Shadow: Guardians of Mayhem MC Novella Series | Edgewood Chapter (Book 6)

He's spent his whole life taking care of everyone else. She's been frozen in grief for three years. When the truth about her husband's death drags them together, neither of them is prepared for what comes next.

SHADOW

I don't take things for myself. Never have. I raised my siblings when our mom died. I keep the club running from the background. I watch, I protect, I disappear.

That's just who I am.

But I've been digging into a three-year-old fire. The one that killed my best friend Cole. The one that started a war with the wrong enemy. And the deeper I dig, the closer I get to his widow—the woman I've been avoiding since the funeral because looking at her makes me feel things I have no right to feel.

Ava sees me. Really sees me. Not the quiet guy in the background. Not the fixer who handles problems and asks for nothing. She sees Shawn—the man underneath. And wanting her feels like the worst kind of betrayal.

Cole was my brother. She was his wife.

But Cole's been gone for three years. And I can't stay invisible forever.

AVA

I stopped feeling the night my husband died.

Three years of going through the motions. Running my bakery. Smiling at customers. Pretending I'm fine when I'm hollow inside.

Then Shadow walked through my door asking questions about Cole—and everything I'd kept frozen started to thaw.

He's quiet where Cole was loud. Guarded where Cole was open. But when he looks at me, I feel something I haven't felt in years. And when he touches me, I remember what it means to be alive.

Now someone's trying to bury the truth about that fire. Someone who'll kill to keep their secret hidden.

Shadow thinks he doesn't deserve me. He's wrong.

And I'll burn down anyone who tries to take him from me.

The man who killed her husband is still out there. The truth could destroy everything. And the only way forward is through the fire.

When a killer's desperate moves put Ava in the crosshairs, Shadow will have to choose between the vengeance burning in his blood and the woman who finally made him want something for himself. Some secrets are worth dying for. She's worth living for.

Shadow is Book 6 in the Guardians of Mayhem MC series. This full-length romance features a protector who's never let himself want anything, a widow learning to feel again, a murdered husband's blessing from beyond the grave, steamy scenes, and a guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhanger.