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The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley (Illumicrate Exclusive)

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The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy Presale

Presale for the The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy will begin on 12 May at 2pm BST (UK time) for those who received our Illumicrate July 2025 book/box (via subscription or leftover stock) and at 3pm BST for active Illumicrate book/box subscribers. General Sale will begin on 14 May at 3pm BST.

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The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy shipping:

It is expected to ship in September/October.

About the product

In this swoony, witty and heart-stoppingly romantic sequel to instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy, the stakes are high, the love is forbidden and the slow burn turns steamy.

Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully murder for money. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer whose Order’s motto is Harm to none. Clear-cut absolutes separate them: good and bad, right and wrong, light and dark –

Until they don’t.

When Osric first bribed Aurienne to heal him, he never imagined those lines would begin to blur. But every healing session draws the two of them closer together. He finds himself developing unwanted feelings for Aurienne as her capable hands heal his body – and his heart.

Aurienne’s perfect life has been flung into chaos in the form of a devastatingly handsome assassin. She should be in her research lab, not illicitly healing a Fyren every full moon – nor wrestling an attraction to him that threatens to slip into something else.

Things go superbly sideways when Osric and Aurienne discover more about the deadly Pox deliberately unleashed through the Tīendoms. The plague may be the work of another Order – an Order far nastier than either of them can handle.

As the lines between Osric and Aurienne continue to blur, the balance between peace and war and love and hate trembles, shifts, and hinges on a heartbeat.

Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:⁠

  • An exclusive redesigned cover on an acetate jacket (art by @frostbite.studios; design by @chattynora)⁠
  • Full colour artwork on the hardback (by @frostbite.studios)
  • Digitally printed edges (by @frostbite.studios)
  • Illustrated endpapers (by @flyora.art); different front and back⁠
  • Digitally signed by the author

Please note, this is a digital mock-up and finished copies may differ slightly.⁠

Limited to one copy per person.

Tropes for The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy include: enemies-to-lovers, hypercompetent idiots, he falls first and harder, slaughter as a love language

‘As swoon-worthy and charming as it is funny and irreverent. Sign me up for everything Brigitte Knightley writes’ - Olivie Blake, bestselling author of The Atlas Six

‘Utterly unique, hilarious, swoony beyond my wildest dreams! This book is an instant classic and a true masterpiece, it took my breath away and made my heart explode’ - Ali Hazelwood

About the Author

Brigitte’s modus operandi is to write what she wants to read: enemies-to-lovers romances that put the unresolved back in UST. Her work is enjoyed by fans of slow burns, tongue-in-cheek romcoms, and suffering. The spirits of Wodehouse and Jerome K. Jerome pervade her writing, but Austen is at its soul.

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