And the Christmas ARCs have started!!! Here's K.A. Merikan's "All I Want For Christmas is Revenge." It's the a novel in first novel in their Murder and Mistletoe series.
["“I will kill the men who murdered your family… for a price. You will be mine.”
Saint
Being a hitman is the loneliest of jobs. We don’t have many friends. Some don’t even have family. Lovers? Try explaining to your boyfriend why there’s blood on your shirt.
Christmas is the worst time to be alone, but this year, love is on the cards for me. All thanks to a letter I found in the street.
It reads, “Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is revenge…”
At first, I’m intrigued by the words, the grisly details, and the rage steaming off the page. The author doesn’t know it yet, but we are a perfect fit. His bloodthirst is equal to mine, his creativity in coming up with ways to kill is admirable, and when I track him down, I instantly fall for the wrath in his dark eyes.
His wish is my command, if he’s ready to pay the price - being mine.
Rowan
My therapist always tells me I should let go of my pain and rage. But I don’t want to let go. I want the men who attacked my family dead.
I just never thought I’d get my wish granted. But there’s a catch. The handsome monster who abducts me to his lair wants me as his payment.
Me, the strange loner filled with bitterness and sarcasm. Me, who never even had a boyfriend. Me, with my cane and irrational fears.
But I’d sell my soul to the Devil for revenge, so I might as well offer my body to a seductive assassin. After all, he cooks well, kills people, buys me bath bombs… What else could I want in a boyfriend?"]
I, for one, would like to know how, HOW, serial killers who lack serious understanding of social niceties, normal boundaries, and communication can be so fucking adorable?! How!!?? Because from almost the very first moment we meet Saint, that's what I think: adorable. And it just gets worse the more he gets to know (and utterly devotes himself to) Rowan. Adorable.
Rowan is...Rowan is the thing that looks like a cinnamon roll but could kill you. He's cute and traumatized and lonely as fuck, but he's got more anger than one person should ever have mixed with a need for righteous revenge. And a willingness to just "go with it."
Together, they cuddle under Christmas lights and cross of a murder list as if it were an advent calendar. It's so not Halmark, but it was sooooo good!
Trigger Warnings: kidnapping, violence, gore, stalking, PTSD, anxiety, chronic pain and scars from old injuries, and more.
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