Recon's Reckoning

A loan shark's protection racket made her a target. Now a Force Recon Marine will wage war to keep her breathing.

Diana Bostoc inherited Fade & Glory barbershop from her father—continuing thirty years of serving Devil Dogs with pride. But when she refused Ulysses Pollard's protection money, one of his enforcers trashed her shop in broad daylight. Then firebombed it with her inside. The message was clear: pay or die.

The cops won't help. Pollard owns them.

She needs someone who doesn't negotiate with predators.

Recon didn't plan on claiming a woman. The Leatherneck Brotherhood Road Captain has spent months mapping Pollard's criminal network, carefully planning the operation that would dismantle it. But when he hears about the assault on Diana's business, every protective instinct Recon buried after losing brothers in Afghanistan roars to life.

She's his to defend. Anyone who threatens her dies.

Diana should run from a man who solves problems with obsessive planning and brutal violence. Instead, she fights beside his brotherhood. Proves she's warrior enough to handle his lethal world. Makes him want something beyond mission focus for the first time since leaving the Corps.

But Pollard's a predator who thinks fifteen years of impunity makes him untouchable. He escalates. Bad idea.

He's about to learn what happens when you threaten a Force Recon Marine's woman.

Recon will eliminate every threat with the same lethal precision he used leading reconnaissance teams behind enemy lines. Diana's not just under his protection—she's his to claim, his to keep, his to defend with bullets and blood until the only thing left standing is their future together.

Semper Fi means forever. So does his claiming.