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Special Offer Paid to Pretend

Paid to Pretend is on special offer this week - 0.99 in the UK and USA.  This is the last book in the Delphic Series and sets up The Outreach.  It's a steamy second chance romance between Michael Bond, founder of the Delphic Agency, and the young man he fell in love with fifteen years before and who is now his Head of Security, Christian Dell'Olio.

I'm rather fond of Christian, he's a man who knew what he wanted and stuck with it.  He tried to be a good man, and he can't understand why Michael is so unhappy with how he has lived his life.  If it was anyone else I think Christian would have punched them, but he really can't cope with Michael's disapproval, Michael just means too much.

Hope you enjoy it, it was a good one to write and Brio is in it, being snarky and snotty and earning himself a few reprimands, so that's a good thing.
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What the rest of this year looks like...

I think I'm scheduled through until the end of the year now.  Here's a look at the covers of what I know I will be releasing between now and early 2022.  Unless I get attacked by another rabid plot bunny - you gotta watch out for those suckers, and it is bunny season - In which case there may be more, others, variations on a theme.  

The conclusion of the Revenge Series - Book Two is imminent and Book Three is coming hot on its heels.  From Oregon to London and onto Bahrain this is going to be an interesting ride as we work out who, Leo or Gil, has the right world view.  

A secret collaboration - Khonsu will be coming in the summer, more news on that and what series it belongs to is just around the corner.  And it’s quite the team effort.  Oh, and it’s dark.  Like really dark.  Not 100% sure of the ending yet but I’m leaning towards a distinct lack of happy.  That said, I may throw a redemption curve in there, I am still an optimist after all.
​​ All The Pretty Covers...
The Teams Series - Remember Indigo?  I’m sure you do.  Nathan’s little brother from the Handled Series. He demanded his own story, so he got it.  In this five book series we find out what happened to him, and what happened to the other Handlers, Witnesses and support staff when the system is finally shut down.  No government is going to leave assets like that lying around, they are going to put them to work.  Camouflage is the first in the series, Indigo's story is second, it’s called Blueprint.  Watch out for it in the fall.

With regular free bonus stories for my newsletter subscribers, audiobooks in production, and box sets being compiled, it looks like 2021 is gonna be even busier than the year we do not name was.

What Revenge Looks Like - Preorder Available

When Gil kidnapped Leo it wasn’t about revenge.  When Gil’s serial killer father comes after them both it most certainly will be.


I hurt. Everywhere. In every way.
Physically, mentally, heart and soul.
(I have killed brothers, and betrayed blood, and there will be a price to be paid for that)

I’m damaged, and while running water makes me clean it doesn’t take away the memories that are gnawing inside me. 
I mustn’t get angry, when I get angry my grasp on the good gets weak.
(He did say he likes it rough)

I want to be better for you, Leo, because you deserve better.  
Now look at you...hunted, marked, your life forever changed.
(Why is he still smiling?)  

Through it all you keep trying to fix me.
With your cool blue intellect, and your psychologist’s strategies, and your warm body wrapped around me.
(And yet he still doesn’t believe in me)
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I can’t be fixed, beloved, not on the evidence so far presented, and I can’t just sit here and wait for my father to find us, because I know exactly what his revenge looks like. I’m not having you face that.
(Shh, baby, sleep now, stay here, be safe, warded by the Aspen trees, I’ll find a way, I have some contacts still, I swear I’ll find a way)


What Revenge Looks Like is the second book in Romilly King’s dark gay thriller trilogy. It features damaged characters, unreliable narrators, and psychological ambiguity. 

Gil and Leo’s story concludes in book three, Where Revenge Takes You.

Trigger warning - this is a dark gay romance book and includes graphic violence, sexual scenes, and psychological manipulation between lovers.  Please read the additional trigger warnings inside. Preorder now for delivery on 23rd April

Release Day - The Outreach, Book Three Can you stop me?

Can you stop me?  Book three in The Outreach Series is released today.  It features a very possessive, old school dominant who loves to lay down the rules, and a needy submissive trying to drown his desires in cheap liquor.

Expect high protocol BDSM, boys in corsets, erotic photography and unusual punishments, all against the background of the trial of Christian Bond for a killing he did commit, but because he had no choice.  

​ Buy on Amazon now

Out now on Audiobook - Paid to take control

Hurray!  We finally have the audiobook for Paid to Take Control, Book 2 of the Delphic Agency.

