Splinter's Promise

She told him the shop would outlive his boss. Then she told the youngest Gravedigger she didn't need a bodyguard.

Colette Bram has run the only leather shop in Dunmore for twenty-two years — alone, stubborn as the stone walls her building's made of, and answering to nobody. When a land developer decides her corner lot is the last piece he needs to buy a whole block and gut a town, he expects her to fold. He sends muscle. He sends money. He sends men who break windows and beat her help on the sidewalk. She sends them all home.

Splinter earned his Gravediggers patch two months ago and he's still learning what it costs. When the club sends him to collect a road toll, he finds a fight, a woman who won't be impressed, and a developer's racket eating a main street that sits on Gravedigger ground. He's not supposed to care about the leatherworker on the corner. He's definitely not supposed to fall for a woman fourteen years his senior who puts him to work holding harnesses and tells him to be quiet.

Now a land-grab operation is tearing through Dunmore, and the only thing standing between the developer's crew and a dead main street is a woman who won't sell and the fresh-patched biker who's done pretending the corner isn't his to hold.

She's not club. She's not asking for protection. But she's on his ground, and nobody puts hands on a woman on his ground.

Splinter's Promise is a full-length standalone MC romance. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed. This is book 16 in the Backwoods Gravediggers MC series.