Beautiful Venom

Beautiful Venom is the first book in Rina Kent’s Vipers series, a dark hockey romance centered on revenge, secrecy, and dangerous attraction. The story follows a heroine whose life is shattered after her sister is attacked and hospitalized, leaving her with a single objective: find out who is responsible and make them pay. Her investigation leads her to an elite college hockey team known as The Vipers, which controls both the ice and the hidden power structures around it. To get closer to the truth, she targets Kane Davenport, the team’s charismatic captain and seemingly weakest link. Instead, she discovers that Kane is far more dangerous than he first appears, and what begins as infiltration turns into a high-stakes, lethal game with no easy escape. The book is described by retailers as a dark, enemies-to-lovers romance with suspenseful and intense elements, and it is the first installment in the Vipers series. The Penguin listing gives it 496 pages and a paperback format, while the Kossuth page confirms the same ISBN and provides the trim size and binding details. The book is published under the Evermore imprint and was released in 2025.