Badge & Bullets

A Dark Romance of Law, Lies, and Longing

By: S.M. Lucky

Narrated by: Andrew Maryniuk

Eden Marks is a small-town sheriff with a badge, a backbone, and a buried past. When Lucas Romano—the boy who broke her heart and vanished—returns under a false name, everything she thought was behind her comes roaring back with a vengeance. He’s no longer the sweet, reckless teen from the backroads. Now, he’s entangled with a Chicago crime syndicate, and Eden’s quiet county has become a trafficking corridor.

As the line between duty and desire blurs, Eden must choose: uphold the law, or follow the man who still haunts her every thought. Secrets ignite. Gunfire erupts. And in the cornfields where it all began, love and loyalty become deadly games.

Badge & Bullets is a dark romance where passion simmers beneath betrayal, and justice comes laced with heartbreak. Some scars never fade. Some ghosts never leave.

And some goodbyes… are meant to be watched from the shadows.

©2025 S. M. Lucky (P)2025 S. M. Lucky

No onscreen sex, language or violence

This was a great small town crime story mislabeled as Dark Romance. There was a lot of rehashing why she and he couldn’t be together, but I consider that window dressing for the police procedural.