Profiling the Heart

MAXIMILIAN DE VRIES kicks doors. He doesn't ask why a killer killed; he just puts them in cuffs. At 54, he's seen it all-except a reason to work with the "mind freaks" in the FBI's profiling unit.

GARRETT PARK sees the why. He's 25, drinks iced coffee even in winter, and can tell you a killer's childhood trauma by looking at the position of a body. He also knows every single lyric to a Stray Kids B-side and he's about to make it everyone's problem.

When a case forces their elite units to merge, the precinct turns into a warzone. Max thinks Garrett is a naive kid with headphones superglued to his ears. Garrett thinks Max is a silver-haired bulldozer with the emotional range of a teaspoon.

They fight on the plane. They fight at the crime scene. They fight in the hallway.

And then they kiss.

It's messy. It's stolen glances over autopsy photos and sharing earbuds on stakeouts (Max is forced to listen to Seventeen's "Very Nice," he does not hate it). But just as Max lowers his walls, the case takes a brutal turn. It leads straight back to a dark secret Garrett has hidden since before he could walk-a connection to the very crime they're investigating. Max kicks doors for a living, but can he kick down the wall around Garrett's heart before the past claims them both?

A Gay Enemies-to-Lovers FBI Romance. Spicy. Slow Burn. Soft Boys & Silver Foxes