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X's and O's

by Elle Thorpe Publisher: INDEPENDENT CAT

A dark romance built around danger and divided loyalties

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A dark romance built around danger and divided loyalties

The story brings together a kidnapping, a masked group that targets dangerous criminals, and a trail of rhyming threats aimed at the people caught in their orbit. Its romantic setup connects the heroine with three very different men: an obsessive killer who believes she is his wife, an older club owner, and a former prison pen pal. Murder mystery and romantic suspense sit alongside the book’s explicitly adult, multi-partner romance, with the plot also introducing an ongoing trilogy.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For adults interested in dark contemporary romance with multiple love interests.
  • For readers who enjoy romantic suspense and murder-mystery elements.
  • For readers comfortable with triggering themes, psycho heroes, and a spicy club setting.

Themes

Dark romanceRomantic suspenseMurder mysteryMultiple love interestsSecrets and danger

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Book overview

One minute I'm cleaning toilets for minimum wage.

The next, I'm waking up from a drug-induced nap with a monster staring down at me.

 

Kidnapped and seconds from death, I think I'm done for...

Until masked men burst in, murder my attacker, and turn my world upside down.

 

They call themselves Murder Squad.

 

A secret brotherhood of broken men who only kill the worst of the worst.

 

And one of them thinks I'm his wife.

 

X is unhinged, obsessed, and deadly. A psychopath who hides behind bad jokes and bloodstained fingers.

 

Whip's older, grumpy, and used to women paying him to worship them. But when he finds out I'm a virgin, he can't keep his hands off my plus-size curves.

 

And Levi? One year of handwritten letters was all it took to fall in love with a man I'd never met. My prison pen pal turned killer, fighting his darkness for a second chance.

 

But they aren't the only psychopaths in Saint View.

 

Someone's playing a twisted game, leaving rhyming threats and promising to end us all if we don't stop them first.

 

With every lie we uncover, every secret we expose, the danger mounts.

Until there's only one thing we know for sure.

 

There's a killer out there.

And this time, he's hunting us.

 

X's and O's is a dark rom com. It's an adult, why choose romance, meaning the main character has more than one love interest. You can expect a plus size, tall heroine, psycho heroes, a murder mystery, and a spicy club. This book contains romantic suspense and triggering themes. It is the first book in an ongoing trilogy.

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