Gavin McAllister is back to narrate Brio and Painter's story and he is in blistering form.  Just as well because there are some heavy scenes in this book - you have been warned.


Painter has never been in control of anything, now he is in a contract where he is being paid to control the man on his knees in front of him
Go with the flow, take the line of least resistance, those were Painter’s go to strategies until his career depends on him dominating an unruly submissive who is richer than him, more experienced than him and definitely cleverer than him.
How can Painter unleash his inner dom? His psych tests insist he has one. His boss gave him a crash course in kink and basically ordered him to take this contract. And now the dark eyed submissive with a smart mouth and a brain the size of a planet is provoking him.
Turns out Painter’s inner dom is closer to the surface than he thought. But that doesn’t make him feel better about himself and what happens when he finds himself falling in love with the brat that goes sloe eyed with desire when Painter takes charge?
Paid to Take Control is the second book in the Delphic Agency Series and contains Dom/Sub elements, plenty of steamy kink exploration and a happy ever after in the end.



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Where it all began - Get "Paid to Kneel" for Free!

For a limited time only - 12th, 13th and 14th March 2021
​Paid to Kneel is free to download.  

This is where all the stories began, the first in the Delphic Agency Series.  Grab it now whilst you can and see if you like what's on offer!

Consider this your free gateway to all the kinky worlds inside my head :-)

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Can you stop me? The Outreach Book 3 Preview

​Can you stop me? - Prologue

Cash looked up from his desk when Brio waltzed into the room.  His colleague wore skin tight jeans and undone boots, an oversized t-shirt slipped coquettishly off one pale skinned shoulder, and his neck was ringed with livid bruises.  It might be early on a Friday morning but it looked as though Brio had already started the weekend.
     “Have you considered feeding your Dom real food instead of letting him snack on your neck?” Cash asked.
       “It wasn’t just my neck,” Brio smirked, “My ass has a matching pattern. Wanna see?”
       “I would rather gnaw my own leg off.”
      Brio pouted and settled gracefully into the chair across from Cash’s desk. “What ya got for me, sensible adult?”
       Despite his perpetual attitude Brio looked tired.  Cash knew he was under pressure preparing for his role as an expert witness in Christian’s upcoming murder trial and it was wearing on him.  Painter said he planned to take Brio away for a break once it was all over.
     The sooner that happened the better. For everyone involved. The case had dragged on ridiculously.
       “I have something of a rarity for you to cast your eyes over, and something of an ethical problem.” Cash opened a couple of files on his computer and cast them to the wall screen.
       “Oh, ethics, my favoritest thing.  You do know I have no ethics don’t you?”
       “Say things like that very quietly, expert witness.” Cash commented.
    “Pah,” Brio shrugged, “I’ll be fine in court, I’ll drag out the old money, bullet proof confidence attitude and all will be well.”
       Cash really hoped so.
       Brio turned his chair towards the wall screen and perused the data.  Cash let him take his time.
    “Well colour me fucking fascinated,” Brio said eventually, “Someone likes what he likes. I’m assuming it’s a he.”
      “Yes.”
     “I wonder where he hides the bodies?” Brio murmured, his gaze still firmly fixed on the lines of data and the slowly revolving representation of a human brain.
       “Not funny, Brio.”
       “Well, it’s got that whole serial killer vibe.”
       “Can you be serious for once.”
       “I don’t think I have ever seen such possessiveness.  That’s off the scale need to own.”
        Brio pushed himself up from the chair and walked over to the wall screen.  Cash joined him.    
      “Interesting range of kinks,” Brio pointed out, “Feminisation, bondage, objectification is very high, and that’s a significant streak of sadism, but the possessiveness, that’s got to be causing him problems if he isn’t in a very stable arrangement.” 
       “He doesn’t appear to be having problems,” Cash commented.
     Brio quirked an eyebrow at him. “He says he hasn’t got problems, or you know he hasn’t got problems?”
       Cash didn’t answer, just chewed on his lower lip, his forehead creased.
       “In some ways this is as complicated as I am,” Brio said.
       “But not as chaotic.”
       “Thanks, buddy.”
      “Sorry, but you know what I mean.” Cash flashed Brio a smile. “The really interesting thing is this guy didn’t even ping my radar.  I had no clue he was even gay let alone an outlier on the kink spectrum. I assumed, and I admit it was an assumption on my part, that he was asexual.”
       Brio scoffed, “You’re losing your touch, Cash.  I would have spotted this a mile off.  It’s giving off vibes so intense it’s practically gothic vampire level of control.  This is a dominant of the highest order. I can smell them across state lines.”
        “And yet you didn’t.”
        “I know this person?”
        “We all know this person.”
        “Fuck.” Brio looked horrified. “He has to be getting his needs met.”
        “He swears he isn’t. He swears he hasn’t scened for years.” 
       “He’s lying, he has to be unstable without a playmate, and a seriously submissive, ‘yes Master, of course you can take my soul’, one.”
        “Maybe he does something else to alleviate the pressure,” Cash suggested.
        “Like what,” scoffed Brio, “Crochet? This guy must be a boiling pit of needs.” He stepped closer to the screen. “Or…” His voice dropped out of his usual high drama tone as the scientist in him stepped up, “He has turned the need to control inward.  He has wrapped it around himself. As a protective measure.”
       His eyes narrowed and Cash could see his brain running scenarios. “I am never going to be the most stable guy in the room,” he said seriously, “But compared to this guy, I’m solid as a rock.  He must be on a knife edge.  If he cracks it’s going to be almost catastrophic.”
       “That was my thought,” said Cash. He pointed to a line of data. “But I also noted that there is a strong altruistic line here, I think maybe he is tapping into that to keep the needs at bay, to stop his desires spiralling out of control.”
        Brio nodded, “Yes, I see it, but that’s not going to hold forever without real world interactions.”
Cash sighed, “Can you run the new “what if” program Ash developed on this?”
      “I can,” Brio admitted, “But it’s not perfect yet, it’s still in beta testing.  Do you feel the need to show this guy how bad it could get if he doesn’t do something about his desires?”
        “I do.  I think he needs to acknowledge that he has to take the pressure off himself somehow.  He can’t just keep ignoring this.  Which brings us to my ethical dilemma.”
       “Why? Has he got some job that could be impacted?  Looking at this I’m thinking maybe surgeon, they tend to be uber controlled.”
      “Yes, if he snaps there could be serious fallout.” Cash admitted, “He’s  not a surgeon though. He’s our fucking lawyer, and he’s defending Christian in the murder case.”
       Brio looked at him in horror.


