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Blurred Borders

Savanna Rioux & Nina Dahl

M/M Dark Romance Romantic Suspense Dark Comedy

Rafi is a reclusive billionaire who dismantles trafficking rings with enthusiasm and questionable methods, then rehabilitates men from bigoted backgrounds by making them dress as maids and do traditionally female chores. He has reasons. It works. But his personal life is becoming dangerous, his past is closing in, and his newest maid is very obviously a spy who isn't even subtle about it.

Jude thought the army was his forever home. Medically discharged and uneasy at the Agency, his first encounter with true happiness is infiltrating what he expected to be a trafficking den — only to find an enjoyable breeze about his nethers, work that fulfils him, and a surprisingly charming kingpin who staunchly refuses to touch his very willing pretend-employee.

Somewhere between revenge plots, emotional breakdowns, and aggressively domestic chaos involving matching jewelry, cats, donuts, and unsolicited therapy breakthroughs… they build something real.

Messy. Violent. Unhinged.

Blurred Borders is a dual-POV M/M dark romance about two damaged men who find tenderness inside brutality, healing inside absurdity, and a love worth burning the world down for. It is funny. It is filthy. It is devastating. And the maid outfit is a choice.

Content warnings

Explicit sexual content, on-page violence, references to childhood sexual abuse (past), sexual assault (on-page, not romanticised), BDSM dynamics (both healthy and unhealthy depicted), and a hard-won HEA.

Words 65,000
Pages 229
Release Fall 2026
Revising Due May 1st
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In Between the Lies

Savanna Rioux

Dark Romance Urban Fantasy
Enemies to lovers She's the only one who can calm him Morally grey × morally resilient Forced proximity Slow burn with bursts of chaos

He was buried for three centuries. Hers was the blood that woke him.

Nero is not a man — not anymore. He is something older and far more dangerous, a creature who has spent over a millennium as a weapon for those powerful enough to bind him. When Hope's blood accidentally spills over his coffin in the Paris catacombs, he resurfaces half-mad, half-dead, and entirely certain he wants nothing she's offering.

Hope Masters survives on instinct, sarcasm, and sheer stubbornness. She didn't ask for a volatile ancient vampire tracking her back to London, a curse that makes her his only source of blood, or the slow, devastating realisation that she is falling in love with him.

But Nero's past is not finished with him. His previous master is looking for the perfect opportunity to reclaim what's rightfully his.

A dark paranormal romance about grief, devotion, and the kind of love that refuses to die.

Words ~80,000
Pages ~400
Release May 15th, 2026
Formatting Almost there
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Of Illusions and Stolen Bones

Nina Dahl

Dark Fantasy Romance
Hurt/comfort Morally grey Slow burn / fast sex

Zanvok has a yak, a wrecked self-image, and a list of issues longer than his arm. Varian has a controlling family, a failing business, and a schedule with no space for romance.

In a lawless pirate city, a broken ex-gladiator discovers he has a daughter — and she's in the hands of his former mentor. The search for her entangles him with an illusionist barely holding his family's business together. Together, they must stay alive, rescue the girl, and unravel an increasingly deadly conspiracy without losing themselves — or each other — in the process.

Dark fantasy romance with teeth. Found family forged in fire, love built on broken foundations, and a yak.

Words ~100,000
Pages ~400
Release Early 2027
3rd draft revisions In progress