Leather & Lark

Lachlan Kane is a contract killer who wants nothing more than to walk away from the underworld for good. Instead, a botched job leaves him cornered, and his only way out runs through Lark Montague — an indie musician with a bright public persona and dark secrets of her own. Lark offers Lachlan the freedom he's desperate for, on one impossible condition: he has to marry her, then help her hunt down a killer.

There's just one problem. Lachlan and Lark can't stand each other. Their fake marriage is all sharp edges and simmering resentment — until proximity, banter, and a shared taste for danger start dissolving the line between loathing and want. And as they close in on their target, they realize someone else is hunting them, someone who wants them both dead.

The second book in Brynne Weaver's Ruinous Love Trilogy, Leather & Lark turns to the middle Kane brother for a marriage-of-convenience dark romance. Just as violent and profane as its predecessor but with more emotional bruising underneath, it's a hate-to-love story for readers who want their romance dangerous and their heroines armed.