Niko was promised to a woman.
Then he met Leontes.
A beautiful fellow soldier with a cruel mouth, a wounded soul, and a talent for finding the hungriest part of a man. Leontes gives Niko what he never thought he could have: desire without death, touch without shame, freedom without apology.
But Leontes is not safe.
In the heat of the imperial city, among military baths, hidden passages, old gates, and summer unrest, their forbidden romance becomes sensual, dangerous, and impossible to survive cleanly.
Niko knows he should run.
Instead, he wants more.
And when betrayal comes, it will not come from an enemy. It will come from the man who taught him what freedom tasted like.
A Soldier He Loved is a tragic MM military fantasy romance about bisexual awakening, dangerous first love, forbidden desire, betrayal, and a love that hurts too much to forget.
“Do you know what happens when a man like you becomes sensible, Niko? He goes home. Marries the good woman. Puts children in her. Builds a house. Ages into his father’s face. Sits at table while his soul becomes a room no one enters. Everyone calls it honor because no one has to sleep inside him except himself.”
Niko could not breathe.
Leontes stepped closer, not touching.
“I wanted you to remember you are not dead yet.”
It was wicked.
It was unbearable.
It was exactly the thing Niko most wanted someone to say.
