Title: Tourist Season
Series: Seasons of Carnage
Author: Brynne Weaver
Release Date: September 23, 2025
Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever.
Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. But with tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary at any cost—especially for her aging mentor with a fading memory.
Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds. But Nolan Rhodes isn’t your average tourist. Devilishly handsome, disarmingly charming, and skilled with a blade, Nolan is relentless in the pursuit of revenge. On every anniversary of the hit-and-run accident that fractured his life, Nolan slays another target. And he’s saved the best for last: the undeniably beautiful Harper Starling.
The problem? Harper isn’t the monster he expected. And she won’t go down without a fight. When an amateur true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage on the trail of a long-lost serial killer, Harper and Nolan strike an uneasy truce. If Nolan helps Harper protect her town, she’ll keep quiet about his hunting habits . . . for now. But their alliance soon spirals into obsession, one that threatens to shatter every secret in Carnage—including their fragile love.
Tourist Season is a darkly funny, slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance where destruction and desire are balanced on the edge of a blade—and where love is the most dangerous battleground of all.
Nolan rolls into Cape Carnage, a quirky town with a high body count, he has one goal in mind - Revenge. He's here slay another target on the anniversary of the hit and run accident that cost him nearly everything. And he has his sights set on Harper. Except she isn't anything like he expected. She doesn't balk at gruesome gifts, doesn't run at threats, and surprisingly she is protective of her mentor and the town,and she won't go down without a fight. Nolan doesn't know what to make of her. But when a amateur true crime investigator rolls into town, Nolan and Harper form a uneasy truce. But their alliance soon begins to unravel into obsession which threatens to shatter all the secrets of Cape Carnage.
So, I was looking forward to this book, for spooky season & overall I enjoyed it. It was a dark Rom-Com filled with trigger warnings, and tourist town fun.
While you don't have to read the Ruinous Love series before this - I do recommend at least reading Butcher & Blackbird (& then maybe the Love & Other Killers novella) - to get a little backstory on Harper (again, not necessary).
Harper came to Cape Carnage to start over. She befriends Auther who becomes her mentor & makes a promise to look over the picture-perfect yet quirky town that she has come to love. But Harper -and the town- have secrets. Ones that have been buried for years but are being threatened to resurface. Nolan came to Cape Carnage to take revenge. Nothing screams relaxing vacation like a little murder and mayhem. He's been dreaming of finally completing his revenge, but nothing has been turning out as he hoped, and Harper is nothing like he thought.
Like I said, I liked this book well enough. It wasn't as funny or as fun as Butcher & Blackbird. I did enjoy reading about Harper and Nolan - and the start of their enemies-to-lovers relationship; since it appears this trilogy may focus entirely on one couple- I wasn't able to FEEL some of their connection like I would have hoped. (Also would liked to have seen more from the hate between the characters too). Otherwise the book is a cute, light dark romance that ends on a cliffy -so you will be waiting for answers - with some charm. I can't wait to find out more about not only Harper & Nolan but Cape Carnage.
4⭐ out of 5⭐.
4🌶️ out of 5🌶️.
Tropes:
• Dark Rom-Com
• serial unalivers
• enemies to lovers
• forced proximity
• blackmail
• secrets & mystery
• secret identity
• found family
• small town romance
• he falls first
• touch her & 💀
Trigger Warnings:
- murder bird (& human snacks)
- eyeballs & eye sockets
- stalking & voyeurism
- breaking & entering & theft
- references to physical & psychological torture
- drowning
- vehicular collisions/car accidents
- weapons (axes, knives, guns, needles, chainsaws, garrotes, three hole punches, woodchippers, lawn aerator etc)
- kidnapping
- medical setting & details & trauma (including CPR, hospitals, & long term recovery)
- murder & violence
- explicit language
- explicit sexual content (including bdsm, brat/brat tamer kink, impact play, rough sex, adult toys, pain play, knife play, & body modification)
- Alzheimer's Disease (& Mild Cognitive Impairment & Dementia including symptoms, care, memory loss, and mood & behavioral changes)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Brynne Weaver is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ruinous Love Trilogy and the Seasons of Carnage Trilogy. She’s a fan of velociraptors, the Alien movies (well, most of them), red wine, and wild adventures, and can relate nearly anything you say to a line from the movie Hot Fuzz.
