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OWNING HER IS ALL HE EVER WANTED

She betrayed him, and now he wants revenge against the sister who became his forbidden obsession the second he laid eyes on her. After she sends him to prison for years, he’s free and ready to haunt her.

Everything about Olivia belongs to Malachi Vize.
Her mind
Her body
Her soul
Her fear
Her pain

On Halloween night, he can no longer lurk in the shadows. All he has left to own is her heart, even if he needs to take it.

This story comes with extremely triggering content. Please read the "Content Warning" page.

207 pages, ebook

First published October 29, 2023

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Leigh Rivers

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Leigh Rivers is a Scottish Biomedical Scientist who has ventured into the world of writing dark, morally gray characters with rollercoaster storylines to drive her readers wild.

When she isn't reading, writing on her laptop, or gaming until ridiculous hours, she dances at the pole studio, goes to the gym, and walks her four dogs with her two sons and husband.

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Profile Image for ˋ✧*⁀➷ ʙᴇᴛᴛʏ (Levi Ackerman's wife).
253 reviews919 followers
December 6, 2023
guys save your time, I can assure you a 10 y/o wattpad user can write better shit than this 💀
(HELP I just got to know she's a wattpad writer and goes by the name _Dark_Romantic, i've read her books before and they were good..?? insatiable i see you)

Malachi is a total fucking deranged psychopath (who doesn't has any character arc so he just appears to be a carboard cutout) and Olivia is just a selfish stupid ass cunt, pair them with all over the place idiotic over-the-top-cringe plot and writing that repulsed every cell of my pussy and you have the recipe for this book.

"Go kiss your future husband, little sister. And when you do, you better think about me and all the ways I’ll fuck you in his blood."

man wasn't kidding, especially when he fucked her raw on top of his father's dead body while she was drenched in the pool of his blood 😃✌️

i wonder why don't all the big brothers of this world take some damn notes. THIS IS HOW YOU CARRY THE FAMILY'S BLOODLINE 💪

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TRIGGER WARNING/KINKS:

somnophilia
CNC
dubious consent
drugging
branding
choking
brother-sister kink
knife play
primal play
blood play
pain
screwdriver
fear
light breeding
anal
spider play
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580 reviews143 followers
August 27, 2024
they’re deranged but i love them your honor
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26 reviews
March 24, 2024
Sometimes I regret learning to read
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363 reviews41.1k followers
January 3, 2025
I don’t think I could walk into a church without bursting into flames after reading that. I will never be the same. But like I did in fact have a good time? I think? So twisted and deranged and taboo yet� I didn’t mind it? I listened to the audiobook for Malachi’s parts and OH MY GOD, the male narrator needs to get paid triple because HE WAS SO FUCKING GOOD! I don’t think I stopped squealing while listening to his chapters. I fear Malachi does in fact have me in a chokehold�. He’s absolutely psychotic but also soft and broken and my heart HURTS FOR HIM!!!!

We were here for the vibes. The vibes were high. I need therapy.
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331 reviews1,540 followers
March 19, 2025
i should've remained wary of foster sibling romance after the shitshow that happened in the edge of darkness trilogy, but i never learn my lesson. this book is proof that good writing is just as important as a good story because, seriously this was so weird and disgusting!

i still cry over that trilogy because i lovedd it and wanted to read more from the author because HOW BAD CAN THIS BE? i swear if you're hesitant to read it after seeing mixed reviews, please stay that way. this is way too incestuous and trash.

and i don't know why it only applies to biological siblings and not to siblings who've lived with each other for more than 11 years. like does the feelings not count?

⌞Malachi Vize & Olivia Vize�
19-18

i thought olivia would resist till the end and there’d be some type of weird relationship between them since the start, but NO! it literally wasn’t like that, and they actually had such a good bond as kids, even though malachi claimed her as "MINE" when he was 8 year old! 🤡

i'm not kidding, she was level 10 horny. it was so gross reading their oral scenes that were labelled as 'lessons.' she's the whiniest, pathetic character i've ever read. she said things like,

'we can't do this, we are brother and sister'

And the next second, she’s putting his fingers on her 🐱 and telling him, 'I'll give you another lesson, girls like it.' FUCKKK EW.

