Maverick's Deliverance

She watched him from the stage. He watched her from the rail. Four years of Fridays, and neither of them blinked first.

Josie Hartman doesn't need a motorcycle club. She needs her bar to stay open, her bands to show up, and the counterfeit bills moving through her registers to stop. But when a man she's never met starts dismantling her business one delivery at a time, the brother who's been sitting on her rail every Friday for four years comes off it — and doesn't go back.

Maverick hasn't claimed anything for himself since he walked out of a Cheyenne arena and never looked back. He rides for his club, he watches the corridor, and he keeps every woman at a distance. Then a bar owner with a two-finger whistle and no quit in her walks into the middle of a fight that isn't hers — and rearranges his entire world in one night.

She won't give up her room. He won't let her hold it alone. And the man spending nine years of invisible money to erase her isn't going to stop until someone puts him in the ground.

As the threats escalate from counterfeit paper to hired muscle to a roadside ambush that takes someone she can't replace, Josie discovers that the most dangerous man in the Arizona desert is the one who'd ride through a flood to pull her out — and that the woman he's been watching from twenty feet away is the only thing he's ever been afraid to want. But claiming a patched brother means accepting a life where the violence that protects her is the same violence that could take him, and the man she loves carries scars he earned before she ever knew his real name.

She's going to argue with him about it on every Friday for the rest of her life.

Maverick's Deliverance is Book 16 of the Tombstone MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.