Leather & Lark: The Ruinous Love Trilogy

By Brynne Weaver

Book Overview

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"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 x sunshine / He falls first / Groveling, but make it psycho / Touch her/him and die

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1638931798
• ISBN13: 9781638931799
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Slowburn
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

The best in the Ruinous Love Trilogy

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver is the second one in the Ruinous Love Trilogy. In my opinion this is one of the best sequels in a trilogy I have read in a while. There are humorous parts. There are parts where it made my stomach turn. One thing I loved about it was how it tied into the first one with two of the characters In the first one being seen for a couple chapters in this one. A perfect ending for Butcher and Black Bird story to end. Now to my thoughts on Leather and Lark story. I love that in the beginning that Leather and Lark didn’t like each other, but over time, they start to warm up to each other. I also thought it was interesting how both of them are being hunted by a killer. One of the things I think Leather and Lark did better then Butcher and Blackbird did was to tone down a lot of spicy scenes in the first.

I love this series, great books.

I disliked how the author used certain words when characters were intimate but still great series. Loved I got to find out more about Lark & Lachlan