TITLE: INTO DARKNESS
SERIES: GAME ON #3
AUTHOR: NAVESSA ALLEN
GENRE: ENEMIES TO LOVERS DARK ROM-COM
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 31ST, 2026
Synopsis
Book three in the No.1 New York Times bestselling Into Darkness series, following the dark rom-com sensations Lights Out and Caught Up. The game is on for these enemies-to-lovers with laugh-out-loud banter and scorching-hot brat play.
I hate that woman.
Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father, and not because he wants to meet the man. No, he wants to destroy him. And he'll manipulate whoever he can to exact his revenge.
Including Stella McCormick. She's everything Tyler hates. Her wealth and privilege have protected her for her entire life, and Tyler thinks it's time she finally paid the price. Whether she's ready to or not.
I hate that man.
Stella might not believe in love at first sight, but loathing at first sight - no question. From the moment she sets eyes on Tyler in her tattoo parlor, she knows he's the devil planning to make her life hell.
Forced to play the part of his girlfriend and invite him into her family's glittering circles, Stella quickly clocks Tyler's ulterior motives. But love and hate are two sides of the same coin, and soon she doesn't know which is worse: being blackmailed by a man who wants to ruin her, or that they can't seem to keep their hands off each other.
Game On is an enemies-to-lovers dark romance with morally grey characters. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the content warning at the beginning of the book.
I hate that woman.
Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father, and not because he wants to meet the man. No, he wants to destroy him. And he'll manipulate whoever he can to exact his revenge.
Including Stella McCormick. She's everything Tyler hates. Her wealth and privilege have protected her for her entire life, and Tyler thinks it's time she finally paid the price. Whether she's ready to or not.
I hate that man.
Stella might not believe in love at first sight, but loathing at first sight - no question. From the moment she sets eyes on Tyler in her tattoo parlor, she knows he's the devil planning to make her life hell.
Forced to play the part of his girlfriend and invite him into her family's glittering circles, Stella quickly clocks Tyler's ulterior motives. But love and hate are two sides of the same coin, and soon she doesn't know which is worse: being blackmailed by a man who wants to ruin her, or that they can't seem to keep their hands off each other.
Game On is an enemies-to-lovers dark romance with morally grey characters. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the content warning at the beginning of the book.
Meet The Author
Navessa Allen lives on the East Coast with her husband and their spoiled cats.
My Review
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💫 「3.5 Star Review...」
☀︎ ❥☀︎ GAME ON☀︎ ❥☀︎
Is the third full length dark enemies to romance book in the (into Darkness) series by author Navessa Allen. Main characters: Tyler & Stella.
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, second book though was good it didn't live up to the previous one, here's hoping this book brings me those first book feels.
Tropes:
☀︎ Enemies-to-lovers
☀︎ Forced proximity
☀︎ Fake dating
☀︎ Rom-com
☀︎ Morally gray MMC
☀︎ Black cat FMC
☀︎ Blackmail
☀︎ Kidnapping
☀︎ Power imbalance
☀︎ Age gap
☀︎ Betrayal and redemption
☀︎ Dark past
☀︎ Revenge
This book has a lot to live up to going by that trope list..
This was marginally better than book#2 and the enemies to lovers was spot on, because being real he was a dick, one minute I hated him, the next I tolerated him, then I kind of liked him, he was hot and cold like the turn of a tap. Mean one minute, bearable the next, all whilst lusting after her all in the same breath.
But Stella gave back as good as he gave her.. He’d met his match. It was like watching a tennis match as they tried to outdo the other with their barbs.
Though I'm unsure about the brat kink because it didn’t really suit him. But each to their own. The sex scenes were hot, throw AJ into the mix and that heat factor scorched my ipad.
I loved quirky Amos and his wanting of treats by his human. He lightened up what could’ve been a heavy monotonous book with revenge running rampant on each page.
As part of the trope list I wouldn't even put kidnapping, because did he really kidnap her with an unloaded gun? No effort to really run away. And I wouldn't peg it as dark.
First he set the trap of ensnaring her brother in a gambling debt up to his eyeballs, then his next step was blackmailing Stella into becoming his fake girlfriend, and the end game was to get revenge on his father. But along the way lines became blurred, things weren't as black and white as he'd assumed.
