Charring Bones: The KORT Series, Book 4

Some wounds don't heal—they fester, sharpen, and wait for the perfect moment to strike back.

Gage Porter has spent years building himself into something dangerous. As lead enforcer for KORT, he's learned that patience is its own kind of power. So when Ainsley Morelli—the woman who once sent him to his grave with a smile on her face—stumbles into his territory as a wanted fugitive, he isn't surprised. He's ready. She left him with nothing but rage and a hunger for retribution, and now the universe has delivered her directly into his hands.

Ainsley has survived the Morelli name by trading one deception for another. Betrayal, loyalty, freedom, fear—she knows them all intimately. Running was supposed to save her. Instead, it leads her straight to the one man she never stopped thinking about, the one she wronged in ways she can't take back. Gage isn't the man she remembers. He's colder now. More controlled. And he's holding something far more dangerous than a grudge.

Set against a world of brutal power, dark desires, and secrets that could destroy entire empires, *Charring Bones* is a scorching, tension-saturated slow burn that refuses to play by anyone's rules. The line between punishment and pleasure has never been thinner, and neither Gage nor Ainsley can afford to fall—but falling was never really a choice.

Some fires don't just burn. They consume everything.