What to read after “Her Soul to Take” by Harley Laroux: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.
Caleb has spent twelve years hunting the mobster who kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. To get close to his target, he abducts eighteen-year-old Olivia and begins training her as a sex slave. Bound and isolated, Olivia fears her captor, but her growing attraction to him makes escape even harder.
Gabrielle hides in Boston, painting by day and avoiding the vampires who killed her family. When she witnesses a battle between the Breed warrior Lucan and his enemies, she is pulled into the Midnight Breed's hidden war and a dangerous attraction to an assassin sworn to hunt his own kind.
Wendy, the sheltered twenty-year-old daughter of Peter Michaels, walks into James's bar and becomes the pawn in his long campaign of revenge against her father. As James's criminal organization begins to fracture and a traitor emerges, his plan blurs into obsession, and Wendy is drawn to the man known as James and the monster known as Hook.
Elena is the favoured, docile daughter of a mafia boss, expected to keep the family's reputation spotless. When her sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo, a feared Made Man from a rival family, Elena is drawn into his orbit against her better judgment. He is rude, dangerous and always near, and the attraction between them turns a family alliance into a scandal waiting to happen.
After inheriting her grandmother's house, Adeline finds her great-grandmother's diaries, which point to a long-hidden murder. A stalker begins watching her, leaving messages and breaking into her home. As he draws closer, Adeline is torn between fear and a dangerous attraction, while his hunt for a trafficking ring closes in.
Erika has crushed on Michael Crist, her best friend's older brother, for years. After a night that ends in scandal, she joins the same elite university as Michael and his friends, who hold her responsible for a past wrong. Their revenge turns into a dangerous game neither can control.
In Victorian England, Anna Champion offends the wealthy Christopher Davenport at a ball, and he sets out to ruin her. Using his charm and money, he turns her family's world upside down and brings her into his household. Anna fights back with wit and courage, even as their hatred turns into something more dangerous.
Makani moved from Hawaii to a small Nebraska town and is still guarding a secret from her past. Then students at her high school are murdered one by one, each killing exposing something the victim hid, and the killer edges closer to her.
When her father cannot pay a debt, he sells Roxy to the Vipers, four men who run the city's underworld. Held in their home, she refuses to submit and plots her revenge. The longer she stays, the more the line blurs between captor and lover, and the four men begin to claim her as their own.
Constanta is saved from death by a vampire lord and becomes the first of his brides. Over centuries he brings two more consorts into their home, and as cruelty and control replace affection, she begins to record the truth of their long and dangerous marriage.
Cursed to carry the demon of Violence, the immortal warrior Maddox has spent lifetimes in torment. Every night he dies at the hands of the gods, and every dawn he wakes. Rescuing a mortal woman named Ashlyn from his enemies throws them both into a conflict that could free or destroy him.
Valentine Napier, Duke of Montgomery, returns from exile to his London house, where his housekeeper Bridget Crumb is secretly searching for letters he uses to blackmail her mother. Valentine is vain, amoral and dangerous, yet Bridget refuses to be cowed. Their contest of wills becomes a slow, intense attraction.
Jade, a high-school senior obsessed with slasher films, is sure a killer has come to her small Idaho town. Nobody believes her, so she pins her hopes on a new classmate she thinks is destined to be the final girl who survives. Her theory is also a way of outlasting her own life.
After her mother's death, Quinn moves with her father to Kettle Springs, a Missouri town split between resentful adults and bored teenagers. At the Founder's Day party in a cornfield, the town mascot, Frendo the Clown, begins killing students, and Quinn has to work out who can be trusted.
Wrath, the vampire king of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, never planned to care for a mortal. When he promises a dying comrade to watch over the man's half-human daughter, Beth, their growing bond pulls them both into the Brotherhood's hidden war with the slayers hunting their kind.
Lilia arrives at the isolated Dracadia University searching for a cure for the illness that killed her mother. Her professor, the brilliant and feared Doctor Death, is drawn to her as she uncovers the island's buried secrets, and their forbidden relationship becomes another danger.
Charlie needs money, so she goes to her ex-boyfriend's father, Emerson Grant, to collect a security deposit. He mistakes her for a new secretary and then hires her as his assistant; he is twice her age, owns the Salacious Players' Club, and expects absolute obedience. His praise gives her what her old relationship never did.
Damen, prince of Akielos, is betrayed by his half-brother and sent to Vere as a slave and a gift to Prince Laurent, the heir he once fought. Kept in the dark about the other's plans, the two enemies have to survive a court of shifting alliances and old hatred.
In a small Michigan town, a lawyer takes the case of an army lieutenant accused of killing the man who allegedly raped his wife. The defense rests on a controversial insanity plea, and the trial turns on testimony, small-town gossip and the lawyer's own willingness to bend the rules.
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
Rhage, a Black Dagger Brotherhood warrior cursed with a beast that surfaces when he loses control, meets Mary Luce, a human battling her own illness. Their bond is immediate, and Rhage must decide whether to claim a mate who may not survive his world.
Auren has been King Midas's gilded favourite for years, kept in a golden cage and told she is safe there. Cruelty and control shape every part of her life, and she believes she has no other choice. Then a new king arrives at the castle, and the cracks in her golden world begin to widen.
Eighteen-year-old Francesca Rossi is promised to Angelo Bandini, the heir to a Chicago crime family, until a stolen kiss with Senator Wolfe Keaton changes everything. Wolfe forces her into marriage to punish her father, and Francesca is caught between two dangerous men while her own feelings turn against her.
Cold, driven Alex promised to watch over his best friend's sister while Josh is away. Ava is warm and open, everything he avoids, and the more time the neighbours spend together the harder their growing attraction is to deny, even as Alex's buried past threatens them both.
Start with “Captive in the Dark”, “Kiss of Midnight”, “Hooked”: they are the closest to “Her Soul to Take” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “Her Soul to Take” these are Dark Romance, Forbidden Love, Forced Proximity), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “Captive in the Dark”, “Kiss of Midnight”, “Hooked”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
