Bond's Awakening

He finds people who don't want to be found. She protects people who can't protect themselves. Together, they're going to burn a paper empire to the ground.

Marlene Cobb runs a one-woman notary office out of a West Side strip mall, helping working families with the paperwork they can't afford lawyers to handle. Her clients trust her with their deeds, their custody papers, their lives — and she's never let one of them down.

Then Hector Saldivar decides he wants her stamp on his forgeries.

A broken filing cabinet. Photographed client records. An elderly widow sobbing into her phone because a stranger told her she'd lost her home. Saldivar has been stealing property from immigrant families for a decade, and a notary who won't cooperate is just another obstacle to remove.

Bond is the Ghosts of the Alamo MC's enforcer — a former bail bondsman who spent ten years tracking skips across South Texas before a corrupt ADA destroyed his career. He hasn't seen Marlene in two years. But when her name crosses the chapel table, he's in her parking lot before sunrise, reading the street with those pale grey eyes that never stop watching.

Marlene doesn't need a bodyguard. She needs a partner — someone who'll sit across her desk and help her fight the same broken system that cost him everything. What she gets is a cold-eyed hunter who looks at her like she's the only thing in the room worth finding.

And Hector Saldivar is about to learn that paper burns.

When forged documents become weapons and the people she swore to protect become targets, Marlene and Bond will tear apart an empire built on stolen names — with fists, firepower, and a love neither of them saw coming from opposite sides of the same desk.

Bond's Awakening is Book 12 in the Ghosts of the Alamo MC series. Full-length MC romance. Complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA.