Axle's Retaliation

She walked into a meth house to check on a patient. She walked out with a target on her back and a biker who refused to let her walk alone. Ada Pruitt drives the back roads of the interior six days a week — changing bandages, sorting pills, and keeping homebound old people alive because nobody else will. When she lets herself into a patient's house and finds a meth cook running in the kitchen and the old man held prisoner in a back room, she doesn't run. She finishes her rounds. And the men who saw her see too much start deciding what to do about the aide who won't stay quiet. Axle is the Gravediggers' heavy mover — patient, deliberate, and built like the granite quarry the club calls home. He rode down to check on an old man connected to the brotherhood and found a woman with chapped hands and steady eyes who handed him her kit and told him where to stand. She didn't flinch at his size. She didn't give him a wider berth. She treated him like a man, not a monster, and something in him locked into place and refused to let go. Now a meth operation is burning through the mill towns, holding old people hostage in their own homes, and the only woman who noticed is being hunted by men who want her erased. Ada won't stop her circuit. Axle won't let her drive it alone. And the deeper he pulls her into the club's protection, the harder it gets to pretend that what's growing between them is just a man doing his job. She's not club. She's not fragile. But she's on his ground, and nobody touches what's his. Axle's Retaliation is a full-length standalone MC romance. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed. This is book 18 in the Backwoods Gravediggers MC series.