Eight years ago, Mara Vale lost her brother in a burning warehouse. And she blamed Cole "Riot" Mercer for surviving. Now the past has found her again. When Mara uncovers a financial trail linking shell companies, public contracts, illegal weapons shipments, and the same mysterious code her brother was investigating before his death, she becomes the target of men willing to kill to protect the truth. Her apartment is searched. Her brother's notebook disappears. Armed men come for her. Then her car explodes seconds before she can get inside. The man who saves her is the last man she wants to trust. Riot. Sergeant-at-arms for the Black Reapers Motorcycle Club. Dangerous. Controlled. Loyal to a fault. And the man Mara believes abandoned her brother to die. Forced into hiding together at an isolated mountain lodge, Mara and Riot have nowhere to escape each other. She wants answers. He is bound by a promise made to her dying brother. Every secret Riot keeps deepens her anger, yet every new piece of evidence suggests the story Mara believed for eight years may be dangerously incomplete. Riot knows exactly why Mara hates him. He let her. Keeping her away from the club was supposed to keep her alive. But the conspiracy Elias uncovered never disappeared. Someone inside the Black Reapers betrayed them, someone is still moving weapons through hidden routes, and now Mara has followed the money straight back into the crossfire. As attacks close in and the traitor hiding behind the patch becomes harder to identify, Mara and Riot are forced to rely on each other for survival. Suspicion turns into reluctant trust. Anger becomes attraction. And the isolated walls meant to protect them begin stripping away every defense they have built. But desire cannot erase eight years of silence. And love will mean nothing if Riot cannot finally give Mara the truth. RIOT'S RECKONING is a gritty forced-proximity motorcycle club romance packed with romantic suspense, enemies-to-lovers tension, buried secrets, protective biker energy, dangerous club loyalties, betrayal, emotional scars, and a hard-earned love forged under fire.
