Shelf guide
There Are No Saints
Sinners Duet, Book 1
Sophie Lark
Cole Blackwell is San Francisco's most celebrated sculptor, a controlling serial killer with a careful system and a dangerous rival. When struggling artist Mara Eldritch survives an attack connected to that rivalry, Cole becomes obsessed with the one woman who sees more than she should — and who may be talented enough to survive his attention.
Frequent and violent-adjacent throughout, with the danger and the heat rarely separable.
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Clocked.
if the phrase "he only recognized your talent" set off no alarms just now
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Reader fit
This book is great for
Serial-killer romance where he is genuinely one, not reformed and not misunderstood. Book one of the Sinners duet — There Is No Devil finishes it.
- wants the artist-and-muse dynamic taken somewhere unforgivable
- likes being stalked framed as being finally seen
- reads Butcher & Blackbird energy but wants it meaner
- needs the killer to stay a killer through the HEA
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