Kit & Dane the Captor

He was hired to kill a king. The king has been waiting for him.

Dane Kerr is a professional operative who knows better than to trust a powerful man. He's survived by staying disciplined, keeping his emotions buried, and finishing the job.

But his latest assignment isn't optional.

Kill Christopher Tallis, the youngest brother in South London's most dangerous family, or risk losing the sister he's spent his life protecting.

It should be a straightforward assassination.

Instead, Dane walks into a trap designed specifically for him.

Christopher "Kit" Tallis is the intelligence mastermind behind the Tallis empire. Brilliant, beautiful, and disturbingly comfortable with manipulation, Kit has anticipated Dane's every move.

For eighteen months, he's been watching him.

Now the assassin is standing in his office with a gun, and Kit is far more interested in the man holding it than the weapon pointed at his chest.

What begins as a lethal confrontation becomes a dangerous alliance built on secrets, blackmail, and an attraction neither man can safely ignore.

Dane refuses to become anyone's possession. Kit has never been good at wanting something without trying to control it.

As they uncover the machinery of coercion surrounding them, the two men must decide whether trust can exist between an operative trained to kill and the man who turned obsession into an art form.

One came to end a life. The other intends to change both of theirs.

Book Three in The Crownless Kings, a high-heat M/M dark romantic suspense novel featuring an assassin, a criminal mastermind, dangerous obsession, forced proximity, and two men learning the difference between control and love.