Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy #2)
Brynne Weaver
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· 132 ratings · Published: 04 Jun 2024
From the author of the genre-breaking international TikTok sensation Butcher & Blackbird comes the second book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy—a hate-to-love dark romantic comedy packed with danger, chaos, and heat.
Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss’s biggest client, Lachlan knows he’ll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she’ll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first.
And they can’t stand each other.
Indie singer-songwriter Lark is the sunshine and glitter that burns through every cloud and clings to every crevice that Lachlan Kane tries to hide inside. The surly older brother of her best friend’s soulmate, Lachlan thinks she’s just a privileged princess, but Lark has plenty of secrets hiding in the shadows of her bright light. With her formidable family in a tailspin and her best friend’s happiness on the line, she’s willing to make a vow to the man she’s determined to hate, no matter how tempting the broody assassin might be.
As Lachlan and Lark navigate the dark world that binds them together, it becomes impossible to discern their fake marriage from a real one. But it’s not just familiar dangers that haunt them.
There’s another phantom lurking on their doorstep.
And this one has come for blood
Tropes:
Hate-to-love
Marriage of convenience
Grumpy / sunshine
He falls first
Groveling, but make it psycho
Touch her/him and die
Tagged as:
- marriage of convenience 27
- grumpy & sunshine 26
- m-f romance 26
- dark romance 24
- enemies to lovers 24
- contemporary 22
- dual pov 22
- dangerous heroine 20
- grumpy/cold hero 20
- funny 19
- pegging 18
- criminal heroine 18
- suspense 17
- vengeance 17
- cheerful/happy heroine 17
- slow burn 17
- first person pov 16
- sassy heroine 16
- rich heroine 15
- bad boys 15
- mystery 14
- forced proximity 14
- abduction 14
- alpha male 13
- take-charge heroine 13
- praise kink 12
- tortured heroine 11
- good grovel 11
- hurt/comfort 10
- exhibitionism 9
- anal sex 9
- competent heroine 9
- independent heroine 9
- new adult 7
- caretaking 5
- tortured hero 5
- bdsm 3
- fake relationship 2
- spanking 2
- bondage 2
- found family 1
- double penetration 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past sexual abuse 18
- graphic violence 18
- death / grief 16
- past child abuse 14
- mental trauma 12
- religious trauma 9
- terminal illness 9
- animal abuse 9
- torture of side characters 9
- torture of mcs 6
- mental illness 2
- geography
- north america 17
- usa 15
- massachusetts 14
- rhode island 10
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The 'The Ruinous Love Trilogy' series
458 ratings 4.25 ·
contemporary · m-f · dark · vengeance · slow burn · graphic-violence · strong heroine · north-america · tortured hero · outlaw-heroine · abduction · praise-kink · hurt-comfort · forced proximity · grumpy sunshine · usa · death · alpha male · new adult · independent heroine
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