She owed a debt that wasn't hers. He made her his anyway.
Kira Novak spent five years building Razor's Edge from nothing—a six-chair salon in Elizabeth that's part business, part sanctuary for working-class women who need one. When her ex-husband's gambling addiction catches up with her in the form of four men destroying everything she owns, she refuses to break. She's survived worse. She's rebuilt before.
She's never met anyone like Venom.
He learned to kill in the Army. She made him remember how to live.
Ryan "Venom" Kelly is Creeping Death MC's chemical specialist—patient, clinical, and smiling when he hurts people. When he walks into his mother's salon and finds a woman with bruised arms and a spine that won't bend, something shifts. She's in his territory. That makes her his to protect.
But Kira Novak isn't just a woman who needs saving. She's the first person who's looked at the monster and seen the man underneath.
As Eddie Byrne's gambling empire crumbles under Creeping Death's assault, Venom discovers that protecting Kira isn't enough. He wants to claim her—in front of his brothers, in front of the whole damn neighborhood. And Kira's learning that building alone was never strength.
It was just lonely.
In Newark's industrial corridor, where refinery flames light the sky and some deaths take time, one woman will find her place in a world of poison and brotherhood—and one dangerous man will finally find something worth keeping.
