Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy #2)
Brynne Weaver
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· 592 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 68
- m-f romance 66
- enemies to lovers 61
- dark romance 59
- grumpy & sunshine 58
- contemporary 51
- dangerous heroine 51
- grumpy/cold hero 51
- criminal heroine 49
- funny 47
- sassy heroine 47
- pegging 46
- cheerful/happy heroine 44
- vengeance 43
- forced proximity 41
- abduction 41
- bad boys 40
- slow burn 40
- rich heroine 35
- alpha male 35
- suspense 34
- tortured heroine 33
- anal sex 32
- good grovel 32
- praise kink 30
- mystery 29
- exhibitionism 29
- take-charge heroine 29
- independent heroine 28
- hurt/comfort 26
- competent heroine 25
- tortured hero 24
- fake relationship 22
- possessive hero 18
- caretaking 18
- found family 16
- sweet/gentle heroine 14
- class difference 12
- famous heroine 12
- spanking 11
- new adult 10
- working class hero 10
- angst 9
- height difference 8
- disabilities & scars 7
- childfree 6
- bdsm 5
- masc-dom 5
- role switching 4
- horror 3
- fetish 2
- double penetration 1
- bondage 1
- cruel hero/bully 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- graphic violence 46
- death / grief 41
- past sexual abuse 41
- mental trauma 34
- past child abuse 33
- animal abuse 31
- torture of side characters 31
- terminal illness 26
- religious trauma 23
- torture of mcs 20
- past abuse 16
- past child neglect 14
- child sexual abuse 13
- third party abuse 10
- mental illness 7
- abuse 5
- rape 4
- victim blaming 1
- misogyny 1
- geography
- north america 27
- usa 25
- massachusetts 25
- rhode island 20
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 55
- first person pov 33
- male pov 9
- interconnected standalone 3
- standalone 1
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The 'The Ruinous Love Trilogy' series
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audiobook · m-f · competent heroine · horror · usa · childfree-couple · forced proximity · humor · hurt-comfort · angst · north-america · past-child-abuse · tortured hero · explicit-open-door · praise-kink · massachusetts · grovel · found-family · contemporary · suspense
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