11 taboo romance reads for when you’re feeling extra naughty

Sometimes you need a read that’s...outside the norm. Maybe a little twisted, even. Extra racy. If that kind of thing floats your boat, we’ve got just the list for you! Here are our picks for 10 awesome taboo romance reads that you’re sure to love, you naughty little thing, you:

---

Torn
Author: Carian Cole
 
Amazon blurb:
He’s loved me since the day I was born.
He’s taken care of me.
He’s awakened me.
 
Tor. My father’s best friend.
Fifteen years older than me, he’s always been my protector. The one I should never, ever want.
But I was born to be his.
 
She’s always loved me.
She’s shattered me.
She’s healed me.
Kenzi. My best friend’s daughter.
I held her the day she was born, and I never let go.
She’s forbidden to me. But she’s the only one that really gets me.
We’re slowly being torn apart by everything we love.
Everything we want.
Everything we desire.​

And now I want the one thing I can’t have... I want her.
 
** Please note: there is NO underage sex in this book. This book is intended for readers 18 years and older **
 
** Portions of sales of this book are donated to various pet rescue organizations.**

---

Finding Home
Author: Lauren Baker and Bonnie Dee
 
Amazon blurb:
Forbidden passion blooms on the gritty street.
 
Copy editor Megan works to make her journalistic dreams come true, but her piece on homeless teens brings unexpected consequences. A hustler with the street name Mouth rocks her to the core with his sad story, world weary air, and overwhelming magnetism.
 
Mouth aka Sean has dreams of his own, big plans to rise above his circumstances and forge a real career. When he’s beaten and his hard-earned savings stolen, he accepts Megan’s offer of a place to stay for a while.
 
A passionate affair is the last thing either intends. The power dynamic is wrong, the gap in their ages is wrong, and yet sexual attraction crackles between them like a slow burning fuse.

When it finally explodes the impossible relationship exposes Megan to criticism from all sides. Meanwhile, Sean’s inner turmoil reaches a boiling point of its own as he doubts his worth and wonders if he’s being used yet again.
 
Can real love grow from such a beginning or are Megan and Sean fooling themselves that an ill-fated love can last?
 
This is a previously published novel.

---

Unteachable
Author: Leah Raeder
 
Amazon blurb:
Maise O’Malley just turned eighteen, but she’s felt like a grown-up her entire life. The summer before senior year, she has plans: get into a great film school, convince her mom to go into rehab, and absolutely do not, under any circumstances, screw up her own future.
 
But life has a way of throwing her plans into free-fall.
 
When Maise meets Evan at a carnival one night, their chemistry is immediate, intense, and short-lived. Which is exactly how she likes it: no strings. But afterward, she can’t get Evan out of her head. He’s taught her that a hookup can be something more. It can be an unexpected connection with someone who truly understands her. Someone who sees beyond her bravado to the scared but strong girl inside.

That someone turns out to be her new film class teacher, Mr. Evan Wilke.
 
Maise and Evan resolve to keep their hands off each other, but the attraction is too much to bear. Together, they’re real and genuine; apart, they’re just actors playing their parts for everyone else. And their masks are slipping. People start to notice. Rumors fly. When the truth comes to light in a shocking way, they may learn they were just playing parts for each other, too.
 
Smart, sexy, and provocative, Unteachable is about what happens when a love story goes off-script.

---

Love, In English
Author: Karina Halle
 
Amazon blurb:
A standalone, contemporary romance about the ultimate forbidden love...
 
He’s thirty-eight. I’m twenty-three.
 
He speaks Spanish. I speak English.
 
He lives in Spain. I live in Canada.
 
He dresses in thousand-dollar suits. I’m covered in tattoos.
 
He’s married and has a five-year old daughter.
 
I’m single and can’t commit to anyone or anything.
 
Until now.Because when they say you can’t choose who you fall in love with, boy ain’t that the damn truth.

***
 
To a restless dreamer like Vera Miles, it sounded like the experience of a lifetime. Instead of spending her summer interning for her astronomy major, she would fly to Spain where she’d spend a few weeks teaching conversational English to businessmen and women, all while enjoying free room and board at an isolated resort. But while Vera expected to get a tan, meet new people and stuff herself with wine and paella, she never expected to fall in love.
 
Mateo Casalles is unlike anyone Vera has ever known, let alone anyone she’s usually attracted to. While Vera is a pierced and tatted free spirit with a love for music and freedom, Mateo is a successful businessman from Madrid, all sharp suits and cocky Spanish charm. Yet, as the weeks go on, the two grow increasingly close and their relationship changes from purely platonic to something…more.
 
Something that makes Vera feel alive for the first time.
 
Something that can never, ever be.
 
Or so she thinks.

---

Jane’s Melody
Author: Ryan Winfield
 
Amazon blurb:
What boundaries would you cross for true love?

