Romance Author | DL Darby

Big things are coming, darlings!

The Angels series is coming to audio! I am so excited that Blue Nose Audio will be bringing the Angels of Désirer characters to life! This has been a dream of mine since Burn With Me was first released, and it's turning out to be everything I imagined and more.

More good news, TWO new series are on the way this year. Book one of Serial Killer Book Club is coming to you this summer, and the other series will be announced in June. So far, between both series, I have releases scheduled out until 2029!

Serial Killer Book Club is an interconnected stand-alone trilogy that follows three women and their alter ego bad man-killing selves. More to come on this next month, but I'll tell you the tagline for book one: Who says killers can't wear pink?

The SECOND series coming this year is a MASH-UP of previous books in the Darbyverse. That's all you get for now ;)

Stay tuned!

SHOP

‘He’s after my job, and I can’t let him win.
Besides, who can do a better job of writing about me than me?’

Dolls & Daggers. 6.3.25

🗡️ Rivals to Lovers
🩷 Workplace
🗡️ Revenge
🩷 Forced Proximity
🗡️ Touch Him/Her and Die
🩷 Feminine Rage
🗡️ Morally Gray FMC
🩷 She’s the Masked Serial Killer
🗡️ Accidental Cannibalism
🩷 Pink Obsessed
🗡️ Height Difference (she’s 5’ he’s 6’2)

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #spicyreads #serialkillerbookclub

‘We move as one, frenzied and raw, our bodies as wild as the storm raging around us.‘

Dolls & Daggers 💕
6.3.25

Art by @avoccatt_art

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #spicyreads #serialkillerbookclub

Signed preorders come with prints, stickers, and a bookmark! 💕

Dolls & Daggers. 6.3.25

🗡️ Rivals to Lovers
🩷 Workplace
🗡️ Revenge
🩷 Forced Proximity
🗡️ Touch Him/Her and Die
🩷 Feminine Rage
🗡️ Morally Gray FMC
🩷 She’s the Masked Serial Killer
🗡️ Accidental Cannibalism
🩷 Pink Obsessed
🗡️ Height Difference (she’s 5’ he’s 6’2)

#darkromance #spicyreads #romanticcomedy #darkromcom

The Baby Doll Killer is waiting for you 💕

Dolls & Daggers 6.3.25

Signed copies with swag are now available on my Fourthwall. The books will be ordered in batches and will not be shipped until late May. Some packages may arrive after release day.

Art by @adaa.black / @suusliks

#darkromance #spicyreads #romanticcomedy #serialkillerbookclub

The Angels of Désirer series is a COMPLETED interconnected standalone series that you can read on KU!

It has all the yummy tropes like
burn the world for her
who hurt you
fake engagement
true enemies to lovers
workplace
forced proximity
whodunnit
cute but psycho
rags to riches
lots of “good girl”
he falls first
and morally gray men

#darkromance #spicyreads #billionaireromance

Ooh they have it bad for their women 😮‍💨

Dolls & Daggers
6.3.25

#darkromance #spicyreads #romanticcomedy

Play With Me ❤️

🖤Workplace
❤️Forced Proximity
🖤Exclusive adult club
❤️Whodunnit
🖤Romantic Suspense
❤️Mutual denied pining
🖤Black cat adult club owner/Doberman Detective

#darkromance #romanticsuspense #spicybooks

When Bunny finds out about the jerky…

Dolls & Daggers 💕
6.3.25

#darkromance #spicyreads #romanticcomedy

If you don’t like something you don’t have to read it. Don’t shame others for wanting to read things you don’t!

#bookish #bookstagram #darkromance

Just a little late night cosplaying as Dove 💕

Dolls & Daggers
6.3.25

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #spicyreads

Fun fact: in Dolls & Daggers Dove works at Metro Media which is a division of Tailor Industries. Owned by none other than my favorite cat daddy of all time.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? You can read Jackson and Ginny’s story in book one of my Angels of Désirer series: Burn With Me.

Dolls & Daggers comes out June 3rd!

#darkromance #spicyreads #romanticcomedy

These are too much fun 🤣

Dolls & Daggers
6.3.25

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #spicyreads

Meet Wrenley 💕

Dolls & Daggers
A Serial Killer Book Club Novel
6.3.25

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #spicyreads

Dolls & Daggers
6.3.25

🗡️ Rivals to Lovers
🩷 Workplace
🗡️ Revenge
🩷 Forced Proximity
🗡️ Touch Him/Her and Die
🩷 Feminine Rage
🗡️ Morally Gray FMC
🩷 She’s the Masked Serial Killer
🗡️ Accidental Cannibalism
🩷 Pink Obsessed
🗡️ Height Difference (she’s 5’ he’s 6’2)

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #spicyreads

Meet Dove 💕

Dolls & Daggers
A Serial Killer Book Club Novel
6.3.25

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #spicyreads

Happy St. Patty’s Day from the men of Désirer 🍀💦

All the books in the Angels of Désirer series are available on Amazon and KU.

#darkromance #spicybooks #billionaireromance

His presence at my back is suffocating, and I tilt my head up to see him looming over me. He grins at me from upside down. Or is he right side up, and I’m the one bending backward to get a better whiff of his cologne?

What is that? Cinnamon, citrus, and… sunshine?

Sunshine doesn’t have a smell, Dove. Get away from him. Now. Before he fvcks up your other senses.

🩷

Peep that height difference 😍

I can’t wait for ya’ll to meet Dove and Wren!

Dolls & Daggers releases June 3rd.

Art by @krida.studio

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #rivalstolovers #spicyreads

Burn With Me 🖤

By day, he’s the playboy billionaire she loves to hate. By night, he’s the masked stranger she’s falling in love with.

