The Sweetest Thing

Jasper Hale is used to people being afraid of him. August Reed looks at his bloodied hands and steps closer.

At twenty-two, Jasper has a violent reputation and little patience for anyone trying to get beneath his skin. Then an eighteen-year-old freshman follows him out of the darkness with a quiet voice, gentle hands, and no apparent instinct for self-preservation.

August seems sweet. Attentive. Almost too easy to protect.

Soon, Jasper is making room for him-in his apartment, his routines, and the parts of himself he keeps guarded. Attraction becomes possession. Protectiveness becomes jealousy. And August welcomes every dangerous inch of it.

But the boy Jasper wants to keep has secrets. Their first meeting wasn't chance, and August's fascination began long before he offered to wipe away the blood. Beneath his softness is a calculating obsession-and a willingness to arrange circumstances that bring Jasper closer.

As the truth surfaces, they must confront how far each has gone to make the other stay. Wanting each other has never been the problem. Finding a way to live with that wanting might be.

The Sweetest Thing is an explicit dark M/M college romance featuring mutual obsession, a possessive protector, a deceptively sweet manipulator, and the dangerous intimacy of being seen completely.