Grit's Reckoning

He eliminates threats with brutal efficiency. She's been running for three years. When a mob family hunts her through Alabama, only an outlaw enforcer can protect what the law won't.

Kate Moretti has been running for three years. Sold to a mob heir by her gambling-addict father, she survived five years of violence before witnessing her husband commit murder and fleeing for her life. Now Vincent Moretti's tracker has found her at an Alabama truck stop, and professional killers are closing in. When the law can't touch organized crime money, Kate knows the system has abandoned her—unless she finds protection no badge can provide.

Then Grit crashes into her nightmare on a Harley.

Tommy "Grit" Webb is the Crimson Kings' enforcer—former construction worker who watched his brother die because corporate profits mattered more than safety, now protecting forgotten people with brutal violence. He fights for those the system crushes, eliminates predators who view human beings as property, and won't let another person fall through the cracks. When mob soldiers hunt a woman through his territory, beating locals for information, Grit doesn't negotiate. He eliminates threats permanently.

One look at Kate's fierce courage refusing to break after eight years of hell, and Grit knows—she's his.

But claiming the survivor means war with the Moretti crime family—Vincent's professional killers, his father's army of soldiers, and the full weight of Gulf Coast organized crime descending on Alabama. Grit doesn't care. He'll bury every one of them in red clay before letting anyone drag his woman back to a monster.

Kate never wanted an outlaw's protection. But when Grit's possessive claiming makes her feel cherished instead of owned, when his brutal violence eliminates the men who've haunted her nightmares, when she fights beside his brotherhood and he loves her fiercer for it—she chooses the dangerous enforcer over running alone.

Together they'll hunt the mob soldiers terrorizing their territory, defend the compound against an army bent on revenge, and prove that some protection requires men willing to kill without hesitation.

He'll defend her with construction-hardened fists. She'll stand beside him and fight. Some claiming is built on fierce devotion.