Behind the Code

by K.L. Hart

When a brilliant, haunted Navarro heir meets a brilliant, reckless hacker, the city’s pulse changes and so do the rules. Dante Navarro is all control, servers, and old ghosts; Molly Ryan is code, grit, and secrets the FBI would kill to bury. When Molly cracks Acheron’s vault she saves more than money, she saves a fragment of a master code that could build something far deadlier than anyone expects. Dante wants answers. Molly wants freedom. Neither expects the heat that sparks between them, or the choice that will force them to pick a side.

Behind the Code is a tense, propulsive techno-thriller and slow-burn romance where family loyalty is as sharp as a blade, power is currency, and trust is the riskiest exploit of all. High-stakes heists, razor-wire politics, and a love that refuses to be polite. This is the Navarro Syndicate at its most dangerous and most human.

248 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 28, 2025

About the author

Kerry Hart writes emotionally intense romance and romantic fantasy filled with dangerous attraction, immersive worlds, darkness, humour, found family and hard-won hope.

She loves creating complicated characters, addictive love stories and fictional men who are almost certainly a terrible idea.

When she isn’t writing, Kerry can usually be found reading another romantasy, spending time with her family, baking something she definitely didn’t need to make, gaming with her boys, or planning her next fictional disaster.