Magnum's Fortress

Storm uncovered a trafficking ring that can make her vanish, so she runs with her phone sealed in a signal-blocking bag until a reporter friend delivers her to the Birmingham motorcycle club.

They hide her in the secluded lake house of Magnum, a snapping-turtle shifter with a dark past, genius hacking talent, and fierce loyalty to the bikers who became his chosen family.

Still rebuilding a life that was stolen from him, he resents having a human journalist forced into his isolation, yet he agrees to shield her from the elite squad on her trail because she is hunting Gears’ missing brother.

Storm soon learns he is also an IT and security expert who reads her too clearly, including the part of her that has spent years craving a Dominant with the resolve to enforce non-negotiable rules.

Under his high-protocol authority she finally finds the structure she wanted, even as the club closes in on a stronghold most law enforcement would never dare touch and more victims are killed and taken every other month.

To serve as the public face of the rescue she must leave Alabama so the operation cannot be traced to the MC, walking away from the stubborn genius who claimed her and wondering how chaotic Pennsylvania can ever feel like home again.