Mercy never promised 18+

Iris Clark doesn't apologize.
Not for driving too fast.
Not for speaking too loud.
Not for refusing to shrink in a town that expects girls to be polite and quiet.

She's stubborn, principled, and dangerously independent.
She believes if you want respect, you take it.

What she doesn't believe in?

Needing anyone.

Especially not Roman Vance.
Roman Vance doesn't raise his voice.
He doesn't need to.

In their quiet suburb outside Chicago, his name carries weight.
In Chicago itself, it carries something else.

He's controlled. Observant. Strategic.
The kind of boy who watches before he moves - and moves only when it matters.

Mercy isn't something he was raised on.
It's something he decides.

And Iris Clark makes him reconsider every rule he's lived by.

In a town where reputations are everything and the real fights happen under the city lights of Chicago, Iris Clark and Roman Vance were never meant to collide.

She doesn't trust boys who think power makes them untouchable.
He doesn't trust anyone who challenges him without flinching.

But one reckless night turns into another.
And suddenly, staying out of each other's lives isn't an option.

Because in Chicago, mercy isn't promised.

And falling for the wrong person can be the most dangerous fight of all.