RUBI ROYALE

The Route 16 Truck Stop is the kind of place where stories get buried and secrets last longer than the coffee. Lacey knew her first graveyard shift would be rough, but she didn't expect the regular in the back booth-the one with the wolf painted on his rig, the reputation nobody says out loud, and the kind of stare that tracks her every move. Colt Maddox is trouble, and everyone knows it. Everyone warns her.
But warnings don't matter when adrenaline feels like attraction. As the hours drag toward dawn, Colt and Lacey circle each other in a dance neither planned-curiosity brushing up against danger, innocence brushing against a man who doesn't pretend to be anything except what he is. Their connection isn't soft or safe. It's sharp-edged, electric, and impossible to ignore. And once Colt decides she's worth noticing.
he becomes the only thing in the diner worth thinking about.