Rider's Reckoning

She had a baseball bat and a backbone. He had a motorcycle club and a death wish for anyone who touched what was his.

Emma Sutton built her bakery from nothing—four AM mornings, flour-dusted dreams, and a promise to herself that she'd never depend on anyone again. But when a ruthless developer sets his sights on her corner of main street Sturgis, threatening everything she's worked for, Emma finds herself fighting a war she can't win alone.

He's the president of the Black Hills Riders MC. And he's about to make her problems his.

Cole "Rider" Blackwood has spent twenty years protecting biker mecca from anyone stupid enough to threaten it. When he walks into Emma's bakery and finds her bruised, defiant, and holding a baseball bat like she's ready to take on the world, something shifts. She's not asking for help. She's too stubborn for that.

Too bad he's not asking permission.

What starts as territory protection becomes something far more dangerous—an attraction neither of them expected and a claiming neither of them can resist. But the developer wants Emma broken, and he's willing to burn everything she loves to make it happen.

Including her.

In the Black Hills, the club handles problems with violence, not lawyers. And Rider's about to show a rich man from Denver exactly what happens when you threaten something that belongs to him.

This book was originally published under a different pen name.