Dirge's Destruction

She taught his third-grade class. He killed four men without hesitating. Jasmine Torres has one mission: save the kids everyone else has given up on. After putting herself through college, she came back to Mott Haven to teach at the same school where she learned to read—pouring everything into her students while her gambling-addict brother drags her deeper into debt. The debt that just put a target on her back. Dirge hasn't earned his patch yet. Fresh from the Marines, he's prospecting for the Gotham Reapers, hungry to prove himself and protect the neighborhood that made him. He doesn't do relationships. Doesn't do complications. Doesn't do anything but run errands and wait for his chance to matter. But the teacher with the fierce eyes and the trembling hands makes him want things he hasn't earned. And when a gambling boss sends collectors to squeeze her dry, Dirge isn't waiting for permission to protect her. She came back to save kids like him—that makes her his. Now a predator's operation is hunting her brother, his club is at war, and the woman who swore she'd never need saving is sleeping in his bed. Jasmine's about to learn that some men prove themselves through violence—and Dirge is about to discover that prospects can become protectors. His woman. His neighborhood. Anyone who threatens her dies. Dirge's Destruction is a full-length, standalone MC romance with a possessive alpha hero, a heroine who fights beside him instead of behind him, and an HEA. No cheating, no cliffhanger. This is Book 17 in the Gotham Reapers series.