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Safe Isn't Him

This series can be read as a standalone, but it hits hardest after reading the Fifty Floors Above Hate series.

At Thornhill Tower, María Rivera reads men like contracts—what they want, what they’re hiding, and what they’ll take if no one stops them. So when Adrian Kessler starts hovering at the edges of her work life as the backer of Tessa Raye’s rooftop project—calm, polished, and just a little too interested—she doesn’t mistake it for charm.

She sees strategy. Dangerous calculation.

María has rules for no chaos, no men, no pretty faces with bad intentions… and no dangerously calculating men.

Adrian breaks rules without ever touching them. Quiet money in maroon silk, smiling like he already knows how this ends—watching the project like an investment… and watching her like a challenge.

María’s one escape from the Tower is the jiu-jitsu academy. Pressure, breath, control. A clean kind of violence she can actually command.

Until her safe place starts to feel smaller. The attention sharper. The rules less like protection and more like a trap—because the last man she expected to find there is the one man she doesn’t trust.

María wants safety. She wants peace. She wants her life to stay hers.

Adrian wants the one woman in the room who won’t move just because he decided she should.

Safe isn’t him.
…but neither is walking away.

Perfect for readers who
Enemies-to-lovers tension with teeth
✓ A protective heroine who refuses to fold
✓ A disciplined hero whose “nice” drops the moment it counts
✓ Jiu-jitsu breath, restraint, control, and earned permission
✓ Escalating stakes (class → sparring → “prove it”)
✓ A relationship built in secret—right under everyone’s nose
Open-door spice with consent-forward intensity

Safe Isn’t Him is the first novella in the My Kind of Dangerous series.

For mature readers (18+).

124 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 2026

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August 3, 2026
Still on the fence with where this story is going... there's way too much internal debating within the MCs heads for me and I'm convinced they both require some psychological assistance and not in that intense delectable way. There's mutual stalking and overt dislike, but so much longing. Let me just see where this goes from here.
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April 27, 2026
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I don't know about this story. Didn't get a clear image of who the hero was what he was up to. Could be the author leading up to get the sales higher on the second book. Just not sure I enjoyed this. Feel like I wasted my time. I don't like to waste my time.
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