Primer's Protection

She sat in silence with him for six hours. He decided she was his before she finished the first line.

Ruby Callahan doesn't need a man. She needs her tattoo machine to run clean, her clients to hold still, and the after-hours book she keeps for women who can't pay to stay hidden. But when two collectors walk into Iron Rose at closing time, the quietest man in the Tombstone MC puts himself between her and the door — and never moves back.

Primer hasn't spoken more than ten words at a time in three years. He built his reputation taking things apart — guns, locks, men who made the mistake of standing too close. Then a tattoo artist with steady hands and no fear reads him better in six hours than his brothers have in six years, and the silence he's been hiding in stops feeling like armor and starts feeling like a cage.

She won't be kept. He won't let her go. And the man who bought her name isn't going to stop sending muscle until the account is closed.

As the violence escalates and the bodies stack up, Ruby discovers that the most dangerous man in the Arizona desert is the one who took a gun apart in another man's hands and then picked up the pieces like he was tidying after dinner — and that the only place she's ever felt completely safe is in the arms of a man who doesn't know how to say what he feels but will burn down anyone who threatens what's his.

He's going to learn to use his words. She's going to make him.

Primer's Protection is Book 5 of the Tombstone MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.