Hardpan's Rampage

She built her life from other people's leavings. He'd burn down anyone who tried to take it.

Cassidy Ridgeway has spent fifteen years turning forgotten things into a thriving business. Her vintage shop in Pahrump is everything she has—built from her dead grandmother's collections, filled with pieces nobody else saw value in. She doesn't need rescuing, doesn't want a protector, and definitely doesn't have time for the quiet biker who's been finding excuses to visit her shop for eighteen months.

Then a theft ring decides her expertise would make the perfect front for fencing stolen goods—and when she tells them to go to hell, they smash her cases, give her a black eye, and plant fifty thousand dollars in stolen jewelry in her back room.

Hardpan has been riding with the Death Valley Demons long enough to know when someone's being set up. He's also spent eighteen months walking into Desert Relics, pretending to check on a mining lantern, and walking out again because a woman who sees beauty in broken things deserves better than a man with blood on his hands.

But when he finds two thugs sitting in her showroom while she sweeps broken glass with her face swelling shut—he stops pretending.

Now Cassidy's caught in a war between the club and a man who won't stop until he owns her. Her shop is destroyed. Her home is ashes. And the only safe place left is a motorcycle club compound where a man with chemical-scarred hands touches her like she's the most valuable thing he's ever found.

She should run from what he is. Instead, she's falling for the only person who's ever seen her the way she sees the world—worth fighting for, worth keeping, worth everything.

In Death Valley, the desert decides who survives. But Cassidy isn't just surviving—and Hardpan will bury anyone who tries to break what's his.

Hardpan's Rampage is Book 8 in the Death Valley Demons MC series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.