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Backend Developer
He’s a control freak CEO who wears three-piece suits. I’m a chaos agent who eats bagels on his mahogany desk. This breach was never supposed to get personal.
Dominic Vance is a fortress. The CEO of Vance Financial is cold, sterile, and obsessed with order. He’s also the man whose network I just hacked in under five minutes.
My job was break in, expose the security flaws, and collect my paycheck. I wasn't supposed to get stuck in a "Witching Hour Protocol" that traps me in his glass-walled penthouse office every night for two weeks.
I definitely wasn't supposed to notice that beneath the ice-cold glare and the expensive suit, Dominic is terrified. Or that he kisses like he’s trying to take over a country.
I’m the glitch in his perfect system. He’s the firewall I’m dying to crash. But when a corporate saboteur frames me for a massive data breach, the only person who can save me is the man I’m falling for.
Does Dominic trust his protocols? Or will he finally trust me?
Backend Developer is a high-heat, age-gap MM romance featuring a grumpy CEO, a sunshine hacker, and a very creative use of a server room. It is a steamy novella with no cheating and a guaranteed HEA.
Dominic Vance is a fortress. The CEO of Vance Financial is cold, sterile, and obsessed with order. He’s also the man whose network I just hacked in under five minutes.
My job was break in, expose the security flaws, and collect my paycheck. I wasn't supposed to get stuck in a "Witching Hour Protocol" that traps me in his glass-walled penthouse office every night for two weeks.
I definitely wasn't supposed to notice that beneath the ice-cold glare and the expensive suit, Dominic is terrified. Or that he kisses like he’s trying to take over a country.
I’m the glitch in his perfect system. He’s the firewall I’m dying to crash. But when a corporate saboteur frames me for a massive data breach, the only person who can save me is the man I’m falling for.
Does Dominic trust his protocols? Or will he finally trust me?
Backend Developer is a high-heat, age-gap MM romance featuring a grumpy CEO, a sunshine hacker, and a very creative use of a server room. It is a steamy novella with no cheating and a guaranteed HEA.
109 pages, Paperback
Published January 6, 2026
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April 17, 2026
This is my second by this author in a couple of days. He’s a damn good writer, but I think this book is the end of the road for me. Simple things are missed in the editing process, details that are glaring to me, that really take away from the story.
Dominic – this author really likes that name – is the CEO of Vance Financial, a company his father founded, I think? He’s 38 and lives in constant fear of being like his father who died not long after being booted out of his own company by the board of directors years before. Apparently there have been security breaches that have been occurring during overnight hours.
This is where Kit comes in. Kit, 26, is a hacker who has been hired by the board to find out who keeps breaching their systems. He’ll be working out of Dominic’s office for two weeks, at night, until 4 AM. Dominic is NOT happy about it because he’d not been made aware of the security issues, and the last thing he wants is someone in his office. Dominic works very late every night, so he’s there when Kit is.
Long story short, Kit does his damnedest to get under Dominic’s skin. Dominic, to be blunt, is a total ass. When the person responsible for the breach is actually inside the building, Dominic and Kit are stuck in close quarters for a short amount of time. One thing leads to another and they kiss. Another thing leads to another on another night and they have sex in Dominic’s office. Of course, since Dominic is a total ass, he treats Kit horribly afterward. Kit did the smart thing by completely ignoring Dominic for a few days after that. There were no attempted conversations or flirting or anything like that.
He’d been hurt and he was done.
That ‘done’ disappears when Dominic has a panic attack and Kit helps him through it. All was well and good… I thought. They decided to try to be something, maybe a couple. Dominic has come out of his shell a little, and given up some control. They’re FINALLY moving forward until one day they’re not. Why, you ask? Because Dominic throws him under the bus in the most horrible way. He may not have been responsible for what happened next, but he damn sure didn’t try to stop it until it was too late. Of course, he fixed things, but there shouldn’t have been any coming back from that for Kit.
I obviously didn’t like Dominic, like, AT ALL. There’s absolutely nothing likable about the guy. He’s a pompous ass. I did like Kit for the most part, though he shouldn’t have forgiven things so easily.
