Badge of Ruin - Releasing April 26, 2027

This is another installment in the Forbidden Love series where the love is hot, steamy, and a little bit taboo. 

This is a preorder that will be available April 26, 2027. It will release on Amazon April 28, 2027. The last day to preorder this book on my site will be April 20.

Upon purchase, you will receive an email from Shopify with your order number & an email from Bookfunnel about your preorder. The Shopify order will be marked as COMPLETE. At midnight, on release day, you will receive the ebook in your email. 

Should the release date change, you will be sent an additional email with the update. 

Special Preorder Price: 2.99; Regular Price 3.99

Refunds will be accepted up until release day when you receive the actual ebook. 

Amazon link: TBD

Blurb:

I slept with Rhodes Bishop before he became my stepfather.

One reckless night. One mistake I swore I’d forget. Then he married my mother, walked into my life with a sheriff’s badge on his chest and sin in his eyes, and made forgetting impossible.

So I left with his son.

Philip was safer. Younger. Easier to explain. Dating him meant I didn’t have to think about the way Rhodes looked at me across the dinner table, or the night he cornered me before I moved out and told me I’d regret choosing the wrong Bishop.

Three months later, I find Philip in bed with someone else, and my first thought isn’t heartbreak.

It’s Rhodes.

So I send the text I can’t take back.

You said you’d treat me better. Prove it.

Rhodes Bishop isn’t a good man. He’s the law in our small town, but everyone knows his justice happens behind locked doors, down empty roads, and far away from paperwork. He’s dangerous. Controlling. Possessive. The kind of man I should run from.

Except I already ran once.

And now that I’ve called him, he’s done waiting.

Badge of Ruin is a forbidden MM romance featuring an ex-stepfather sheriff, his son’s ex-boyfriend, a morally black protector, obsessive possession, small-town secrets, and a sweet brat who called the wrong man for revenge and got claimed instead.

This book contains mature content intended for adult readers. Please be mindful of the following:

Past complicated stepfamily dynamics involving adults. Ex-stepfather x former stepson romance. Stepbrother/ex-boyfriend betrayal. References to infidelity, emotional manipulation, jealousy, and possessive behavior. Small-town corruption, abuse of authority, intimidation, blackmail, threats, and law enforcement operating outside legal boundaries. Morally gray/black love interest with a history of violence and under-the-table justice. Stalking-adjacent protectiveness, surveillance, coercive threats toward antagonists, and weaponization of power against enemies.

This is a dark MM romance with taboo relationship dynamics, age gap, obsession, possessiveness, codependency, and blurred moral lines. 

Sexual content includes power exchange, dominance/submission, brat taming, praise, possessive language, consensual control, roughness, restraint, overstimulation, edging, choking, biting, marking, voyeuristic tension, semi-public tension, and reclamation of shame within a consensual context. Emotional and physical aftercare is depicted on page.

This book contains corrupt law enforcement, family-adjacent taboo, dark romantic themes, and characters who do not always behave legally or ethically.