Ace & Ember (2026)

This adult dark romance is the next installment in Kate Crews spicy The Mavericks series, featuring a brothers best friend, enemies to lovers, forbidden romance, biker romance, a morally gray male main character and found family. Evie Emberson is smart-mouthed, confident and relentless, especially when searching for answers. She is a hacker with a past that refuses to stay buried, so keeping a low profile is not her strong suit, particularly when Aiden Ace Callahan is around. Aiden is her brothers best friend, brooding, loyal and full of contradictions. As a member of a motorcycle gang, he lives by a code, and its first rule is not to touch Evie. But she is no longer a child. She is fire, chaos and everything he should not want. Getting involved could destroy the only family he has ever had, yet walking away becomes harder every day. When stolen glances turn into something darker and hotter, they pass the point of no return, and the more they try to hide their relationship, the more it threatens to consume them.