Claw's Gamble

When a corporate predator tries to drown her dream, she finds salvation in a widowed biker who's forgotten how to feel anything—until her.

Iris Boller spent five years building The Reading Room into Fishtown's literary heart—book clubs, poetry readings, a gathering place for readers who believe stories still matter. But when a ruthless developer buys her building and wants her gone, he doesn't negotiate. He shuts off her heat. Bursts her pipes. Floods her inventory. Then sends men to force her signature on a lease termination.

The lawyers won't help against a man who owns city officials. Insurance won't cover "plumbing accidents." Women who fight developers like Gerald Harding lose everything.

She needs someone who doesn't recognize corporate authority.

Claw buried his heart with his wife seven years ago. Three jobs couldn't save Marie from cancer. He sold everything, worked himself half to death, and still watched her die. Now he's back with Liberty City MC—the only family he has left—trying to remember how to exist without feeling anything at all.

When Claw walks into a flooded bookstore looking for poetry and finds Iris refusing to break, he recognizes something he thought he'd lost forever. Harding escalates with enough money to wage war on anyone who stands in his way. But Liberty City doesn't negotiate with predators—they eliminate them permanently.

Iris proves herself fighting beside brothers through brutal battles, earning respect through her display of backbone. She's not just his second chance—she's the woman who taught a dead man how to live again.

This war ends one way: with Harding's blood on Claw's hands and Iris claimed permanently.