Free MM Romance: Hard Limits, Soft Hands — A Full-Length Escort/Client Novel by Jace Wilder
Looking for your next high-heat MM romance? Hard Limits, Soft Hands is available completely free right now — a full-length novel with an escort/client love story, devastating praise kink, and an HEA that will leave you wrecked in the best way.
The Premise
Aaron Blake is the best criminal defense attorney in Manhattan. He wins cases for guilty clients and goes home to an apartment that looks like nobody lives there. He picks up strangers in hotel bars. He pours bourbon in the dark. His hands won’t stop shaking.
Luca Santos is a high-end escort who specializes in kink scenes wrapped in methodical aftercare. He’s calm, grounded, and ruthless about boundaries. His clients pay for controlled intensity and the radical experience of being cared for. He doesn’t kiss clients. He doesn’t think about them between sessions. He doesn’t break his own rules.
When Aaron fills out Luca’s intake form and writes I want to feel anything in the emotional-needs section, both of their rules stop working.
What’s Inside
This is a full-length (~80,000 word) contemporary MM romance with 10 explicit scenes, dual first-person POV, and an earned happily ever after. It’s the kind of book where the sex scenes and the emotional development are inseparable — where what happens between the sheets matters as much as what happens outside them.
The tropes: escort/client, age gap (35/28), praise kink, kink awakening, touch starved, hurt/comfort, caretaking top, slow burn that ignites into inferno heat. The dynamic: a man who thinks he deserves punishment meets a man who gives him tenderness instead, and the tenderness wrecks him harder than any belt ever could.
If you’ve ever highlighted a passage in a romance novel because the dirty talk made you feel things you weren’t prepared for, this book was written for you.
Why It’s Free
Jace Wilder writes high-heat MM romance that doesn’t shy away from the explicit and doesn’t apologize for the emotional. Hard Limits, Soft Hands is available as a free download because new readers deserve to know what they’re getting into before they commit — and because Aaron and Luca’s story is the kind of book that creates lifelong readers.
No catch. No strings. No subscription required. Just a BookFunnel link and a novel that will rearrange your bookshelf priorities.
Reader Checklist
You’ll love this book if you’re looking for:
✅ A free MM romance that doesn’t read like it’s free — full-length, professionally edited, emotionally devastating
✅ Escort/client romance with a sex-worker-positive portrayal and zero shame
✅ Praise kink done right — “you’re good, you’re doing so good” as a weapon of emotional reconstruction
✅ A hero so touch starved that having his hair washed in a bathtub breaks him open
✅ The safeword chapter — the one readers screenshot and send to friends
✅ Age gap with a caretaking top who catches feelings and a burned-out professional who learns to ask
✅ Dual POV that gives you both sides of every session, every text, every 1 AM phone call
✅ 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Ten explicit scenes ranging from controlled hotel-room intensity to messy, laughing, lamp-breaking apartment sex
✅ An HEA that ends with a relationship retainer agreement and the word green
Read Chapter One
Want to sample before you download? The full first chapter is available on the book page. Meet Aaron Blake on the worst night of his career, in a hotel bathroom with a stranger, feeling absolutely nothing — and understand exactly why Luca Santos is about to change everything.
The Bonus Chapter
After you finish the novel, there’s an exclusive bonus chapter waiting — Appendix B: Make-Up Sex Protocols — a scene too hot for Amazon, set after the epilogue, featuring the retainer agreement, the rope from the closet shelf, and a very creative interpretation of “reconciliation procedures.” It’s free on our site at the bonus chapter page.
More from Jace Wilder
Browse all Jace Wilder books.
Old Dog, New Tricks
He went to the bar to teach the kid a lesson. The kid taught him how to want things again.
Hard Limits, Soft Hands
His hard limits saved him. His soft hands rebuilt him.
Handled
The Marlowe Building
He moved in broke and broken. The man downstairs decided that was his problem now.
Sweat, Stretch, Submit
He came to sweat. He stayed to surrender.
Step Out of Line
He walked into his dad's kitchen and found the man who used to own him on his knees—proposing to his father.
Brat in the Boardroom
He said “obedience.” The intern said “make me.”
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