Hoist's Homestead

She doesn't need saving. She needs men with guns who don't answer to the county.

Hoist has run the Deadwood Hangmen's daily operations with steady hands and a locked-down temper for years. His brothers don't question his chair, and the only thing that's cracked his defenses has been standing on 160 acres of remote canyon land with a deer rifle, telling armed men they're on her property and mean to leave.

Della Voss doesn't need a man. She built her homestead board by board with her own scarred hands — former wildland firefighter, dead shot, allergic to being managed. Her name is on the deed, her water rights predate the county, and she answers to no one — especially not the dangerously steady biker who walked off a fire line and decided her ground was his to defend.

Then a developer who wants her parcel stops sending paper and starts sending fire. Dead livestock. Arson crews. A county that filed her reports in a drawer because the money was louder.

One woman on 160 acres can't hold off what's coming. Saying it out loud costs her more than the fire did.

But Hoist isn't asking permission to protect what's on his ground. He sees the same machine that killed his best friend wearing a different suit, and the locked room where he keeps his anger blows wide open.

She'll take the club's help. On her terms. And God help him if he tries to manage her.

Because Hoist doesn't just want to defend her homestead.

He wants her. All of her. And he's done keeping that door shut.

HOIST'S HOMESTEAD is book 2 in the Deadwood Hangmen MC Series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.