Bodie "Trigger" Mercer is the perfect Vice cold, ruthless, and utterly devoid of emotion. Five years ago, he earned his name by executing his best friend, Cale Rhodes, a patched member who betrayed the Hell's Disciples MC. The job cost Trigger his heart but cemented his The club comes first.Now, the ghost of that betrayal is back.Julia "Halo" Quinn has spent five years gathering intel, consumed by vengeance against the monsters who murdered her brother... moreBodie "Trigger" Mercer is the perfect Vice cold, ruthless, and utterly devoid of emotion. Five years ago, he earned his name by executing his best friend, Cale Rhodes, a patched member who betrayed the Hell's Disciples MC. The job cost Trigger his heart but cemented his The club comes first.Now, the ghost of that betrayal is back.Julia "Halo" Quinn has spent five years gathering intel, consumed by vengeance against the monsters who murdered her brother. Unaware Cale was the true rat, Julia strikes a dangerous bargain with the rival Crimson Havoc, handing over the Disciples' secrets for one total annihilation.But when Trigger finally tracks Julia down, the icy logic that rules his world shatters. He finds himself battling the sharp, defiant intelligence of his enemy, and the immediate, possessive heat of a desire he ruthlessly suppressed years ago. He is there to eliminate the threat—but the bullet he took for her instead.Now, with the Disciples wounded, Trigger bleeding out, and Julia captured and tortured by the Havoc, both must face the devastating Julia’s body betrayed her hatred for the man who pulled the trigger. Trigger’s loyalty failed only when he chose to protect the woman who tried to destroy him.In a world where love is weakness and betrayal is punished by death, Trigger and Julia are tethered by the twin scars of war. The only way out is together, but their love was forged in blood, and the cost of keeping it might just be the total destruction of the club he swore to protect.The war is over. The reckoning has just begun. less