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Series: Bare Knuckle Hearts: An Mma Sports Romance, Book 4
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 370
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Logan Stone Reilly has spent twenty years letting his fists do the talking.
Now his body is answering back.
One brutal war in the cage away from a promised title run, Logan knows he's already taken more damage than any man should. But when the big promotion dangles one last shot at glory-three fights, one ladder to the top-he can't walk away. Not when everyone still looks at him like a legend instead of a man who sometimes forgets how the last round ended.
Enter Asha Patel, the cutwoman with steady hands and zero patience for denial. As a paramedic and the promotion's new safety enforcer, her job is simple: keep fighters alive long enough to walk out of the cage on their own feet. When she's assigned as Logan's primary medical contact, she sees past the Stone persona to the yellow flags in his scans...and the fear he hides behind bad jokes.
Forced to travel, train, and sit through endless tests together, their partnership turns combustible. Clinical touches become charged, late-night diner runs feel like dates, and one stolen hallway kiss crosses a line neither of them can pretend away. But when a brutal weight cut goes wrong and Logan collapses under the brightest lights of his career, Asha draws a harder line: she will not stand by and watch the man she's falling for destroy his brain for a belt.
Now Logan has to face the only fight he's spent his whole life dodging-the one where walking away is the win. With promoters circling, bills piling up, and an entire generation of younger fighters watching, he and Asha have one chance to turn a comeback into something bigger: a future where he isn't just a broken king of an old cage, but the cornerstone of a safer world they build together.
Big fights. Bigger feelings. One gruff, aging legend and the fierce cutwoman who refuses to let him stay blind to what real courage looks like.
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