X's and O's (Saint View Murder Squad #1)
Elle Thorpe
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
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· 69 ratings · 426 pages · Published: 18 Aug 2025
The next, I’m waking up from a drug-induced nap with a monster staring down at me.
Kidnapped and seconds from death, I think I’m done for…
Until masked men burst in, murder my attacker, and turn my world upside down.
They call themselves Murder Squad.
A secret brotherhood of broken men who only kill the worst of the worst.
And one of them thinks I’m his wife.
X is unhinged, obsessed, and deadly. A psychopath who hides behind bad jokes and bloodstained fingers.
Whip’s older, grumpy, and used to women paying him to worship them. But when he finds out I’m a virgin, he can’t keep his hands off my plus-size curves.
And Levi? One year of handwritten letters was all it took to fall in love with a man I’d never met. My prison pen pal turned killer, fighting his darkness for a second chance.
But they aren’t the only psychopaths in Saint View.
Someone’s playing a twisted game, leaving rhyming threats and promising to end us all if we don’t stop them first.
With every lie we uncover, every secret we expose, the danger mounts.
Until there’s only one thing we know for sure.
There’s a killer out there.
And this time, he’s hunting us.
X’s and O’s is a dark rom com. It’s an adult, why choose romance, meaning the main character has more than one love interest. You can expect a plus size, tall heroine, psycho heroes, a murder mystery, and a spicy club. This book contains romantic suspense and triggering themes. It is the first book in an ongoing trilogy.
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Tagged as:
- poly (3+ people) 14
- contemporary 13
- reverse harem 12
- suspense 12
- found family 11
- curvy heroine 11
- insta-love 10
- age gap 10
- virgin heroine 10
- tall heroine 10
- working class heroine 9
- funny 9
- dark romance 8
- poor heroine 8
- possessive hero 7
- sunny/happy hero 7
- bisexuality 6
- alpha male 5
- bad boys 5
- angst 5
- silver fox 5
- enemies to lovers 4
- gay romance 4
- mmf 4
- biker hero 4
- mystery 3
- menage 3
- independent heroine 3
- abduction 3
- queer romance 2
- sweet/gentle heroine 2
- himbo 2
- tortured hero 2
- shy heroine 2
- bdsm 1
- praise kink 1
- in her 30s 1
- in his 30s 1
- in his 40s/50s 1
- cliffhanger 1
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- content warnings
- graphic violence 10
- mental illness 8
- past child neglect 8
- fatphobia 3
- death / grief 3
- geography
- rhode island 3
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 9
- first person pov 7
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The 'Saint View Murder Squad' series
4.21 · 166 ratings
age difference · humor · mystery · reverse harem · independent heroine · bad boys · death · tall-heroine · curvy heroine · bisexual · queer · contemporary · poly · alpha male · found-family · suspense · menage · poor heroine · possessive hero · first-person-pov
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