Dark Romance Releases of October 2024
Here are this month’s dark romance, horror romance, horror erotica, and traumance releases in order by expected publication date. Don’t see a dark romance book that is coming out in October 2024? Feel free to submit a comment at the bottom of the blog post with the author name and book title!
Trapped by Nix Murguia
Release Date: October 1st, 2024
Tropes:
❤️🔥Dark Cartel Romance
❤️🔥Arranged Marriage
❤️🔥Hidden Child
❤️🔥Fake Death
❤️🔥Gun Play
Pandora’s Escape by Mel Reilly
Release Date: October 1st, 2024
Tropes:
🧨 Escape Room
🧨 Serial unalivers
🧨 Insta-lust
🧨 MMFF Why Choose
🧨 OTT spice
🧨 voyeurism
🧨 selective mute/masked MMC
✨pumpkin carving✨
Mania by Naomi Loud
Release Date: October 2nd, 2024
Tropes:
👻One creepy hotel
👻Multiuple waking nightmares
👻A blurred reality
👻One masked stranger
👻Several fever dreams
👻One obsessed hotel owner
👻And an FMC who thinks she’s losing her mind.
Above All Else by Ann-Marie Davis
Release Date: October 4th, 2024
Tropes:
❤️ Second chance
👫 Best friend's brother
🕰️ Age-gap
💀 Secret society
🚪 Forced proximity
🛏️ One bed
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
🌑 Morally gray turned cinnamon roll
Doll Face by DJ Krimmer & C. Hebert
Release Date: October 5th, 2024
Tropes:
Coraline & Nightmare Before Christmas Retellling
Monster Romance
Somnophilia
Stalking and Obsession
Light BDSM
Needle Play
Virgin FMC
Beneath the Dirt by N.J. Weeks
Release Date: October 8th, 2024
Tropes:
⚰️Step Siblings
💀 Horror Author FMC🔪
⚰️ Pastor’s Son Turned BAD MMC ⛓️
💀 Slow Burn Horror to WTF
⚰️Fear & Wired Play 💊😱
💀Holy book or shmex toy? 😬
⚰️Masks…but make them creepy
💀Crawl space…fun ?
⚰️Breath play…with a twist🥴
💀Twisty & Twisted 🤯
⚰️”Be brothers gruesome little whor3”
Death’s Sweet Embrace by Luna Knight
Release Date: October 8th, 2024
Tropes:
erotic horror
ghost possession
virgin FMC
murder spree
MFFM
Divine Infection by Nova B. Quinn
Release Date: October 9th, 2024
Tropes:
Found Family
Lovers to Enemies
Obsessive, Posessive
Fated Mates
Love Triangle
LGBT+ Rep
Touch Her & 💀
Rockstar Romance
The Hunter by Jade Marshall
Release Date: October 9th, 2024
Tropes:
dark haunting novella
primal play
super smutty
Lady Killer by L.M. Ramirez
Release Date: October 10th, 2024
Tropes:
⚰️DARK ACADEMIA
⚰️SPICY WHY CHOOSE ROMANCE
⚰️FORCED PROXIMITY
⚰️HATE TO LOVE
⚰️PROFESSOR x STUDENT
⚰️KILLERS GET THE GIRL
⚰️HIDE & SEEK
⚰️TWISTY TWISTS
⚰️NO 3RD ACT BREAKUP (JUST MURDER)
⚰️CINNAMON ROLL PSYCHOS
Run and Hide by A. Rayne
Release Date: October 10th, 2024
Tropes:
𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖓 𝖒𝖆𝖟𝖊 𝖋𝖚𝖓 🎃
𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖆𝖑 🦇
𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝖕𝖊𝖓 🎃
𝕶𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖞 🦇
𝕾𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖘 🎃
𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖒𝖊𝖓 🦇
Forbidden Knots: Asylum by A. EM.
