Joyless by Nyla K (Paperback)

A dark MMF romance set in Nyla K’s Alabaster Penitentiary world — a new story that’s best read after Distorted to avoid spoilers.

Correctional officers get a bad reputation, and in this case it’s entirely justified. The guards of Alabaster Isle aren’t good people. They’re guard dogs — as twisted as the inmates they patrol, courtesy of the monster who made them. Prisoners of a sort themselves on an island built on manipulation, they’ve spent years drowning in vices just to dull reality. If these walls could talk, they wouldn’t speak. They’d scream.

They call him Velle, but to the inmates it’s Officer Chevelle — hands dirtier than his mind, and no qualms about staying ruthless to keep these creatures in line. And he isn’t alone. Joy Jameson is his partner in crime and his ex; together they rule Alabaster like Bonnie and Clyde, only prettier and far more dangerous. It’s the two of them against this wicked, secluded world. Until the rookie shows up. Rook — green eyes, country-boy smile — flips Velle upside down, using his own hidden desires against him and tempting him towards something that could get everyone hurt. Denying himself while dominating the role is Velle’s default setting, but with Rook in the picture his mask is slipping, and the control he can’t afford to lose is wavering — just as the newest psycho joins the roster. For all their sakes, he can only hope Inmate #101 doesn’t do anything stupid.

This is a dark MMF romance for mature readers; please check the author’s content warnings before reading. Best read after Distorted.

Perfect for readers who love dark why-choose romance, a morally black guard-run world, a forbidden rookie temptation and a slow-slipping mask — and anyone already in the Alabaster Penitentiary series.