Description: He was hired to protect a rock star's life. He never expected to become the reason that rock star finally felt safe enough to live it honestly.
Dominic Reid has spent his career keeping clients at exactly the right professional distance - a former Marine turned bodyguard, disciplined, controlled, never once distracted by who he's protecting. Then he meets Kai Lennox backstage at a sold-out arena, and every rule he's ever built his career around starts quietly falling apart. Kai has spent nearly a decade managing one careful secret behind the charisma and the spotlight: he's gay, and his own manager has made it brutally clear what that truth could cost him. A stalker has made his tour genuinely dangerous. Dominic is supposed to keep him safe from that. Nobody accounted for the particular danger of falling for the man hired to watch his back. When Kai's manager produces old private photos and threatens to expose him unless the relationship ends, Kai and Dominic have to decide whether love is worth risking absolutely everything - a career, a carefully built public image, and the fragile trust of a man who has spent his whole life being careful. What follows is tender, high-stakes, and impossible to walk away from: blackmail, a genuine threat to Kai's safety, and two men learning that being fully seen is the bravest, safest thing either of them has ever done. Exposed is a steamy, deeply emotional small-town - er, spotlight - MM romance about fame, fear, and the particular courage it takes to stop hiding. Cole and Nate from Built for Him make a warm cameo appearance as Kai and Dominic fight their way to a happy ending that's every bit as cozy as it is hard-won. Bodyguard romance, dominant protective love interestCelebrity/rockstar romance with real danger and real stakes
Slow burn, forbidden workplace dynamic, guaranteed HEA
Sensual, not explicit - the door stays open, not the camera