Ore's Treasure

She cleaned his building. He claimed her life. Neither of them asked permission.

Dana Kirk doesn't need a motorcycle club. She needs her mortgage payments to stay on time, her cleaning accounts to stop disappearing, and the ex-boyfriend's debt to a border smuggler to stop showing up at her door at six in the morning. But when a fuel kingpin's collectors come through the Last Stand looking for a man she hasn't seen in eighteen months, the sergeant at arms of the Tombstone MC sits up in a booth and refuses to let her handle it alone.

Ore hasn't wanted anything for himself since the mines closed and the pensions walked. He swings a fist for his brothers and keeps his hands steady in the dark, and he's never once looked at a woman the way he looks at the one with the bucket and the ladder who won't stop working long enough to be scared. Then she wrings out a rag and tells four armed men the bar is closed, and his whole life rearranges itself around a woman who doesn't flinch.

She won't quit her jobs. He won't let her out of his sight. And the man sending crews north from Douglas isn't going to stop until he gets what he came for or runs out of men to send.

As the violence escalates and her livelihood is stripped away piece by piece, Dana discovers that the most dangerous man in the Arizona desert is the one who reads her lists without trying to fix them, carries her ladder without being asked, and says the word mine like it's the only fact in the room. But claiming the sergeant at arms of an outlaw MC means accepting that the hands that hold her face are the same ones that put men on the ground — and that the woman he's killing for is the one he'd let burn down his world.

She's going to invoice him for the cleanup.

Ore's Treasure is Book 13 of the Tombstone MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.