Boys in Beauty: A Novel of Image, Power, and Desire

Power is Negotiated.Love is the Leverage. When beauty kingmaker Jett Luxe resurfaces a long-buried scandal, the industry that once protected it braces for impact.Diego Navarro knows exactly how dangerous Jett can be.Once poised to become the next "It Boy" in beauty, Diego Navarro's career was eclipsed almost overnight by Landon Reese. As his influence waned, Jett Luxe stepped in to revive him, turning Diego into his most ardent protégé and pulling him into a relationship where mentorship blurred into obsession and control masquerading as love.Now, as Diego's relevance begins to slip once again, he finds himself pulled back into Jett's grasp, and into the same dangerous intimacy he barely escaped seven years earlier.Landon Reese was once the untouchable prince of beauty: young, talented, and protected by an industry that rewarded him faster than it questioned him. Allegations disappeared behind NDAs, settlements, and carefully managed silence, allowing Landon to reinvent himself before the truth could catch up to him.As old alliances fracture and accusations spread across an audience hungry for spectacle, Diego and Landon are forced to confront the roles they played in a system that protected powerful men while consuming everyone around them. And at the center of it all is Jett, still orchestrating the narrative before anyone else can.In an industry where image is currency and intimacy is leverage, survival depends on who controls the story first.BOYS IN BEAUTY is an influencer-era gothic about ambition, power, and the people who mistake being consumed for being loved.