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Ruin Me Quietly
Paperback
Series: What We Ruin
Publisher Price: $25.01
Publisher: Dls Publishing
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 474
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Ethan Calloway has spent nineteen years becoming the kind of son people do not have to worry about. He is the one with the grades, the girlfriend, the clean reputation. Veritas likes boys like him. His family likes the version of him that photographs well and never makes a scene.
Then his mother remarries.
Nico Mercer is twenty-one when he moves into the house. He is not interested in being anyone's project, and he does not treat Ethan like a finished product. He watches too closely. He stays too close. He makes the rooms Ethan used to move through without thinking feel smaller, hotter, and harder to leave.
Ethan still has a life he is supposed to keep intact. Claire. Classes. The future already mapped out for him. Wanting Nico does not fit any of it. Neither does the way Nico looks at him when no one else is paying attention.
Ruin Me Quietly is a dark MM romance about a golden boy and the stepbrother who sees through the act. It is psychological, possessive, and sexually explicit. The heat is not fade-to-black. The relationship is forbidden on purpose. The question is not whether Ethan can want Nico. It is what he is willing to ruin to keep him.
For readers who want dark academia tension, stepbrother taboo, secret relationships, and filthy, detailed intimacy wrapped in black-tie control and quiet obsession.
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