Husk's Hunger

She gave him twenty dollars for day work. He gave her three dead lieutenants and a war. Danielle Price has one mission: prove foster kids can make it. After aging out with nothing but a garbage bag of clothes, she built Second Life Thrift from scratch—sourcing value from what others discarded, hiring teenagers the system forgot, refusing to break no matter how hard the world pushed. Then a Long Island crew decides her store would make a perfect front for their operation. And they don't take no for an answer. Husk has been nothing his whole life. Bounced through twelve foster homes, aged out invisible, surviving on day labor and the fading hope that someone might see him as worth keeping. The Gotham Reapers gave him brothers. Prospecting gave him purpose. But the thrift store owner who hired him two years ago—who paid him fair and told him to come back—she gave him something he'd never had before: proof that he mattered. Now Mitchell's crew is burning her dreams to ash, his club is mobilizing for war, and the woman who saw value in a hungry kid is sleeping in his bed. Danielle's about to learn that some men protect with violence—and Husk's about to discover that belonging means having something worth killing for. His woman. His patch. Anyone who touches her dies. Husk's Hunger 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 19 in the Gotham Reapers series.