Deadlift's Deliverance. Badlands Brotherhood MC, #16

She built her business from nothing. He'll destroy anyone who threatens it. Gemma Sutton spent fifteen years shoeing horses across three counties, proving the foster system wrong one ranch at a time. Her truck, her tools, her routes-she doesn't need anyone. But when she documents a rustling operation and her friend turns up dead, she walks into a bar full of criminals looking for answers. She finds something else entirely. Ryan "Deadlift" Coulter lost everything when his knee gave out-his career, his identity, his reason to live.
The Brotherhood gave him a second chance, and now he's the man they send when intimidation needs to happen without shots fired. He never expected to find something worth protecting in a woman with manure on her boots and fire in her eyes. Then he watched her stand her ground alone. When the men running stolen cattle through MC territory come for her evidence, Deadlift does what comes naturally: puts bodies on the ground and claims what's his.
Now she's under Brotherhood protection, and the explosive attraction between them burns hotter than prairie fire. But Hector Vance has been burying problems in empty country for twelve years-and he won't stop until the farrier and her biker are six feet under. In the Badlands, you protect what's yours. And Gemma Sutton was his from the moment she refused to run. DEADLIFT'S DELIVERANCE is a standalone MC romance with a cheerful alpha hero hiding deep scars, a fierce heroine who's never needed anyone until now, and a guaranteed HEA.
This is Book 16 in the Badlands Brotherhood MC series.