Jackknife's War

When a small-time criminal mistakes convenience for weakness, this store owner discovers that some neighborhoods require permanent protection—and the dangerous man who provides it. Rosa Delgado is thirty-two, running her own store, and finally building the independent life she's fought for since her father walked out. She's mastered the art of handling drunk customers and surviving on backbone—until Bobby Kane decides her resistance to his protection racket is just negotiation. What starts as a simple robbery attempt escalates to extortion. Then Kane uses her elderly mother as leverage. When he begins terrorizing her entire neighborhood and threatening innocent families, Rosa realizes predatory criminals will never stop targeting communities that can't fight back. Until Jackknife intervenes. Miguel "Jackknife" Rodriguez is Steel City Syndicate's Weapons Master—a man who protects his territory with the same lethal precision he brings to eliminating threats. When he witnesses Kane targeting Rosa, something possessive awakens in the fighter who values courage and legitimate dreams. She's got backbone. Real backbone. The kind that swings a baseball bat when someone tries to tear her down. Now Jackknife has claimed Rosa as his woman, and that makes her extortionist his problem. Kane's intimidation is about to meet organized resistance. This small-time criminal is about to face permanent consequences. But when Kane's desperation drives him to threaten children in an elementary school, Rosa must choose: hide behind her protector's violence, or prove she's learned to eliminate threats herself. Some women accept victimhood. Rosa Delgado fights back. Jackknife's War is the sixth book in the Steel City Syndicate MC series. Guaranteed HEA, No cheating. No cliffhangers.