and they’ll leave you questioning your morals.
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Elizabeth Muse
Elizabeth is a (mostly!) dark romance author, a trope aficionado, a Mary Sue stan, a beanie baby hoarder, a single mom, pure chaotic evil, and a pitch wars alum who looks like a cinnamon roll but could kill you.
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She specializes in spicy disasters, enemies to lovers, tragic backstories, grumpy villains falling for sunshine heroes too good for this world, bad boys and girls reformed by the power of love, arranged marriages, fake relationships, and second chances.
In her ridiculously limited free time, Elizabeth enjoys playing board games, experimenting in the kitchen, and trying desperately to cuddle her two demon kitties. -
Mary E. Jung
Mary E. Jung is the worldwide author and publisher of the Etrucian Royals and The Libra Witch Series and the Socrates. Mary lives with her two sons and husband in Pennsylvania. She received her bachelor’s degree in Arts Studies with an emphasis in Arts Management and Opera from Shenandoah University.
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She's a Publishers Weekly spotlight author for Queen of Light and Ashes.
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Visha Graves
Visha Graves writes blood-soaked love stories where desire turns deadly and every emotion demands a price. A dark romance and horror author, her books straddle the line between passion and perdition—infusing haunted carnivals, twisted obsession, and theatrical vengeance into every page. Off the stage, Visha is a devoted wife, proud boy mom, and dog mama who finds magic in the mundane. Whether she’s baking in a storm-lit kitchen or sketching nightmares beneath the stars, her life is a balancing act of beauty and brutality.
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Every book is a ritual.
Every scene is a stage. Every ending is a sacrifice. -
L.M. Stone
Liberty is an indie author who was born and raised in Los Angeles. Writing gives her the chance to bring her deliciously twisted thoughts to life, as well as channeling her personal experiences and trauma into captivating stories. Don’t worry, she’s all about keeping those wild ideas safely tucked between the pages. Fiction is where the fun happens, after all.
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When Liberty isn’t writing, she’s probably gaming or streaming, singing her favorite songs at a karaoke bar, or spending time with family and friends. She has a soft spot in her heart for all animals and an unhealthy obsession with crystals.
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Eva Rayne
Eva spent her childhood running through the Tennessee mountains, on foot and horseback, daydreaming and creating worlds of her own.
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She has been telling stories since she was old enough to talk, and writing them since she learned how to hold a pencil. It was always her goal to turn that love of the written word into a full-time career, and she considers herself truly lucky that she has been able to turn that dream into a reality.
These days, she has found herself branching out from her fantasy and paranormal roots to dive headfirst into the world of romance. Blending the new with the old, adding a pinch of snark, and splashing a dash of spice, she has no plans to ever look back.

