Shale's Sacrifice

She lifted four hundred pounds. He waited until the target stopped moving.

Tatum Briggs built Iron Altitude in a warehouse with her own hands—three years of chalk and iron and a competition deadlift record that shuts up every man who thinks strong women need advice. When she stays late and finds four men running a betting operation out of her back office, she tells them to get out. Next morning her cables are cut, her plates are cracked, and a note says to rethink her position. She replaces the cables and opens at five.

Shale doesn't rush. The former cavalry scout spent eleven years learning to sit on a target until the picture was complete—until a training accident killed his spotter and the Army called equipment failure pilot error. He knows the truth. The truth didn't matter. Now he's Battle Born's most patient enforcer, pale eyes that lock on and don't leave, waiting for a fight worth the fury he's been carrying.

Tatum doesn't need a man who watches from rooftops. She needs one willing to come down. And Shale hasn't left his perch since the Army buried the truth about his spotter.

But the bookmaker who used her gym has fifteen men and a network of silenced business owners behind him. And Shale won't stop watching until every odd is settled and the man who gambled against a cavalry scout learns the house doesn't always win.

Shale's Sacrifice is book 21 in the Battle Born MC series. Guaranteed HEA, no cheating, no cliffhangers.