Hollow's Heart

She fixes what's broken. He eliminates what can't be fixed.Nina Volkov inherited her father's repair shop in Far Rockaway—three bays, honest work, and a reputation built over thirty years. When stolen parts start appearing in her inventory and a frame job threatens to send her to prison, Nina does what she's always done.She refuses to bend.Hollow came back from Afghanistan missing something he can't name. Nineteen confirmed kills, and not one of them cost him a night's sleep. Now he handles long-range problems for the Gotham Reapers and exists in the silence between jobs—empty, patient, waiting for something worth feeling. He doesn't do connection. Doesn't do attachment. Doesn't do anything but the work.But the mechanic who fixes his bike without asking about the blood under his fingernails is being hunted. And Hollow isn't waiting for permission to step in. She exists in the same quiet he does. That makes her his.Now a Ukrainian crime boss is framing her, his compound is under assault, and the woman with the calloused hands and steel spine is in his bed. Nina's about to learn that some men kill to protect what's theirs—and Hollow's about to discover that the right woman doesn't fill the empty spaces. She just makes them feel like home.His woman. His to protect. Anyone who threatens her goes in the ground.Hollow's Heart is a full-length, standalone MC romance with a possessive alpha hero, a heroine who never backs down, and an HEA. No cheating, no cliffhanger. This is Book 8 in the Gotham Reapers series.