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When the Irish assassin falls for his neurodivergent girl next door, who keeps emotional support plants…
I’m the reaper my enemies never see coming.
Then I go home to an empty flat where the silence has turned deafening.
That changes when my beautiful, neurodivergent neighbor,
who’s decided I’m her boyfriend,
starts breaking into my home.
And leaving me plants.
It’s harmless. She’s harmless.
Until the night she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Fallon Nova should’ve run when she saw me kill a man.
Instead, she stayed and patched me up.
Now she’s a witness.
And witnesses don’t live long in my world.
When all she wants is a date for the holidays in exchange for her silence,
I tell myself I can fake it.
But pretending ends the second she kisses me
and makes me want things I can’t have.
I want her. All of her in ways that have me in a chokehold.
She might have fallen first, but I fall harder.
And when someone from her past tries to take her away from me,
everyone will see what kind of monster loving Fallon has turned me into…
Wicked Deception is the final book in the Quinlan Empire series and can be read as a STANDALONE.
Tropes:
Irish Mafia Assassin
Neurodivergent FMC
Fake Dating
Stalking
Forced Proximity
Slow Burn
Opposites Attract
Forehead Kisses
F*k It
Touch her and die
Candy Cane Kink
From The Author
In publishing if ‘cousins’ start getting a book, you know the series is a success. After creating an Irish family with seven brothers, the four Quinlan brothers were not enough. Even before it was certain there would be a Quinlan Empire series, in Sinful Vows, Ewan Quinlan’s story, Ewan mentions his father’s brothers who each had sons. An Uncle Finn had four and an Uncle Patrick had two.
Trace and Rhys are Patrick’s sons. And Wicked Deception completes the Quinlan era.
About Fallon’s mental health…
Rhys and Fallon’s story stems (no pun) from a quick scene in Lovely Venom, when I gave the Quinlan assassin a nosy, quirky neighbor, who thinks Rhys is her boyfriend. Fallon was inspired by Rose from the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men. At the time, I wasn’t sure how I would explain exactly what was going on with Fallon. Did she have a severe psychological disorder like dissociative identity disorder (DID or Schizophrenia)? Or something higher functioning like ADHD, OCD, and anxiety. I wrote her from my heart and didn’t pay attention to labels.
Jess from The Author Buddy did an extensive Sensitivity Read and provided significant behavioral details as well as the proper labels for Fallon’s disorders. During further edits, I researched her behavior with models to be as accurate as I could. Any mistakes are mine, and are not intentional and not in any way meant to be disrespectful or insensitive.
As a reminder, while this is a Fake Dating, Holiday-adjacent book with moments of humor, it is still a dark mafia romance and contains the following elements that may trigger some readers:
Murder/Explicit Violence
Graphic Sex
Death of a Parent
Physical Assault of FMC (not by MMC)
Stalking
Anxiety/Panic Attacks
Neurodivergent FMC:
(OCD, Severe Anxiety with Maladaptive Daydreaming and Delusions)
Misdiagnosis of ADHD Leading to Forced Medicating
Temporary Destruction of Plants
Memory of Sexual Assault of FMC (not by MMC)
Brief Thoughts of Suicide (Not Acted Upon)
Enjoy Wicked Deception!
