Rust & Bone

She was collateral. He made her permanent.

Sadie Avery works double shifts at a highway diner in the middle of nowhere, Texas. She has nothing — no savings, no family she can count on, and a deadbeat brother who treats her life like something disposable.

When Liam steals twenty thousand dollars from the Copperheads MC and disappears, the club's Vice President comes to collect. Colt "Reaper" Vance doesn't find the money. He finds Sadie. And he takes her instead.

Locked inside the compound as collateral for a debt she didn't create, Sadie expects violence. What she gets is worse — a man who smells like engine grease and whiskey, who pins her with a stare that sees everything, who puts himself between her and every threat without once asking for gratitude.

Colt doesn't do soft. He doesn't do feelings. He does loyalty, territory, and blood. But the waitress with the sharp mouth and tired eyes is under his skin now, deep as the ink on his knuckles, and when a cartel comes calling for what Liam owes, Colt will burn his club to the ground before he lets anyone take what's his.