Torque's Trial

A trust fund dealer destroyed her business. Now a Marine mechanic will crush him with working-class justice. Sadie Mitchell built Rise & Grind from nothing—four years of three AM wake-ups serving Marines breakfast, her grandmother's legacy in every cinnamon roll. But when she discovered her boyfriend Tyler Hoffman was using her bakery to move prescription opioids and threw him out, the dealer decided women who defy him don't survive. Destroyed her equipment. Threatened her life. Made her a target for enforcers who think family money makes them untouchable. Torque didn't plan on claiming a woman. The Leatherneck Brotherhood enforcer maintains compound security with the same obsessive precision he used keeping AAVs mission-ready for fifteen years—trying to prevent the failures that haunt him from Marines who died when equipment broke during combat. But when he finds Sadie cleaning destroyed pastries with shaking hands, every protective instinct roars to life. She's his to defend. Anyone who threatens her dies. Sadie fights beside his brotherhood when Tyler's assault teams hit their compound. Proves she's warrior enough to handle his brutal world. Makes him want something beyond solo operations for the first time since leaving the Corps. But Tyler escalates with desperate dealers and family wealth that makes him believe money protects him. He's about to learn what happens when you threaten a Marine mechanic's woman. Torque will eliminate every threat with the same precision he used keeping Marines alive. Sadie's his to claim, his to keep, his to maintain with tools and blood until the only thing left standing is their future together. Semper Fi means forever. So does his claiming.