Repo

She bakes the bread that holds the block together. He's the man they send when everything else has been taken.

Marie Cormier built her bakery from a dead storefront on Tulsa's old alignment — four a.m. starts, fifty-pound flour sacks, and seven years of wedding cakes, funeral spreads, and daily loaves pressed warm into every hand that walks through her door. When a developer in a good coat starts buying up her neighbors and sends his fixer through her door with a lowball offer and a threat tucked inside it, she picks up the nearest cast-iron weight and makes her position clear.

She's not looking for a rescue. She gets a repo man instead.

Repo — enforcer for the Mother Road Renegades MC — has been three stools down at her counter long enough to know that the woman dusted in flour with oven burns on her forearms is the toughest thing on the strip. When the pressure turns from commerce to violence and Marie's bakery becomes the last parcel standing between a predator and his payday, Repo puts himself between her and every man Wolfe sends, because some things you don't let anyone take back.

Marie has rules. The bakery is hers. The fight is hers. And if a man with fast hands and a repo-man's grin thinks he's going to handle her, he'd better be ready to be handled right back — on her worktable, on her terms, and at a pace she sets with the same slow, sure strength she uses on her dough.

As Wolfe's campaign turns bloody and the body count climbs, Repo and Marie discover that the most dangerous thing on the Mother Road isn't the developer trying to erase the block. It's what happens when a woman who feeds everyone meets a man who's never had anything worth keeping — and they decide this corner, this bread, and each other are the hill they'll die on.

Book 8 in the Mother Road Renegades MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating.