Romance & dark romance
Dark romance for the ones who feel everything.
A note from Amalia
Some love stories save you. Mine ask what happens when desire, revenge and devotion become impossible to separate.
Stories for late nights, dangerous choices and hearts that refuse to stay quiet.
The books
Choose your obsession.
Three books. Two dangerous worlds. No safe way back.
The Rivals of Elite · Book one
Tiffany Sinclair has always been untouchable. Then one mistake gives her fiercest rival the leverage to pull her behind the gates of his world.
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Standalone revenge romance
Meredith came to Las Vegas to forget. Instead, she walked back into the man who broke her and the one who could help destroy him.
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The Rivals of Elite · Book two
She stopped fighting it. Tiffany Sinclair spent two months hating the man who bought her — and somewhere in all of it, the hate turned into something far worse.
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The last page is never the end
Every book is a game. Nobody leaves it unmarked.
Choose which one you open first.
I write the kind of lovethat ruins the silence.
Amalia Brooks is an indie romance author who writes dark romance, dark college romance and second-chance romance. She started on Wattpad, where her debut reached over 200,000 readers, before bringing her books to Kindle Unlimited. Her novels include Marked by Him, which she began writing at 17, and The Rivals of Elite series: He Played Me and They Played Me.
Amalia Brooks writes contemporary dark romance about desire, consequence and the dangerous distance between wanting someone and trusting them.
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Tristan doesn't just want to win anymore. He wants to break her.
She told him she was falling in love. He told her he'd stop before she did.
…the one who broke her, but swears he can save her, and the one who teaches her how to burn.
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Reading order, genres and where to find every Amalia Brooks book.
Amalia Brooks is an indie dark romance author. Her Wattpad debut reached over 200,000 readers before she brought her books to Kindle Unlimited. She writes The Rivals of Elite, a dark college romance series of He Played Me and They Played Me, and the standalone second-chance romance Marked by Him.
The author's name is spelled Amalia Brooks, with an "a". Readers often search for Amelia Brooks, Amalia Brooke or Amalia Brook; all mean the same dark romance author, and amaliabrooks.com is her official site.
Marked by Him is a standalone, so it can be read at any time. The Rivals of Elite must be read in order: start with He Played Me, book one, and continue with They Played Me, book two, which picks up Tiffany Sinclair and Tristan Ford's story.
Yes. Marked by Him is a standalone second-chance romance, so you do not need to read any other book first. It follows Meredith White, who comes to Las Vegas a year after being left at the altar and runs straight back into the man who broke her.
He Played Me is an 18+ dark college romance, which the author also describes as dark academic romance. It is built on an academic rivalry between Tiffany Sinclair and Tristan Ford, and it is the 634-page first book in The Rivals of Elite series.
The Rivals of Elite currently has two books: He Played Me (book one, 634 pages) and They Played Me (book two, 499 pages). Both follow Tiffany Sinclair and Tristan Ford, so they should be read in that order. New releases are announced on Amalia Brooks' Amazon author page, TikTok and Instagram.
Two Rivals of Elite books have been published so far, He Played Me and They Played Me, and no third title is listed on Amazon yet. Follow Amalia Brooks on her Amazon author page, Goodreads, TikTok or Instagram to hear first about any new book in the series.
Yes. Amalia Brooks describes The Rivals of Elite as a strict 18+ dark romance. He Played Me focuses heavily on obsession, possessiveness and dark rituals, with explicit sexual content, and They Played Me continues Tiffany Sinclair and Tristan Ford's story in the same tone.
Amalia Brooks started on Wattpad, where her debut reached over 200,000 readers. That response inspired her to publish on Kindle Unlimited. She began writing her debut novel, Marked by Him, when she was 17, so years of work sit behind that story.
All three novels — He Played Me, They Played Me and Marked by Him — are on Amazon as Kindle ebooks and are available with Kindle Unlimited. He Played Me is also sold in paperback. You can follow new releases on her Amazon author page and on Goodreads.
Yes. All three novels by Amalia Brooks — He Played Me, They Played Me and Marked by Him — are included in Kindle Unlimited, so Kindle Unlimited members can read them at no additional cost. They are also available to buy as Kindle ebooks.
The main characters in He Played Me and They Played Me are Tiffany Sinclair, a fiercely ambitious top student one scholarship away from Paris, and Tristan Ford, her ruthless academic rival who demands two months as his property inside a private manor of seven millionaires.
The main characters in Marked by Him are Meredith White, who travels to Las Vegas a year after being left at the altar, Ronald, the ex-fiancé who broke her heart, and Aiden, Ronald's dangerous business partner who offers Meredith a path to revenge.
The Rivals of Elite series (He Played Me and They Played Me) features enemies-to-lovers / academic rivals, dark academia, an obsessive and possessive hero, a bargain or debt trope (two months as his property), and a private lawless manor of seven millionaires.
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