Three men who followed protocol without exception—until the woman they weren’t supposed to find made stopping impossible.
They operate in the spaces between laws—men trained to eliminate problems, erase evidence, and disappear without a trace. Each one lives by a code that keeps him alive: no attachments, no hesitation, no mercy.
But some targets aren’t what they seem. Some women refuse to be collateral damage. And some protocols were made to be broken—by the kind of love that doesn’t ask permission.
Welcome to the world of Barely Human—where the most dangerous men alive discover the one thing they can’t survive without.
Book 1 — Worth Keeping (Iris & Cain)
“He was sent to clean up the mess. She was hiding in the closet. He took her anyway.”
Iris Morrison has spent years surviving a man who calls himself her husband. The night she hides in the closet of a dead man’s house, she expects to die. What she doesn’t expect is the assassin who finds her—and decides she’s worth more alive.
Cain Mercer doesn’t deviate from protocol. He doesn’t take witnesses. He doesn’t feel. But one look at the bruises on Iris’s skin and the terror in her eyes, and Cain does the one thing he’s never done before—he breaks every rule he has.
She was never part of the plan. Now she’s the only thing he’ll kill to protect.
~90,000 words • Alternating First Person POV • HEA
Book 2 — What’s Left of Her (Wren & Elias)
“183 days chained. One man broke protocol. She didn’t know if that made him her savior or her next captor.”
Wren Ashford was a teacher. A person with routines, students, and a life that made sense. Then she was taken—chained for 183 days in a room with no windows and no hope. When the man assigned to guard her instead sets her free, Wren doesn’t know how to trust the hands that unshackle her.
Elias was never supposed to care. His job was simple: contain, control, report. But watching Wren refuse to break—watching her count days on a wall and whisper lessons to herself in the dark—undid something in him that can’t be repaired.
She survived captivity. Now she has to survive freedom—and the man who won’t let her disappear again.
~95,000 words • Alternating First Person POV • HEA
Book 3 (Series Finale) — Worth Hiding (Vera & Matthias)
“She woke up with no name, no memory, and a man who swore he’d burn the world before he let them find her.”
Vera wakes in a locked room with no memory of who she is or how she got there. The only person she sees is Matthias—a man whose eyes hold too much knowledge and whose hands are too gentle for someone clearly built for violence.
He tells her she’s safe. That the people looking for her—her father, Dominic Castillo, and his enforcer Nikolai Resnov—will never touch her again. But safety has a price. And Matthias is paying it with a twenty-million-dollar bounty on his head.
She doesn’t remember who she was. He’ll destroy anyone who tries to remind her.
~100,000 words • Alternating First Person POV • HEA • Full Series Resolution
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