The bodyguard took the job to make him pay. The audience ships them. Protection or punishment, he has not decided yet.
Kit Walsh streams to millions behind a skeleton mask. No face, no name, no risk. Until a hacker doxxes him live and the whole world learns who is under the mask.
Miles Olson takes the protection job for one reason. Kit's lies got his brother Ethan killed, and Miles wants him to feel every ounce of what Ethan felt before the end.
Now they are trapped in Kit's apartment, the audience shipping them under a hashtag with no idea of the real dynamic. Protection or punishment. Miles has not decided yet.
This is River's darkest book. The kind of love interest you will love to hate.
Heat: 5/5. Explicit, open door, very high heat. This is the darkest book in the series.
Themes: A revenge plot driven by grief, a bodyguard who has not decided whether he is there to protect or punish, captivity-adjacent forced proximity, a love interest written to be loved and hated at once.
Content warnings: Stalking, surveillance and obsessive behavior · Doxxing and public exposure · Home invasion · Coercion, threats, and intimidation · Dubious-consent elements driven by power imbalance · Forced public sexual performance · Humiliation and degradation · Biting and marking · Graphic violence including on-page killing · Sexual activity involving blood · References to suicide (off-page, discussed) · Grief and guilt (death of a sibling).
Good to know: Dark MM romance with a possessive, morally gray hero. Always a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
