Manic Pixie Dream Assassin

by Dahlia Hemlock

She’s chaos in a crop top. She’s order in a cardigan. Only one of them has a gun.

Lola kills for a living—until the job goes sideways and she’s bleeding, pissed off, and hiding out in a stranger’s apartment.

Emily is a kindergarten teacher who organizes her spice rack alphabetically. She’s sweet, soft-spoken, and not even a little bit queer… or so she thought.

When Lola takes her hostage, it’s the beginning of Emily’s worst day—and the most exhilarating night of her life. Trapped in close quarters, the lines between fear and fascination blur. And when Lola turns her lethal charm on full blast, Emily isn’t sure if she wants to run for her life… or beg to stay.

Getting seduced by her captor wasn't in her lesson plan...

🔥 One bed. 🚨 One gun. 💋 One wildly inappropriate attraction. This dark, high-heat lesbian romance is not here to behave. Welcome to the Blood & Blooms world—where love is messy, queer, and criminally hot.

146 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 31, 2025

Reviews

[_kenzie_ · Rating 4 out of 5]

5/5🌶️
•sapphic
•mafia
•one bed
•FFFFF (one scene)
•kinky asffff
•exhibitionism
•sharing

Emily and Lola gave me butterflies everywhere. they were filthyyyy sexy.

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fav quotes ❤️

“This psycho bitch is wrestling me to the floor of my own living room. And I like it.”

“She’s made me whole in a way that I never was. Not ever.”

[Nicola Trano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good spice, plot could be more developed.

I think there are good bones here. I keep reading her stories because she writes pretty good spice and I want to see the rest improve. This is better than the first, so I'd call it a good trajectory.

[Victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick fun read

[Pauline Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely spicy and sexy fantasy. Great short read with well thought out characters. Look forward to more like this.

[Kayla Brahm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as good as the first book in this series but still very entertaining.
2 POV
7 spicy scenes