Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver || The Ruinous Love Trilogy

Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy) by Brynne Weaver || Dark Comedy & Romance Novels || Popular Fiction

A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller || Audie Award for Romance

The viral TikTok friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and sizzling chemistry-unlike anything you've read before-now available in all bookstores When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive-the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers.

"I want to ruin her so that she's mine, my beautiful disaster. My wild creature. My goddess of chaos."

From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country!

TROPES:

• Golden retriever x black cat
• He falls first
• Touch him/her and die
• Friends to lovers
• Forced proximity
• One bed

But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match?