Marlin's Catch

She wouldn't sell. He wouldn't leave. Darla Kingsley has spent two years keeping her grandmother's bakery alive on a side street in Daytona Beach. She's handled four AM shifts, Saturday morning lines, and a grandmother who still critiques her bread every single day. But when a developer's enforcers slash her tires and spray-paint threats across her van, she's outnumbered and outgunned—until a Daytona Raider walks in for a birthday cake and refuses to walk back out. He came for a shark cake. He stayed for the war. Marlin hasn't let himself want anything since a hurricane and a predatory loan took everything his family built. The club comes first. The coast comes first. But when he finds Darla standing in her flour-dusted kitchen with fury on her face and a forty-year legacy under siege, something locks into place. She's his. She just doesn't know it yet. The block was hers. The fight is his. Leon Braddock has been bulldozing businesses off the waterfront for years. Now he's made the mistake of targeting a woman under Raider protection—and the Daytona Raiders don't forgive. As sledgehammers and fire close in on everything Darla's grandmother built, she discovers that the most dangerous thing on the Florida coast isn't the men trying to take her bakery. It's the one man who'd burn the world down to give it back.