Pylon's Persistence

She managed sixty families. He couldn't save one Marine.

Drew Castellano left corrections after eight years because the job was hollowing her out. Now she manages Pineview Apartments—sixty units of military families and working-class tenants who can't afford to move. When she spots prison-built men paying cash for three units on the same weekend and sees Vince Torello in her parking lot, the recognition is instant. Twelve years ago she testified that he should never be released. He smiles across the lot, and the smile says everything about what comes next.

Pylon didn't leave the Marines for the brotherhood. The former MP watched a Marine die in custody from injuries nobody reported, filed the truth, and got stonewalled. Now he's Battle Born's most disciplined enforcer—controlled, principled, and unable to stop checking locks because the one time he trusted the system, a man died on his watch.

Drew doesn't need a guard who never goes off duty. She needs someone who understands that standing watch and standing down are both acts of courage. And Pylon hasn't stood down since the brig.

But Torello waited twelve years for revenge, and sixty families are caught between his vendetta and the woman who put him away. And Pylon won't stop until the man who turned an apartment complex into a prison yard is finished and every family in that building can lock their door without fear.

Pylon's Persistence is book 20 in the Battle Born MC series. Guaranteed HEA, no cheating, no cliffhangers.