A Taste for Ruin

A Gay Dark Romance Thriller

Detective Nico Mercer knows what violence looks like. What he doesn’t know is why every body in this city seems to lead back to desire.

When gay men begin turning up dead after leaving bars with the wrong stranger, the killings first look like hate crimes. But the truth is darker—and far more intimate. The victims weren’t taken by force. They went willingly, lured by a man who knows exactly how to make danger feel like want.

Then Nico meets Noah Bennett, the grieving widower of one of the dead.

Noah wants answers. Nico should keep his distance. Instead, grief, guilt, and late-night proximity draw them into something neither man can afford: a relationship born in the wreckage of murder.

As the city spirals into fear and the killer’s pattern sharpens, Nico closes in on a suspect who seems to fit the case too perfectly. But when the man he catches dies before trial, the truth becomes impossible to ignore.

Nico didn’t stop the nightmare.
He only arrested the wrong man.

A Taste for Ruin is Book One in a dark MM romantic suspense trilogy full of obsession, grief, serial-killer tension, and emotionally dangerous romance. Best read in order.