Deadbolt's Deliverance

She builds spaces where people belong. He spent a decade locking them out.

Kate Warren built Warren's from nothing—a bookstore and coffee shop in Port Morris where regulars become family and every recommendation comes with a conversation. When a gambling boss decides her back room would make a perfect poker den, Kate does what she's always done.

She tells him exactly what he is. To his face.

Deadbolt spent ten years as a corrections officer at Rikers, learning how to lock doors and keep threats contained. Now he handles extractions and holding operations for the Gotham Reapers, a man who understands confinement better than freedom. He doesn't do soft. Doesn't do open. Doesn't do anything but control access and eliminate problems.

But the woman who runs the bookshop—the one who remembered how he takes his coffee and recommended novels that cracked something open in his chest—is in trouble. And Deadbolt isn't waiting for permission to step in. She gave him the first place that felt like somewhere instead of just anywhere. That makes her his.

Now a gambling empire is closing in, his compound is under assault, and the bookstore owner with the stubborn spine and the warm smile is wearing his ring. Kate's about to learn that some men kill to protect what's theirs—and Deadbolt's about to discover that the right woman can teach a man who locks doors what it means to finally let someone in.

His woman. His to protect. His to keep.

Deadbolt's Deliverance is a full-length, standalone MC romance with a possessive alpha hero, a heroine who never backs down, and an HEA. No cheating, no cliffhanger. This is Book 9 in the Gotham Reapers series.