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Hit Me Hard With Desire

Paperback (Manga RTL - TR)
5"W x 7-1/2"H | 13 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Jul 28, 2026 | 200 Pages | 9781427885067
Mature
FOC May 11, 2026 | Catalog April 2026

This dark, broody BL romance explores themes of trauma, escaping cycles of abuse, and facing the parts of ourselves we keep locked away out of shame.

As the screams of cicadas pierce the suffocating summer heat...

Nanase finds himself cornered by a strange, sinister animal.

The only thing more depressing than Nanase's new cleaning job is his creepy, dead-eyed coworker, Kurono. And now that Kurono has turned that unnerving stare on Nanase, escape seems impossible.

No matter what violence or vitriol Nanase hurls at him, Kurono refuses to tear his gaze away—and those vacant eyes see right through the jagged cracks in Nanase's bruised and battered heart.

When violence is the veil through which you see the world, vulnerability is the enemy... but in Nanase's case, letting Kurono in may be the only way out.
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Content Warnings: Explicit sexual content, violence, sexual assault, stalking, domestic abuse
Hiro Murasaki is a BL author and illustrator based in Japan.
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About

This dark, broody BL romance explores themes of trauma, escaping cycles of abuse, and facing the parts of ourselves we keep locked away out of shame.

As the screams of cicadas pierce the suffocating summer heat...

Nanase finds himself cornered by a strange, sinister animal.

The only thing more depressing than Nanase's new cleaning job is his creepy, dead-eyed coworker, Kurono. And now that Kurono has turned that unnerving stare on Nanase, escape seems impossible.

No matter what violence or vitriol Nanase hurls at him, Kurono refuses to tear his gaze away—and those vacant eyes see right through the jagged cracks in Nanase's bruised and battered heart.

When violence is the veil through which you see the world, vulnerability is the enemy... but in Nanase's case, letting Kurono in may be the only way out.
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Content Warnings: Explicit sexual content, violence, sexual assault, stalking, domestic abuse

Creators

Hiro Murasaki is a BL author and illustrator based in Japan.

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