Christmas Mercy (Saints & Sinners Christmas: A Hellfire MC Series Book 1)

Winnie

I’ve spent seven years raising my teenage brother alone, working myself to exhaustion at the hospital, and avoiding anything that reminds me of the motorcycle club that killed my parents. So when I volunteer at Millfield’s Christmas tree lighting and lock eyes with a silver-haired biker twenty years older than me, I should walk away.

But Wade Cross—the Hellfire Saints’ chaplain they call Mercy—makes me feel safe for the first time since I became the adult at eighteen. He’s patient where I’m frayed, calm where I’m struggling, and the way he looks at me makes me forget every reason this is a terrible idea.

Until I discover he’s hiding a violent past that cost him eight years in prison and his daughter’s childhood. Until the rival MC starts claiming me as “property” because my brother’s joining their club. Until the Christmas Eve I have to choose between hiding from the danger or fighting for the family I’m building with a man who’s spent two decades earning his redemption.

Wade thinks his past makes him unworthy of a future. I’m going to prove him wrong—if we survive the night.

I’ve spent twenty years controlling the rage that put me in prison, cost me my daughter’s childhood, and turned me into someone I didn’t recognize. As the Hellfire Saints’ chaplain, I’m the voice of reason, the one who talks the hotheads down, the man who chose mercy over the violence that once consumed me.

Then Winnie Reeves walks into my life—twenty-five, brilliant, raising her teenage brother alone, and everything I don’t deserve. She’s terrified of motorcycle clubs but volunteers at our toy drive anyway. She’s got walls I recognize because I built the same ones. And when she looks at me, I see something I haven’t seen in two decades: a second chance.

But my past won’t stay buried. The rival MC that’s been targeting my club just recruited her brother, and their enforcer is the brother of the kid I failed to save twenty years ago. He wants revenge, and he’s willing to destroy Winnie to get it.

When Christmas Eve forces me to choose between chasing the man who’s kidnapping the woman I love and saving her dying brother, I finally understand what mercy really costs. And I pray to God I’m strong enough to choose it one more time.