“I’m scared that if we keep doing this, I’ll start falling for you. And we� me and you� it’s impossible.�

EXCUSE YOU?? Just after a few orgasms???? 🤡

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“Fuck you,� I seethe, slapping him across the face again when he gets close enough, his cheek red. “I hate you; do you understand that, you fucking freak? I hate you for tricking me. For manipulating me into doing things for you.�

This was such pick-me, hypocritical behavior on her part. god, i hate her so much. she was the one who mostly initiated things, and even when Malachi did something first, she didn't stop anything. she kept going because she was horny, and now that she found out he might've slept with someone before their 'lessons,' she's putting all the blame on him, saying he manipulated her? What an asshole. 😒

And i swear, i'm so wholly disgusted by their first sex scene. their dad found him eating olivia, so OBVIOUSLY, he was pushing him away but Malachi literally beat him up to near death, then threw him down the stairs, all while Olivia was stopping him and then he FUCKED HER IN HIS BLOOD. his reason?

he was interrupting my meal

some would think that the dad might be abusive after seeing reels on this scene BUT NOOOOO. he was actually kind of a nice dad who gave both undeserving piece of shits, a nice life.

� 28-27

now, why would there need to be an 8-year gap, and all it had were chapters of Malachi calling Olivia a bitch, whore, liar, and how she 'fucked him up GOOD' as if he did nothing to her dad? He went to jail, and now he wants revenge, and all it took was them hooking up, INCLUDING HIM HAVING ANAL WITH HER 4-5 times, for him to love her again? 😭

“He looks down at me, fury in his eyes, and spits in my face.�

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And what the fuck was that ending? 😂 this isn't a Hallmark romance movie. she declared her love for Malachi at her wedding, her mom was okay with it, and she ran to his house, declaring her love. CHEERS 🥂

Not gonna lie, I felt a little bad for Malachi when he was begging Olivia to stay, but FOR GOD'S SAKE, that wannabe victim, pick-me, hypocritical bitch GETS ON MY NERVES. 🤡 also, i wanted to know why he has selective mutism.

This was so bad and not at all worth it. go read The Edge of Darkness trilogy because it's so much better than this shitshow. besides, book 2 isn’t needed at all. It must’ve just been character backstories.

update: Malachi's son is going to be with Daisy Mitchell (Kade's daughter), i just wanna kms 😡 seriously wtf? she deserves so much better than this fucked up Vize family. KadeStacey didn’t go through shit just for their kid to end up with these psycho-horny people. (sorry isaac but your father is a cunt) 🙁

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pre-read: the fact that in 'the edge of darkness trilogy' the author showed us the REALLY DARK SIDE of forbidden step-siblings love, and here, she is romanticising them 💀

tbh after the shit she pulled up with Chris in the trilogy, i'm not gonna be touching step or foster siblings romance for some time! 🖐🏻
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60 reviews18 followers
March 19, 2024
BookTok needs to stop telling me that *blank* is better than Zade Meadows because it’s always a lie.
No one can top Zade. If that’s what you were hoping for, please don’t waste your time like I did
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581 reviews35.5k followers
October 15, 2024
this was absolutely insane, unhinged, pure chaos.

and yet� i’m here to say i loved it so there’s that 😄

however, ill never be able to hear the itsy bitsy spider the same� ever again. i’ll also never use a screwdriver.
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636 reviews13 followers
December 22, 2023
Is this book supposed to be set in the 17th century? Because I don’t get why there’s a whole plotline of an arranged marriage and selling your virginity and everyone’s all, “oh yeah, that's just what we do in this family!�
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704 reviews8,297 followers
January 3, 2024
Adopted at age eight, Malachi only feels comfortable with his foster sister, Olivia Vize, and quickly becomes obsessed.

