Cover of Entangled

Entangled

Rebecca Quinn

Brutes of Bristlebrook #2

dark romance(16k)

Captive and broken, she'll burn the post-apocalyptic world down — while her brutes fight to bring her home.

Content Warnings
violence/gorecaptivitykidnappingdubious consent

Description

These men killed mine, and for that, they have to dieBristlebrook is up in smoke, my brutes are dead, and Sam’s camp is a powder keg begging for a flame.Injured and furious over their losses, the surviving hunters are preoccupied with their own problems. Their factions and allegiances. Their internal wars and pissing contests. The new world they want to forge. They don’t look twice at their meek little captive.They shattered my heart five ways when they killed my brutes, so I don’t care anymore. If I’m to stop the villains, I need to become one.I need to be smart. I need to be ruthless.Even if it means razing myself to the ground to do it . . .We’re bringing her home, or we’re not coming homeThey took our librarian from right under our noses—and with Lucky injured, Bristlebrook in flames, and our personal problems finally spilling over, we’re fracturing.But we need to be better.Bringing Eden home is the most important mission of our lives.Followed closely by the second most important . . . building her a home worth returning to.***The Brutes of Bristlebrook is a dark(ish) post-apocalyptic, steamy romance series, and Eden will end up with three or more love interests after I’ve appropriately obliterated my readers’ nerves. Expect complex characters, 1st person present tense, multiple POVs, MM in the harem, angst, lots of laughs, and to encounter material that some readers may find sensitive.This book is a big boy at over 180k words and deals with a lot of heavy content. I promise it gets brighter as it goes on (you know... mostly). Please see my website for TWs - your mental health matters.

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