Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy #2)
Brynne Weaver
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· 422 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
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Tagged as:
- m-f romance 51
- marriage of convenience 50
- dark romance 45
- grumpy & sunshine 44
- enemies to lovers 43
- contemporary 39
- dangerous heroine 38
- grumpy/cold hero 38
- criminal heroine 37
- funny 35
- sassy heroine 35
- pegging 34
- vengeance 33
- cheerful/happy heroine 33
- bad boys 30
- forced proximity 30
- alpha male 29
- abduction 29
- slow burn 29
- suspense 27
- rich heroine 25
- praise kink 24
- anal sex 23
- good grovel 23
- tortured heroine 22
- mystery 21
- take-charge heroine 21
- independent heroine 21
- exhibitionism 20
- hurt/comfort 19
- competent heroine 19
- tortured hero 17
- fake relationship 12
- caretaking 12
- possessive hero 11
- sweet/gentle heroine 10
- found family 9
- new adult 8
- spanking 7
- famous heroine 5
- working class hero 5
- bdsm 4
- angst 4
- height difference 4
- class difference 4
- fetish 2
- disabilities & scars 2
- horror 1
- double penetration 1
- arranged/forced marriage 1
- bondage 1
- cruel hero/bully 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- graphic violence 36
- past sexual abuse 31
- death / grief 30
- mental trauma 26
- past child abuse 25
- torture of side characters 23
- animal abuse 21
- terminal illness 20
- religious trauma 19
- torture of mcs 13
- past abuse 9
- child sexual abuse 9
- past child neglect 8
- third party abuse 6
- mental illness 5
- abuse 3
- rape 2
- geography
- north america 24
- usa 22
- massachusetts 20
- rhode island 16
- north carolina 1
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 45
- first person pov 25
- male pov 5
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The 'The Ruinous Love Trilogy' series
4.20 · 1554 ratings
north-america · fetish · tortured hero · outlaw-heroine · disabilities and marks · past-child-abuse · angst · vengeance · strong heroine · dual-pov · hurt-comfort · praise-kink · massachusetts · grovel · anal sex · dark · graphic-violence · abuse-non-mc · mental-trauma · first-person-pov
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