Rook Calder’s life is the patch and the little girl he’d burn a county for. Women don’t stay. Not in his bed. Not in Wren’s world.

Then Brick’s kid sister walks into his kitchen with a duffel and a spare key. Twelve years younger. Off-limits. The first adult Wren asks to braid her hair.

He can want Tess Harlan. He will not let his daughter lose her.

Helping with Wren should be simple. Days under his roof turn a forbidden age gap into something neither can keep casual. Claiming her paints a target. Leaving her unnamed leaves her unprotected.

Black Vow’s president calls her luggage. The treasurer sells Rook’s door. Rival colors hit the porch at dawn.

Forced behind the mill gates, Rook does the only thing the table respects. He marries her.

Then the club betrays them anyway.

Tess doesn’t wait to be rescued. She walks into church with a child’s drawing and proof. Revenge has a folder. Protection has a ring. Surrender is the part that costs.

Touch her and die just became patch law.

Read My Husband’s Club Betrayed Us — and find out what happens when the family the club swore to cover is the one it tries to sell.