When his place in her life is threatened, he reacts accordingly. But ever dutiful, when Olivia is forced to choose, Malachi will bide his time for their reunion.

Why is the dark romance community not losing their collective minds over this one? Leigh Rivers literally Frankensteined the perfect OTT J/P morally black alphahole. Then took our kînk wishlist and tada-ed TF out of it. I don’t re-read, ever. But if I did, I’d start with this one.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Burn: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Darkness: 🖤🖤
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶�
Range of Emotions: ☺️😬🤬🥵😍
Ending: 💗 {HEA}
POV: 🧍🏻‍♀� {Single}

🗂 Genre: Dark Romance

� Tropes: Alphahole, Antihero, Boy Obsessed, Bully, Enemies-to-Lovers, Forbidden, Hidden Identity, Kidnap/Captive, Manipulation, MINE!, Mute H, Only She Can Comfort Him, Opposites Attract, OTT Jealous/Possessive, Revenge, Second Chance, Sėx Lessons, Stalker, Touch-Her-and-💀, Tracking/Spying, Unhinged, Virgin H

💋 Kinks: All of them

⚠️ Warning: This book may cause blushing, squirming, combusting panties, and/or self-care.

🚩 Safety Squad: Cheating (Forced), Druġġed, DubCon, Vìolėnçė and other potentially triggering elements. If you have any hesitation, check the warnings before diving in. Otherwise, blind is best!!

📣 Type: Little Stranger is a standalone.

🛑 Be Advised: My ŷ shelves are � explicit in both senses. As such, they could be considered spoiler-y.
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633 reviews155 followers
January 30, 2024
DNF at chapter 8: nothing makes sense, there are more plot holes than plotlines and the "smut" is done purely for the shock factor 💀🤡

I mean...screwdriver and spider? REALLY???
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40 reviews7 followers
April 30, 2024
It was so bad I wanna give it a zero but that’s not possible so I give it a one.
Profile Image for nat ☕︎.
137 reviews182 followers
September 15, 2024
OMG YALL THE SECOND ONE COMES OUT IN SEPTEMBER 29!! um need that cause wtf

HATE REVIEW TIME 😘😘

Booktok put me onto this gem, and I will always hate them for that. I lowk had fun reading this, like it's one of those books that are so weird u have no option but to drop your jaw and keep reading. I was promised this book was worse than haunting adelaine. SOOO let's get to hating:

I'd like to start in a positive note so, what didn't suck (as much):

-consensual?

Don't get me wrong a big part of this book was him fucking her while she was inconsious but she lowk wanted it 🤨 Like she kept saying she wanted to expirience IT so ig it isn't that bad? like at least they both wanted it, istg some authors justify the nastiest shit with the excuse of "dark romance" like no queen that's literally rape 🤭 *cough* H.D Carlton*cough*

They were both just weirdos, but at least they stayed with each other. I hate it when it's a depraved man vs an "innocent" woman cause that lowk makes me feel like he's corrupting her and NOT in a good way 🤮

um so that's about it... WHAT SUCKED:

1. They're related.



not like blood related... but they literally grew up tgt 🤨🤨 like since she was 7 and he was 8, and apparently he's a psycho that obssessed over her and practically claimed her as his.. but she's into it? ig. Pop off queen whatever gets u off. BUT CALLING EACH OTHER "big brother/ little sister" IS INSANE. Some authors are the weirdest fuckers istg.

Also I saw someone on tt saying they cried during this? 😭 GIRL BYE, "how could olivia do that to malachai 🥺🥺" UM CAUSE THEYRE SIBLINGS? TF? 😦

