Drought's Defiance

She heals everything but herself. He destroys everything but her.

Alice Rennick has spent eight years as the only veterinarian for eighty miles of California desert. She delivers calves at midnight, patches up ranch horses, and never turns away an animal in need. She doesn't have time for complications—especially not the kind that ride motorcycles and watch her with eyes that see too much.

Then a dogfighting ring decides her clinic would make the perfect patching station for their fighters—and when she refuses, they send men to explain what happens to women who don't cooperate.

Drought has been a Death Valley Demon long enough to know some things can't be saved. He's also spent thirteen years learning how to survive in places where survival shouldn't be possible. So when a ranch hand mentions a vet treating torn-up dogs after midnight with armed men watching her work, he does what the desert taught him.

He waits. He watches. And when the moment comes, he strikes.

Now Alice is caught in the crosshairs of a war between the club and an operation that breeds dogs for blood sport. She should run. Instead, she's building kennels at a biker compound, saving animals no one else will touch, and falling for a man who kills with the same patience he uses for everything else.

In Death Valley, the weak die and the strong rule what's left. But Alice isn't weak—and Drought will outlast anyone who threatens what's his.

Drought's Defiance is Book 11 in the Death Valley Demons MC series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.