Phoenix's Fire. Badlands Brotherhood MC, #14

She's been fighting alone her whole life. He's been waiting to die. Autumn Reilly survived seventeen foster homes, aged out with nothing, and built a life bartending in oil field country. The Iron Horse isn't much, but it's hers-the regulars, the apartment upstairs, the stability she clawed from nothing. When a crime family decides they want her bar, she refuses to break. She's been thrown away before.
She won't let it happen again. But these men don't take no for an answer. Phoenix walked out of a rig explosion that killed his entire crew. The burns healed. The guilt didn't. Now he's prospecting for the Badlands Brotherhood, volunteering for every dangerous job, taking hits he could dodge-waiting for the universe to balance the scales. He doesn't want to die. He just doesn't care if he lives. Then he sees her handle three enforcers with a bat and a smile. When the Brotherhood sends him to assess the threat, he finds a woman with survivor's eyes and a stubborn jaw who fights like she's got everything to lose.
Protecting her gives him something he hasn't felt in a year: a reason to see tomorrow. But the crime family won't stop until they own her bar-or bury everyone who stands in their way. In the Badlands, you protect what's yours. And Autumn Reilly is his. PHOENIX'S FIRE is a standalone MC romance with a damaged hero learning to live again, a heroine with serious backbone, and a guaranteed HEA. This is Book 14 in the Badlands Brotherhood MC series.