Release Date: October 10th, 2024
Tropes:
Who Hurt You
Age Gap
Obession
Gothic Atmosphere
Paranormal
Second Chances
Redemption
Dungeons
Danger/ Thrill
Haunted Past
A Kingdom of Monsters by Kate King
Release Date: October 10th, 2024
Tropes:
why choose
fae
reverse harem
last book to complete the series
The Predator by J.L. Beck
Release Date: October 11th, 2024
Tropes:
Breeding Kink
Submission by Orgasm
Forced Marriage
Obsessed Hero
Revenge
Knife-Blood Play
Mourning Wing by Nouha Julienne
Release Date: October 11th, 2024
Tropes:
🦋 Murder mystery-esque
💀 Secret society in an eerie town
🦋 Stalker romance
💀 Forensics associate x vigilante
🦋 “Ready or Not” movie reimagining
💀 Female Rage
🦋 Girl-obsessed
💀 Opposites attract
🦋 kinky spice
💀 FF/HEA
June Fire Burns by LA Robbin
Release Date: October 15th, 2024
Tropes:
🖤 Why Choose romances
🖤 Forests, Lakes and Campfires
🖤 Childhood friends to lovers
🖤 Slow-burn spice
Of Seas and Sunsets by J. Ann Curtis
Release Date: October 15th, 2024
Tropes:
Spicy
Falling for the Villain/Enemies to Lovers
Little Mermaid Retelling
Hidden Identity
Only one cave
He falls first
Forbidden Love
Sea Monsters
Witches
Descent by Katelyn Taylor
Release Date: October 21st, 2024
Tropes:
Dark Academia
Reverse Harem
Arranged Marriage
Secret Society
Whatever Whispers by Genna Black
Release Date: October 22nd, 2024
Tropes:
🍂 DARK ACADEMIA
🍂 SPICY ROMANCE
🍂 SINGLE DAD x NANNY
🍂 STUDENT x PROFESSOR
🍂 SPOOKY SEASON
🍂 TWISTY TWISTS
🍂 LOW ANGST
🍂 NO THIRD ACT BREAKUP
🍂 A BIG FURRY DOOF OF A DOG
Summoned by Shae Ruby
Release Date: October 23rd, 2024
Tropes:
👹 CNC
👹 prǐmal play
🩸 play
🔪 play
👹 breäth play
👹 pierced 🍆
👹 boy obsessed
👹 not a traditional HEA
Fractured by A.K. Draven
Release Date: October 23rd, 2024
Tropes:
🖤Hitmen x Hitwoman
⚔️Why choose
💦4 MMCs
😈Unhinged FMC
🐍Forced Proximity
🥀Found Family
⛓️💥Trauma
🔪Violence / Murd*r
💀Gore
💜40+ TWs
Lovers by Carmen Rosales & Delilah Croww
Release Date: October 24th, 2024
Tropes:
TBD
Venemous by Nicole M. Rubino
Release Date: October 30th, 2024
Tropes:
fated mates
lovers to enemies to …?
canibalism/ body horror
murderous ghosts
hurt him to save him
sex club
feminine rage
Good Witch Gone Rogue by Addy O’Brien
Release Date: October 30th, 2024
Tropes:
witch x demon
fated mates
unexpected taboo
MMF X FFM
Embracing Darkness
Morally Black FMCs
Maison de Fous by Nova Kane
Release Date: October 30th, 2024
Tropes:
🎪 Masked MMCs
🎪 Chaos & Carnage
🎪 Touch Her & I’ll wear your face. Literally.
🎪 Halloween Circus Vibes
🎪 Multi POV (Lux, Indie & Johnny)
🎪 Clowns and Kinky Side Show Cirkies
🎪 Equally Insane Couple
Wrath of Love by Vanessa Stock
Release Date: October 30th, 2024
Tropes:
🥀 Forbidden Love
🥀 Star-Crossed Lovers
🥀 Family Feuds
🥀 Love Triangle
🥀 Revenge Motive
🥀 Redemption
🥀 Scarred Bad Boy
🥀 Mafia
🥀 Motorcycle Gang
🥀 Bad Boy with a Heart
Daddy’s Sinner by Luna K. Wicked
Release Date: October 31th, 2024
Tropes:
💋 Moral dilemmas
💋 Dangerous attraction
💋 Redemtion & salvation
💋 Religious trauma
💋 Morally grey MC’s
💋 Traumatic childhood
💋 Cult princess
💋 Enemies to lovers
💋 Will burn the world for you
💋 Tempation & sin
Blot by Izzy Ravas
Release Date: October 31th, 2024
Tropes:
A Norse Erotic Horror Novella