Six federal trucks came through her gate at twenty till six in the morning.

Her husband knew where they were headed before she did.

Lark Whitlow Cantrell runs the salvage yard her father left her, drives her own wrecker, and has one line she has never moved: nothing of the club's touches Whitlow ground. Ever. She watched the feds take her father off that same lot when she was fourteen. She married a biker anyway. He wrote her line into his wedding vows.

Then the ATF opens a dead box truck in row nine, and Lark spends forty-nine hours in a federal holding cell with her belt in a bin.

When they let her out, an agent slides a page across the table. Page four of the insurance packet she signed in January. Her signature. A lease of her father's back two acres to her husband's club.

Rhett "Beast" Cantrell is vice president of the Hollow Crown MC, six foot three, built for violence and quiet about it. He has a temper he's spent fifteen years chaining down and a habit that's worse: he decides what the people he loves can carry, and he carries it for them without asking. He calls that protection. Lark's father called it the same thing.

He wrote his vows on an index card and read them aloud in front of forty people.

I will tell you the truth before I tell it to anybody else.

Not a bike, not a box, not a bottle.

Your daddy's fence is your fence.

I will come home.

He broke every line but the last one.

Sorry isn't a plan, and Rhett doesn't have words. He has work. A fence rebuilt at two in the morning. A signed divorce with everything already in her hand. His own name on a federal statement. His patch on the table in front of a president who raised him.

But the club is splitting over what an old lady is owed. A man in Tulsa wants his money. Somebody knew about that box truck before the trucks ever rolled, and the one agent who might know who is talking to Lark, not Rhett.

To keep his wife, the man who has spent his whole life taking the hit for everyone will have to stand still and let her decide whether he's worth taking back.

He broke his vows to keep his patch.

He'll put his patch on the table to keep her.

A raw, high-heat motorcycle club grovel romance featuring a marriage in crisis, a husband who has to earn it back one action at a time, a heroine who leaves and means it, a public apology in front of the whole town, and a second set of vows. Dual first-person POV. Married couple. No cheating. Lark and Rhett end this book together. Book 1 of 4: their love story resolves here, and the club's story continues.

This is an outlaw MC romance with on-page violence, gun trafficking, a federal arrest, a character death, strong language, and explicit sex. No sexual assault. Full content warnings inside the front matter.

She married the man, cut and all.

Now he has to prove which one he'd choose.