Good Boys Don’t Bite

Elliot Mercer is the kind of boy Bellweather University likes to look at. Popular. Charming. Easy to explain. Nobody looking at him would guess he spends his nights in a studio across town with the one person he is not allowed to want.Ronan Vale is older. Tattooed. Motorcycle, paint under his nails, a mouth that does not ask twice. He is also Elliot’s stepbrother. That should have been the end of it. It was not.What they have is secret, physical, and already past the point of pretending it is a phase. Elliot likes being wanted so much it hurts. Ronan likes leaving proof. Teeth. Bruises. A hand at the back of a throat that says mine without having to say the word.Then the killings start.A cracked porcelain mask. Bodies that do not look random once you know how to look. Campus talk turns ugly. People start watching Elliot for reasons that have nothing to do with how well he smiles in class. The secret that was supposed to protect them starts looking like a motive.Good Boys Don’t Bite is a dark M/M romance and psychological thriller about two adult stepbrothers who chose each other anyway, and a killer who makes that choice cost something. It is explicit. It is possessive. It is not a story about becoming healthy. It is a story about what you will hide, and what you will bite down on, to keep the one person you were never supposed to keep.For adult readers only. Contains graphic sex, violence, stalking, murder, and a relationship that is toxic on purpose.