Watched

He taught me how to watch. He never stopped watching me.

Eleven months after Kept, Micah Venn has the impossible thing: an ordinary life. A shop on Royal Street. A man upstairs who knows everything - every keepsake, every lie, every page - and stayed. Micah is kept now, and loved, and learning to call that safety instead of exposure.

Then a keepsake he didn't take appears on his workbench, placed exactly where he would keep it. And the first man Micah ever watched - Adam Kessler, gone for ten years - walks back into New Orleans with a warning: Micah was never the first watcher. Somebody was watching Adam before him. Somebody was watching Micah longest of all.

Now a private investigator is circling a death that was arranged too tidily. The woman who holds Micah's secrets in a drawer is running out of silence. And Jonah - who learned Micah's grammar from the inside of being kept - is starting to keep things of his own: a phone checked in the night, locks learned, a beloved protected at any cost.

Watched is Book Two of the Kept trilogy - a dark, spicy MM romantic thriller about what happens when the keeper is kept, the watcher is watched, and love learns to do whatever it takes.