Ten years ago, Maxwell you-can-just-call-me Clark thought he would spend his life as a military man. But his world turned into a nightmare when a suicide bomber destroyed Clark's career. It's been a long road to recovery, but now Clark finally has peace. His bar, Glow, is the place to be in the city of New Amsterdam; Lucian Gray, the son of the mayor, employs Clark as a confidential information man; and Clark’s side venture as part-owner of a BDSM club is quite the profitable release. Clark’s life is a good one, so long as no one gets too close.<br><br>Then a man walks into Glow who will forever change Clark’s rules and reality. Thinking Professor Daniel Germain is just another handsome face ripe for Clark’s kind of good time, Clark puts on his smoothest moves. When the professor turns him down, Clark goes on the hunt, and what he discovers shows him that even the deepest wounds can be healed by submitting to love.

Hearts Under Fire

“So I went,” Clark rasped, breath coming in wheezes and harsh drags. “It was a bad hotel, god-awful. But somewhere off the map and nobody would look. It was a risk, and I didn’t give a shit. Because he was beautiful. And funny. And kind. And a damned fine soldier. He had…dark hair…and…” Clark shook. “At first it was nothing—just us in this room, staring at each other.” He stopped, flailed with one arm, and Daniel held him harder. It was as though the very air leached mental poisons with each brutal cut Clark made through the skin of secret, festering memory.


Chapter 51