Manic Pixie Dream Assassin

She’s chaos in a crop top. She’s order in a cardigan. Only one of them has a gun.

Lola kills for a living—until the job goes sideways and she’s bleeding, pissed off, and hiding out in a stranger’s apartment.

Emily is a kindergarten teacher who organizes her spice rack alphabetically. She’s sweet, soft-spoken, and not even a little bit queer… or so she thought.

When Lola takes her hostage, it’s the beginning of Emily’s worst day—and the most exhilarating night of her life. Trapped in close quarters, the lines between fear and fascination blur. And when Lola turns her lethal charm on full blast, Emily isn’t sure if she wants to run for her life… or beg to stay.

Getting seduced by her captor wasn't in her lesson plan...

🔥 One bed. 🚨 One gun. 💋 One wildly inappropriate attraction. This dark, high-heat lesbian romance is not here to behave. Welcome to the Blood & Blooms world—where love is messy, queer, and criminally hot.