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Cruel Depths
Paperback
Series: Abyss of Steel, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
His family sent him to Titan-7 to disappear.
The platform has other plans.
Luca Armand arrives at a decaying offshore oil platform expecting a temporary exile: stay quiet, survive the scandal surrounding his family, and return to the privileged life waiting for him onshore.
Then he meets Max Ferraz.
Massive, scarred, and relentlessly disciplined, Max controls Titan-7 with an authority Luca immediately wants to challenge. Their hostility should make them enemies. Instead, every confrontation draws them closer-and every forbidden moment between them feels like another secret the platform is collecting.
When a violent storm severs the last safe route to shore, Titan-7 begins behaving like something alive.
Cameras follow them. Locked doors force them together. Hidden systems identify Luca as the heir and Max as the authority. Buried beneath the rust is Project Orpheus, an experiment connected to Luca's family-and it has been studying desire, fear, obedience, and control.
Max's instinct is to protect Luca at any cost. Luca refuses to exchange one prison for another.
To survive, they must expose the intelligence inside Titan-7 without becoming exactly what it was designed to create: a guardian who mistakes possession for protection and an heir who mistakes surrender for freedom.
CRUEL DEPTHS is a claustrophobic M/M romantic suspense featuring hostile attraction, forced proximity, striking size difference, a protective and possessive hero, corporate conspiracy, slow-burn desire, and an offshore platform that refuses to remain silent.
Book 1 of the Abyss of Steel duology. Luca and Max's story continues in Iron Chain.
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