Blackout's Salvation

She groomed dogs. He brought the darkness. Together, they're about to burn down an empire.

Tessa Brennan has spent three years building something that's hers—a Sunset Park grooming shop that serves the neighborhood, one nervous rescue at a time. But when a developer decides her block belongs to him, Tessa finds herself beaten, burned out, and crawling through smoke with nothing but rage and a pair of grooming shears buried in her attacker's shoulder.

Then he walks into her hospital room.

Blackout didn't become the Empire Kings' demolitions expert by staying in the light. He's spent years bringing darkness to the club's enemies, smiling about destruction because it's easier than admitting what the explosion in Iraq took from him. When Medina's arsons push into Kings territory, Blackout sees a problem to solve.

What he doesn't expect is her.

Tessa Brennan with her calloused hands and sharper tongue. Tessa who crawled out of a burning building and started planning revenge before the flames died. Tessa who looks at his scars—the burns, the missing finger—like they're just part of the man she's choosing to trust.

She's not supposed to matter. She's just a woman caught in a territorial war.

But when Blackout claims her as his to protect, the line between mission and obsession disappears. Because Tessa isn't just under his protection anymore.

She's becoming his reason to build instead of destroy.

As Medina's attacks escalate from arson to assault to all-out war, Blackout will have to choose: the darkness that defines him or the woman who makes him want the light. But Tessa isn't asking him to choose. She's standing beside him, wrench in hand, ready to fight for both.

In Sunset Park, love is forged in fire. Loyalty is paid in blood. And when a demolitions expert finds something worth building, nothing will stop him from claiming her.

Blackout's Salvation is the seventh standalone MC romance in the Empire Kings MC Series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.