Lacey Vigil has been trying to break up with her city’s resident billionaire superhero, Steel Heel, for a while. It’s not easy when she keeps getting kidnapped by his enemies.

Ellis is an unethical lab experiment, a bit of a slacker, and honestly kind of a fuckboy. He’s always had a thing for the reporter from Channel 6, but when Lacey asks for his help investigating the mutants crisis, he refuses. They’re on opposing sides – whoever heard of a superhero’s girlfriend and supervillain’s henchman working together?

Lacey and Ellis keep tangling in everything from breaking into secret hideouts to surprise bagel dates to mutually masturbating at each other from across the street in separate buildings. The closer they become, the less they can avoid the wedge between them – Steel Heel.

BE MY BAD GUY is about a good girl getting the bad guy, weird monster dicks, struggling with people pleasing vs. authentic living, repeatedly dunking on billionaires that want you to think they’re saving the world, and dismantling the toxic masculinity that props up the superhero fantasy.

This book is a spicy M/F monster romance with a typical superhero comic book backdrop, with 68,000 words.

Available January 20, 2026.