A Virgin & A Detroit Menace Essence Grant has spent her life coloring inside the lines—book smart soft-spoken and still a virgin at twenty-two. Folks call it “innocent.” To Essence it’s a weight. She wants love that feels alive—real messy heart-thudding. She just never imagined it would show up covered in tattoos a six-foot muscular frame and danger—and that quiet BDE Detroit women whisper about. Riot McCree isn’t a lover boy—he’s a menace. The name people say under their breath. The man mamas pray their daughters never meet. Cold when he has to be ruthless by design he runs his world with an iron hand and no apologies. Then his path collides with Essence—and the one thing he never planned for happens. She gets under his skin. She’s a virgin. He’s temptation in human form. She’s soft. He’s street-made and heavy with sin. Curiosity turns to gravity. The closer Essence drifts the more she learns danger has a heartbea