Saltpan's Sacrifice

She said no. They made her pay. He'll make them sorry they ever touched her.

Bree Fallon has spent six years building her solar installation business in the California desert—one rooftop, one wire, one brutal summer at a time. She doesn't need backup, doesn't ask for help, and definitely doesn't have time for the quiet, hard-edged biker who shows up at her job site like he was sent by someone who gives a damn.

Then a grow operation boss decides her skills belong to him—and when she refuses to wire his illegal farms, his enforcers beat her unconscious and leave her in 112-degree heat to die.

Saltpan hasn't let himself care about anyone since he carried his dying partner two miles through the desert and couldn't save him. Something in him sealed shut that day—cracked dry, baked hard, everything soft burned away by grief and killing sun. He doesn't flinch. He doesn't break. And he doesn't get attached.

But when he finds three men standing over a woman who's bleeding in the dirt and still calculating instead of screaming, something cracks open in his chest that he can't seal back.

Now Bree's under the protection of the Death Valley Demons, living in a compound she's rewiring from the roof down, falling for a man who kills without hesitation and touches her like she's the only thing that hasn't been ruined by the heat. She should be running. Instead, she's building something worth staying for.

In Death Valley, the sun decides who lives. But Bree's survived worse than the sun—and Saltpan will put down every man who tries to prove otherwise.

Saltpan's Sacrifice is Book 10 in the Death Valley Demons MC series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.