I returned to destroy the man who betrayed me.
I never expected him to be the only person keeping me alive.

Eight years ago, my brother died in a fire connected to the Black Mile Motorcycle Club.

Tobin Harlan survived that night. He refused to tell me what happened, shattered everything between us, and sent me away carrying enough hatred to last a lifetime.

Now I am back in Marrow Bend as a professional fire investigator, examining a new blaze on Black Mile property. The evidence points toward the same method used in the fire that killed my brother.

This time, I intend to expose every secret Tobin buried.

Then someone searches my motel room, cuts my brakes, and leaves a warning drawn from the night my brother died. With nowhere secure to stay, I am forced into the apartment above Tobin's shop, close enough to hear his footsteps beneath my floor and remember exactly how his hands once felt on my body.

Tobin claims he did not start the fire.

He also carries scars he never showed me, guilt he refuses to explain, and a truth powerful enough to destroy the club he sacrificed us to protect.

The deeper I investigate, the less certain I become that Tobin is the monster I came home to punish. Someone has spent eight years controlling the story of my brother's death, and now that I am uncovering the evidence, they intend to silence me permanently.

I came back for revenge.

Falling for Tobin again could cost me the truth, my life, and the heart he already broke once.

A scorching standalone MC romantic suspense featuring forced proximity, buried secrets, explicit heat, a protective wounded biker, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.

What to expect:

• Second-Chance Romance: Arden and Tobin were once deeply in love. Eight years of anger have not destroyed their attraction.
• Enemies to Lovers: Arden returns intending to expose Tobin and make him answer for her brother's death.
• Forced Proximity: After her motel room is searched and her rental car is sabotaged, Arden moves into the apartment above Tobin's shop.
• Protective, Morally Complicated Biker: Tobin would risk his life for Arden, but loving her never gave him the right to control her choices.
• Fire-Investigator Heroine: Arden reads burned buildings as evidence and refuses to become a helpless passenger in her investigation.
• Murder Mystery and Romantic Suspense: A repeated arson method, hidden evidence, club corruption, and a killer determined to bury the past.
• Open-Door Heat: The intimate scenes are explicit, consensual, and connected to the couple's emotional history.
• Guaranteed Happily-Ever-After: Arden and Tobin's romance is resolved completely in this book.