Book profile
Ruthless Creatures
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2021
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Five years after her fiancé mysteriously vanished, leaving her with unhealed emotional scars and lingering unanswered questions, a woman living in a town is drawn to Kage, a tall, dark, dangerous stranger brimming with hidden secrets. As a slow-burning attraction builds between them, she uncovers Kage’s true purpose for coming to town: he has been sent to collect an unpaid debt left by her missing fiancé, and the terms of the debt require her to pay it herself. The story explores their tense, morally gray dynamic as they navigate his concealed motives and the coercive circumstances of their initial connection.
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- Hidden Identity: “But then I discover he’s been sent to collect on an unpaid debt from my missing fiancé.... And that debt is me.” source
- Captive Romance: “I discover he's been sent to collect on an unpaid debt from my missing fiancé.... And that debt is me.” source
- Slow Burn: “Heat crackles between us with every look, desire flares into passion, and I fall hard, helpless to resist.” source
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