There were three things and only three things I knew for sure about the woman sitting across from me at the family dinner table every night for the last week. She was completely off-limits. She was my brother’s fiancée. And she was my absolute obsession.
Fact of the matter was, I’d also seen her first. Which meant it was only fair that I crept into her bridal suite the night before the ceremony and took her virginity. She retaliated by slipping into my hotel room and taking something of mine. An appendage. The fifth toe on my left foot. Tucking it away in a box as a sick little keepsake of our short time together.
Blood for blood, or so she claimed.
And that’s when I knew the girl was it for me. Her kind of crazy the perfect accompaniment to my own… peculiarities.
The newspapers liked to call me a butcher. I preferred the term surgeon. After all those years in medical school, I deserved it.
The truth was, I was a saint compared to her. Because Mari didn’t just know how to crack open a rib cage. She knew how to fish around with a pair of perfectly manicured nails and dig out a guy’s heart. Something my brother found out the hard way.
Now she was back, looking to make amends. Or at least pretending to. And I was more than ready to lead my little lamb to slaughter…
LAMB, the second dark romance retelling novel in the Renegades series by Sybil Knight.
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SYBIL KNIGHT is a career-driven Philadelphian native. A crime show enthusiast by day, and club hopper by night. When she isn’t working or writing, she is talking about working and writing. She is a single mom to her beta fish (Fish) and way too many dead houseplants.
Her stories range from gray to black, with darker themes throughout. She prefers heroines with a kick-ass mentality and the heroes who know how to rein them in. The mental and medical aspects of her books are well-researched, though they are given a humanistic approach and diagnoses aren’t the focal points. She believes her characters don’t need to wear labels in order to get her messages across.
Her books are mostly standalones, though her characters may interact and intersect worlds. Additionally, she works closely with and writes alongside author Dahlia Reign and some characters will appear in cameos in each of their publications.
You can’t break a girl who already clawed her way out of the crypt.
I came to the House of Night broken, barely breathing, barely me. Now I’m waiting in the crypts for the events that will change everything. First, The Baron Hunt. And, second, my arranged marriage to the King.
I spent my youth being groomed under the watchful eye of my uncle, preparing for the day I united our families. My uncle wants to be tied to Royalty. The Baron King? He wants more than a bride. He wants secrets.
I know first hand that something is deeply wrong beneath the foundation of Forsyth, beneath the shiny rituals and punishing ceremonies. Neither have done anything to find the missing girls.
The King wants loyalty. Damon wants control, exerting it with his needles and pins. Hunter stands in the shadows, quietly waiting and watching. They all want something from me: My obedience. My purity. My silence. I’m willing to give them whatever they want, be whatever they want, Baroness, wife, or both as long as death never touches me again.
BARONS OF DECAY, the first Barons trilogy novel in the why choose dark romance Royals of Forsyth University series by Angel Lawson and Samantha Rue.
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