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Kiss the Villain

by Rina Kent · Villain #1

2025 · 512 pages · Blackthorn Books

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📚 Book 1 of an ongoing series (2 published)

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About this book

When a golden-boy law student gets caught in a compromising situation by a mysterious stranger, he thinks he's buried the secret forever—until that same man walks into his classroom as his new professor in criminal law. The twist? His new professor is an actual criminal, and the student can't expose him without revealing his own dark secrets, so instead he decides to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that blurs every line between power, manipulation, and desire. What starts as blackmail and leverage transforms into something far more intoxicating as these two broken men discover they might be exactly what the other needs—or their complete undoing. This scorching dark romance explores what happens when two people with secrets collide, leaving readers desperate to know who wins when titans clash.

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