{"product_id":"the-viscount-s-boxer-a-regency-m-m-romance-steadfast-hearts","title":"The Viscount’s Boxer: A Regency M\/M Romance (Steadfast Hearts)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA viscount with everything to lose. A prizefighter with nothing left to sell but his fists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlec Harcourt is meant to be respectable—Parliament, duty, and the marriage his father expects, whether Alec wants it or not.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen his friends drag him into a riverside boxing pit… and he sees Tom Hale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom is young, lean, dark-haired, and dangerous in the ring—fighting not for glory, but for rent, food, and his sister’s survival. He doesn’t need saving. He needs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efair odds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut when Alec intervenes, the entire city starts telling a story: the nobleman and his “pet pug,” a joke in ink that could destroy them both.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo protect Tom—and himself—Alec makes a reckless choice: he offers a contract. Patronage. Management. Control.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA business arrangement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExcept nothing about Tom Hale feels like business.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd in Regency London, desire is not merely forbidden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s prosecutable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA high-heat, emotionally intense M\/M Regency romance of class collision, dangerous devotion, and a love that can only survive if both men stop pretending it’s only a deal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlec Harcourt has perfected the art of appearing untouched.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his world, everything is performance: polished smiles in club rooms, dutiful silence beside his father, and the easy cruelty of men who treat lives as sport. Alec is expected to inherit a title, serve the family in Parliament, and accept the marriage his father demands—quietly, correctly, and without question.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen, on a whim that feels like self-destruction, he follows his friends into a riverside fighting booth—hot, filthy, roaring with bloodlust—and watches a man in shirtsleeves fight like survival itself has teeth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Hale isn’t a brawler. He’s a craftsman of violence: quick, lean, relentless. He takes punishment, adapts, and wins anyway—while the men who profit from him shave his purse and call it luck. Tom has a sister to protect, bills that don’t care about his bruises, and a pride that refuses charity from anyone—especially a lord.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlec should walk away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInstead, he interferes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd the moment a viscount’s heir is seen too close to a prizefighter, the city turns it into spectacle—an exaggerated caricature, a scandal-sheet punchline. The story paints Tom as a man for sale and Alec as depraved, adding another fashionable sin to be whispered over brandy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the law doesn’t punish whispers equally.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen danger sharpens from gossip into threat, Alec makes Tom an offer that is supposed to be safe: an arrangement on paper. Clear terms. No cheating. No exploitation. A patron backing a fighter into better matches, better purses, and a future that doesn’t end broken on a ring floor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom agrees—for three fights. Nothing more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnly Alec Harcourt’s restraint begins to fracture the longer he watches Tom bleed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Tom Hale’s certainty begins to break the longer he realizes Alec’s “control” isn’t ownership.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s devotion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd devotion between two men in 1820s London is not romantic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s lethal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE VISCOUNT’S BOXER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a high-heat, emotionally intense M\/M Regency romance featuring class conflict, dangerous patronage, boxing-ring intensity, forced proximity, emotional pressure, and two men trying to survive a society built to ruin them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914076250303,"sku":"131e182f-053c-4ba7-8ffe-2343af3df07c","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/ec14b1d5aaf5328de3f65042e68b3f77.jpg?v=1785054304","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/the-viscount-s-boxer-a-regency-m-m-romance-steadfast-hearts","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}