Skin Deep

I’ll protect what’s mine, even if it tears this family apart.

My life is a mess, a nightmare for a man obsessed with cleanliness. As the eldest, it’s my job to protect my murderous brothers while maintaining appearances as a successful plastic surgeon.

Everyone thinks I’ve got my life together, but I’m secretly falling apart. I needed a purpose, something beyond killing to live for.

And then I meet Pax, another vigilante. I crave his pain, his praise, his touch like a drug. The chemistry between us is undeniable, but it can’t last. I’m too broken, and he deserves better.

Even if I can’t have him, I’ll protect him and his daughters from everyone—especially my own family. They know something about this killer Pax and I are hunting, but no one’s talking and the closer we get to the truth, the more familiar blood I have to shed. By the time I’ve closed this case, I might not have a family left to protect.

Skin Deep is a 98,000-word standalone dark romance in the Wayward Sons series, which follows the Laskin brothers as they battle their inner demons and find love.

• Drugging and kidnapping
• Torture of an antagonist
• Homophobia, misogyny, and racism by antagonists
• Main character with an eating disorder (anorexia)
• Main character with obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Blood and knife play
• Implied cannibalism (secondary character)
• Improvised bondage
• Consensual verbal degradation and physical violence between main characters
• References to suicide and loss of a spouse
• Brief suicidal ideation 
• Child abandonment (past)