I enjoyed this a lot!

Robert is an enforcer for a loan shark called Vogel. After 20 years of violence, it becomes too much for him and he decides to take his own life. But in the night he wants to commit suicide, he stumbles across Nathan - who is about to be buried alive. Robert saves Nathan, a young and pretty escort who's client turned on him out of the blue. Faced with Nathan's distress and innocence, Robert decides to do at least one good thing in his life by getting Nathan to safety. Which seems simple enough, except the men tasked to kill Nathan were working for none other than Vogel, Robert's own boss.

I must admit that the beginning of the book was a bit weak for me - it took me a while to get into it, but once the plot began to roll I was hooked.

Robert and Nathan are realistic characters - meaning they are far from perfect and have a big variety of flaws. They fuck up, hurt each other, have bad ideas and do things that are outright wrong. Their developement throughout the book was one of my favourite parts.
Especially Robert changes a lot - his character development revolves a lot around internalized homophobia and toxic masculinity. That wasn't always easy to read, but I am proud of how he dealt with it in the end.

Another aspect I liked was Robert's family, both in relation to Nathan and not.

The romance between Robert and Nathan has a lot of ups and downs, and I absoltuely LIVED for the incredibly sweet moments between them. They had me melting, especially considering how rough everything around them was.

Overall, We Met in Death is a gritty and dark romance that will keep you on your toes and expect the worse until the very end. Mind the trigger warnings, first and foremost suicide, violence and homophobia.

I was provided with an ARC in exchange for an honest review