Lantern's Light

He fights first and asks questions never. And the woman on that corner just became the only question that matters.

Lantern has been the Deadwood Hangmen's eyes on the strip since before he wore the patch. He knows every bar, every bouncer, every back alley in this town — and the night he catches three rival bikers cornering a woman outside a tattoo shop, he doesn't need a reason to start swinging. He just needs them to stop breathing near her.

Joelle Marchetti doesn't need a biker. She's built a career with steady hands and a sharp mouth — a booked-out chair, a three-state waitlist, and a plan to open her own shop that no one's going to take from her. Especially not the dangerously charming Hangman who put two men on the sidewalk for her and hasn't stopped looking at her since.

Then a rival MC decides her corner is their foothold into Deadwood, and Joelle becomes leverage in a war she didn't start. She can read strangers and she can hold her own, but she can't fight an entire club alone — and Lantern isn't giving her a choice about protection.

She's not a damsel. She'll make damn sure he knows it.

But the closer the war pushes them — into his compound, into his brotherhood, into his bed — the harder it gets to pretend that the man claiming her with every look and every touch is anything less than exactly what she needs. Because Lantern doesn't just want to keep her safe.

He wants her. On his bike, in his life, wearing his patch. And he'll burn down anyone who tries to stop it.

LANTERN'S LIGHT is book 9 in the Deadwood Hangmen MC Series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.