Violent Mercy is an emotionally intense rockstar romance series about found family, brutal fame, and the kind of love that survives when the spotlight burns everything else away.
They didn’t grow up with families worth keeping—so they built one out of music, loyalty, and survival forged on tour buses, in green rooms, and under stage lights that never stop watching. Violent Mercy isn’t just a band. It’s a lifeline.
Each book follows one member of the band as a single high-pressure tour forces them to confront old wounds, impossible choices, and the terrifying truth that vulnerability—the very thing that fuels their music—might also be what costs them everything. From cramped buses and late-night studios in Austin to sold-out arenas, industry power plays, and public scandals, this series explores love under pressure, trust earned the hard way, and intimacy that doesn’t come without consequences.
High heat. Deep emotional stakes. Messy, complicated characters who don’t always choose right—but choose honestly.
Every book delivers a complete love story with a hard-earned happily-ever-after. Together, they build toward an unforgettable series finale about loyalty, redemption, and the family you choose when the world is watching.
Violent Mercy
Found Family • Rockstar Hero • Journalist Heroine • Slow Burn • High Heat • Angsty Romance with Consequences
She built her career exposing lies.
He built his life surviving the truth.
Missy Thomas has made a name for herself by tearing down carefully constructed public personas—especially men who sell vulnerability for profit. A former child star turned feared music journalist, she doesn’t believe in authenticity. She believes in control.
Declan Hale is the frontman of Violent Mercy—and everything Missy thinks she despises. A rock star praised for emotional honesty, fiercely loyal to his band, and already fighting to keep control of a career everyone else feels entitled to own. When his label demands a career-saving profile, Declan agrees to full access… even if it means inviting the one journalist known for destroying her subjects straight into his world.
Embedded on tour, Missy expects ego, chaos, and cracks she can exploit.
What she finds instead is discipline. Devotion. A found family built from broken people who chose each other anyway.
And Declan sees her for exactly who she is.
As attraction ignites amid sold-out shows, sleepless nights, and escalating industry pressure, Missy faces an impossible choice: protect the story that could save her career—or protect the people who trusted her with their truth.
When she makes a choice she can’t undo, the fallout is public, brutal, and impossible to outrun.
Loving Declan could cost her everything.
Trusting Missy could destroy everything he’s built.
Violent Mercy is a slow-burn, high-heat rockstar romance about earned trust, betrayal, and falling in love when walking away would be safer. Emotionally raw and deeply intimate, this is a story where accountability matters, forgiveness isn’t guaranteed, and the happily-ever-after only comes after consequences—and choosing each other when it would be easier not to.
This is Book 1 in the Violent Mercy series. Each book follows a different band member and delivers a complete, hard-earned happily-ever-after.
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Playboy Rockstar • Fake Dating • He Falls First • Angst with HEA
Theo Evans is Violent Mercy's charming, reckless bassist with a reputation that just blew up his career. One scandal too many, and the label demands damage control.
The solution? Fake date the woman who hates him most.
Samara Davi is a jewelry designer on tour with the band—and she hasn't forgotten that Theo ghosted her best friend two years ago. She agrees to the arrangement with strict conditions: no lies, no games, and absolutely no falling for the act.
Theo's always been good at pretending. Feelings? Not so much.
But staged affection turns real. Late-night conversations chip away at her walls. And Theo falls first—hard—for a woman who refuses to separate charm from character.
Samara knows playboys don't change. But Theo isn't asking her to forget his past. He's asking her to trust his future.
When the cameras stop and the tour ends, he'll have to prove redemption isn't just another performance.
High-heat rockstar romance. Found family. Reformed rake. Hard-earned HEA.
Book 2 in Violent Mercy series—standalone romance.
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Josie Waters doesn’t fall apart. She holds everything together.
As Violent Mercy’s keyboardist and crisis manager, she’s the reason the band survives tours, scandals, and each other. Control is her armor. Control is how she protects the only family she’s ever had.
Until a predatory contract from her past resurfaces—with a deadline that could destroy everything.
