Scrapper's Salvation

She sold him lumber at cost for a year. He never once asked why. They both knew.

Rita Molloy doesn't need a motorcycle club. She needs her cutting counter to stay standing, her yard crew to keep their hours, and her dead father's name to stop following her through every door in Benson. But when a man with a twenty-seven-year grudge sends collectors to her lumber yard, the patched brother who's been watching her from aisle three steps between her and the violence — and refuses to step back.

Scrapper hasn't belonged to anyone since the group home. He built his house alone at four in the morning with lumber he couldn't pay for, and he's kept every feeling behind a counter he was afraid to cross. Then a loud, stubborn yard boss swings a two-by-four across a man's jaw and rearranges his entire life in one afternoon.

She won't quit her counter. He won't let her out of his sight. And the man who wants her dead has been patient for three decades and isn't going to stop sending crews until someone puts him in the ground.

As the body count rises and the threats close in, Rita discovers that the most dangerous man in the Arizona desert is the one who'd tear down everything he's built to keep her safe — and that the safest place she's ever stood is beside a man who spent thirty-five years belonging to nobody and chose her. But claiming a patched brother means accepting a life where violence is the price of protection and the man she loves carries a darkness he may never put down.

She's going to argue with him about it for the rest of her life.

Scrapper's Salvation is Book 18 of the Tombstone MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.