Surge

She kept her diner standing through a divorce, a debt, and seven years of 3 a.m. shifts. He'll put a man in the ground before he lets anyone take it from her.

Nora Beckett has one rule: nobody touches the Chrome Rail. The all-night diner on Route 66 is hers — every checkered tile, every pot of coffee, every hauler who knows her name. When a man in a pressed collar walks in at four-thirty in the morning and offers her twenty thousand a month to look the other way while guns move through her back room, she throws his money in the trash.

She doesn't need a protector. But one's already watching.

Surge — Sergeant at Arms of the Mother Road Renegades MC — has been eating at Nora's counter for three years without saying more than four words at a time. When a gun pipeline targets her diner as its next waypoint and the man behind it starts making her refusal expensive, the biker who never explains himself puts his body between her and the threat.

Nora has conditions. She always has conditions. She'll stand behind his fence, but she won't stand behind him — not without a voice, a vote, and the right to swing her own cast iron when the trouble reaches her floor.

As the pipeline's enforcers close in and the body count climbs, Surge and Nora discover that the most dangerous thing on the Mother Road isn't the man trying to take the diner. It's what happens when a woman who never bends meets a man who was never supposed to break.

Book 4 in the Mother Road Renegades MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating.