Genre:
Romantic Suspense
Themes:
Adventure / Survival
Against All Odds
Angsty
Danger / In Peril / On the Run
Dark Romance
Enemies to Lovers
Fairytale
Found Family
Kidnapping / Disappearance
Loss / Grieving / Widow
Mistaken or False Identity
Murder / Crime / Serial Killer
Mystery / Suspense
Noir / Femme Fatale
Revenge
Wounded / Illness
Heat Level:
Hot & Steamy (full, graphic description of sexual acts occurs and may include crude language)
Archetypes:
Criminal / Mafia / Prisoner
Doctor / Nurse / EMT / Midwife
Spy / Assassin
Geographic Location:
United States: Midwest
Setting:
Big City / Urban
Hotel / Inn
Investigation / Stakeout
Manor House / Estate
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Queer
Femme
Trigger/Content Warning:
The book contains references to knife and gun violence, human trafficking, self-harm, murder, grief, past physical child abuse by an antagonist (off-screen), physical abuse of adults, gaslighting, coercive control, torture, being buried alive, brainwashing, and toxic relationships.
Wolves at the Gate
The Red Rivals Duet, Book 2
By Persephone Black
Two deadly women, one dangerous love.
Assassin Scarlett Fletcher is supposedly dead. Lyssa intends to make it so. Just…not yet.
Lyssa, the Wolf of the Styx Syndicate, has a simple plan. Hide her enemy-turned-uneasy-ally, train her up, and use her to take down Grandmother. Then Lyssa will follow through on the kill order and end the assassin for once and for all.
But nothing to do with Scarlett has ever been simple.
As Lyssa and Scarlett work together to track down the elusive Grandmother, lines begin to blur. Every sparring session just brings them closer together, and it’s getting harder and harder for Lyssa to stay objective.
And when more secrets finally come to light, the Wolf must make an impossible choice.
Will Lyssa stay loyal to the family she swore allegiance to? Or will she protect the troubled woman who’s slowly been stealing her heart?
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Wolves at the Gate is part two of the Red Rivals Duet, a twisty, steamy contemporary Sapphic mafia romance based (very) loosely on the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale. Reader discretion is advised for this enemies-to-forbidden-lovers story, and content notes are available on the Copyright page.