The Older Bikers Obsession

I paid for her nursing degree. I fixed her grandmother's porch light. I learned every road she takes home. She had no idea I existed. Iris Calloway is a trauma nurse who can stop a bleed with a belt and two hands, and she came back to Alder Basin to bury the past, not to live in it. Her father died in a wreck on a county road eight years ago wearing a Gallowmen patch, and she has spent every day since getting clear of the club that took him.
Then a prospect turns up at her grandmother's back door with a bullet in his shoulder. She patches him at the kitchen table on her twenty-fifth birthday. She doesn't call the sheriff. And the president of the Gallowmen MC ducks under her doorframe and looks at her like a man reading a page he already knows by heart. Silas "Cross" Roark is forty-five, six foot three, and mean enough to quiet a room by standing in it.
He runs the club, the shop, and the salvage yard, and he has spent a decade dragging his brothers toward honest money. He held her father's hand on the shoulder of County Road 9 and swore to keep his little girl safe. He kept that promise the only way he knew how. Pay her tuition. Never let her see you. Learn her shifts. Learn her locks. Fix the porch light. Stay a ghost. The rules held for eight years.
They last about eleven days once she's back in town. Because a cartel wants the club's old smuggling road, and the sheriff is already bought, and somebody who wears Silas's patch sold Iris's father out the night he died. Now that same man is watching the nurse who won't stop asking why the injuries on the accident report don't match. To keep her, Silas will have to stop treating love like a debt he owes a dead man and say it out loud in daylight.
To keep him, Iris will have to stop running from where she comes from. He watched her for eight years to keep her safe. Now the only thing more dangerous than the club is the man who can't stop. A steamy, slow-burn MC biker romance featuring a twenty-year age gap, a possessive older hero who falls first and falls hard, forced proximity, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Standalone.
No cliffhanger. No cheating. Dual first-person POV. This is a steamy romantic suspense with on-page gun violence, kidnapping, murder, grief, and explicit content. Full content warnings inside the front matter. He kept her out of the life. She walked back into it for him.