Most romance authors give you candlelight, roses, and long walks on the beach. S.T. Abby gave us duct tape, body counts, and one of the most morally confusing love stories ever written. And we loved every bloody second of it.

If the romance world were a royal court, Trisha Wolfe would be the reigning dark queen—draped in black velvet, sipping red wine (or blood, who knows), and laughing at all the knights who tried to save her heroines. Because if there’s one thing you learn quickly in a Wolfe novel, it’s this: no heroine needs saving.

There are many kinds of romance novelists. Some give you cozy fireplace kisses, some wrap their stories in glittering ballrooms, and some hand you a puppy and call it love. Brynne Weaver, however, hands you a knife, a morally questionable anti-hero, and a heroine who just might stab you before she kisses you—and then she makes you laugh about it.

Dark romance isn’t just a genre—it’s a mood, a lifestyle, a whispered promise that your heart will be shattered and stitched back together with silk and barbed wire. It’s where love is messy, morally gray, and often involves a suspiciously sexy villain with a tragic backstory and a penchant for violence. If you’ve ever read a book and thought, “I shouldn’t be into this... but I am,” congratulations—you’re one of us.

So, you’ve wandered into the world of dark romance—the shadowy corner of the romance genre where love interests are often criminals, stalkers, assassins, or just really, really bad at respecting boundaries. Maybe you clicked on a TikTok recommendation. Maybe a Goodreads review whispered “morally gray MMC” in your ear. Maybe you just wanted more spice after vanilla contemporary left you yawning.

Dark romance isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s a genre that dives head-first into morally grey territories, balancing passion and peril, love and obsession. These stories thrive on tension — both emotional and physical — and dare to explore the parts of desire most other romances politely sidestep.