The Sergeant's Blue-Eyed Argument

Dr. Ada Okonkwo has one rule for her trauma bay: no patches past the doors. Sergeant Marshall Hale breaks it the night a seventeen-year-old prospect bleeds out in her hands. He's fifty-one, Iron Mercy's oldest member, and the only man in his club with a clean enough record to sit in a hospital hallway without cuffs. Ada offers him a contract — medical consulting, on the record, no guns. He offers her the only thing he has: his word that nothing will happen to her while it holds. Then a discharged patient turns up dead with Ada's badge photo on his phone, the hospital board opens an inquiry into her prescribing history, and the man behind all of it is a surgeon Hale's club has been protecting for six years. She asks him to bring the man in alive. He does. It costs him his patch and half his club, and he does it anyway, standing in a parking lot in a bad tie, waiting for her shift to end. An age gap motorcycle club romance for readers who like their heroes efficient and their heroines in charge of the chart.