This series promises some angst, and I know I'll regret it later, but I need to read some angst-y things right now. Here's Laura John's Hunter Security series. The first novel is "Nixon."
["Secrets always find a way to come to light…
DANTE:
I’ve got the job of my dreams, more money than I know what to do with, and a beautiful woman on my arm. What more could a guy ask for?
To be able to stop lying to the world maybe? But I’ve spent most of my life lying… why should I stop now?
However It’s always when life gets comfortable that your world gets flipped upside down.
Now I have someone trying to expose my deepest secret to the world and possibly trying to kill me, but that’s not the worst part.
No, the worst part is the sexy bodyguard who is now my permanent shadow. Nixon is fucking perfection and I’m pretty sure he is the key to my undoing.
NIXON:
I’ve worked with lots of celebrities but none of them had me losing my resolve and making my hand twitch like Dante Michaelson.
Dante is everything I’ve ever wanted in a man, a brat who would look fantastic bent over my knees with a red ass. Of course he is so deep in the closet he’s made friends with the dust bunnies.
I should push Dante away and assign him a different bodyguard, but I can’t. The moment my eyes land on him all I want to do is protect him, while also fixing that smart mouth of his.
Falling for Dante might be the most dangerous thing I have ever faced. My heart is now on the line.
What happens if I can’t keep him safe?"]
THIS. This is what I needed! Angst and risks and hurt/comfort and broken hearts and me sobbing and people being assholes and Nixon saving the day and Dante feeling save (and himself). Something cute and fluffy and sweet, but with depth and desperation. Something with stakes and third act break-ups and sure, communication and safe/sane/consensual sex (very in-depth conversations about kink and kink safety and trust), but all in all, this book refused to be put down.
Also, I was toooootally convinced that person XYZ was at fault for targeting and harming Dante. I was wrong. I'm not sure if I'm glad I was wrong, because that person is a nice person; or sad, because it would have made a fucking great plot twist.
Trigger Warnings: drugging, breaking and entering, homophobia, horrible parents, violence against a gay man, guns, religious trauma, closeted character, forced outing, and more.
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