The Gilded Thorn: A Dark M/M Romance of Scars and Surrender

Julian Moretti is the crown jewel of the Milanese underworld. Beautiful, cold, and untouched, he lives in a prison made of gold and silence. To the world, he is the heir to an empire. To himself, he is a ghost who hasn’t slept in years, waiting for the inevitable bullet that will end his misery.

He didn't expect his salvation to come in the form of a monster.

When a ballroom massacre shatters Julian’s gilded cage, he is dragged from the wreckage by Kael—a lethal Sentinel with flint-grey eyes and a history erased by government ink. Kael isn’t a bodyguard; he is a weapon of mass destruction in a tactical suit, hired to keep the "asset" breathing at all costs.

Hidden away in a mist-shrouded villa at Lake Como, the lines between protector and prisoner begin to blur.

Julian discovers that the man who kills without a pulse is also the only one who can quiet the noise in his head. And Kael, a man starved of human touch for twenty years, finds himself addicted to the warmth of the Prince he is sworn to guard. In the dark, the ice melts, and the weapon breaks.

But the Moretti empire does not forgive weakness.

As their stolen nights turn into a dangerous devotion, Julian uncovers the terrifying truth buried in Kael’s Clause 12.4. Kael wasn't just hired to protect Julian from his enemies. He was hired to be the fail-safe. If the Prince tries to run, the Sentinel is the one who must pull the trigger.

With a war on the horizon and a target on his back, Julian must ask himself the ultimate

Is the man holding him together his savior… or his executioner?