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X's and O's

by Elle Thorpe

A dark romantic suspense with a murder mystery at its center

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A dark romantic suspense with a murder mystery at its center

A kidnapping brings the heroine into the orbit of Murder Squad, a secret brotherhood whose members target people they consider the worst of the worst. The romance connects her with three very different men: X, who believes she is his wife; Whip, a client at the club where he works; and Levi, her former prison pen pal. Alongside the multiple-love-interest romance, a killer in Saint View sends rhyming threats, turning the story toward secrets, danger, and a hunt for the person behind them. The publisher describes the book as a dark rom com with explicit adult themes, romantic suspense, and triggering content; it begins an ongoing trilogy.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in why-choose romance with multiple love interests.
  • Readers seeking a dark romance that combines a murder mystery with romantic suspense.
  • Readers comfortable with psycho heroes, a spicy club, and triggering themes.

Themes

Multiple-love-interest romanceKidnapping and dangerSecrets and deceptionMurder mysteryRomantic suspense

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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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