He told me my brother stole from his club and disappeared.
Nine years later, I found the body he helped bury.

Ronan Hale was once the man I trusted with my heart. Then my younger brother vanished, and the president of Coldwater Motorcycle Club chose his brothers over me.

I left Lockridge believing Jamie was a thief.

Now I have returned as a commercial diver to recover a county van from the bottom of a flooded quarry. My brother's remains are inside. The vehicle is wrapped in a chain that belongs to Ronan's club.

Ronan admits he lied.

He knew Jamie was dead. He helped sink the van, destroyed my brother's reputation, and allowed my father to die believing his son had abandoned us.

But Ronan insists he did not commit the murder.

Someone is determined to destroy the evidence before I uncover the truth. After my equipment is sabotaged and the danger follows me from the quarry, I am forced to work beside the man who broke me and depend on the club he once chose over us.

Ronan is older now, harder, and powerful enough to command every man around him. He still remembers how I take my coffee, which side I need him to stand on, and every touch that used to make me forget the rest of the world.

The desire between us never died.

Neither did the love.

But Ronan has already proven that he can hold me in his arms while deciding which truths I am allowed to survive.

Wanting him again could be my greatest weakness.

Trusting him could destroy me all over again.

A scorching standalone MC romantic suspense featuring forced proximity, a protective club president, buried evidence, explicit heat, painful accountability, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.

What to expect:

• Second-Chance Romance: Maeve and Ronan planned a future together before Jamie's disappearance destroyed everything between them.
• Forced Proximity: The recovery operation and escalating sabotage force Maeve to work beside Ronan and stay close to his secured motorcycle business.
• Protective MC President: Ronan will risk his life to protect Maeve, but he must learn that loving her does not give him authority over her choices.
• Competent Commercial-Diver Heroine: Maeve controls the recovery operation and understands the dangers beneath Bell Quarry better than anyone around her.
• Buried Murder Mystery: A submerged county van, falsified financial records, concealed evidence, and a nine-year-old conspiracy lead back to powerful men in Lockridge.
• Morally Complicated Hero: Ronan did not kill Jamie, but his betrayal was real. Redemption requires more than an apology.
• Open-Door Heat: The attraction is explicit, consensual, emotionally complicated, and inseparable from their unresolved history.
• Guaranteed Happily-Ever-After: Maeve and Ronan's relationship and the central mystery are resolved completely in this book.