Deadeye's Aim

She talked to everything. He watched from four hundred yards. Neither of them was prepared for what happened next.

Colleen Byrne doesn't need a bodyguard. She needs her ninety hives to survive the summer, her honey on every porch in the valley, and the armed men she accidentally drove past in Barrel Canyon to forget her face. But when a mountain kingpin sends a crew to her roadside at four-thirty in the morning, the Tombstone MC's deadliest marksman drops two of them from a ridge — and comes down off the hill for the first time in six years.

Deadeye hasn't come down for anything. He earned his patch watching the club's territory through a scope, and he's kept the world at rifle distance since a piece of shrapnel took his eye in Helmand. Then a loud, stubborn beekeeper puts her hand on his chest before he's said ten words, and the distance he's spent his whole life defending collapses to nothing.

She won't stop talking. He can't stop watching. And the man on the mountain isn't going to stop sending crews until the woman who saw his operation is gone.

As the hives burn and the violence closes in, Colleen discovers that the most dangerous man in the Arizona desert is the quiet one who'd burn down a mountain to keep her safe — and that the steadiest place she's ever stood is beside a man with one good eye and both hands on her. But claiming the club's marksman means building a life inside walls she didn't choose, among men who solve problems with violence, with a man who says mine like it's the only word he's ever been sure of.

She's going to talk him through it. He's going to let her.

Deadeye's Aim is Book 17 of the Tombstone MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.