by Courtney Benjamin
Four years after fleeing the Iron Serpents and the wreckage of her past, single mom Josie Martinez has survival down to a science—fake name, go-bag under the bed, and a four-year-old daughter who knows evacuation drills better than nursery rhymes. When the roar of a Harley shatters the pre-dawn quiet and Drake Cole—enforcer, brother of her dead ex, and the man who always looked at her like she was the worst kind of mistake—kicks in her front door, Josie’s carefully constructed life implodes. Drake claims the rival Scorpions have found them, that Chloe is leverage in a war Josie never agreed to fight, and that the only way to keep mother and daughter alive is to drag them back to Crimson Falls and under Iron Serpents protection. Caught between a deadly MC feud, old secrets about Tristan’s “accident,” and a dangerous new pull toward the brutally protective man she swore to hate, Josie has five minutes to decide: keep running alone, or surrender to the brother who promises he’ll burn the world down before he lets anyone touch what’s his.
