One night, one bullet, two lives changed forever.

Cass

A legal technicality might be the reason I'm out of prison after serving only two years of what should have been multiple life sentences, but all I care about now is finding the man who put me behind bars in the first place. JJ Ferguson needs to see firsthand what his lies have turned me into.

Two years ago, JJ and I should have been talking about how we'd break it to his older brother that not only was JJ gay but he was also dating me, the guy who'd been his brother's best friend since childhood.

Our lives had changed that night, just not in the way they should have. I saw JJ fall when the bullet tore through his brain, and I begged him to stay with me as his blood stained my shirt and ran down my arms. My own life ended the moment his did.

I'd been sitting in jail when my piece-of-crap public defense attorney had told me of JJ's survival. I'd waited for days, then weeks for JJ to tell the cops the truth about that night, even if was still from his hospital bed. Dreams of being reunited with him and being at his side for every step of his recovery had made the nights easier, but waking up every morning and seeing the iron bars that stood between me and freedom had been a unique form of torture.

Dalton

Some scars run deeper than others…

I understood pain and I'd learned to live with it. My little house and my cabin cruiser that faithfully let me explore every part of Chesapeake Bay were enough for me and had been for a long time. I liked being alone and I was good at it. I wouldn't have had it any other way.

I should have driven past him like everyone else. It shouldn't have mattered that there was something familiar about him or that the torrential rain made it incredibly dangerous for him to be walking along the interstate at all. His drenched clothes clinging to his slim body and his slow but determined pace as he put one foot in front of the other called out to me in a way I never would have expected.

The plan was to pick him up and hand him back over to the friend we had in common, nothing more.

That was the plan, but the funny thing about plans is they rarely go the way they're supposed to…

Silver

Never looking at the past is the key to surviving it…

After a lifetime of captivity with a cruel owner who'd purchased me for a bag of drugs and then stolen everything from me, I was finally free. I didn't care that I didn't have a penny to my name. I knew how to earn money. It didn't matter if I was on my knees or bent over whatever was convenient, I just needed to get enough so I could know what it was like to truly be free.

And then he appeared. A familiar face among the harsh torrents of rain and cruel asphalt beneath my feet. He was the last thing my exhausted, battered body needed, and yet somehow I knew he wasn't.

The ride was only supposed to get me to the closest bus station so I could start earning some cash, but by the time we'd gotten to his house after he'd purchased my “services” for the entire night, I'd already started to see the man beneath the scars.

Scars like mine.

One night. That was all it should have been before beginning my life of freedom. So then why did I feel like a captive again after just a few hours with him? A very willing captive whose freedom didn't seem quite as important as before…

Although this is book 14 in the series, it should be read after book #11, Shattered. It can also be read as a standalone.

*Trigger Warning can be viewed by opening the sample provided on the product page*

I didnt know how to tell him how afraid Id been that Id never have this moment with him. This moment where it was just the two of us. This moment where he made me feel whole without even trying. Eli

Abandoned. Abused. Betrayed.

Ex-cop Maverick Mav James needs only three things. His Harley, an open road and his work in an underground organization that delivers justice when the law cant.

Family? They left him long before he left them.

Friends? A liability.

A place to call home? Doesnt exist.

Mavs motto is simple: Get done and get out. Work, sex, doesnt matter. No emotional connections. Simple.

Until he meets him.

Alone. Hiding. Broken.

At fifteen years old, Eli Galvez had nothing. No family, no friends and only his body as a means to make enough money to survive. But a chance meeting changed all that and eight years later, hes well on his way to having the life he could once only dream of. Hes been accepted into medical school and hes finally returned home to Seattle to be closer to the men and women who dont share his blood, but are the only family hes ever really known.

Only things arent what they seem and the secrets Eli has been hiding are about to come to the surface with dangerous consequences.

One final chance at a real future.

Guys like Eli just arent Mavs type, period. Yet he cant deny his intense attraction to the younger man who only looks at him with fear in his eyes. Until the day theres something else in those eyes too. Something that draws Mav in and refuses to let go. Something that makes him want to forget his rules. But Mavs learned the hard way what happens when you get too close to something. And while he vows to protect Eli after a violent attack leaves the younger man shaken, protection is all hell offer.

Because anything else would just cost too much.

Trigger Warning: This book does contain a possible trigger for some readers. Specifics can be found by utilizing the Look Inside feature or downloading a sample and scrolling to the specified page. Please note that reading the trigger that is included may cause spoilers.

**Full length novel (86k words)

***This is Book 4 in the series, but can be read as a stand-alone story　no cliffhangers.***