Pike's Awakening

She broke a coffee pot over a mob collector's face. The biker next door made sure no one ever collected again. Tessa Keane has spent three years building a food truck empire from a divorce settlement and sheer stubbornness. She parks at the Red Hook waterfront six days a week, feeds dock workers from dawn to midnight, and tells every extortion collector who shows up at her window to go to hell. None of it prepared her for the night four of them came back with baseball bats. Then Pike shows up at dawn with two cups of coffee. He's the tail gunner of the Brooklyn Brawlers MC. The fastest rider in the club with a death wish grin and road rash scars from a wreck he should not have survived. And from the moment he finds her standing over two broken collectors with a cast-iron skillet raised like a weapon, he knows one thing with absolute certainty: She's his. Pike grew up chasing speed because standing still meant feeling the silence of a father who never looked at him. When Paulie Marchetti's protection racket targets Tessa for refusing to pay, Pike makes it club business. Not because it's tactical. Not because it's smart. Because the woman who swings cast iron at mob enforcers and won't let anyone change her routine is worth going to war to protect. And Tessa? She's going to learn that the fastest man in Brooklyn will burn down a thirty-year criminal empire before he lets anyone touch what's his. But first, she'll have to teach him something no one else ever could. How to stop running. PIKE'S AWAKENING is Book 6 in the Brooklyn Brawlers MC series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.