Anchor's Catch

She built a food truck from nothing. He burned down an empire to keep it.

Annette Rigby has spent three years turning her father's barbecue recipes into a business—one brisket plate at a time, from a truck she welded with her own hands. When a protection racket smashes her tip jar and demands five hundred a week for the privilege of parking, she refuses to pay. She's never bent for anyone, and she's not starting now.

He didn't offer sympathy. He offered violence.

Anchor hasn't crossed the line between customer and civilian in five years of ordering the same plate at her window. But when he finds Annette on her knees picking her tips off the asphalt, something permanent clicks into place. She's his. And the men who touched what's his are already dead—they just don't know it yet.

Her livelihood was destroyed. His territory was threatened.

Vincent Sala built a collection empire across Raider-adjacent territory without asking permission. Now his crew is hunting the woman who refused to pay—and the enforcer who's already put a rigging hook to her name. As the Raiders tear Sala's operation apart lieutenant by lieutenant, Annette discovers that the most dangerous thing on the Florida coast isn't the men trying to break her.

It's the one man who'd kill them all to make sure they can't.