Levee's Stand

Celine Mouton built her chair from nothing. Raised in Central City by a mother who cleaned offices at night, she started doing hair at a kitchen table at fourteen and clawed her way to a prime chair in the Treme — two hundred working women who trust her with their hair, their secrets, and the one hour a week somebody's hands are on them with kindness. Then a smiling debt collector decided her neighborhood was ripe — and sent men to her clients' doors, their jobs, their children's schools.

She's already tried warning them. Confronting them. Standing in the street and daring them to try her. When the polite options run out, Celine doesn't quit.

She gets louder.

Levee has held the line for the Bourbon Street Devils for four years — the brother they plant in a doorway when nothing can be allowed past. He doesn't make promises. He holds positions, and he doesn't move for weather, threats, or arguments. But the stylist who won't be rescued, won't be quieted, and won't leave her people to drown speaks a language he's been waiting his whole life to hear.

She's exactly the kind of trouble an immovable man can't walk away from.

Bergeron wants her neighborhood locked down. Levee wants her. And when the collectors go after the one thing Celine can't replace — the trust she spent eight years building — the most feared club in New Orleans comes down on a man in a pressed shirt one crew house at a time.

He holds the wall with blood and patience. She holds her ground with a steel comb and a spine that never learned to bend. Together they're about to teach a man who preys on people who can't fight back exactly what happens when the water finds him.

Book 15 in the Bourbon Street Devils MC Romance series. HEA guaranteed.