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Unwritten Rules by Faye Holland
Legacies & Lies #1
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 3/5
Plot: 4/5
Primary Genre: New Adult Romance (Dark-ish)
Blurb: She's the innocent, sheltered rich girl. He's the campus playboy with a reputation. When it's time for her to take over for her late mother as CEO, a scandal tears at the seams of everything on campus, making her realize not everything is as it seemed on the outside. It's far more dangerous. Welcome to Willow Bay University. Business, pleasure, and academics collide and no one will be left untouched as everything and everyone is tested to the limit. This book is a New Adult spicy romance featuring he falls first, a push-and-pull relationship, bad boy x good girl, with darker themes and a masked man side character every early reader has become obsessed with. This is the first of a complete duology and is suitable for those wanting to dip their toes into the dark romance genre and explore darker themes.

Monarch by Sophie Lark
Grimstone #2
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 2.5/5
Primary Genre: Romantic suspense
Trigger Warnings: Domestic violence, assault, alcohol use, drug use
Favorite Quote: I’m with you. I love you. I’ll protect you, I’ll take care of you. Carry me with you always and keep me in your heart. Because you are in mine.
Plot 5/5:
Elena is a 90 day fiance who had been desperately looking to leave Ukraine. She has just arrived in Grimstone, Oregon to marry her fiance Lorne. He’s a famous, wealthy thriller author. When they met in Ukraine he seemed like was a sweet, loving father and a kind/nerdy guy. Once she arrives, his behavior begins to change and not in a good way. Lorne is having a castle built for them to live in but there have been multiple construction delays so they are staying at the town’s historic hotel, The Monarch. The owner of the Monarch, Atlas, tries to protect Elena as Lorne get more twisted and vicious.