Novel Web Romance & Cerita Badboy Weak to Strong First-Person POV

Ezra King learned early that love comes with a price, so he stopped paying it. He just took what he wanted and left before anyone could leave him first. Now he's a selfmade billionaire, owner of the fastest growing tech company in the country, running from a past that still owns him while he drowns himself in work and women. Until he meets Carissa, his new private Chef whose presence unravels him. She sees straight through the armor he's spent a lifetime building but she refuses to either fix him or flee from him, which unsettles Ezra more than either would. He sees a woman who has never once needed anything he could buy. Carissa Davis, a young talented Chef in urgent need of money to pay off the mortgage on her parents house seeing as her dad is too proud to admit his need for help. She took the job in Ezra's mansion to help her family. She told herself she would just do her job and stay away from her charming boss. But she was wrong. Something deeper than she could understand draws her to him. She's terrified, way more than she'll admit, because wanting him means risking the one thing she's always protected; herself. Between his hunger for a love he doesn't believe he deserves and her fear of being consumed by a man she can't save, something neither of them chooses starts to grow. He'll have to stop running. She'll have to stop rescuing. And both of them will have to face the need for grace, more than either has ever given anyone.

Claire Bennett has spent years pretending she has the perfect life. She married her high school sweetheart at nineteen, stood beside him as he became sheriff, and learned exactly how much makeup it takes to hide the bruises he leaves behind. No one knows what Grant Bennett is really like behind closed doors. Until Claire finds a USB hidden beneath his dresser. She has no idea what is on it, but Grant’s reaction tells her one thing—he is willing to kill to get it back. When their five-year-old daughter, Lilly, throws herself between them during his latest attack, Claire finally fights back. She takes Lilly, the USB, and runs to the one man Grant would never expect her to trust. Nick Salazar. President of the Iron Saints MC. Nick knew Claire long before she became Mrs. Bennett. Once, she was the kid he looked out for. Now she is a grown woman standing at his gates with bruises on her skin, fear in her eyes, and a sheriff hunting her down. Nick gives her protection. Then his club discovers what is on the USB. Names. Ages. Motels. Transfers. Payments. Messages clearing county roads and delaying police reports. Evidence of a sex-trafficking operation. And Grant’s name is buried all through it. Claire didn’t just escape an abusive husband. She stole the evidence that could destroy a network of powerful men, and now they all want her silenced. While the Iron Saints fight to keep Claire and Lilly alive, the connection growing between Claire and Nick becomes harder to ignore. Nick refuses to control her. Claire refuses to be owned again. But Grant still believes his wife belongs to him. And if he wants her back, he is going to have to come through him.