2. porn but make it book

I made an update about this but i feel like I have to say it again for this book. LET PORN BE PORN. This book had basically no plot, why? cause it was all smut. IM SO TIRED JUST WATCH PORN GEEZ
Books like this are the reason ppl shit on the booktok community, cause this was literally recommended to me A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD, and sold to me as a romwnce 😇. NO just no, watch porn and leave literature alone 😁 please

also y'all should I read credence? it's lowk calling me 😍
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341 reviews647 followers
March 17, 2025
aint nth abt this was hawt, it was very dumb. heroine sounds and looks stupid to me. she was enticing him, but playing victim “we’re brother and sister.� like gurl stfup, i hate reading dumbass taboo stories like this and this is how i get irate.
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320 reviews92 followers
June 1, 2024
4.5�
Is there something wrong with me? Because I was giggling through out this....
Anyway, this was dark and deranged, and I absolutely love Malachi! This wasn't a 5 star simply because I wanted a little more toward the end. Buttttt I can't wait to read Leigh Rivers' other books. 😁


: ̗̀➛Pre-Review: Listen... I know I am reading 5011 books right now but for some reason this book was on my mind🫣
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212 reviews181 followers
August 16, 2024
Hmm, the first 50 percent or so was SO good. The way he realised his obsession, his unapologetic demeanor, his manipulative and calculating nature towards Olivia was honestly done so so well.

Olivia and Malachi are step-siblings, kind of. So there is the taboo element of pseudo incest, and that was written well too, to a point.

My phone buzzes again, and my jaw rolls.
Malachi: Hold my hand.
I reread it three times, then glance at him, but he’s looking at his phone.
Malachi: Don’t make it obvious.
Me: Why do you want to hold my hand?
Malachi: Do I need a reason? Give me your hand, or I’ll tell Mom you touched my dick while I was asleep.


See? He is a manipulative little shit, threatening her to get his way.

I’ve watched you before, he signs with stiff fingers. You fuck yourself with your fingers a lot with your curtains open. “You’ve watched me through my window?� And with cameras in your room. My eyes ping wide. “You have cameras in my room?�


Your standart dark romance step-brother. And as a plus, I loved that has was mute, and I loved the use of sign language throughout the book. I don't know why but it added slight tenderness to their relationship.

Till something happened.

While they were fucking, because Olivia is "teaching" Malachi how to fuck innocently (yeah right) their father catches them.
And what happens?

Malachi beats their father up and they have sex on his nearly dead body.



This did not make sense at all.
While they are having sex, Olivia is not objecting at all, she actually says "Keep going and make me cum Malachi." or something like that, on her fathers DEAD BODY. (They did not know if he was alive or not)

When they finish, she checks the fathers pulse, and it's there slightly. And all of a sudden Olivia is concerned about her father.

?

She did not object to having sex on his bloody body, so Malachi did not force her in any way, AND she egged him on telling him to keep going. And when it's finished she has a problem with the whole thing and Malachi?

She goes on to testify against him. He goes to jail for 8 years.

Like?? OLIVIA GIRL YOU ARE GUILTY TOO WTF?

After seeing all of that, it was clear to me that it was done for the sake of shock value. It just didn't fit in.

After he is released from jail, he stalks her to torment her, and ultimately, he abducts her.

As I mentioned, everything after that father scene felt like a race to see how many shocking elements the author could include in this book.

Like;

� the scene with the screwdriver

� he puts a whole spider on her face while fucking her

� she leaves after 3 days to marry someone else, while Malachi BEGS her to not leave him.

And on her wedding day she confesses to her mother about how she is in love with Malachi and the wedding does not happen.

The end.

Our overpowered hero, who beat his father and multiple men for talking to Olivia, and Olivia, who is just INSUFFERABLE and quite frankly dumb, get their happy ending.

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549 reviews3,405 followers
September 10, 2024
this shit was so unserious, felt like Jessa Kane came back from the dead😭
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57 reviews972 followers
March 12, 2025

cringe, son hermanastros, cogen encima del padre moribundo, le mete un destornillador en la cola, le quema el cliptoris y se quedan juntos.

y lo peor de todo es que está escrito con las patas.

esperen reseña
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80 reviews152 followers
April 26, 2025
1 star . � ・゚𖥔 � ˑ

