When one ill-fitting creature sees itself in another just as estranged, tenderness blooms. Tenderness bleeds. Tenderness stains. All the world's a stage, and damn it if River isn't the star. It's a macabre business, but her work is a careful art. And now that she has a muse... Sebille is steady as a hand on a knife on a throat. Control matters because control is all she has. Monsters are nurtured. --- narcissist orgcrime assassin x psychopath interpol operative dark romance. they're toxic lesbians and are obsessed with each other. their (physical) meet-cute is a tinder date where they pretend they both individually didn't engineer this encounter into happening. yeah they fuck (literal) AND fuck over everyone else (metaphor)! explicit scenes 18+ NSFW whatever

Veronika demonstrably does not have her life put together--unlike her debut novel, which only needs one last push. But between the minimum wage office job and the cracking studio apartment, where will she find the time? When Victoria--mysterious teenage rival itgirl frenemy from high school Victoria--pops back into her life hotter, mysterious-er, and butch-er, Ron is presented with an offer she can't refuse. aka a divorce attorney moonlighting as a "publicist" and an aspiring starved writer get fake married and then fall in love and then get real married 3rd person pov, veronika-focused, 30k words, they are both butch/masc lesbians