Tate

Kaya Redcloud has spent three years becoming someone else. New name, new town, new life stitched together from careful lies — bartending at the Ironclad Tavern in Cedar Hollow, keeping her head down, keeping her hands steady. She's good at being invisible. She has to be. The woman she used to be testified against the wrong man, and that man has never stopped looking for her.

She isn't supposed to notice the club president who watches the door like it owes him something. She isn't supposed to want the one man in town with enough danger already stitched into his own life to recognize the shape of hers.

Tate Whitehorse built Ironclad MC into something the town depends on — the closest thing to law Cedar Hollow trusts. He knows a woman running from something the moment he sees her flinch at a slammed door. What he doesn't know is that the past chasing her is tangled up with a debt his own club has been quietly paying off for years, one neither of them can walk away from once the truth surfaces.

When a stranger starts asking questions at the tavern and a car with out-of-state plates idles too long outside Kaya's apartment, Tate moves her into the clubhouse before she can argue — one hallway, one set of eyes on her at all times, no negotiation. Proximity she didn't ask for. Protection she doesn't trust. A pull between them neither can afford.

But the closer Tate gets, the more the lies Kaya's been telling — to the town, to him, to herself — start to matter more than the danger outside. And the man hunting her isn't just coming for the woman who put him away. He's coming for anyone standing between them, including a club president who's about to learn that the debt he owes her family is the reason she's marked for death.

She has to decide whether to keep running or finally tell the truth. He has to decide how far he'll go — and how many of his own secrets he'll burn — to make sure she never has to run again.

A Secrets & Hidden Past Suspense Romance

*Tropes:* Secrets & Hidden Past • Small-Town Protector • Motorcycle Club • Forced Proximity • Dual POV • Possessive Hero