{"title":"Wayward Heirs","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"early-edition-best-served-cold-early-edition","title":"Best Served Cold — Early Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eWayward Heirs, Book Two. Read it two weeks before it hits Amazon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI ruled an empire once. Now the only thing I own is the one man who can break me.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLevi Ridenour is a gunsmith. Loud. Stubborn. Incapable of shutting his mouth, even at gunpoint. He's also my hostage — and I'm the one who put a bullet in him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy family handed me a single job to earn my way home: four hundred blood diamonds, gone missing on a dead man's watch. I have five days to deliver a name, and one witness to squeeze — a man who's already dead on paper, ever since his shop burned. As far as the world knows, Levi Ridenour doesn't exist. Which makes him mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLevi has seen what my family does to men who get in our way. He should be begging for his life. Instead he's naming his price, mouthing off to killers, and looking at me like I'm something worth wanting. He keeps saying things I can't afford to believe. The last man who called me beautiful sold me out and took everything I had.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes down to it, I might have to choose between the man I'm falling for and the empire I'm owed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBEST SERVED COLD is a dark MM mafia romance: captor\/captive, forced proximity, hurt\/comfort, obsession, found family. HEA guaranteed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat an Early Edition is\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe finished book, in your hands about two weeks before it goes live on Amazon. You buy it here, it lands in your inbox on release day, and you read it while everyone else is still waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also carries an \u003cstrong\u003eexclusive bonus epilogue\u003c\/strong\u003e you won't get in the Amazon edition — one more scene with Levi and Niko after the last page, only in this version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuying it direct is also the version where the money comes to me instead of to Amazon — that's the whole reason this shop exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore you order\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleases \u003cstrong\u003eNovember 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e. Dark MM mafia romance, and I mean the dark part — full content warnings are \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/levelandromance.com\/pages\/content-warnings\" title=\"Content Warnings\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead \u003ca href=\"\/products\/dressed-to-kill-signed-paperback\"\u003eDressed to Kill\u003c\/a\u003e first if you haven't. You don't have to, but it's where Wayward Heirs starts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LEveland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51994579927325,"sku":"WWH02EE","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/9770\/1405\/files\/PlaceholderBSCred.png?v=1788136508"},{"product_id":"dressed-to-kill-signed-paperback","title":"Dressed to Kill","description":"\u003cp\u003eWayward Heirs, Book One. Signed by me, packed by me, and the only place in the world you can get it that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI've been the most dangerous man in every room I've walked into for twenty years.\u003cbr\u003eThen I met Finlay Gallagher.\u003cbr\u003eThe Italians left him chained to a radiator in a warehouse on the east side of Columbus — half-starved, hours from death, and worth more to them dead than alive. Twenty-two years old with clever hands, a smart mouth, and a talent for leatherwork men were willing to kill for.\u003cbr\u003eI should have put a bullet in him.\u003cbr\u003eInstead, I brought him home.\u003cbr\u003eNow he sleeps down the hall in cuffs he picks every damn night. He eats at my table. Wears my shirts like he belongs there. Touches me like he already knows the worst parts of me.\u003cbr\u003eThe worst part is he does.\u003cbr\u003eI'm forty years old. Three decades in the vory. Two prison stretches. I've killed men for less than what that boy does to me with a look.\u003cbr\u003eThe Italians want him back.\u003cbr\u003eThey want his hands. His mouth. His talent.\u003cbr\u003eThey want the one thing in this world I've decided is mine.\u003cbr\u003eThey can come and fucking try.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDRESSED TO KILL is a dual POV dark MM mafia romance with an 18-year age gap, bi awakening, and a morally black Russian mafia enforcer obsessed with his Scottish captive. No third act breakup. HEA guaranteed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA signed paperback, inscribed on the title page. Want it made out to someone? Leave a name in the order notes and I'll write it in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the book most people meet me through. If you've never read a Waywardverse book, it's a fine place to start — you don't need Wayward Sons first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore you order\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark MM mafia romance, and I mean the dark part. Full content warnings are \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/levelandromance.com\/pages\/content-warnings\" title=\"Content Warnings\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour copy is printed after you order it, and the printer's timelines have been unpredictable this year — allow 4–6 weeks. I'll email you the day yours goes out. 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