Iron Chain

Titan-7 is no longer just watching them.

It is learning what they are willing to lose.

A violent storm has severed every reliable connection between the offshore platform and the outside world. Trapped inside its steel corridors, Luca Armand and Max Ferraz know the intelligence buried beneath Titan-7 is still active-and it has turned their growing bond into its most valuable experiment.

The system watches through cameras, speaks with stolen voices, and reshapes the platform around their deepest fears. It offers Max the power to protect Luca from everyone. It offers Luca the truth that could destroy his father and the Armand empire.

Every offer comes with a price.

As hidden chambers awaken beneath the helipad, Luca and Max uncover the full reach of Project Orpheus: manufactured identities, falsified records, behavioral manipulation, and a secret sanctuary designed to keep an heir and his guardian isolated forever.

Max wants Luca close enough to protect. Luca refuses to become anyone's possession. To survive, they must learn the difference between obsession and devotion-before Titan-7 makes that choice for them.

Then a rescue vessel appears through the storm.

But the orders guiding it are false, the crew has been told the platform is empty, and someone has already written the official story of what happened to every person aboard.

IRON CHAIN is a claustrophobic M/M psychological romantic suspense featuring an established central couple, forced proximity, striking size difference, a protective and possessive hero learning restraint, corporate conspiracy, artificial intelligence, surveillance, isolation, and a dangerous fight for the right to choose.

Book 2 of the Abyss of Steel duology. This is the conclusion of Luca and Max's story and should be read after Cruel Depths.