Ruin Me Quietly: A College MLM Dark Romance

By Daniel L. Smith

Ethan Calloway has spent nineteen years becoming exactly what everyone expects him to be.

Disciplined. Admired. Untouchable.

He has the perfect reputation, the perfect future, and a girlfriend who believes she knows every part of him. Then his mother marries Grant Mercer, forcing Ethan to share a home and a university campus with Grant's reckless twenty-one-year-old son.

Nico Mercer has never believed Ethan's perfect act.

After one drunken mistake at their parents' wedding afterparty, Nico gains the evidence that could destroy everything Ethan has built. Ethan's face is visible. Nico's is not.

And Nico has rules.

Come when called.
Answer immediately.
Tell no one.

What begins as blackmail quickly becomes possession. Secret messages turn into dangerous meetings. Resentment becomes jealousy. Obedience becomes desire. Every demand pulls Ethan further away from Claire and deeper into the control of the one person who seems determined to expose what he really wants.

But when suspicion becomes confrontation and one terrible night leaves Ethan and Nico bound by more than desire, walking away is no longer an option.

Nico knows how to ruin him.

Ethan is beginning to fear he might let him.

Ruin Me Quietly is a dark M/M college romance featuring adult stepbrothers, blackmail, obsession, jealousy, manipulation, toxic desire, secrecy, and mutual destruction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGX1KQ4Z
• ISBN13: 9798189824944
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.2" x 5.0"