Bound to the Backroom

by Vivian Cross

Heat 4 / 5 · 21+One-Shot3,103 words13m read~21m listen

The Backroom club is supposed to be empty at 3 a.m. Gwen Sloan is supposed to be alone.

As Blackridge’s night-shift manager, she knows every lock, every ledger, every secret buried beneath the Midtown hotel that houses the city’s most dangerous backroom deals. She also knows that a handwritten debt note — one with a name on it and a dawn timestamp — has gone missing from the safe. What she doesn’t know is that the man who took it is already watching her from the shadows.

Zane Hale is a Chicago crew boss who has no business being in Manhattan, and every reason to be. The note in his pocket could ignite a war between two crime empires. The woman cornered against the walk-in door knows exactly where the bodies are buried — including one that should have been his to grieve. He came for leverage. He didn’t come for the truth she’s been carrying.

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