Butcher & Blackbird
Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country.
But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match? Butcher & Blackbird is the first book in the Ruinous Love dark romance trilogy of interconnected stand-alone dark romantic comedies.
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Book details
- Publisher
- Slowburn
- Publication date
- 2023
- Print length
- 368 pages
- ISBN
- 9781638931737
Romance + Contemporary
What to Know Before Reading Butcher & Blackbird
A deliciously twisted dark romantic comedy that follows the unexpected relationship between two rival vigilante serial killers. The story centers on Sloane Sutherland, an independent hunter known in the true-crime underground as the "Orb Weaver," who only targets other murderers. When a hit goes awry and leaves Sloane accidentally trapped in a cage with a decomposing corpse, she is unexpectedly rescued by Rowan Kane, a charismatic Irish chef known to the world as the notorious "Boston Butcher". Rowan also happens to share her exact hobby of hunting down societal monsters.
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Brynne Weaver
“I want to ruin her so that she’s mine, my beautiful disaster.”
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