A dark romantic suspense trilogy

THE SCHLOSS BROTHERS

Two brothers. One face.
She was engaged to the wrong Schloss. The right one stole her first.

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THE BOOKS

One couple. One complete trilogy. Read them in order.

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Book One

The Wrong Brother

A Dark Enemies-to-Lovers Romance
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I was engaged to the wrong Schloss brother. The right one kidnapped me at the airport.

Seven days before my wedding, I stood in the rain at JFK, waiting for the man who bought my father’s debt and called it a proposal.

The man who climbed out of the car wore Adam’s face — the same jaw, the same gray eyes — and none of his lies. Scarred. Tattooed. Exiled from the Schloss family five years ago, and back with a plan I was now standing in the middle of.

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“You’ve got the wrong car, sweetheart.”

Damian Schloss didn’t rescue me. He took me. I was leverage — the one thing his brother would trade an empire to keep.

But leverage doesn’t drive a motorcycle through a wall to keep you off the pavement. Leverage doesn’t kneel on a motel floor to warm your frozen feet. Leverage doesn’t look at you like you’re the first honest thing he’s seen in five years.

And I wasn’t supposed to want him back. Not his hands. Not his mouth. Not the way he stops, every time, and waits for me to choose. Every kiss is a betrayal of the life I was promised. Every night on the run, it gets harder to remember why I should care.

Now there’s a million dollars on my head, every road out of New York wants us dead, and the only man I can’t stop reaching for in the dark is the one who was never supposed to be mine.

I was the price of a marriage I never chose. I’m about to become the woman he burns the whole city down to keep.

A captor who turns protector, a twin-brother betrayal, forced proximity, a run for your life, slow burn that catches fire, and a morally gray man who means every word. Open door. Guaranteed HEA.

Content: violence, guns, kidnapping, psychological manipulation. Recommended 18+.

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Book Two

The Ruined Brother

A Dark Twin Rivalry Romance
Pre-order · Out November 17

He gave up his revenge to keep me. Now his brother wants everything back.

For a year, Damian and I had the quiet we bled for: the garage in Red Hook, the loft on the water, his hands on my skin every night. No one buzzed our door.

Then the buzzer rang.

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Adam is out. Smiling for the cameras, wearing the face of a reformed man, and the whole city wants to believe him.

I don’t.

“Whatever he does, he doesn’t get this.”

To beat his brother, Damian will have to become the one thing he swore he would never be again: a Schloss. The question is whether there will be anything left of the man who comes home to me.

One Schloss brother is going to fall.

Twin brothers at war, a villain with a perfect smile, a family that buries its secrets, and an established couple who burn hotter the harder the world pushes. Open door. No cheating, no breakup between them.

Best read after The Wrong Brother. Ends on a cliffhanger; the story concludes in Book Three with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Content: gun violence, psychological manipulation, stalking. Recommended 18+.

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Book Three

The Chosen Brother

A Dark Protector Romance
Coming December 1

He pulled the trigger to save me. Now the whole city believes he’s the monster.

The bullet didn’t kill Adam Schloss. It made him a saint.

By morning, the man who walked me to the edge of a freezing river is weeping forgiveness from a hospital bed. The press has decided which twin is the victim. And the only witness to what really happened on those boards is me, the woman who left him for his brother.

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Damian should be finished. A prosecutor is weighing charges. Strangers won’t take his money. Forty floors above Manhattan, his father is running out of clear hours, and Adam means to be standing at the door when the last one comes.

But every night, in a garage in Red Hook, the man the city calls a monster comes up the iron stairs to me with grease-black hands he swears will never hold a gun again, and he asks me, every single time, what I want.

Adam has spent his whole life being chosen. No one has ever told him no.

We’re done running. This time we fight him with the one thing he can’t charm, buy, or bury: the truth.

A protector who could burn the world down and chooses not to, a villain who smiles for the cameras, a twin-brother war, a heroine who stands in front of everyone she loves, heat that finally gets room to breathe, and a wedding by the water. Open door. Guaranteed HEA.

Content: violence, guns, the aftermath of a shooting, psychological manipulation, grief. Recommended 18+.

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About the author

R.D. MARLO

I write dark, twisty romance about morally gray men and the women who stop looking away. I’m drawn to the space between danger and devotion — captors who turn protector, love that shows up at the worst possible time, and heroes who mean every word they say.

My books don’t flinch from the hard parts, and they always end where it counts: a hard-won happily-ever-after.

When I’m not putting my characters through the wringer, I’m chasing a good thunderstorm and too much coffee.