Kiss the Villain

Gareth Carson is the golden boy of a powerful family: a gifted law student, the dutiful Carson heir, and outwardly everything an ambitious young man should be. Beneath the polished surface, he hides darker urges he cannot fully control. One night of indulgence brings him face to face with a dangerous stranger, and the encounter takes an unwelcome turn when that same man walks into his lecture hall as Kayden Lockwood, the new criminal-law professor at King's U. Kayden is controlling, calculating, and carrying his own agenda tied to Gareth's family. What begins as a tense game of nerves between student and professor becomes a forbidden entanglement neither can walk away from, even as the stakes grow lethal. Set in the Legacy of Gods universe, this is a standalone professor-student dark MM romance built on power imbalance, hidden violence, and obsession. The relationship is antagonistic from the first page, and the threat that pulls the two together is also the thing most likely to destroy them.