🔥 Billionaire
🔥 Found Family
🔥 Secret identity
🔥 Workplace
🔥 Hidden truth
🔥 He falls first
🔥 Emotional scars
🔥 Who did this to you
🔥 “Burn the world for her”
🔥 Morally Grey
🔥 Playboy
🔥 Exclusive Adult Club

#darkromance #billionaireromance #spicyreads

I am so insanely excited to announce the cast members for the Angels of Désirer audiobooks!

@bluenoseaudio is making this indie author’s dreams come true by bringing the Angels to life in DUET narration featuring the talents of

@jamescassidyromance
@shannon.tells.stories
@cadenhartnarrator
@shiloh_james_narrator
@readbyrob
@beingjanine_
@aaronshedlock
@akalucyrivers

I seriously can’t wait to hear these characters brought to life by this amazing team of narrators. Coming later this year!

#darkromance #audiobook #bluenoseaudio #audiobookstagram

*photos are my fancast for the characters

By day, he’s the playboy billionaire she loves to hate. By night, he’s the masked stranger she’s falling in love with.

Burn With Me 🔥

🔥 Billionaire
🔥 Found Family
🔥 Secret identity
🔥 Workplace
🔥 Hidden truth
🔥 He falls first
🔥 Emotional scars
🔥 Who did this to you
🔥 “Burn the world for her”
🔥 Morally Grey
🔥 Playboy
🔥 Exclusive Adult Club

#darkromance #billionaireromance #romancereads

Dove Carroway has two lives…

By day, she’s the bubbly, pink-clad media journalist who writes sensational stories about a vigilante serial killer. By night, she becomes the Baby Doll Killer, an avenger with a flair for punishing the worst of humanity—men who prey on children. But her most formidable challenge isn’t a criminal; it’s her insufferably charming work rival.

Wrenley Campbell is the perfect gentleman to everyone but Dove, the one person who grates on his nerves with her sunshine act. But Wrenley’s secrets are darker than the articles they write, and when Dove unburies the truths he’s hiding, she finds herself drawn to him in ways she never expected.

When their battle of wits escalates into something that hits too close to home, Dove steps into his world as her deadly alter ego, intending to terrify him into backing off. As Wrenley pieces together who she really is, their rivalry turns into a fiery connection that neither can deny.

Secrets this dark have a way of coming to light, and soon, they will have to decide whether their love is strong enough to survive the shadows or shatter under the weight of their haunted pasts.

🗡️ Rivals to Lovers
🩷 Workplace
🗡️ Revenge
🩷 Forced Proximity
🗡️ Touch Him/Her and Die
🩷 Feminine Rage
🗡️ Morally Gray FMC
🩷 She’s the Masked Serial Killer
🗡️ Accidental Cannibalism
🩷 Pink Obsessed
🗡️ Size Difference (she’s 5’ he’s 6’2)

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #serialkillerbookclub

6.3.25

Who says killers can’t wear pink? 🩷

Dove Carroway has two lives…

By day, she’s the bubbly, pink-clad media journalist who writes sensational stories about a vigilante serial killer. By night, she becomes the Baby Doll Killer, an avenger with a flair for punishing the worst of humanity—men who prey on children. But her most formidable challenge isn’t a criminal; it’s her insufferably charming work rival.

Wrenley Campbell is the perfect gentleman to everyone but Dove, the one person who grates on his nerves with her sunshine act. But Wrenley’s secrets are darker than the articles they write, and when Dove unburies the truths he’s hiding, she finds herself drawn to him in ways she never expected.

When their battle of wits escalates into something that hits too close to home, Dove steps into his world as her deadly alter ego, intending to terrify him into backing off. As Wrenley pieces together who she really is, their rivalry turns into a fiery connection that neither can deny.

Secrets this dark have a way of coming to light, and soon, they will have to decide whether their love is strong enough to survive the shadows or shatter under the weight of their haunted pasts.

Perfect for fans of dark humor, sizzling tension, and morally gray characters, Dolls & Daggers is a wickedly dark romantic comedy that’ll have you laughing, gasping, and swooning in equal measure.

🗡️ Rivals to Lovers
🩷 Workplace
🗡️ Revenge
🩷 Forced Proximity
🗡️ Touch Him/Her and Die
🩷 Feminine Rage
🗡️ Morally Gray FMC
🩷 She’s the Masked Serial Killer
🗡️ Accidental Cannibalism
🩷 Pink Obsessed
🗡️ Size Difference (she’s 5’ he’s 6’2)

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #serialkillerbookclub

Publishing plans for 2025-2026 🩷🖤

So many things cooking right now! And there’s a lot more where this comes from 😅

Technically I’m planned out into 2028 but those are secrets I am willing to keep…for now 😜

I sorta already announced the series last month, because I hate book secrets and have so many of them they are starting to spill, but this is the OFFICIAL announcement for the Serial Killer Book Club trilogy! I can’t wait for y’all to meet the characters. 🩷

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #serialkillerbookclub

Did you see the cover reveal yesterday?!

I’m so obsessed with it 😍

Dolls & Daggers 6.3.25

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #coverreveal #serialkillerbookclub

Cover and blurb reveal tomorrow! I can’t wait for you to meet the characters of Dolls & Daggers. 🩷🗡️

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #serialkillerbookclub

Trope reveal!!! 🩷🗡️

🗡️ Rivals to Lovers
🩷 Workplace
🗡️ Revenge
🩷 Forced Proximity
🗡️ Touch Him/Her and Die
🩷 Feminine Rage
🗡️ Morally Gray FMC
🩷 She’s the Masked Serial Killer
🗡️ Accidental Cannibalism
🩷 Pink Obsessed
🗡️ Size Difference (she’s 5’ he’s 6’2)

Dolls & Daggers coming June 3rd!

#darkromance #romanticcomedy #serialkillerbookclub

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