The Mercenary and the Mortician: Discreet Cover by Alexandra St Pierre (Paperback)

A dark paranormal MM romance where a mercenary and a funeral director are brought together by death, secrets, and a very unexpected misunderstanding.

Callum Walker makes his living killing people. While he has little control over the names placed on his professional hit list, he spends his free time hunting those who harm children. When he believes local mortician Ryan Fairview is responsible for hurting one of the neighbourhood’s children, Callum decides Ryan will become his next target.

The problem is that Ryan is nothing like he expected.

As the owner of Fairview Funerals, Ryan has a gift that makes his life anything but ordinary. He can see the dead. So, when an armed intruder breaks into his funeral home intending to kill him, Ryan is horrified to discover that the would-be murderer is followed everywhere by the ghosts of the people he has killed.

What follows is an uneasy connection between two complete opposites. Ryan is cautious, stubborn and neurotic, while Callum is impulsive, charming and used to dealing with problems permanently. Despite a home invasion and attempted murder standing between them, the pair find themselves thrown together by ghosts, misunderstandings and the possibility that they might be able to help each other.

Set in the interconnected world of the Silent Hollow series, this dark romance blends paranormal elements with humour, danger and a growing attraction between two men whose lives revolve around the dead in very different ways.

Perfect for readers who enjoy dark paranormal MM romance, enemies-to-lovers dynamics, opposites attract relationships, ghosts, morally grey characters and spicy LGBTQ+ stories with a supernatural twist.