Deadfall by Devyn Rivers (Paperback)

Book three and the finale of Devyn Rivers’s Red Rabbit series — a dark romantic thriller, and a direct continuation of the story and characters from Darling Wildfire.

A tragedy in ex-soldier Gabriel Griffin’s life pulled him from the bottle and left him with a vendetta against evil. Now known as Deathwing, and driven by an insatiable thirst for revenge, he and his team of ex-military men work to save as many souls as they can from a faceless organisation that thrives in the shadows of human suffering. During one raid, they find Emersyn North’s name carved into the wall of a sinister boarding house — and Gabriel is pulled into the long hunt to find her. Three years and several agonisingly close failures later, they realise someone has betrayed them; worse, someone has been playing them all along. When a tip finally gives them coordinates, Gabriel and his teammate Seven slip onto a remote island to extract her.

But the island is fraught with danger, its rugged estate steeped in ghost stories and old war history. And the woman they’ve come for is no helpless victim: Emersyn had everything torn from her at ten years old, learned to survive a world set on keeping her small, and at twenty-six trusts no one but herself. She has her own vendetta and her own escape in mind — and when it becomes clear others want her off the island too, as leverage in a far larger game, she must decide fast exactly who to trust.

A dark romantic thriller of survival, found family and how far a person will go for the ones they love. This book is very dark and contains a long list of heavy and potentially distressing themes; please review the author’s full content warnings before reading, take care if these affect you, and protect your mental health.

Perfect for readers who love dark why-choose romantic thrillers, enemies-to-lovers slow burn, a fierce survivor heroine and a found-family rescue with everything at stake.