Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy #2)
Brynne Weaver
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· 322 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 45
- m-f romance 45
- enemies to lovers 41
- dark romance 40
- grumpy & sunshine 40
- dual pov 40
- contemporary 35
- dangerous heroine 34
- grumpy/cold hero 34
- criminal heroine 34
- pegging 32
- funny 31
- sassy heroine 31
- vengeance 31
- cheerful/happy heroine 29
- slow burn 29
- bad boys 27
- abduction 27
- suspense 26
- forced proximity 26
- alpha male 25
- rich heroine 24
- praise kink 24
- good grovel 23
- first person pov 22
- mystery 21
- anal sex 21
- tortured heroine 21
- take-charge heroine 19
- independent heroine 19
- exhibitionism 18
- hurt/comfort 18
- competent heroine 16
- tortured hero 14
- caretaking 12
- fake relationship 10
- new adult 9
- possessive hero 9
- found family 8
- sweet/gentle heroine 8
- spanking 7
- bdsm 5
- height difference 4
- working class hero 4
- angst 3
- famous heroine 3
- male pov 3
- fetish 2
- disabilities & scars 2
- class difference 2
- childfree 2
- double penetration 1
- bondage 1
- cruel hero/bully 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- graphic violence 32
- past sexual abuse 30
- death / grief 28
- mental trauma 24
- past child abuse 24
- torture of side characters 20
- terminal illness 19
- religious trauma 18
- animal abuse 18
- torture of mcs 12
- child sexual abuse 8
- past child neglect 7
- past abuse 6
- third party abuse 5
- mental illness 4
- abuse 2
- rape 2
- geography
- north america 23
- usa 20
- massachusetts 19
- rhode island 15
- north carolina 1
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The 'The Ruinous Love Trilogy' series
4.20 · 1161 ratings
explicit-open-door · disabilities and marks · abuse-non-mc · caretaking · first-person-pov · tortured heroine · dark · past-abuse · m-f · mental-trauma · dual-pov · anal sex · exhibitionism · dangerous heroine · massachusetts · contemporary · height-difference · torture-scs · suspense · competent heroine
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