Protect & Serve

Young, ambitious, and hungry to prove himself, NYPD officer Maxwell Heath doesn't hesitate when an opportunity arises to join an undercover operation targeting one of New York's most powerful families.The assignment seems straightforward: get close to Grayson Dunne, the estranged son of the notorious Donato family, and use him to gain access to the criminal empire his brother controls. Max has a new identity, a carefully constructed cover, and one rule that matters above all others: never forget that Grayson is part of the job.But Grayson isn't the man Max expected to find.As their carefully engineered connection becomes dangerously real, the line between Max's cover and the life he's actually living begins to disappear. Desire turns into intimacy, loyalty becomes increasingly difficult to define, and every secret Max keeps raises the cost of eventually telling the truth.Years later, the consequences of Operation Falcon still follow him. When a family crisis forces Max to confront the choices that shaped him, he must reckon with the man he became, the people he hurt, and the truths he has spent years trying to outrun.Spanning crime, passion, family, and the complicated territory between right and wrong, Protect & Serve is an explicit M/M romantic drama about the secrets we keep, the choices we justify, and what remains when the lies finally fall away.