Wicked Deception (Quinlan Empire #4)
Deborah Garland
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Explicit open door [?]
· 10 ratings · 358 pages · Published: 05 Feb 2026
I’m the reaper my enemies never see coming.
Then I go home to an empty flat where the silence has turned deafening.
That changes when my beautiful, neurodivergent neighbor,
who’s decided I’m her boyfriend,
starts breaking into my home.
And leaving me plants.
It’s harmless. She’s harmless.
Until the night she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Fallon Nova should’ve run when she saw me kill a man.
Instead, she stayed and patched me up.
Now she’s a witness.
And witnesses don’t live long in my world.
When all she wants is a date for the holidays in exchange for her silence,
I tell myself I can fake it.
But pretending ends the second she kisses me
and makes me want things I can’t have.
I want her. All of her in ways that have me in a chokehold.
She might have fallen first, but I fall harder.
And when someone from her past tries to take her away from me,
everyone will see what kind of monster loving Fallon has turned me into...
Wicked Deception is the final book in the Quinlan Empire series and can be read as a STANDALONE.
Tropes:
🪴Irish Mafia Assassin
🪴Neurodivergent FMC
🪴Fake Dating
🪴Stalking
🪴Forced Proximity
🪴Slow Burn
🪴Opposites Attract
🪴Forehead Kisses
🪴F*k It
🪴Touch her and die
🪴Candy Cane Kink
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- mafia 5
- contemporary 4
- alpha male 4
- m-f romance 4
- possessive hero 4
- sweet/gentle heroine 4
- suspense 3
- age gap 3
- grumpy & sunshine 3
- bad boys 3
- dark romance 3
- neurodivergent mc 3
- cheerful/happy heroine 3
- caretaking 3
- forced proximity 2
- fake relationship 2
- insta-love 2
- sweet/gentle hero 2
- tall heroine 1
- christmas 1
- funny 1
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- content warnings
- abuse 3
- mental illness 3
- rape 3
- ableism 2
- past sexual abuse 2
- death / grief 2
- substance abuse 2
- slut shaming 2
- graphic violence 2
- mental trauma 2
- past abuse 1
- past child neglect 1
- misogyny 1
- dubious consent 1
- suicide / ideation 1
- geography
- north america 1
- usa 1
- new york state 1
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- dual pov 2
- first person pov 1
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The 'Quinlan Empire' series
3.98 · 61 ratings
mafia · explicit-open-door · dark · length-medium · suspense · audiobook · contemporary · m-f · alpha male · insta-love · new-york-state · first-person-pov · past-abuse · possessive hero · dual-pov · substance abuse · sweet heroine · usa · death · standalone-first
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