She builds things alone. He's never had anything permanent. Together, they're unbreakable.
Josie Aldridge opened her bakery while drowning in her ex-husband's debt and everyone's certainty she'd fail. Three years of 4 AM mornings proved them wrong. But when she refuses to pay protection money to the man bleeding downtown Williston dry, she becomes a target?and the threats escalate from dead rats to armed men who won't take no for an answer.
Enter the man who makes things hold.
Caleb "Rig" Mercer spent eighteen years in foster care learning that everything good is temporary. Now he welds for the Badlands Brotherhood MC?joining metal, building things meant to last. When his president sends him to assess a threatened bakery, he expects reconnaissance. What he gets is a woman with flour on her cheek, steel in her spine, and the stubborn refusal to bend that he recognizes in his own bones.
But Dale Rourke's protection racket has destroyed businesses and lives for three years, and he won't let one defiant baker inspire others to resist.
When Rourke's enforcers come for Josie, Rig does what he does best: puts himself between her and anyone who threatens what's becoming his. Now she's under Brotherhood protection, and the quiet welder who never believed in permanent is discovering that some things are worth fighting to keep.
In the Badlands, you protect what's yours with blood and fire.
And Josie Aldridge is worth burning it all down for.
RIG'S RECKONING is a standalone MC romance with a blue-collar alpha hero, a heroine who refuses to break, and a guaranteed HEA. This is Book 6 in the Badlands Brotherhood MC series.
