With love in the air as Valentine’s Day looms, AbeBooks can offer a dose of hard reality with our latest list of recommended reading material. We have selected 25 examples of fiction featuring adultery, deceit, abuse, torture, obsession, murder, lies and poor decisions made in the name of romance. It’s a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day feature if you like. These books show flawed love going from bad to very bad. Cupid’s aim has never been worse. See the list.