Valentine’s Day Is a Performance

And Love Is the Most Dangerous Illusion of All

Most people treat Valentine’s Day like a promise.

Romance.
Intimacy.
Proof that love is something you can package, schedule, and survive.

Roses, chocolates, candlelight, and the comforting belief that tonight will end the way it’s supposed to.

But Valentine’s Day is also crowded. Emotional. Distracting. A night when people lower their guard because they’re busy trying to feel something.

Which makes it perfect cover for violence.

Love Makes People Sloppy

There’s something about Valentine’s Day that encourages bad decisions.

People drink too much. They trust the wrong person. They assume the evening will end with dessert and love—never bloodshed.

That’s the world Deadly Little Valentine steps into—a holiday built on expectation, entitlement, and the idea that the night is supposed to go a certain way.

Marin doesn’t believe in that illusion.

Roses, Chocolates, and a Tech Billionaire with a God Complex

Most people spend Valentine’s Day with flowers and overpriced tasting menus.

Marin spends hers dodging bullets and slicing up billionaires.

Her target this time? A tech mogul with a god complex and enough buried sins to keep an investigative journalist busy for years. On paper, it should be a clean job. In reality, nothing ever is.

There are lies stacked on lies. A wife living on borrowed time. An ex who would happily put Marin in the ground. And a midnight swim that could go catastrophically wrong.

Romantic? Definitely not.

But very on brand for a bloody Valentine’s Day.

Anti-Romance, Sharp Edges, and No Apologies

In Deadly Little Valentine, Marin’s client isn’t looking for romance or closure.
She’s looking to survive.

Love has already failed. Valentine’s Day just happens to be when the bill comes due.

It’s about:

• Anti-romance vibes
• Snark sharpened into a weapon
• A heroine who doesn’t break hearts—she stops them cold

It’s for readers who side-eye Valentine’s Day, who enjoy thrillers with teeth, and who don’t need a happily-ever-after wrapped in pink paper.

Sometimes the perfect match is a blade straight to the heart.

If Valentine’s Day Makes You Uncomfortable, You’re Not Wrong

There’s a reason so many thrillers, horror stories, and dark romances circle holidays.

Celebrations are pressure cookers. They magnify expectation—and when expectation collapses, things get messy.

Deadly Little Valentine leans into that mess.

If roses and chocolates make you itch, if forced romance leaves a bad taste in your mouth, if Valentine’s Day feels like a performance, or if you’d rather spend Valentine’s Day with a sharp, unapologetic thriller, Marin has you covered.

 Deadly Little Valentine is available now

Because love isn’t always soft.
And Valentine’s Day is never as harmless as it pretends to be.