
The Healer and the Don
They faked their deaths. The past just found their door.
- Romance
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Romantic Suspense
The syndicate thinks Rex and Dante are dead. Six months ago they torched their own lives, faked the evidence, and vanished to a cottage on a windswept stretch of coast where no one asks questions. Rex tends his garden. Dante watches the horizon. They are finally free. Then a storm drives a bleeding deckhand to their doorstep with a blade wound in his side and a syndicate tattoo on his forearm. Rex cannot turn away a dying man. Dante cannot ignore what that tattoo means: Marco DeLuca, an enforcer he watched burn, is alive and rebuilding the network Dante once commanded. The deckhand saw something he should not have, and DeLuca's men are already searching the coastal roads. Now every choice pulls them closer to exposure. Treating the stranger draws the curiosity of neighbors who accepted their quiet cover story. Staying silent means letting DeLuca's operation grow unchecked. Fighting back means returning to the violence they swore they had left behind. As old allies mobilize and enemies close in, Rex and Dante face the truth they have been avoiding since the fire: they did not escape the syndicate. They only bought themselves time. And the bill is coming due. The Healer and the Don is a searing romantic suspense about two men who chose mercy over survival, and the reckoning that follows.





