Fender's Fortitude

He showed up every Saturday for her kolaches. He stayed because someone was trying to destroy her.

Shelby Dawson rebuilt her life from nothing — an abusive marriage, a black eye, and her grandmother's recipe binder. Three years later, she owns Hill Country Sweets, a Boerne bakery where her hands are steady and her kolaches bring grown men to their knees.

Then a debt collector named Vance decides she owes twenty thousand dollars.

A smashed window. A torched van. Her flour supplier cut off overnight. Vance bought her ex-husband's gambling markers and doesn't care that she never owed a dime. His collectors are working their way through her life, and the law can't help her fast enough.

Fender is the Ghosts of the Alamo MC's resident mechanic — a cheerful, wiry wreck of a man who's survived two divorces, a near-fatal motorcycle crash, and losing his shop to county politics. He's been driving thirty miles every Saturday for Shelby's kolaches, and when he finds her bakery boarded up and her hands shaking, the grin stays on his face but something behind it goes very quiet.

Shelby doesn't trust men who make promises. The last one who did put her in a hospital. What she gets is an outlaw who fixes her van at five AM, kills without losing his smile, and refuses to stop showing up until she believes he's different.

When Vance's operation comes for everything she's built, Fender and Shelby will fight back with wrenches, fists, and a love built on flour-dusted hands and a grin that never breaks — because some things are worth driving thirty miles for.

Fender's Fortitude is Book 11 in the Ghosts of the Alamo MC series. Full-length MC romance. Complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA.