Black Sheep
**Serial killer.** That’s not the first thing you’d think when you meet Bria Brooks. She’s reserved. Polite. Charming, when she wants to be. But delve a little deeper. She’s cunning. Brilliant. Ruthless. Bria Brooks is not just a black sheep. She’s a wolf. And she has her heart set on a very elusive prize. Caron Berger. Trouble is, she’s not the only one. Dr. Elijah Kaplan is also on the hunt for the enigmatic leader of the Legio Agni cult. Caron Berger is a phantom, and Eli is keen on catching the ghost. What he doesn’t need is a beautiful and brutal doctoral student haunting his steps. Especially not one who seems so breakable, or who tempts him to bend every rule until it snaps, or who calls to each of his darkest desires. No. He does not need that. At all. When the pursuit of their elusive prey pulls these two hunters together, they find that their demons might not be so different after all. But just like bodies in a bog, secrets have a way of surfacing, and the ones that Bria and Eli keep are the deadliest kind. As they draw closer to capturing their prize, can Bria and Eli harness their beasts before they destroy one another? Or will they learn that it’s
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On the night of her arranged engagement to a celebrity preacher's son, Charlotte runs and lands at the door of her childhood crush, her not-quite-cousin Rhett, with a list of family members she would like ruined.
Yes. Black Sheep is an explicit dark romance with multiple on-page sex scenes, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It has BookTok-popular tropes including marriage of convenience and morally gray characters.
Yes. Black Sheep is an explicit dark romance with multiple on-page sex scenes, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It has BookTok-popular tropes including marriage of convenience and morally gray characters.
Yes. Black Sheep is the second book in Brynne Weaver's Ruinous Love trilogy, after Butcher and Blackbird, followed by Leather and Lark. Each book features a different couple in the same dark romance world.
Black Sheep was written by Brynne Weaver, published in 2022 by Independently published.
Black Sheep is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.