Ripper's Rage

He makes problems disappear with harvest-patience and lethal precision. She's been protecting others her whole life. When an underground fighting circuit targets her gym, only an outlaw enforcer can deliver the justice the law won't touch.

Nicole Brooks walked away from a promising MMA career when she saw what the sport did to fighters without protection—including her brother, whose brain was destroyed by promoters who treated him like livestock. She built a self-defense gym in Marion, Alabama, teaching women and kids to fight back. When one of her students is carved up as a warning and Grimaldi's enforcers come to finish the message, Nicole refuses to run. She's spent her whole life standing her ground against dangerous men.

Then Ripper crashes through her window with a tire iron.

Dylan "Ripper" Hayes is the Crimson Kings' quietest enforcer—former harvest worker who watched his cousin beaten to death in an underground fighting cage while rich men placed bets. He's spent thirteen years waiting for a chance to destroy men like Nathan Grimaldi. When the promoter's operation spreads into club territory, taking men from families the Kings protect, Ripper volunteers for the mission. One look at Nicole's fierce courage facing down enforcers with nothing but a baseball bat, and Ripper knows—she's his.

But claiming the fighter means war with Grimaldi's empire—professional killers, corrupt cops, and a promoter who's destroyed lives for fifteen years without consequence. Ripper doesn't care. He'll bury every one of them in Alabama red clay before letting anyone touch his woman.

Nicole never wanted an outlaw's protection. But when Ripper's possessive claiming makes her feel cherished instead of controlled, when his brutal violence eliminates the men who carved up her student, when she fights beside his brotherhood and he loves her fiercer for it—she chooses the dangerous enforcer over standing alone.

Together they'll hunt the enforcers terrorizing their territory, defend the compound against an army of fighters-turned-soldiers, and prove that some debts can only be paid in blood.

He'll defend her with harvest-hardened patience and explosive violence. She'll stand beside him and fight. Some claiming is forged in fire and sealed in red clay.