Found Family • Rockstar Hero • Journalist Heroine • Slow Burn • High Heat • Angsty Romance with Consequences

She built her career exposing lies.
He built his life surviving the truth.

Missy Thomas has made a name for herself by tearing down carefully constructed public personas—especially men who sell vulnerability for profit. A former child star turned feared music journalist, she doesn’t believe in authenticity. She believes in control.

Declan Hale is the frontman of Violent Mercy—and everything Missy thinks she despises. A rock star praised for emotional honesty, fiercely loyal to his band, and already fighting to keep control of a career everyone else feels entitled to own. When his label demands a career-saving profile, Declan agrees to full access… even if it means inviting the one journalist known for destroying her subjects straight into his world.

Embedded on tour, Missy expects ego, chaos, and cracks she can exploit.
What she finds instead is discipline. Devotion. A found family built from broken people who chose each other anyway.

And Declan sees her for exactly who she is.

As attraction ignites amid sold-out shows, sleepless nights, and escalating industry pressure, Missy faces an impossible choice: protect the story that could save her career—or protect the people who trusted her with their truth.

When she makes a choice she can’t undo, the fallout is public, brutal, and impossible to outrun.

Loving Declan could cost her everything.
Trusting Missy could destroy everything he’s built.

Violent Mercy is a slow-burn, high-heat rockstar romance about earned trust, betrayal, and falling in love when walking away would be safer. Emotionally raw and deeply intimate, this is a story where accountability matters, forgiveness isn’t guaranteed, and the happily-ever-after only comes after consequences—and choosing each other when it would be easier not to.

This is Book 1 in the Violent Mercy series. Each book follows a different band member and delivers a complete, hard-earned happily-ever-after.

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