Riven Knight

Slow burn/fake marriage/(light)romanic suspense

I feel like the book gave enough background on things that happened in the first one that it could be read as a standalone but I wouldn't recommend it. The plot of this book is heavily tied to the first one.

Honestly both the main characters have a lot of trauma they're dealing with internally and one of them is notoriously quiet and closed off so there's a lot of working through things on their own before they're able to come together. Their relationship never fully pulled me in but it was still a good read. Once the action picked up towards the end it was hard to put it down. It definitely satisfied the curiosity I had after the end of the first book.