Blackjack's Wager

She told him to stay out of her kitchen. He told her she was his. They were both right. Claire Denton doesn't need a motorcycle club. She needs her sourdough to proof on time, her county bread route to stay solvent, and the arsonist she watched walk out of a burning warehouse to forget she exists. But when three men with a chain and a bolt cutter show up at her loading dock at four in the morning, the Tombstone MC's enforcer steps between her and the violence — and refuses to leave her alley. Blackjack hasn't let anyone past his guard in eleven years. He reads every room from the doorway, keeps every woman at arm's length, and stands where he stands because the last time he was thirty feet from his door, two people got hurt. Then a stubborn, fearless baker hands him the only secret that matters and rearranges his entire life between midnight and dawn. She won't leave her ovens. He won't leave her door. And the man who burns buildings for money has spent twenty-six years making sure no witness ever lives long enough to talk. As the body count rises and the fires close in, Claire discovers that the most dangerous man in the Arizona desert is the one who'd lay down his bike at fifty miles an hour to reach her — and that the safest place she's ever stood is in a kitchen doorway with his hand on the back of her neck. But claiming the enforcer of an outlaw MC means accepting a life where the bread goes out under the patch and the man she loves will always stand between her and whatever comes through the door. She's going to bake him bread about it for the rest of her life. Blackjack's Wager is Book 11 of the Tombstone MC series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.