Heartless Beloved

Xi is a soldier in the North Shore Crew, a gang locked in a war with the rival Kings. His orders are to seduce Alexandra Delacroix, the sheltered daughter of a senator from wealthy Stoneview, and dig up whatever he can on her father. He expects a simple job. Instead her kindness gets under his skin, and what began as a calculated assignment turns into an obsession that puts both of them, and the loyalties he lives by, at risk.

Heartless Beloved is the second book in Lola King's North Shore Stories, a series of interconnected standalones, and can be read on its own. It is a dark, spicy enemies-to-lovers romance with a morally grey hero and a gang-war backdrop. It contains kidnapping, sexual assault, violence and abusive dynamics.