Can you stop me? Book Three in The Outreach Series is now available on pre-order.  Release date is 26th March 2021 Pre-Order Can you Stop Me?

This is not revenge - Out Now

I do like writing twisty, psychologically dark, stories.  
And this one was just as interesting to write as the Handled series.

Leo is a forensic psychologist charged with determining if the perpetrator of a dreadful crime is fit to stand trial or not.  Was the man who carried out a horrific ritual murder, and who appears profoundly delusional, responsible for his actions, or is he not guilty by reason of insanity?

That is just the first question this story raises.

Having made his judgment on the case Leo is kidnapped by Gil, the killer’s son, and spirited away to the Cascade mountains.

Leo thinks he is about to die, that this is about revenge.
Gil swears it isn’t, he’s actually trying to keep Leo safe - because Gil has the same delusions his father does, and he believes keeping Leo alive will finally get his father out of his life forever.

A folie a deux - probably?
Stockholm syndrome - maybe?
A world that may or may not contain magic - who do you believe?
Who do you want to believe? One, both, neither?

This is not revenge is the first in a new dark trilogy that features damaged characters, opposing perspectives, themes of twisted love, and takes you on a journey through the darker parts of the human psyche.

​ Read Now on Amazon USA Read now on Amazon UK

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Not one but two new series

The Outreach is Live - Book One is out now, Book Two is on Pre-order It's great to be back writing in the Delphic Agency Universe.  Can you see me? Book One of the Outreach is out now on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited and I couldn't be happier with my new heroes.  Although some of my old heroes are making a comeback - look out for a particularly hot scene with Cash and Tay in Book One!

You can find The Outreach books by following the links below

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Missing your fix of dark romance? Me too! It seems I have got rather addicted to dwelling in dark minds, and the plot for this trilogy arrived in my head in one fell swoop.  If anything it is every more morally ambiguous than Handled and just as intense.

Check out the blurb and book yourself a pre-order, it's coming next month, from an unreliable narrator near you.

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk