He's a psychopath trained to kill and he's found someone he'll break the world for.

Novak can't do attachment. He calculates, controls, eliminates threats, and keeps everything exactly where it belongs.

Until Caleb.

With the hacker who hates him, every instinct tells him to protect, contain, and eliminate anything that gets too close. Novak knows exactly what that makes him. He doesn't just want Caleb. He's already decided Caleb is his.

Finding two children before a fire destroys the evidence is one thing?but when Caleb follows the data, they uncover a trafficking pipeline buried beneath religion?victims catalogued, collared, controlled, and sold through a network so clean it disappears across state lines.

Novak has seen this before. Lived it. Survived it.

With less than twenty-four hours before a shipment disappears into the network, Caleb and Novak have a choice?wait for backup, which will take too long, or go in alone, take down the compound, and get the kids out before the system resets.

With no guarantee they make it out alive.

Novak is a dark MM romantic suspense featuring high-stakes survival, forced proximity, obsession, and a psychopath who doesn't feel fear?but does feel ownership. Expect violence, razor-edged loyalty, "touch him and die" protection, and a love that doesn't offer escape?only survival.