Phantom's Mission

She was running from a death sentence. He was a ghost who hunted through shadows—and he'd just made her survival his mission.

Megan Derza spent five years slinging coffee at a truck stop diner and three years fighting to stay sober. When she witnessed something she shouldn't have, she ran—because women like her don't trust cops, and the cartel had already decided she was a problem to be solved.

She never expected a ghost to find her first.

He's the Black Hills Riders' deadliest enforcer. Silent. Lethal. And completely unprepared for her.

Austin "Phantom" Reed spent eight years as an Army sniper and three more convincing himself he was built for solitude. When he finds Megan hiding in a mountain motel with cartel hunters closing in, something shifts. She's not a witness. She's not a mission.

She's his.

What starts as protection becomes possession—a claiming that burns hotter with every battle they survive together. But the cartel boss hunting Megan has resources, patience, and a reputation for making witnesses disappear. He's already sent his best men after her.

They're not coming back.

In the Black Hills, some men speak in silence and protect in violence. And Phantom is about to show a cartel what happens when you hunt something that belongs to him.

This book was previously published under a different pen name.