Slayer's Return

She filed an abuse report to save a child. He's the returned brother who decided she's worth killing for. Lauren Bishop spent three years building her trauma nursing career into proof she could survive Charleston's burnout—coastal calm, healing work, independence from the violence that broke her. Then she treats a twelve-year-old with fingerprint bruises around his throat and files the mandatory abuse report, and Kyle Prior's escalating campaign goes from slashed tires to death threats until she's trapped between dropping the report or bleeding out in a ditch. She's about to learn that sometimes the only protection comes from dangerous men. And some returned brothers are done proving they deserve to stay. Slayer spent twelve years in Nevada working casino security after abandoning Salt Water Souls for a woman who didn't last—too ashamed to come home, too proud to admit he'd chosen wrong. Six months back with provisional patch, fixing his mistakes, earning his place among brothers who became family when the system failed him. When he installs a security system for a trauma nurse with terror in her eyes, she becomes his mission. His test. His woman. Worth fortifying her house for. Worth killing for. Worth finally earning his permanent patch to protect. She never needed saving. Until she met a man worth fighting beside. Lauren doesn't do helpless. When Slayer appears from shadows during an assault, she's already grabbed pepper spray. And when the brotherhood makes her medical knowledge the key to destroying Prior's theft operation, she proves herself cornering enforcers with scalpels and fighting in coordinated assaults that earn respect from warriors who don't give it easily. Partnership. Not protection. The kind that makes a returned biker realize his twelve wasted years taught him the difference between proving worth and accepting belonging. In Salt Water Souls territory, some abusers demand permanent elimination. Kyle Prior just threatened the wrong woman. Lethal men. Explosive chemistry. Justice delivered through execution-style elimination. SLAYER'S RETURN is book 14 in the Salt Water Souls MC Series. No cheating. No cliffhangers. HEA guaranteed.