Weld

She keeps the last free stop on the highway. He welds shut every door the enemy tries to open.

Charlotte Vance has pumped gas, patched tires, and run a diner counter alone since her father died, holding the last independent station on Route 66 against the chains that swallowed every other stop for forty miles. When a cold-eyed logistics man starts buying the lots around her and sending strangers through her door at midnight, she knows what's coming — and she has no intention of selling.

She doesn't need a bodyguard. But the one she gets doesn't ask permission.

Weld — enforcer for the Mother Road Renegades MC — has carried the weight of a pipeline blowout that killed two friends and a company that buried the truth. He doesn't talk much, doesn't rush, and doesn't let anyone near him take a risk they don't have to. But the tall, sun-browned woman behind the counter who smells like gasoline and coffee and stares down trouble without blinking — she makes him want to stay in one place for the first time since the rig.

Charlotte has rules. The station is hers, not his to guard. She'll let him park his bike on her lot and eat at her counter, but she won't be fenced in — not by the man building a smuggling corridor through her highway, and not by the quiet enforcer who touches her like she's the only thing he's ever been careful with on purpose.

As Kessler's operation tightens and the body count grows, Weld and Charlotte learn that the most dangerous thing on the alignment isn't the man trying to take her station. It's what happens when a woman who won't sell meets a man who won't leave.

Book 13 in the Mother Road Renegades MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating.