Beneath His Shadow

Two Black men.
Two broken pasts.
One dangerous truth that binds them.

Malachi Ward has spent years in the shadows-cleaning up other people's messes, taking contracts no one else will touch, and burying every piece of softness he ever had. Emotion is a weakness, and Malachi learned long ago that weakness gets people killed.

So when he's hired to eliminate a whistleblower threatening powerful elites, he expects just another name.

Just another job.
Just another body.

But Kairo Bishop is nothing like he expected.

Stubborn. Sharp-tongued. Beautiful in the kind of way that hurts to look at. And completely unwilling to die quietly. When Malachi refuses to carry out the kill order, he becomes a target too-forcing them together in a twisted partnership neither of them planned. As enemies close in, tension ignites between them: anger becomes obsession, fear becomes desire, and every argument burns hotter than the last.

Malachi wants control.
Kairo wants truth.

The world wants them dead.
And somewhere between gunfire, betrayal, and nights that end in heated silence and unspoken want...

they begin to want each other more than either will admit.
But dark love has a cost.
And when secrets rise to the surface, Malachi and Kairo will have to choose:
Protect the truth.
Protect each other.
Or lose everything to the shadows.