Plague's Protection

She told a crime boss no. A dangerous biker made her his. Ellie Vega has spent three years fighting alone. Running her aunt's twenty-four-hour laundromat in Newark's Ironbound, she's the only safe harbor for women walking home from night shifts—and the only business owner who won't sell to Raymond Gallo, the real estate predator who's been bleeding the neighborhood for thirty years. When Gallo's enforcers firebomb her building and give her forty-eight hours to sign, Ellie refuses to break. She's handled worse. She's survived worse. She's never met anyone like Plague. He built an empire on blood and brotherhood. She made him want more. Dominic "Plague" Carvalho founded Creeping Death MC to protect the neighborhood that killed his mother—one body at a time. When he walks into a burned-out laundromat and finds a woman with bruised wrists and a spine of steel, something shifts. She's in his territory. That makes her his problem. But Ellie Vega isn't a problem. She's a revelation. As Gallo's organization crumbles under Creeping Death's assault, Plague discovers that protecting Ellie isn't enough. He wants to claim her—in front of his brothers, in front of the whole damn neighborhood. And Ellie's learning that fighting alone was never strength. It was just lonely. In Newark's industrial heart, where refinery flames paint the sky and violence is the only language predators understand, one woman will find her place in a world of leather and chrome—and one dangerous man will finally find his home.