Mortar's Precision

She built her dream alone. He'll burn down anyone who tries to take it. Tessa Monroe has spent three years proving she doesn't need anyone. Her coffee shop opens at 0430, serves the JBLM military community, and represents everything she's fought for. When a real estate predator decides her business is in his way, she's prepared to fight alone—the way she's always fought. Then the threats escalate. And the quiet biker who orders black coffee every morning refuses to let her face the war by herself. He plans for everything. She's the variable he can't control. Stephen "Mortar" Mitchell spent fourteen years as a Ranger, planning operations where the margin for error was measured in lives. Now he brings that obsessive precision to the Ranger Regiment MC. Every contingency mapped. Every variable controlled. Then Tessa crashes into his world with a broken window and enough stubbornness to match his own. She's chaos. She's unpredictable. She's everything. The predator has money and muscle. Mortar has brothers and bullets. Warren Kendrick has spent decades destroying anyone in his way. He expects the coffee shop owner to fold like all the others. He doesn't expect a motorcycle club with combat veterans who solve problems the way they learned overseas. When Kendrick's men attack the compound, the Rangers answer with devastating force. And Mortar discovers that protecting Tessa isn't about territory anymore. It's personal. It's primal. It's the first thing he's stopped planning and started feeling.