Close Isn’t Back (My Kind of Dangerous, Book 5)
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He came back. That doesn’t mean she gets him back.
María Rivera thought Adrian Kessler’s return would change everything.
It does. Just not the way she wants.
He’s back in the gym. Back in her orbit. Back close enough to touch the bruised edges of everything she’s been trying to outrun. But Adrian isn’t the man she left. He’s harder now. Sharper. More controlled than before—and every bit as impossible to love halfway.
María wants back what fear made her throw away.
Adrian wants discipline. Distance. Control.
And close? Close isn’t the same thing as forgiven. It isn’t the same thing as soft. It definitely isn’t the same thing as hers.
So while old chemistry sparks, boundaries tighten, and every round pulls them closer to something dangerous, María is forced to face the truth: getting him back was never going to be as simple as getting near him again.
Close isn’t back.
…and wanting him still might be the easiest part.
Perfect for readers who crave:
✓ Second-chance tension without easy forgiveness
✓ Forced proximity with sharp emotional edges
✓ A hero who comes back harder, quieter, and more dangerous
✓ MMA training heat: discipline, pressure, and precision
✓ Mutual longing, restraint, and unfinished obsession
✓ A heroine who has to earn her way back in
✓ Open-door spice with consent-forward intensity
Close Isn’t Back is the fifth novella in the My Kind of Dangerous series.