Safe Isn't Him (My Kind of Dangerous, Book 1)

By: Nia Laurent

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

At Thornhill Tower, María Rivera reads men like contracts—what they want, what they’re hiding, and what they’ll take if no one stops them. So when Adrian Kessler starts hovering at the edges of her work life as the backer of Tessa Raye’s rooftop project—calm, polished, and just a little too interested—she doesn’t mistake it for charm.

She sees strategy. Dangerous calculation.

María has rules for survival: no chaos, no men, no pretty faces with bad intentions… and no dangerously calculating men.

Adrian breaks rules without ever touching them. Quiet money in maroon silk, smiling like he already knows how this ends—watching the project like an investment… and watching her like a challenge.

María’s one escape from the Tower is the MMA gym. Pressure, breath, control. A clean kind of violence she can actually command.

Until her safe place starts to feel smaller. The attention sharper. The rules less like protection and more like a trap—because the last man she expected to find there is the one man she doesn’t trust.

María wants safety. She wants peace. She wants her life to stay hers.

Adrian wants the one woman in the room who won’t move just because he decided she should.

Safe isn’t him.
…but neither is walking away.

Perfect for readers who crave:
✓ Enemies-to-lovers tension with teeth
✓ A protective heroine who refuses to fold
✓ A disciplined hero whose “nice” drops the moment it counts
✓ MMA heat: breath, restraint, jabs, kicks, and earned permission
✓ Escalating stakes (class → sparring → “prove it”)
✓ A relationship built in secret—right under everyone’s nose
✓ Open-door spice with consent-forward intensity

Safe Isn’t Him is the first novella in the My Kind of Dangerous series.

For mature readers (18+).