Intake's Redemption

She made scruffy things beautiful. He fixed everything except himself.

Waverly Montana built Paws & Effect one poodle at a time—four years of cheerful patience until she could afford her own grooming salon. When a water leak leads her to a basement full of printing presses and stacks of counterfeit twenties, she does the smartest thing she can: photographs everything, backs it up to the cloud, and walks upstairs. The men who own the presses aren't impressed by clever.

Intake didn't come to Colorado looking for a club. The former Navy engineman spent ten years keeping ship engines alive, came home to Fall River, and found his father dead from an overdose and his mother in a shelter. Drove west until the mountains stopped him. Now he's Battle Born's fixer—crooked smile, diesel-mechanic hands, and a man who buries grief in usefulness because stopping means feeling everything he missed.

Waverly doesn't need a man who fixes things so he never has to sit still. She needs someone willing to put down the wrench. And Intake hasn't set one down since the voicemail he got three weeks too late.

But the counterfeiter under her salon has been invisible for two years and treats her discovery like a personal insult. And Intake won't stop until every press is destroyed and the man who hid a criminal operation under a dog grooming salon learns that some things can't be repaired.

Intake's Redemption is book 19 in the Battle Born MC series. Guaranteed HEA, no cheating, no cliffhangers.