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by Avery White
Bare Knuckle Hearts - Book 3
Mia fights like she has something to prove.
Dante fights like he has nothing left to lose.
Mia Park grew up under bright lights and clean mats: Gold Standard Gym’s prized striker and her coach-father’s best investment. Tournament belt, sponsorships, a carefully planned career: all she has to do is win on command and never, ever embarrass the family name.
Dante “The Ghost” comes from Iron Corner, where careers are built on bruises and backroom deals. He’s Roman Vega’s favorite weapon and his uncle’s walking paycheck. Good for violent highlight reels, bad for long-term brain cells. The only thing he owns outright is the damage he takes.
When the tournament bracket is stacked to force them into a blood feud, they make a different choice: secret 2 a.m. sparring in a borrowed cage, trading game plans and body shots instead of bad-mouthing each other in interviews. The chemistry is immediate. The trust is worse.
Because in this world, working with the enemy isn’t strategy. It’s betrayal.
As the cameras circle and the money men sharpen their knives, Mia and Dante have to decide what matters more: protecting their gyms’ bad bloodlines…or breaking them. The deeper they fall...for the sport, for each other...the higher the stakes climb. One of them will have their hand raised. Both of them could lose everything.
Family pressure. Rigged brackets. Futures on the line.
In a cage built on old grudges, can two fighters rewrite the rules without getting torn apart?
Bad Bloodlines is a gritty, high-heart MMA romance set in the Bare Knuckle Hearts universe—packed with sweat, slow-burn tension, found-family fighters, and closed-door heat.
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