� They both need therapy and now so do I
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36 reviews17 followers
August 29, 2024
Oh wow.. THIS BOOK! I think I've seen it all now. The forbidden taboo siblings romance? FOSTER siblings (not blood related) romance. Olivia and Malachi are a twisted and deranged pair. I’m not sure if I should be scared FOR them or scared OF them.. In Part 1 it feels like a softcore porn written out, still somewhat innocent. But Part 2? ALL. HELL. BREAK. LOOSE. Crazy shits happened, things get absolutely wild and there's no clean way to describe it. I kept repeating not real siblings probably a thousand times in my head while reading this.. but the constant reminder with phrases like "I’m your brother/I’m your sister" made it IMPOSSIBLE to ignore. Malachi is.. something else, his inner monologues made me laughed. And Olivia, I hated her for a bit. The fact that I finished reading this in one day made me question my.. sanity? and tolerance to this kind of story. If you're looking to read mindless smutty book with basically 0% plot. Go ahead, this one is for you. Its a quick read, no OTT drama, everything is a straightforward MESS. I had that "What the f*ck did I just read?" moment, but I’m curious to see how their relationship handles the chaos THEY created. And the ending? It didn’t disappoint. Do I love it? Yes. I'm easily entertained and probably sick in the head, I enjoyed this wayy too much.
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117 reviews88 followers
April 28, 2025
you know how people always say that "ignorance is bliss"? Yeah, valuable life lessons were learned.

I mean, does your man even love you if he doesn't fuck you in your father's own blood RIGHT ON TOP OF HIS BODY. And this bitch was panting for him. GIRL, YOUR DAD IS UNDER BOTH OF YOU, HE NEEDS MEDICAL ATTENTION, WHAT THE FREAK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?! I'm so distraught.

the screwdriver? the spider? I'm terrified of men now.

BIG BROTHER?!?!?! LITTLE SISTER?!?!?! I get that you are foster siblings, but please! 🙏

I'm about to start crying! I was going to write a longer review, but I'm not in the mood to hate right now and everything I said above covers it mostly. If I recommend this book to you, just know that I probably hate you. 🫶

Anyways, I'll still be reading book 2, because let's get the trauma dump over in one stretch.

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pre-read: lately, reading has become a game of "will she like it or will she find something that she doesn't and then bitch about it?" I'm just praying this male lead doesn't piss me off which seems unlikely bc the streets (aka instagram) have said that he's like Zade Meadows and that's a jump scare on its own since we all know how that went. 😔
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185 reviews158 followers
November 4, 2024
1�
“Run, little stranger.�
🕷�


THIS BOOK TRAUMATIZED ME.
first of all, i hate spiders and i was terrified while reading how malachi played with his little spider😃
but i must admit, the spiders were the least if my problems💀
we’ve had gun, knife and bottle in coochie, now a screwdriver? impressive! how could authors think about such things???????😃 where do they get inspiration?
malachi’s thoughts were depraved and disturbing and upsetting and alarming� did he really think about doing an hysterectomy to olivia? or strangle his mom with his father’s intestines?

tell me this is just a bad dream and i’ll wake up tomorrow without any memory of this shit.

what can i say about olivia? she’s fucking stupid, that’s it. they’re made for each other bc malachi is not the only psychopath in the book, trust me.

pls do yourself a favor and don’t read this. sometimes it’s better to stay in the dark and don’t let curiosity win.

to my girl ri:
we both wanted to read this knowing it’d be traumatizing but curiosity is a bitch. at least we were in this together🥲 i’m sorry we had to experience that. i promise you our next book will be better!🩶



if you see me and ri reading this, no you don’t🙄
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50 reviews8 followers
May 13, 2024
4.25 ⭐️
� 𝒩𝑜. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓀𝒾𝒹𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊’𝓇� 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓌. 𝒴𝑜𝓊’𝓁� 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒷𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑒. �

I finished this so fast 💨 I mean it was only 214 pages but wow this was good. When I tell u the MC was obsessed. HE WAS OBSESSEDDD. I surprisingly really enjoyed this book 🤌🏻🤭

recommend if your in for a fast paced dark romance book !!
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