Rio (Redcars Book 3)

Hunted by killers. Protected by a monster. Lyric Thornwood is on the run his name stamped on a kill order flooding the dark web. Someone inside the system wants him erased—and Marcus Kessler the billionaire who twisted Lyric’s stolen code into the murderous AI LyricNight is hunting him like prey. Desperate and alone Lyric follows a ghost contact to a rundown LA garage. What he finds there isn’t safety—it’s Rio Villareal. Rio doesn’t care about code firewalls or ghost signals. He knows fists loyalty and the kind of violence that keeps his found family alive. When Lyric crashes into his world Rio should walk away. Instead he claims the stranger as his responsibility—and maybe something more. Rio is a dark explosive story of found family and recovery scarred by violence. With a hunted hacker a fighter built for blood and an AI hell-bent on revenge survival comes at a cost—and only obsession might be enough to keep them alive.