Josie makes a plan the way she always does, to handle it alone, make the eighteen-hour drive to Los Angeles. A confrontation no one can know about. A mistake she refuses to let the band pay for.
Kai Nakamura sees through her in seconds. The band’s drummer is quiet, disciplined, and nine years sober. He knows exactly what self-destruction looks like—and he’s not letting her face this one alone.
Now they’re trapped together on a cross-country drive.
Long highways.
Late-night diners.
A motel room with two beds and nowhere to hide.
The professional distance they’ve maintained for years begins to unravel. Because the longer they’re on the road, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth. Josie doesn’t just need control. She needs someone steady enough to catch her when she finally lets go.
But Kai is carrying secrets of his own—and if they survive Los Angeles, nothing between them will go back to the way it was.
Long Way Home is a high-heat, emotionally intense rockstar romance featuring forced proximity, a sober hero, a fiercely competent heroine, and a love that demands vulnerability.
Tropes:
• Road Trip Romance
• Forced Proximity
• Bandmates to Lovers
• Sober Hero
• Competent Heroine
• Found Family
• Slow Burn with Steam
A Violent Mercy Prequel
Before the tour. Before the scars. Before the secret that nearly broke him.
Kieran McAllister built a career out of hiding in plain sight.
As Violent Mercy’s brilliant, volatile guitarist, he knows how to turn pain into music, silence into sound, and every ugly thing inside him into something people can scream back from the dark. But after his third collapse, the band sends him to a desert recovery facility with eight months between him and the life he almost lost.
No phone. No stage. No audience. Just bleach, eucalyptus, group therapy, and a battered Les Paul with strings high enough to make his fingers bleed.
For the first time in years, Kieran starts to get quiet.
Then Dylan Reyes walks back into his life.
His first best friend. His first collaborator. The boy from the garage who knew him before Violent Mercy, before the fame, before the drugs, before Kieran learned how to disappear inside a song.
Dylan says he’s come to see how the other half lives.
But some ghosts don’t come back empty-handed.
And what happens in August will leave Kieran with scars he won’t explain, a clean date that isn’t the one on the chart, and a secret he’d rather take to the grave than tell the band that saved him.
Six Strings to August is a raw, emotional Violent Mercy prequel about addiction, friendship, guilt, recovery, and the secret that sets up Kieran’s story in Sound and Fury.
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The final book in the series, book 5 coming fall 2026!
He came home eight months sober with a secret, a set of scars, and one rule: don’t let anyone close enough to see the wreckage.
Kieran McAllister is Violent Mercy’s most dangerous talent.
Lead guitarist. Beautiful disaster. The man who can make a stadium scream with six strings and a silence he refuses to explain.
After eight months in a desert recovery facility, Kieran is back with the band, back on tour, and determined to keep his head down, his hands steady, and the truth about August buried where no one can find it.
Then Neve Gallagher walks onto the crew.
Violent Mercy’s new tour manager is all sharp edges, color-coded contingencies, and eyes that miss nothing. She knows the anatomy of relapse. She knows what it costs to love someone who might not survive himself. And she took this job swearing she would never make that mistake again.
But Kieran recognizes her damage the same way she recognizes his.
Quietly. Instantly. Like feedback building in the dark.
The road is supposed to be about the album, the tour, the comeback. Not the ghost from Kieran’s past sending threats from the shadows. Not the secret that could destroy the band. And definitely not the woman who sees too much, asks too little, and makes him want things he has no right to want.
Neve knows better than to fall for a recovering rockstar with secrets sharp enough to cut them both.
Kieran knows better than to touch the woman holding his tour together.
But some songs don’t care what you know.
And when the truth about August finally explodes, it won’t just test the band, the tour, and Kieran’s sobriety.
It will test whether love can survive the silence after the fury.
Sound and Fury is a spicy, angsty rockstar romance featuring a wounded guitarist, a fiercely competent tour manager, forced proximity, found family, recovery, scorching heat, and a hard-won HEA.