Sweet Mercy: Empire Nightclub Series, Book 1

When your father's life depends on making a deal with the most dangerous man in the city, you say yes — even when every instinct screams that you'll regret it.

Mercy has one goal: keep her wrongfully convicted father alive behind bars. The prison system won't protect him, and running out of options means running straight toward Gabriel Easton — heir to a criminal empire, notorious womanizer, and the kind of man who collects leverage the way other people collect debts. Gabriel can guarantee her father's safety with a single phone call. His price? Mercy moves into his sprawling mansion and stays until he decides otherwise, his personal "guest" in every sense of the word.

She expects to despise him. What she doesn't expect is how much he seems to enjoy provoking her.

Set against the glittering, morally complex world of Empire Nightclub, this dark contemporary romance crackles with tension from the very first page. Mercy refuses to be a trophy or a pawn, and her defiance clearly fascinates Gabriel more than submission ever could. Their arrangement forces proximity, shared space, and charged silences that stretch well past the boundaries of their cold, calculated agreement. The loathing between them is real — but so is something far more dangerous.

Gabriel Easton did not get where he is by wanting things he can't control. Mercy might just be the first.

Some deals change everything. Some men are impossible to hate forever.