We’re celebrating the release of dark, slow-burn romance, Only the Small Bones this week!
Only the Small Bones (Slow Burns & Tragic Beginings #1)
Release Date: February 24, 2026
Genre: Dark MM Romance
• Non-verbal MC
• MC With Touch Aversion
• Human Trafficking Survivor
• Broken Boys
• Mental Health Rep
• Interracial Couple
• Slow Burn
• Delicious Tension
• Text Exchanges
• Hurt/Comfort
• Cameos from Infidelity cast members
𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠, 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬-𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙖 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙚…
“What makes him so special?”
“He reminds me of someone I once knew…”
As the founder of Freedom Fighters, famed music composer, William Mayes, is often the first port of call when the FBI needs assistance with human trafficking victims.
After receiving such a call one night, William abandons everything to catch the next flight home. Arriving at Manhattan Memorial, he finds a beautiful young man restrained to a gurney. His eyes are wild with fear, and blood stains his skin. No one has been successful in getting him to speak.
When even he can’t get the young man to cooperate, William does something he may later come to regret—he extends an invite to his home.
The young man is non-verbal, angry, and at times openly hateful. All of which gives him control over William’s emotions.
William slowly begins to spiral from his own struggles with his tormented past. His nightmares return, sleep becomes a lost cause, and the dark voices in his head are out for blood.
Amid their co-dependent isolation, William’s feelings evolve. Lines are blurred and then crossed altogether as they start down a path riddled with secrets and lies of omission.
The only thing that can set them both free is the truth. But maybe some things are better left buried. Because if the ugliest parts of William are ever unearthed, no one will be spared.
Only the Small Bones is an MM romance, and book 1 in the standalone series Slow Burns & Tragic Beginnings. This story features a non-verbal MC with touch aversion, and mental health representation.
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Author’s Note:
Only the Small Bones is book 1 in the Slow Burns & Tragic Beginnings series. See below for a list of what to expect. As always, I encourage readers to put their safety above their curiosity.
• Non-verbal main character
• Main character with touch aversion
• Interracial couple
• Human trafficking of adults and children.
• Flashbacks involving the abuse they face at the hands of their traffickers (i.e. being drugged, bound, and transported).
• Discussions involving cutting, sexual assault, physical and emotional abuse.
• Depression representation
• Off-page death of a parent, grandparents, and trafficking victims.
• Survivor’s guilt.
• Cameos from Infidelity cast members
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