Contour's Obsession

She didn't ask for his protection. He didn't ask for permission.

Morgan Cates has been running her father's ranch alone since the day he died. Forty acres, a barn full of horses, and a stubborn refusal to quit—that's all she has left. When a ruthless developer burns her barn, poisons her water, and leaves dead horses in her pasture, she does what Cates women have always done. She grabs her shotgun and refuses to back down.

Contour didn't become Battle Born's road captain by leaving things to chance. The former Army Ranger maps every route, plans every contingency, and hasn't let anything slip past him since an IED in Kandahar killed four men on a road he should have mapped better. When a woman with fire in her eyes and ash on her hands walks into his territory, something in him shifts. She's under club protection now. That makes her his to keep safe.

Whether she wants him to or not.

What starts as a threat assessment becomes an obsession. Every time she proves she won't break, every time she stands her ground, every time she looks at him like he's a puzzle worth solving—he falls harder. Morgan doesn't need a hero. She needs someone whose hands go still when he touches her, who plans their future in notebooks full of cramped handwriting, who'll burn down anyone who threatens what's his.

And the men who want her land are about to learn what happens when you touch something that belongs to Battle Born.