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 has always been the anchor of Violent Mercy. As the band’s keyboardist, she’s the one who plans ahead, protects them all, and holds everything together when the rest of them are one bad night away from falling apart. Stability isn’t just her role in the band—it’s how she survives.
Kai, Violent Mercy’s drummer, lives on the opposite end of the spectrum. Loud. Impulsive. Emotionally open in ways that scare people who prefer control. Music has always been his outlet, his release, and his way of outrunning the parts of his past he doesn’t talk about.
When a family emergency pulls Josie off the tour and onto a cross-country drive, Kai insists on coming with her—turning a solitary trip into an unplanned road journey neither of them is prepared for. Josie wants structure, distance, and a clear timeline. Kai wants honesty, connection, and the freedom to live in the moment.
Between long highways, late-night diners, and motel rooms that make it impossible to keep emotional distance, the dynamic they’ve always avoided starts to shift. Kai sees the cracks beneath Josie’s careful control. Josie begins to realize that the steadiness she’s built her life around might also be the thing keeping her from fully living.
But Kai is carrying a truth he’s never shared with the band—one that could change everything Josie thinks she knows about him. And Josie must decide whether love is worth the risk of uncertainty… or if protecting herself means walking away before the road ends.
Because some journeys aren’t about getting back to where you started.
They’re about deciding who you’re brave enough to be when everything familiar falls away.
Long Way Home is a high-heat, emotionally driven rockstar romance about control, vulnerability, and choosing love when the future refuses to stay predictable.
Tropes: Road Trip Romance • Found Family • Keyboardist Heroine • Drummer Hero • Emotional Slow Burn • Love with Consequences
Book 4 coming summer 2026!