There Are No Saints
Sophie Lark's There Are No Saints, published in 2021, is the opening book in the Sinners Duet and one of the most talked-about dark romances of recent years. Mara Eldritch is a struggling young artist working three jobs in San Francisco to keep her tiny studio space and her hopes alive, painting at night and waiting tables by day. She meets Cole Blackwell, the brilliant sculptor whose work has made him a celebrity in the art world, when she is hired to serve at one of his openings. Cole is everything Mara has been warned about, beautiful, charming, ferociously talented, and underneath the polished surface, something else. A man who has spent his entire adult life choosing his victims and getting away with it. From their first conversation Cole decides Mara is his next, and what follows is not the cat-and-mouse a reader expects. Lark, who specializes in romances that put her heroines opposite men who would be villains in any other book, writes a knife-edge attraction that asks how much honesty a love story can hold. There Are No Saints is explicit, violent, and unapologetic about its genre. Readers who loved H.D. Carlton or Penelope Douglas should brace themselves for an addictive new favorite.
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Mara Eldritch is a struggling young San Francisco artist working as a cocktail waitress to pay her grad school tuition when she catches the eye of the famous painter Cole Blackwell at a Pacific Heights gala.
Yes. There Are No Saints is an explicit dark romance, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. Sophie Lark writes contemporary dark romance with significant on-page intimacy.
Yes. There Are No Saints is an explicit dark romance, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. Sophie Lark writes contemporary dark romance with significant on-page intimacy.
Yes. There Are No Saints is the first book in Sophie Lark's Sinners Duet, followed by There Is No Devil. Both feature the same couple.
There Are No Saints was written by Sophie Lark, published in 2021 by Sourcebooks, Incorporated.
There Are No Saints is 360 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, There Are No Saints takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
There Are No Saints is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.