That's the question a grieving mother must answer when she takes in a young street musician she believes can shed light on her daughter's death—only to find herself falling for him. A sexy but touching love story that will leave you both tantalized and in tears, Jane's Melody follows a forty-year-old woman on a romantic journey of rediscovery after years of struggling alone.
 
Sometimes our greatest gifts come from our greatest pain. And now Jane must decide if it's too late for her to start over, or if true love really knows no limits.

---

A Little Too Far
Author: Lisa Desrochers
 
Amazon blurb:
Have you ever gone just a little too far?
 
Lexie Banks has.
 
Yep. She just had mind-blowing sex with her stepbrother. In her defense, she was on the rebound, and it's more of a my-dad-happened-to-marry-a-woman-with-a-super-hot-son situation. But still, he's been her best friend and confidant for the better part of the last few years ... and is so off limits. It's a good thing she's leaving in two days for a year abroad in Rome.
 
But even thousands of miles away, Lexie can't seem to escape trouble. Raised Catholic, she goes to confession in hopes of alleviating some of her guilt ... and maybe not burning in hell.

Instead, she stumbles out of the confessional and right into Alessandro Moretti, a young and very easy-on-the-eyes deacon ... only eight months away from becoming a priest. Lexie and Alessandro grow closer, and when Alessandro's signals start changing despite his vow of celibacy, she doesn't know what to think. She's torn between falling in love with the man she shouldn't want and the man she can't have. And she isn't sure how she can live with herself either way.

---

Fallen from Grace
Author: Laura Leone
 
Amazon blurb:
FALLEN FROM GRACE by Laura Leone was a Rita Award finalist for Best Contemporary Romance. It's the story of a woman, Sara, who befriends a younger man who conceals painful secrets and a double life behind his gentle charm and good looks. As their friendship blossoms into love, Sara gradually learns the truth about Ryan, who's trapped in a world of lies, danger, and sex-for-hire. With his spirit renewed by love, Ryan becomes determined to find a way out of the life he was drawn into as a runaway minor, and equally determined to rescue a street kid whom he finds falling into the same traps which once caught him. But Ryan's secret life is lived in a ruthless world which won't easily let him go. Having fallen so far from grace, can he find his way back?

---

Asking for It
Author: Lilah Pace
 
Amazon blurb:
“This is who I am. This is what I want. Now I need a man dangerous enough to give it to me.”
 
Graduate student Vivienne Charles is afraid of her own desires—ashamed to admit that she fantasizes about being taken by force, by a man who will claim her completely and without mercy. When the magnetic, mysterious Jonah Marks learns her secret, he makes an offer that stuns her: they will remain near-strangers to each other, and meet in secret so that he can fulfill her fantasy.
 
Their arrangement is twisted. The sex is incredible. And—despite their attempts to stay apart—soon their emotions are bound together as tightly as the rope around Vivienne’s wrists. But the secrets in their pasts threaten to turn their affair even darker...

Reader Advisory: Asking for It deals explicitly with fantasies of non-consensual sex. Readers sensitive to portrayals of non-consensual sex should be advised. ​​

---

Tears of Tess
Author: Pepper Winters
 
Amazon blurb:
Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with possibility.
 
For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico. Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul-connecting sex set the mood for a wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a passion filled week, Tess is on top of the world.
 
But lusty paradise is shattered.
 
Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror.

Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can't save her from the horror of being sold.
 
Can Brax find Tess before she's broken and ruined, or will Tess's new owner change her life forever?

---

Stepbrother Dearest
Author: Penelope Ward

Amazon blurb:
You’re not supposed to want the one who torments you.
 
When my stepbrother, Elec, came to live with us my senior year, I wasn’t prepared for how much of a jerk he’d be.
 
I hated that he took it out on me because he didn’t want to be here.

I hated that he brought girls from our high school back to his room.
​
But what I hated the most was the unwanted way my body reacted to him.
 
At first, I thought all he had going for him were his rock-hard tattooed abs and chiseled face.

But things started changing between us, and it all came to a head one night.

​Then, just as quickly as he’d come into my life, he was gone back to California. 
 
It had been years since I’d seen Elec. 
 
When tragedy struck our family, I’d have to face him again. 
 
And holy hell, the teenager who made me crazy was now a man that drove me insane.
 
I had a feeling my heart was about to get broken again.

---

Twist Me
Author: Anna Zaires
 
Amazon blurb:
Kidnapped. Taken to a private island.
 
I never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely.
 
Now I belong to him. To Julian. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful—a man whose touch makes me burn. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty.
 
My captor is an enigma. I don’t know who he is or why he took me. There is a darkness inside him—a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in.
 
My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story.

***Note: This is book 1 of a completed trilogy. Keep Me and Hold Me are now available everywhere. No cliffhanger.***

---

What about all you naughty, taboo-romance-loving readers out there? Did we miss any of your favorites? Let us know! We’d love to hear from you!