Ridgeline's Protection

She walked barefoot through a blizzard to survive. He'd burn the world down to keep her.

Natalie Vance has survived combat zones and cardiac arrests. As an ER nurse with a Navy corpsman's training, she's held dying men together with her bare hands and never flinched. But when a patient's last words put a target on her back, she finds herself running through a Colorado winter with no shoes, no phone, and killers on her trail. The only thing standing between her and a shallow grave is a scarred biker with eyes that see too much.

Ridgeline stopped letting people in eight deployments ago. The Battle Born MC's sergeant at arms protects the compound, guards his brothers, and keeps everyone at arm's length—because everyone he's ever cared about has been taken from him. But when a barefoot woman walks into a veteran bar covered in blood and asking for help that doesn't involve police, something in him cracks. She's a corpsman who ran toward Marines under fire. She's not afraid of his demons.

That makes her dangerous.

What starts as protection becomes obsession. Every time she proves she won't break. Every time she stands her ground against men twice her size. Every time she looks at him like he's worth saving. Ridgeline has held the perimeter his entire life—but Natalie is already inside the wire.

The drug lord who wants her dead has an army of contractors and a zero-tolerance policy for witnesses. Taking him down will require everything Ridgeline has—and risk everything he's finally let himself want.