HE LIVES IN THE DARK WEB. SHE SEES PATTERNS IN CHAOS. TOGETHER, THEY’LL REWRITE REALITY’S CODE.

Abel Darke exists everywhere and nowhere—the Gray Council’s digital ghost who destroys lives through screens. But when cybersecurity savant Luna Tran is hired to stop his attacks, her autistic brilliance sees patterns others miss. She’s hunting him across the dark web, and she’s getting closer with every keystroke.

Luna’s mind processes code like others see color—in beautiful, logical patterns that make sense of chaos. The Council’s cyber attacks are elegant, almost artistic, and hunting their creator has become her obsession. When she’s trapped in a safe house with the fidgeting, blue-haired hacker she’s been chasing, the chemistry between their minds is as intense as the danger surrounding them.

As Abel subjects Luna to digital domination—controlling her devices, her environment, her pleasure—she discovers something that breaks both their worlds: Abel is David Kross’s son, raised by Roman who killed his father figure. The final war between Council and Syndicate isn’t just about Seattle—it’s about the son torn between two fathers and the woman whose systematic mind might be the only thing that can end the chaos.

When Luna’s pattern recognition reveals the truth about both organizations, she must help Abel choose: the father who made him or the one who saved him. But Luna doesn’t believe in binary choices—she’s going to reprogram the entire system.

BEHIND THE SCREEN is the epic finale of the Gray Council series. This dark romance features a touch-starved hacker who controls everything through screens, a neurodivergent heroine whose brilliance rewrites reality, digital voyeurism and domination, and a guaranteed HEA that brings all five couples together for the ultimate battle. While each Gray Council book features a different couple and can be read as a standalone romance, reading in order enhances the experience as the war between the Council and Syndicate unfolds across all five books.

Tropes: opposites attract, hacker romance, neurodivergent heroine, digital voyeurism, secret identity, found family, series finale, vigilante justice.

The Gray Council Series: Where the villain always gets the girl.

Some codes are meant to be broken—others will break you first.