The Ruinous Love Trilogy

About The Ruinous Love Trilogy

The Ruinous Love Trilogy is Brynne Weaver's breakout dark romantic comedy series about a family of serial killers who only fall for people who can handle their... hobby. Each book pairs one sibling (or in-law) with a love interest who is either unbothered by, actively into, or eventually recruited into the body count, and plays the premise for both genuine horror-adjacent tension and laugh-out-loud banter — think grovelling, chaotic-good murder logistics, and a lot of dog references (the family runs a doggy daycare as a day job). It's a romantasy-adjacent dark romance that leans hard into humor rather than pure grimdark, which is a large part of why it went viral on BookTok as a palate cleanser between heavier dark romance reads.

Each book is a complete, self-contained romance for a different couple within the same extended family and small-town setting, with earlier couples returning as supporting characters. Expect explicit content, blood, and morally-grey-to-black characters throughout — this is not a series for readers who need their leads to be conventionally good people.