Chrome & RosesA Biker Romance NovelSome roads are marked forbidden for a reason. She took it anyway.Ellie Marsh built her life one careful choice at a time. Three years of culinary school, two years of early mornings and tight budgets, and one small but thriving catering business called Sugar & Salt — all of it hers, all of it earned. She knows who she is and what she's worked for. What she doesn't know is that one wrong delivery address is about to change everything.Rafe Santos is the president of the Iron Saints MC, a man who has run Hollow Creek's most dangerous motorcycle club since he was twenty-three years old. He is measured, controlled, and not accustomed to being surprised. Then a caterer with flour on her apron walks into the Devil's Spoke bar and charges him two dollars for a sample tart — and doesn't flinch when he tells her who he is.He can't stop thinking about her.Between them stands everything that should make this impossible: a fifteen-year rivalry between the Iron Saints and the Road Kings that has left men hospitalized and roads divided, a club that watches Rafe's every move, and a woman who has spent years building something clean in a town that runs dirty.Ellie knows the math. She knows what Dutch meant when he said nerve doesn't stop bullets. She knows that loving a man like Rafe Santos means living at the edge of a world she was never meant to enter.She goes on the ride anyway.Chrome & Roses is a slow-burn rivals-to-lovers romance about two people who are wrong for each other in every way that can be measured — and right for each other in the only way that matters. It is a story about chosen loyalty, the cost of love in a divided world, and the particular courage it takes to reach for something beautiful when you know it might not survive the road ahead.Some things are still good even when they don't look how you planned.