Scythe & Sparrow: The Ruinous Love Trilogy (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, 3)

God, I want to kiss her. I want to feel the heat of her lips against mine. Would she want that? Would she melt against me if she did? Or would the tension I feel between us snap and release something feral inside her? Inside me?<br/><br/>From the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the genre-breaking international TikTok sensation Butcher & Blackbird and Leather & Lark comes the final book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy―a friends-with-benefits dark romantic comedy packed with murder, mayhem, and spice.<br/><br/>Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It’s a simpler life: head down, hard work, and absolutely no romantic relationships. He wants none of the circus he left behind in Boston.<br/><br/>But then the real circus finds him.<br/><br/>Motorcycle performer Rose Evans has spent a decade on the road with the Silveria Circus, and it suits her just fine, especially when she has the urge to indulge in a little murder when she’s not in the spotlight. But when a kill goes awry and she ends up with an injured leg, Rose finds herself stuck in Nebraska, at the home of the adorably nerdy town doctor.<br/><br/>The problem is, not every broken heart can be sewn back together.<br/><br/>. . . And the longer you stay in one place, the more likely your ghosts are to catch up.<br/><br/>Tropes:<br/>Friends with benefits<br/>Small town romance<br/>Fish out of water<br/>Forced proximity<br/>Hurt/care<br/>Touch her and die