Freak on a Leash (Feral Hearts #2)

She doesn’t hire potential. She hires certainty.

Gia Serrano runs a nightclub called Red, a criminal empire she doesn’t discuss, and one rule she has never broken:

she does not sleep with employees.

Then a man walks into her job interview wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet.

He won’t take it off. He won’t say who he worked for. And her untrainable eighty-pound attack dog rolls over for him inside thirty seconds.

She hires him anyway.

HE’S HIDING HIS FACE. SHE’S HIDING WORSE.

Lucky is cheerful, dangerously calm, and very good at standing between people and bad outcomes. He takes orders like they’re a love language and treats Gia’s contempt as a rewards program.

He’s also lying about his past — and the one woman in Chicago who can prove it just recognized his voice.

When the man Gia trusted most takes her club, her dog, and the helmeted idiot she refuses to admit she wants, she has exactly one move left: walk into a trap with her eyes open, make a deal with a monster,

and find out whether the man who calls her ma’am is worth the empire she built so she’d never need anyone.

He kept the helmet on because she asked. He’ll take it off for the same reason.

A DARK ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH TEETH, FEATURING:

A dominant heroine who is never softened, redeemed, or apologized for

A golden-retriever MMC with rabies, who kneels on purpose

Boss/employee, forced proximity, and catastrophic HR practices

A masked hero and a slow, earned face reveal

Dual POV, first person, present tense

One (1) untrainable pitbull operating as a relationship counselor

Betrayal, body count, and a heroine who solves her own climax

A guaranteed HEA, no cliffhanger, and yes—

the dog lives

Content notice:

dark romance for adult readers. Contains graphic violence, organized crime, kidnapping and captivity, on-page torture, explicit sexual content, a dominant/submissive dynamic, and morally gray protagonists who do not reform. Full content notice included in the book.

Book Two of the FERAL HEARTS series.

It tells a complete story with its own couple and its own ending — but it follows directly from Book One, CAT$HIT CRAZY, and spoils that book’s central conflict on purpose.

If you like your reveals unspoiled, start there. If you’re here for Gia, welcome. She wouldn’t wait either.