Static Bind is a standalone short story introduction to the Hack & Harrow series, which features Danil and Tiernan as the main characters for the duration of the 8-installment saga. Get a taste for the world, the action, and the chemistry in this spicy, snack-sized story!
Two fugitive mercenaries. One steamy wager. Enough denial to reduce competent killers to obsessive idiots.
It's been a long day. Tiernan just wants to settle in for the night, maybe have an emotionally detached bang with his unlikely, smokin' hot ally, and take a long, luxurious bath... not that he has access to a bathtub. So of course Danil has to drag things out by proposing this dumb kinky bet that pits them against each other in an unscheduled side heist. That smartass enigma of a hitman knows Tiernan can't turn down a little competition, no matter how tired he is.
Danil has always been a makeout guy. Sure, sex is great, but there's just something electrifying about the ridiculous act of mashing your face into someone else's. Just his luck that his unbelievably sexy nemesis-with-benefits is all but allergic to kissing. Their time on the run together has been a thrill - Tiernan is lethally adept, holds his own against Danil's nonstop heckling, and is absolutely wild in bed. If only there were about five hundred times more kissing, then this would be the perfect temporary arrangement. He couldn't possibly want any more out of this, right?
Static Bind is a high-heat, emotionally messy, and danger-packed bonus story from an multi-part action-romance series set in dystopian cyberpunk Boston, starring these two violently unhinged men who would rather be tied up than face their feelings.
Tropes
idiots in love
nonstop banter
(ex) rivals with benefits
sarcastic panther x goofy doberman
diametrically opposed intimacy needs
morally gray couple
flirting through violence
partners/rivals in crime
caretaking
obsession
competence attraction
progression and level-up mechanics
