Torque's Tribulation

She was fighting a war she couldn't win. He was a mechanic who spoke to engines—and he'd just made her survival his mission.

Sophie Brennan spent four years building Wildflower Designs from nothing. When a crime family decided her building was in their way, she watched everything she'd created get systematically destroyed—because women like her survive alone or they don't survive at all.

She never expected a biker with grease-stained hands to change everything.

He's the Black Hills Riders' master mechanic. Patient. Precise. And completely unprepared for her.

Mason "Torque" Hayes spent eighteen years rebuilding engines other mechanics would scrap and three more convincing himself machines were enough. When he finds Sophie cornered in her shop by enforcers, something shifts. She's not a target. She's not a mission.

She's his.

What starts as protection becomes possession—a claiming that burns hotter with every battle they survive together. But the crime boss who wants her building has resources, patience, and a reputation for making problems disappear. He's already sent his best enforcers.

None of them are coming back.

In the Black Hills, some men speak through their hands and protect with everything they have. And Torque is about to show a crime family what happens when you threaten something that belongs to him.

This book was previously published under a different pen name.