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

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