Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

Series:  The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy #1

Published by Slowburn on September 23, 2025

Genres:  Romance, Dark Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Thriller, Dark, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery

Pages:  368

Format:  Physical

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★★★★

🌶🌶🌶/5 spice

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.

🏠 small town

🔪 two serial killers

🔥 enemies to lovers

💀 touch him/her and die

😈 brat/brat tamer

I loved this murdery themed small town on the coast and its quirky ways. Harper was cool for a Dexter-like serial killer. I loved how she stood up for her new town and also took care of a murdery old man (who is always up to no good).

Then enters Nolan, also murdery, and out for revenge after the tragic loss of his brother. He’s there to murder Harper - but she derails his plan after she outsmarts him then they have to work together to get a true crime journalist out of her town.

This one took me a bit to really get into. It didn’t quite have that humor from the Butcher & Blackbird series that I loved so much. But once the mystery got a little more involved then I was there for it.

I truly did like Harper and Nolan together and how he struggled with his growing feelings for the girl he should want dead. The spice was perfect - not too overdone but just enough to leave you wanting more.

But that ENDING. Weaver really left us with a HUGE cliffhanger that made me a little upset the next book isn’t out yet. I’m excited to return to this small town to see what else it has it store and what other dark secrets it’s hiding.

I definitely recommend this if you love a dark rom-com that has a murdery twist or if you generally just loved the Ruinous Love trilogy!