Safer in His Keeping

Justin has spent his life trying to be good, quiet, and ordinary. It never satisfied his father, and it never made him the right kind of son.

A knife at his throat should terrify him. Instead, he cannot stop thinking about it—until he wakes in a cage, kidnapped and stripped of every choice. He is supposed to hate the man who owns him. Cameron is the first person who has ever made him feel right.

Cameron has learned not to keep people. They break, go empty, and become useless, and he does not want that again.

Then Mikhail brings him Justin: soft, nervous, watching him as if he is something to fear and something to want.

Justin should not survive this world, but Cameron wants him anyway.

He tells himself he will not ruin him this time.

He still locks him away, still takes his choices, and still makes him his.

When Justin looks at him as though Cameron is the only thing holding him together, Cameron knows he will not lose him—not to the world, and not to Justin himself. Justin was taken. He cannot explain why staying feels safer.

A pitch-black romance between men, it follows a dominant man beyond redemption and a captive drawn to the control that undoes him, where protection and possession are never cleanly apart. A happy ending is promised.