Cottonwood's Promise

He didn't come for feed. She didn't ask for a fighter. But a man whose brother is doing fifteen years for the same kind of predator knows exactly what's at stake.

Patty Schroeder is the third-generation owner of Schroeder's Feed & Supply — a Guadalupe County institution her grandfather opened in 1959. She's spent her life selling honest product at honest prices, and when an insurance fraud ring demands she start filing false claims, she tells them exactly where to go.

Then her livestock feed turns up poisoned. Three ranchers lose animals. And men show up at her dying father's hospice bed to make sure she knows there's nowhere safe.

Cottonwood is an enforcer for the Ghosts of the Alamo MC, and the farm kid who lost his family's operation to a crooked adjuster recognizes sabotage the second he smells it. When he walks into Patty's store and finds her taking the blame for contamination she didn't cause, he throws his club behind a woman standing alone against the same kind of predator who destroyed everything he grew up with.

Patty doesn't want a protector. She wants her store open, her father safe, and her family's name clean. What she gets is a patient, dangerous man who tests her feed bags at three in the morning and looks at her like she's the first solid ground he's stood on in fifteen years.

When the fraud ring sends its enforcers, its muscle, and its boss to break a woman who won't bend, Patty and Cottonwood will fight back with fists, feed invoices, and a love built on honest work and Texas stubbornness that neither of them planned for.

Cottonwood's Promise is Book 13 in the Ghosts of the Alamo MC series. Full-length MC romance. Complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA.