Leather & Lark: The Ruinous Love Trilogy (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, 2)

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERI dont 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, Ive become addicted to it. To her.From the #1 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 bosss biggest client, Lachlan knows hell 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 shell find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first.And they cant 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 friends soulmate, Lachlan thinks shes 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 friends happiness on the line, shes willing to make a vow to the man shes 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 its not just familiar dangers that haunt them.Theres another phantom lurking on their doorstep.And this one has come for blood.Tropes: Hate-to-love / Marriage of convenience / Grumpy x sunshine / He falls first / Groveling, but make it psycho / Touch her/him and die