His Ruined Queen

Roan Maddox lost one woman to this life. He's not losing another. Dessa Vale crossed a county line bleeding with the ledger that ends two clubs in her jacket pocket, and the only man in the state who can keep her alive is the one who built himself into a wall nine years ago after his daughter's mother bled out in his kitchen. He locks her in the room above the shop. She doesn't beg. She counts exits, she learns his crew, she teaches his kid to cheat at cards. She's a problem. She's also an answer. When the rival club takes Wren as payment for the ledger, Dessa and Roan ride out together — and what happens at the gate burns a county's worth of old debts. No cliffhangers. HEA.