Brick lives by one rule. Protect the club at all costs. As Devil's Crown MC's silent, iron-willed Sergeant-at-Arms, loyalty is his armor and violence is his language. He doesn't fall in love. He doesn't take an old lady, and he never lets anyone close enough to matter. Until Tessa Hart. Tessa is a social worker with a dangerous habit of caring too much, especially about one at-risk teen the Iron Serpents want to use as leverage. When her life is threatened, Devil's Crown assigns Brick as her personal protection. He was built to be her shield, not her salvation. But danger has a way of blurring lines. As rival MCs circle and threats close in, the bond between Brick and Tessa ignites into something fierce, forbidden, and impossible to ignore. Claiming her makes her his weakness. Losing her would destroy him. Now Brick must choose between the code he's lived by his entire life and the woman who has become his everything.