A Snare So Beautifully Twisted: A Spicy Dark Fantasy Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Gemma Pettinato

He was supposed to die. I was supposed to forget him. But fate has a wicked way of binding us with blood, thorns, and fire.After losing the elf I loved to the gallows, I vowed vengeance—not with blades, but with herbs.Hidden beneath the noses of the guards, I sabotage their executions and save the condemned. Everything is going smoothly… until I rescue him.The Bloodied Thorn.An infamous elven assassin, cold and brutal, with a hatred for humans as sharp as his aim. Saving him was supposed to be a quiet act of defiance. Instead, he turns my life upside down.Now the guards are hunting us both, and I’m forced to flee into the wilds—with him. Bound to me by a life debt he loathes and a lust he refuses to name, he’s my reluctant protector. But the fire in his golden-green eyes says this isn’t hate.It’s obsession.And I’m not sure if I’ll survive it—or if I even want to.Spicy Tropes:✦ Enemies to lovers ✦ Grumpy assassin x morally gray healer ✦ Forced proximity in the woods ✦ Life debt with benefits ✦ Power play & dominance ✦ Knife-to-throat tension (literally) ✦ Obsessive morally black MMC who doesn’t share