His Dove on the Canvas

Jack escaped the underground fighting rings at eighteen and tried to build a quiet life far from the father and uncle who murdered his mother.

Silas is PalMerc Security's most dangerous weapon—brilliant, wicked, and the first person to look at Jack as someone worth keeping safe.

To Jack he is sanctuary, a dominant presence who claims him as his dove and steadies old terror with unshakable care.

When those men resurface and drag their threats into the present, Jack acts alone, making a devastating choice he believes will keep Silas and Hale safe even as it rips every wound open.

Silas refuses to lose him, and PalMerc Security tears through every barrier with lethal precision.

Jack's old monsters are about to find out they have picked a fight with PalMerc's deadliest man.