They’re an odd couple. Normally I’m all about opposites attract, but I wasn’t sure about these two. They get their HEA and all is good.
As I said, this is my second by this author. The other one is Terms of Surrender: An MM Age-Gap Romance. In my review of that book, I listed quite a few things that didn’t make sense, things that were obviously missed in the editing process. I thought maybe that was a fluke, and maybe it was just that book. It wasn't.
At one point, Dominic is at the head of a conference table having a meeting with the board of directors. In the same scene, he's at his desk with Kit under it blowing him. Remember, same scene. There was no disruption of the meeting or anything like that.
Things like that could be overlooked here and there, but not like in Terms of Surrender: An MM Age-Gap Romance, and not in two books in a row. So, as I said, as much I do enjoy this author’s writing style, I’m out. Maybe I’m too particular, too anal. Even so, I don’t get how these things are missed over and over again.
Note that I am not purposely looking for errors when I read the books I read, but some things are glaring, especially when they happen more than once.
3 stars because I hated Dominic throughout the entire book, even when he supposedly made good, and because of what I mentioned above.
Dominic – this author really likes that name – is the CEO of Vance Financial, a company his father founded, I think? He’s 38 and lives in constant fear of being like his father who died not long after being booted out of his own company by the board of directors years before. Apparently there have been security breaches that have been occurring during overnight hours.
This is where Kit comes in. Kit, 26, is a hacker who has been hired by the board to find out who keeps breaching their systems. He’ll be working out of Dominic’s office for two weeks, at night, until 4 AM. Dominic is NOT happy about it because he’d not been made aware of the security issues, and the last thing he wants is someone in his office. Dominic works very late every night, so he’s there when Kit is.
Long story short, Kit does his damnedest to get under Dominic’s skin. Dominic, to be blunt, is a total ass. When the person responsible for the breach is actually inside the building, Dominic and Kit are stuck in close quarters for a short amount of time. One thing leads to another and they kiss. Another thing leads to another on another night and they have sex in Dominic’s office. Of course, since Dominic is a total ass, he treats Kit horribly afterward. Kit did the smart thing by completely ignoring Dominic for a few days after that. There were no attempted conversations or flirting or anything like that.
He’d been hurt and he was done.
That ‘done’ disappears when Dominic has a panic attack and Kit helps him through it. All was well and good… I thought. They decided to try to be something, maybe a couple. Dominic has come out of his shell a little, and given up some control. They’re FINALLY moving forward until one day they’re not. Why, you ask? Because Dominic throws him under the bus in the most horrible way. He may not have been responsible for what happened next, but he damn sure didn’t try to stop it until it was too late. Of course, he fixed things, but there shouldn’t have been any coming back from that for Kit.
I obviously didn’t like Dominic, like, AT ALL. There’s absolutely nothing likable about the guy. He’s a pompous ass. I did like Kit for the most part, though he shouldn’t have forgiven things so easily.
They’re an odd couple. Normally I’m all about opposites attract, but I wasn’t sure about these two. They get their HEA and all is good.
As I said, this is my second by this author. The other one is Terms of Surrender: An MM Age-Gap Romance. In my review of that book, I listed quite a few things that didn’t make sense, things that were obviously missed in the editing process. I thought maybe that was a fluke, and maybe it was just that book. It wasn't.
At one point, Dominic is at the head of a conference table having a meeting with the board of directors. In the same scene, he's at his desk with Kit under it blowing him. Remember, same scene. There was no disruption of the meeting or anything like that.
Things like that could be overlooked here and there, but not like in Terms of Surrender: An MM Age-Gap Romance, and not in two books in a row. So, as I said, as much I do enjoy this author’s writing style, I’m out. Maybe I’m too particular, too anal. Even so, I don’t get how these things are missed over and over again.
Note that I am not purposely looking for errors when I read the books I read, but some things are glaring, especially when they happen more than once.
3 stars because I hated Dominic throughout the entire book, even when he supposedly made good, and because of what I mentioned above.
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