Dead Weight

You wake up bound to an iron chair in an abandoned pier safehouse, rain thrumming against the rusted tin roof. Standing over you with quiet, terrifying precision is Baxter Vance—a tall, muscular hitman with blonde hair and ice-blue eyes, paid an exorbitant fee by your cousin Julian to make your death look like an accident. Baxter has lived a life forged entirely in violence, orphaned young with no one to ever love or protect him. He thinks this is just another contract, but if you can look past his lethal exterior, pierce his guarded armor, and prove your life—and your heart—are worth fighting for, you might just find the one person who would burn the world down to keep you safe.