Crown & Ash

He killed her husband. She married him for revenge. She didn't plan to want him alive. Twenty-two years ago, Roman Vance and Camila Sangre shared a passionate, forbidden summer in Mexico City before club loyalties and cartel politics tore them apart. Roman returned to West Texas to eventually become the formidable, emotionally guarded President of the Copperheads Motorcycle Club, while Camila was forced into a suffocating, twenty-year marriage with Alejandro, a ruthless cartel boss. Now, with her husband incapacitated by a stroke and his violent empire fracturing, Camila arrives at the dusty, heavily fortified Copperheads compound with a daring proposition: a strategic marriage between her and Roman to unite their warring factions and legitimize a lucrative border freight corridor. Roman accepts the tactical alliance, bringing the brilliant and calculating cartel queen into his world. What starts as a cold, heavily negotiated business arrangement slowly breaks down the walls they have both built over two decades. As they face off against ruthless cartel loyalists trying to reclaim the territory, the stoic biker president and the resilient cartel survivor must learn to trust each other, dismantle a corrupt empire, and fight for the second chance at love they were denied twenty-two years ago.