EmptyNestWriter
Ryan "Ink" Malone has spent his whole life surviving by staying quiet, staying sharp, and never letting anyone get close enough to see what lives underneath the ink and control. As the Saints of Retribution's intel man, he can read everybody around him except the one person who gets under his skin fast enough to feel like a threat.
ER nurse Evan Roberts is bright, fearless, and completely unapologetic about who he is. He's done hiding for other people's comfort, and he refuses to be anyone's secret. So when the quiet biker with haunted eyes starts circling him, Evan knows better than to expect easy. What he doesn't expect is to want him anyway.
What starts as heat turns into something far more dangerous as old ghosts, buried secrets, and a past Ink thought he escaped come hunting their way back. Because wanting Evan is one thing. Keeping him safe, telling the truth, and learning how to be loved out in the open may cost Ink more than he's ready to lose.