Captive in His Colors

I didn't choose the man behind the mask. He chose me.

Twenty-two-year-old Bridie Doyle has one rule left after the year that broke her: stay invisible. Waitressing in the fading river town of Blackwood Creek, she keeps her head down, her rent paid, and her past buried. Then a masked stranger walks into the back room of the Creek's only pub during a private club function — and claims the one dance she never agreed to give.

She doesn't know his face. She knows his voice, low and certain, and the way the room goes silent when he moves through it.

Jesse "Cage" Whitfield is forty-one years old, president of the Ironbark Riders, and a man who has spent two decades making sure nothing — and no one — gets taken from him twice. When a debt from his club's past resurfaces and threatens to collect itself through Bridie, Cage does the only thing that makes sense to a man like him: he claims her first, publicly, completely, before anyone else can reach her.

What starts as a shield becomes something neither of them can control. Cage's restraint is a wall Bridie wasn't meant to get behind — and every night she stays under his protection, it cracks further. She was supposed to be an obligation. Instead, she's the first thing in twenty years he's afraid to lose.

But the enemy circling Blackwood Creek wants Cage's silence more than his money, and the price on Bridie's safety keeps climbing. She'll have to decide if surviving means running from the one man who's never once let her fall — or staying, and trusting a captor who became the only home she's ever chosen for herself.

Tropes: Age-Gap · Masked Stranger · Dark Captor · Motorcycle Club · Small-Town Forbidden · Forced Proximity

Heat level: High — sensual, emotionally explicit, closed-door intimacy. Intended for adult readers 18+. All characters are consenting adults.