Brimstone's Fire - Tombstone MC, #9

She had dirt to the elbow. He crossed four lanes of highway without knowing her name.

Erin Vaughn doesn't need a man. She needs her nursery stock to survive the Arizona heat, her dead brother's secrets to stay buried, and the four men who just showed up at closing time to get off her gravel. But when the Tombstone MC's enforcer walks out of a gas station and puts two of them on the ground, he doesn't ask permission to stay — and she can't make herself tell him to go.

Brimstone hasn't let anyone close in ten years. He walked out of a rig fire that killed four men, took a patch to bleed for something besides nothing, and kept every woman at arm's length because the things his hands do aren't gentle. Then a barefoot nursery owner plants her feet on her own ground and refuses to move, and something in his chest shifts that he can't put back.

She won't leave her lot. He won't leave her side. And the man who wants what's in her shed isn't going to stop sending crews until one of them brings her back.

As the violence escalates and a counterfeit-pill kingpin tears through everything she's built, Erin discovers that the most dangerous man in Cochise County is the one who'd burn down the world to keep her standing — and that the safest place she's ever been is pressed against his chest with his hand on the back of her neck. But claiming the enforcer of an outlaw MC means accepting a life where the man she loves walks into fires and the only promise he'll make is that he's coming back.

She's going to hold him to it for the rest of her life.

Brimstone's Fire is Book 9 of the Tombstone MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.