THE RIDER BENEATH THE MASKUpdated at May 18, 2026, 06:44
They erased her brother’s name. Now she’s tearing through their empire to reclaim the truth.
Zara Okafor lives by one rule: never get attached, never get caught. By day, she restores vintage bikes no one else can fix. By night, she’s the anonymous rider known as Black Pulse, a shadow dominating the city’s outlaw endurance runs.
Everything collapses when a staged crash exposes her identity in front of Ronan Vale, the ruthless operations head of the Black Dominion Syndicate the same organization blamed for the financial ruin and mysterious death of her older brother.
Now Zara is trapped with a debt she can’t outrun.
Ronan gives her one option: ride for the Dominion in the citywide Circuit Trials, a brutal competition that decides control over transport routes, smuggling lanes, and underground markets. In exchange, her debt disappears. Refusal isn’t an option.
Living inside Ronan’s world forces Zara to confront a truth she never expected her brother may not have been betrayed by the Dominion… but by someone far closer. And Ronan? He’s not the monster she trained herself to hate.
As secrets unravel and attraction ignites, Zara and Ronan find themselves on opposite sides of loyalty, power, and justice. Because in their world, exposure means death and loving the wrong person could cost them everything.
She came to burn it down.
She stayed to uncover the truth.
She’ll decide who deserves to survive.