Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy #2)
Brynne Weaver
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· 508 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:
- marriage of convenience 59
- m-f romance 58
- dark romance 52
- enemies to lovers 52
- grumpy & sunshine 51
- dangerous heroine 45
- contemporary 44
- grumpy/cold hero 44
- criminal heroine 43
- funny 41
- sassy heroine 40
- vengeance 39
- pegging 39
- cheerful/happy heroine 39
- abduction 36
- bad boys 35
- forced proximity 35
- slow burn 35
- alpha male 32
- rich heroine 31
- suspense 30
- praise kink 28
- anal sex 28
- tortured heroine 28
- good grovel 27
- exhibitionism 25
- take-charge heroine 25
- mystery 24
- independent heroine 24
- hurt/comfort 23
- competent heroine 22
- tortured hero 20
- fake relationship 17
- possessive hero 15
- caretaking 15
- found family 14
- sweet/gentle heroine 12
- spanking 10
- class difference 9
- famous heroine 9
- new adult 8
- working class hero 8
- height difference 7
- angst 6
- bdsm 5
- disabilities & scars 4
- childfree 3
- masc-dom 3
- fetish 2
- horror 1
- double penetration 1
- bondage 1
- cruel hero/bully 1
- role switching 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- graphic violence 42
- past sexual abuse 38
- death / grief 36
- mental trauma 31
- past child abuse 31
- torture of side characters 28
- animal abuse 27
- terminal illness 24
- religious trauma 20
- torture of mcs 18
- past abuse 14
- past child neglect 11
- child sexual abuse 11
- third party abuse 8
- mental illness 6
- abuse 3
- rape 3
- victim blaming 1
- geography
- north america 25
- usa 23
- massachusetts 23
- rhode island 18
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 52
- first person pov 30
- male pov 5
romance tags
The 'The Ruinous Love Trilogy' series
4.19 · 1876 ratings
double-penetration · usa · childfree-couple · humor · forced proximity · dangerous heroine · exhibitionism · male-pov · independent heroine · audiobook · contemporary · m-f · found-family · suspense · competent heroine · torture-scs · sassy heroine · height-difference · past-abuse · caretaking
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