Hard Bargain (Crossed Lines, #2)

A deal made to survive turns into a dangerous obsession.

Knox Wolfe learned early on how to survive: keep your guard high, your debts low, and never bow to anyone. But above all—trust no one. It’s a rule that’s saved his life more than once. For years, it worked, until Stockton’s streets stopped playing fair. When he witnesses something he was never meant to see, survival means facing an impossible choice: run or make a deal with the devil himself.

Dominic Rivera owns Stockton. He’s rich, powerful, and used to getting exactly what he wants. When he offers Knox a deal in exchange for silence and loyalty, refusal isn’t an option. Now, Knox finds himself answering to the city’s most ruthless man.

What starts as control twists into something darker—hungrier. Dominic doesn’t just crave Knox’s compliance; he wants complete surrender.

Knox tells himself it’s still about survival, but every glance and dangerous touch says otherwise. He’s not gay. Neither is Dominic. But obsession doesn’t play by the rules, and what began as a bargain turns into something neither of them saw coming.

HARD BARGAIN is a dark, high-heat MM romance packed with dangerous attraction, raw obsession, and a love story that blurs every line.

Tropes & Themes: Double Bi Awakening ∣ Age Gap ∣ Power Imbalance ∣ Hate to Lovers ∣ Morally Gray MC ∣ Medium Burn ∣ HEA