Leather & Lark
The Ruinous Love Trilogy
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4.4 • 183 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“I don’t just want to hear her laugh, I need to earn it. Every time I gain a little ground, I want more. I want to break out of the shade and back into her light. Without even realizing it, I’ve become addicted to it. To her.”
From the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling 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
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Are you a romance fan who loves marriage-of-convenience stories? Well, this sequel to the social-media cult favorite Butcher & Blackbird grabs that trope and puts a bloody edge on it. Lark Montague is a musician whose stepfather heads a criminal organization. She also a secret predilection for slaughtering pedophiles. Lachlan Kane is a leatherworker and a contract killer who gets off on the wrong foot with Lark when he’s forced into cleaning up her latest crime scene. When people connected to Lark’s stepdad begin dying mysteriously, suspicion falls on Lachlan—and his brother, Rowan, recently married to Lark’s best friend, Sloane. To save them all, Lark must marry Lachlan and pretend she’s in love with him. While the two fight their intense irritation with—and impossible attraction to—each other, another killer with a sinister agenda is lurking in the shadows. There’s blood, there’s bickering, and there’s kissing. You’ll want to be there for every sexy, gruesome, and tearful step toward this messy happily ever after.
Customer Reviews
Unlike anything I have ever read!
This audible…incredible! This book…it has ruined me for all other books! Same as Butcher & Blackbird. I will never be the same. Brynne Weaver is an absolute GENIUS!
Stunning!
What a wonderful book! I couldn’t wait for the physical copy to show up so I downloaded the book on my iPhone! Then not sleep all night as I read the whole thing! Had me laughing at some parts, gritting my teeth a few times, and awfully “excited” at others. “Like the book says, He works His work in mysterious ways. Some people like it. Some people don't.” (That’s Constantine). I liked it.
Just amazing.
I absolutely love this book and this series! I could feel the tension between Lark and Lachlan the entire book. From one twist to another, I loved reading the raw emotions from each of them as they realized they never want to live without each other. Amazing. Just amazing.