Backroad's Bargain

He poisoned her well to destroy her farm—until a patient navigator claimed her as his.

Rachel Mello is watching her legacy die. Someone poisoned her irrigation well, destroying $80,000 in crops and threatening the organic farm her grandparents built with their lives. When Harrison Whitfield III offers to buy her "worthless contaminated land" for pennies and tells her to go back where she came from, Rachel knows the aristocratic developer will destroy her the way he's eliminated fifteen other family farms---unless she finds protection the system won't provide.

Then Backroad arrives on a rumbling Harley.

Danny "Backroad" Pierce is the Crimson Kings Road Captain everyone trusts---fifteen years of Alabama backroads wrapped in steady calm, the navigator who gets brothers home safe through any chaos. Twenty-one years ago, corporate predators destroyed his father's farm and drove him to suicide while Backroad was on the road unable to help. He'll eliminate Whitfield's entire operation before letting another farmer lose their legacy.

One look at Rachel's fierce determination and agricultural intelligence, and Backroad knows---she's his.

But claiming the farmer means war with a developer who commands ex-cop security and owns judges throughout Alabama. Backroad doesn't care. He'll bury aristocrats in their own developments before letting anyone threaten his woman's farm.

Rachel never wanted to need an outlaw's protection. But when Backroad's possessive claiming makes her feel cherished instead of controlled, when his navigation eliminates threats the law ignores, when she kills to protect his brotherhood and he loves her fiercer for it---she chooses the steady Road Captain over every safer option.

Together they'll hunt the predator destroying family farms, defend agricultural communities with brutal efficiency, and prove that some legacy is worth the blood it costs to protect.

He'll kill to defend her farm. She'll stand beside him and fight. Some claiming is built on family land.