Treeline's Wrath

She built her life from nothing. He'll burn down anyone who tries to take it.

Sloane Brierly knows what it means to survive. Aged out of foster care with a garbage bag of clothes and forty-seven dollars, she built a vintage boutique in Old Colorado City through sheer determination. When two enforcers walk into her shop demanding protection money, she does what she's always done—she tells them to get the hell out.

That's when they promise to burn her down.

Treeline doesn't do close. The former Army sniper carries faces in his head from a hundred kills, and distance is the only thing that keeps him sane. When his club sends him to handle a protection racket squeezing local businesses, he expects a simple operation. What he doesn't expect is a woman with steel in her spine and fire in her eyes who makes him want things he'd given up on years ago.

She climbed up to his rooftop. He came down for her.

What starts as protection becomes possession. Every time she proves she won't break. Every time he shows her the man beneath the thousand-yard stare. Sloane doesn't need a hero—she needs someone who sees her strength and stands beside her anyway. And Treeline hasn't let anyone that close since he came home from war.

But the man running the racket won't stop until she's ash and memory. And Treeline won't stop until every last threat to his woman is eliminated from three hundred yards away.