Butcher's Blade

The night Princess’s engine died, the Mississippi heat was a living thing—thick, humming, and mean. Her sleek car sat useless on a back road outside Natchez, her old life burning up in the rearview, when a lone bike rolled out of the dark.

Ten years earlier, Butcher had left the Royal Bastards MC and never looked back. No patch on his cut, no brothers at his side, just a small garage, grease under his nails, and the steady comfort of engines that did what they were told. He kept his head down, swallowed his temper, and pretended the blood on his memories had finally washed away.

Then a woman with diamond-sharp sarcasm and a smile that didn’t reach her eyes knocked on his shop door, smelling like money, fear, and trouble that wouldn’t stay on the highway where he found her.

Princess walked away from a life built on power and privilege, carrying enemies who didn’t forgive and never forgot. She knows better than to lean on any man with a past like Butcher’s—and he’s done watching over people who end up in the ground. But a storm-soaked night in his spare room turns into shared coffee, shared silences, and the slow, dangerous recognition in each other’s damage.

When the hunters on her trail draw the old club back into his orbit, Butcher’s quiet life starts to feel like a lie he told himself to get through the dark. To keep her breathing, he’ll have to pick up the blade he swore he’d buried for good, even if it cuts straight through the fragile peace he’s managed to build.

Butcher’s Blade opens the Savage Bastards MC saga with a love that tastes like gasoline and gunpowder, and the kind of loyalty that always leaves scars.