The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy (Pre-Order July 7th 2026)

The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley Pre-Order July 7th 2026 

The stakes are deadly, the love is forbidden, and the slow burn ignites in The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy, the swoony, witty, and heart-stopping sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy.

Osric belongs to the Fyren Order, a guild of unapologetic assassins. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer sworn to do no harm. They stand on opposite sides of an unbreakable divide—good and evil, light and dark, mercy and murder.

Until those lines begin to blur.

When Osric first bribes Aurienne to heal him, neither expects the dangerous intimacy that follows. Each secret full-moon meeting draws them closer, as attraction deepens into something far more perilous. Aurienne’s orderly life unravels under the influence of a devastatingly handsome assassin, while Osric finds his hardened convictions shaken by the one woman who can heal both his wounds and his heart.

But romance is the least of their troubles. A deadly plague is spreading through the Tīendoms—one deliberately unleashed by an Order more ruthless than either of them. As war threatens, alliances fracture, and truths emerge, Osric and Aurienne must choose between duty and desire, loyalty and love.

Brimming with tension, banter, intrigue, and aching chemistry, The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy is a spellbinding fantasy romance about loving across impossible lines—and risking everything for it.