Leather & Lark: The Ruinous Love Trilogy
Jun 2024 · The Ruinous Love Trilogy Book 2 · Zando
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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 #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 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
“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 #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 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
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.”
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Emzy Strong
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May 25, 2025
Please check your trigger warnings. This is an amazing story. I love the dynamic between Lark and Lachlan. The banter is just brilliant. Lark sparkles in such a unique way. I love her brand of unhinged. The plot is beautifully created. The push and pull between the two. The very creative plot within a plot. I love all the twists and turns in the story. Please go check this out.
Ashley Wilson
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November 7, 2025
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About the author
Brynne Weaver is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, and an international sensation with millions of copies sold across dozens of countries. She is widely credited within the publishing industry as a pioneer of the dark romcom genre. Weaver’s catalogue spans multiple genre-breaking series that blend comedy, suspense, and romance, including the Ruinous Love Trilogy (Butcher & Blackbird, Leather & Lark, and Scythe & Sparrow), for which she serves as executive producer on the film adaptation.
Before writing full-time, Weaver worked as a forensic archaeologist, an equestrian professional, and a specialist in neuroscience and pharmaceutical R&D—a background that informs the scientific precision and atmospheric tension running throughout her fiction.
Instagram: @brynne_weaver | TikTok: @brynneweaverbooks
Before writing full-time, Weaver worked as a forensic archaeologist, an equestrian professional, and a specialist in neuroscience and pharmaceutical R&D—a background that informs the scientific precision and atmospheric tension running throughout her fiction.
Instagram: @brynne_weaver | TikTok: @brynneweaverbooks
Brynne Weaver is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, and an international sensation with millions of copies sold across dozens of countries. She is widely credited within the publishing industry as a pioneer of the dark romcom genre. Weaver’s catalogue spans multiple genre-break...
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