When the Devil Waits

A Gay Dark Romance Thriller

The city thought the killer was gone.

It was wrong.

Detective Nico Mercer and Noah Bennett are trying to build something real from the wreckage of the last case—but the murders haven’t stopped, and fear is poisoning every fragile piece of peace they’ve made. The real killer is still out there. Watching. Waiting.

Then Noah disappears.

By the time Nico finds him, it’s already too late.

Shattered by grief and guilt, Nico spirals into blackouts, reckless sex, and a self-destruction so ugly it feels almost deserved. Then the bodies start piling up again, and every new victim has one thing in common:

They’ve all slept with Nico.

Now the detective leading the case is at the center of it. His department no longer knows whether he’s hunting the killer, helping the killer, or being hunted in ways no one else can see. And the closer Nico gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that this was never random.

The killer doesn’t just want bodies.
He wants Nico’s attention.

When the Devil Waits is Book Two in the A Taste for Ruin Trilogy, a dark MM romantic suspense series full of obsession, grief, psychological tension, and serial-killer intimacy. Best read after A Taste for Ruin.