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What the City Buries (Rust & Ruin 1) by Vin Ashmore

Genre Bisexual / Gay / Contemporary / Assassins/Mercenaries/Vigilantes / Chef/Foodie / Escorts/Porn Stars/Strippers / Law Enforcement / Millionaires/Billionaires / Menage MMMMM+ / Polyamory / Dark Romance
Length Novel, 267 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date 21-May-2026

Book Blurb

I made a mistake. I saw what they did. I didn't run. My problem wasn't the blood. It was that I couldn't stop wanting them.


Detroit has always known how to keep secrets. Old money. Older sins. The kind of men who shake your hand at the charity gala and bury the evidence by morning. The city composts its corruption quietly, turning it under, hiding it where no one looks.


Except five men are looking. And they have been for years.


By day they are untouchable. A near-billionaire who runs his family's empire from a Palmer Woods mansion. A homicide detective who knows exactly which cases to bury. An elite litigation lawyer with the sharpest tongue in Detroit. A restaurant magnate whose family built something real from nothing in Mexicantown. A former Russian operative who never quite became anything else.


By night they put on skull masks and they find the men and women the system was built to protect. The ones who bought their way out of courtrooms. The ones whose names kept getting buried alongside their victims. The ones Detroit's elite toasted at fundraisers while their sins composted quietly underneath.


I'm a dancer and occasional call-boy. I work at Club Velvet, owned by people you do not want to cross who have names you aren't supposed to know, which means I have spent two years learning to see everything and say nothing. I know how to read a room. I know how to keep my mouth shut.


On that night... I made a mistake that would cost me my life. I just didn't know it yet.


His name is Reaper, the man in the gold mask with his cold, blue eyes. The warm one who almost kissed me in that room stained in blood is called Muerte. They are all Death personified... and I couldn't make myself walk away.


I almost died for them before they ever said my name out loud.


What came after that is the rest of the story. The burning and the choosing and the truth about men who do terrible things for the right reasons. These men who come home after bathing in the blood of the wicked, sit down, eat dinner, and are somehow worth every second of the danger they bring with them.


Nothing stays buried in Detroit. Not the sins of the city's elite. Not what these men are underneath their suits and their skulls. Not what I became the longer I stayed.


They were never going to be easy to love.
I was never going to be easy to bury.
Detroit knew that before we did.

 

 

 

What you're getting into:


Dark MM poly romance · Why choose · Five morally grey vigilante killers · One dancer who never blinks


Billionaire · Homicide detective · Elite lawyer · Restaurant magnate · Former operative · Forced proximity · Old money gone dark · Detroit gothic · Explicit heat · High spice from the jump · He almost dies for them · Book One of Six · HEA per book · Series arc builds · Graphic violence · Explicit MMMMMM spice.


Men who are good at terrible things and do not apologize for it. A dancer who walks into danger and calls it home. The darkness does not resolve. The desire does not apologize. Welcome to Detroit Gothic.


Additional Information

Format ebook
Publisher Independently Published
Length Novel, 267 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date 21-May-2026
Price $4.99 ebook
Buy Link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GV3WTFDK