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Wicked Deception

A Neurodivergent Girl Next Door Irish Mafia Stalker Romance

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Wicked Deception

By: Deborah Garland
Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock, Allyson Voller
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When the Irish assassin falls for his neurodivergent girl next door, who keeps emotional support plants...

I’m the reaper my enemies never see coming.

Then I go home to an empty flat where the silence has turned deafening.

That changes when my beautiful, neurodivergent neighbor, who’s decided I’m her boyfriend, starts breaking into my home.

And leaving me plants.

It’s harmless. She’s harmless.

Until the night she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Fallon Nova should’ve run when she saw me kill a man.

Instead, she stayed and patched me up.

Now she’s a witness.

And witnesses don’t live long in my world.

When all she wants is a date for the holidays in exchange for her silence, I tell myself I can fake it.

But pretending ends the second she kisses me and makes me want things I can’t have.

I want her. All of her in ways that have me in a chokehold.

She might have fallen first, but I fall harder.

And when someone from her past tries to take her away from me, everyone will see what kind of monster loving Fallon has turned me into...

Wicked Deception is the final book in the Quinlan Empire series and can be listened to as a STANDALONE.

Tropes:

Irish Mafia Assassin

Neurodivergent FMC

Fake Dating

Stalking

Forced Proximity

Slow Burn

Opposites Attract

Forehead Kisses

F**k It

Touch her and die

Candy Cane Kink

©2026 Deborah Garland (P)2026 Deborah Garland
Romantic Suspense Mafia
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So, this one was interesting. It's a new author for me. It was like Disney's Enchanted meets Scorsese's The Irishman.

Fallon lives with a mental health condition and regularly has two-way conversations with her plants. She also believes her neighbour, Rhys, an assassin for the Irish Mob, is her boyfriend. He just didn't know that until she told him one day.

The story was really sweet but still had that mafia edge. Rhys starts out caring for Fallon and her quirky ways but soon finds himself deeply in love and ready to kill anyone that threatens her life - or her feelings.

I loved both these characters, but especially Rhys for how he cherishes Fallon and stands up for her right to be unapologetically herself! I enjoyed this book via audio and the plant conversations were really funny. I swear, I thought Basil was Stewie from Family Guy for a second. Lol.

This is book 4 in an interconnected series. I am now going back to read the others.

Rhys and Fallon were like Snow White and The Huntsman.

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