Sweet Venom

A young woman who witnesses a violent crime tries to vanish into the background, and instead draws the attention of the one man least likely to let her go. Sweet Venom is the second novel in Rina Kent's Vipers sequence, written squarely in the dark contemporary romance tradition: obsession, hidden motive, and a hockey star whose reputation arrives before he does. Tension builds by degrees rather than through constant action, with the emotional pressure between the two leads carrying as much weight as the suspense around them. The larger reveals are left intact here, since much of the pleasure lies in watching each character's real intentions surface at the author's chosen pace. At its core: • Book two of The Vipers, readable alongside the wider series • Dark romance set against a professional hockey backdrop • Suspense threads that tighten rather than resolve early • Chemistry driven by secrecy, risk and divided loyalty Suited to readers of dark contemporary romance and slow-burning suspense, and available at Boipoka.