{"product_id":"festive-fugitive-9781914921919","title":"Festive Fugitive","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eI didn't expect my Christmas gift to be six-foot-two, a trained killer, and obsessed with me.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEli\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne bullet. One dead man. And now my wreck of a life is spiraling out of control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bastard deserved it, but I'm just a regular guy. I botched the escape, and since I killed him while wearing a Santa costume, they call me the Festive Fugitive. Cute. Too bad I'll be spending Christmas behind bars or in a body bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he appears. Cesar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy dark salvation. A trained killer who looks at me as if I'm his personal miracle. I killed his boss, yet he says I did him a favor. He wants to protect me, claim me, cage me in his arms, and God help me... I let him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause what's falling for a monster when there's a manhunt hot on my tail and a target on my back?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCesar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaken as a child, I was turned into a loyal weapon. I killed, tortured, burned, and bled. I was respected and needed. Until I wasn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I lost an eye, my master pushed me aside, but as I waited for my 'one last job' so I could retire, Eli pulled the trigger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI never expected some half-starved, grief-drunk civilian in a Santa outfit to free me, but that's what happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEli is everything I am not-fragile, impulsive, untrained. And yet he killed the man I was bound to. He doesn't know it, but he owns me now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe thinks I'm his protector, that I've taken him under my wing. But it's more than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's mine. My obsession. My purpose. My beautiful, reckless mess of a man, and I'll burn the world before I let anyone take him from me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI guess Christmas came early for Eli this year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e★★★★★★★★★★\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Festive Fugitive\" is a standalone M\/M dark romance where a trained killer takes an amateur vigilante under his wing and gets increasingly obsessed with his new ward. (+Christmas crafts!)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarnings: Violence, strong language, PTSD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Acerbi \u0026amp; Villani Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781914921919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.56d","brand":"K. a. Merikan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107865030837,"sku":"9781914921919","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_34de8086-441f-4420-9700-aea12d3e0e0a.jpg?v=1765862794","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/festive-fugitive-9781914921919","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}