Bloodbound Devil

The dying man grabbed her wrist at 2:13 a.m.

His blood touched her skin and the warehouse vanished. Motorcycles. Gunfire. A black stone room where her missing brother screamed in chains. And standing in a wall of fire, watching, a man she knew from every front page in Port Vesper.

The one they call Devil.

Sabine Keene slid the metal cylinder out of the corpse's chest before the detectives turned around. Her brother's name was on the list inside. So was hers. Twenty minutes later, motorcycles surrounded her car on the causeway, sniper rounds tore through her windshield, and Thane Sorrell dragged her out of the wreck with his own hands.

Then her blood met his.

And something that had held him for twenty-three years broke.

She reads the dead. He binds the living. Together, they could unmake an empire.

Sabine has spent her whole life hiding what blood tells her. She never knew why. She never knew she was the last of a hunted bloodline whose blood can dissolve the supernatural oaths holding every criminal family in the Pacific Northwest together.

Thane Sorrell knew the second she cut his palm.

President of the Iron Seraphs MC. Head of a family that turns promises into chains. Carrier of a curse called the Red Wake that makes him the most dangerous man in the underworld and steals a piece of him every time it comes. He was raised to believe affection is a weakness enemies exploit. He was raised to believe the way to protect someone is to own them.

Killing her would be foolish. Releasing her would be suicidal.

So Devil takes her.

But the man who wants Sabine alive is far worse than the man who took her. Aurel Vaska doesn't want to break her blood. He wants to use it to build a binding that can never be broken and put a chain on every House in the Northwest. Including Thane's. He's already taken her brother. He's already bought her mentor. And there's a traitor inside the Seraphs whose hands have been feeding Vaska for thirty years.

Now Thane has a choice no Sorrell has ever faced. Hold her the way his father taught him. Or become the one man in his bloodline willing to lose her rather than keep her by force.

Because a blood bond can make you feel someone. It can't make you love them.

And when the chain comes off, only what's real will be left.