Undertow's Promise

He walked into her salon for a haircut. He stayed because the woman with the scissors and the switchblade was his the moment she told a man with a knife to get out of her shop.

Lorraine Becker built her salon from nothing — one client at a time, one vintage cut at a time, one woman who sat in her chair and left feeling like she mattered. When a fencing king decides her corner lot is the perfect front for dirty money, he expects a woman alone to fold.

Wrong woman.

Undertow, the Marauders' extraction specialist, wasn't looking for a reason to stay. But a red-haired stylist holding a switchblade while men bleed on her vintage tile tends to change a man's plans. He puts himself between her and the threat — not because she asked, but because the rescue swimmer who lost a child in open water has finally found someone worth holding onto.

Travis Kilmer has enforcers, informants, and a network that sees inside half the homes in Memphis.

Undertow has hands that don't let go.

In Memphis, the current always pulls you somewhere — if you're brave enough to stop fighting it.

Some men reach to save strangers. Some reach for the woman who taught them to be saved.