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Tamar Shaw

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Dark Romance, Mafia Romance, Gothic Romance

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Tamar Shaw is an Art History major who writes dangerous love stories for readers who fall for villains—not despite the darkness, but because of it.
Her characters are morally black, bound by code, chaos, and obsession masquerading as love. She likes writing real women—and the only kind of men who can keep up with them.
Her stories are plot-heavy, twist-laced, high-stakes, and emotionally explosive—because she writes with a simple question in mind: What fresh havoc should my characters suffer today?
When she’s not orchestrating murderbonding, romantic terrorism, or writing soft, savage, broken, brutal women and morally bankrupt antiheroes with god complexes, she’s playing Xbox, watching anime, reading manhwa, or hanging out with her husband and ...more

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Average rating: 4.57 · 253 ratings · 150 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Architect of Ruin (Shadow Gods #1) 4.38 avg rating — 126 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghosts Of Wrath (Shadow Gods Series - A Dark Crime Romance Verse Book 2) 4.78 avg rating — 70 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heir of Decay (Shadow Gods #3) 4.74 avg rating — 57 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Heir of Decay (Shadow Gods #3)

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Ghosts Of Wrath (Shadow Gods Series - A Dark Crime Romance Verse Book 2)

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Architect of Ruin (Shadow Gods)

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