Rowan couldn't remember a time when he was truly happy. Especially not suffering from his mother's so-called care or his father's complete indifference.

The only time he was even a little bit free was every Friday night at the club with his friends.

And even there, he wasn't ever quite good enough. Not quite good enough to relax and let his Little self truly come out to play, and especially never good enough to get a Daddy of his very own.

And to further complicate things, he'd adored Master Gabriel from afar for the last two years, except Master Gabriel was a Dom that wanted boys on their knees, and Rowan just wanted to be in his lap.

Then Rowan makes a really bad decision out of desperation and Master Gabriel comes to his rescue. Will Master Gabriel discover that Rowan is exactly what he's been searching for all this time? Or will he simply pick up his whip and go look elsewhere, leaving Rowan just a Little alone.

**please note this book contains memories of parental psychological and emotional abuse

“The difference between a hero and an ordinary man is One Step Sideways”

When he was sixteen, Kane Diaz went to prison for assaulting the father who had abused him since he was small.

Nobody in the system took notice of the hundreds of scars on his body, simply the one on his face that marked him as an enhanced.

Seventeen years later on the day Kane gets released, Diesel Rawlings, head of Rawlings Security, meets him at the prison gates and offers him a job.

Danny Sullivan served with Rawlings as a medic. After being captured and tortured in a desert hell-hole, his current battles are fought behind a keyboard with only Sadie, his service dog, for company.

Danny doesn't do well with change. Being asked to babysit an ex-con who apparently tried to kill his own father because the man tried to stop his son bullying a family dog?

Not this ranger.

Except Kane isn't all he seems. Danny comes to realize that not only is this gruff man hiding a past worse than his own, but to understand that the greatest battle he must face is fighting his growing feelings for Kane.

Then enhanced teenagers start disappearing.

To save other boys from going through his same nightmare, Kane might have to face his own demons and go back inside the maximum-security prison he was just freed from.

And turn his back on his growing feelings for Danny.

Which means Danny also has a choice.

Does he join Kane undercover and risk his life?

Or does he stay in the shadows and risk his heart?

It could be argued that Calvin Jennings had many problems. Topping the list this year is his invitation to his bestie's beach wedding, where the brother of the groom is the Daddy that threw him away last year.

He has three options.

Hide under his blankie and pretend he didn't just get the invitation.

Build a brick fort and post all his stuffies to mount a guard around his heart.

Or call Rent-A-Daddy and get a pretend Daddy to escort him.

The trouble with pretend? It isn't real…

Or is it?