He's lost one life already. He'll burn the world down before he loses her.
Relic spent twenty years as a rodeo pickup man before a bad fall took the horses, the arena, and everything he loved. The Deadwood Hangmen gave him brothers and a second chance, and he's held onto both with the grip of a man who knows exactly what losing feels like. He doesn't need anything else — until a feed-store owner with steel-grey eyes and a working braid tells him where aisle three is and goes back to her paperwork like his cut means nothing.
June Catlett built her store from a failing inventory and a handshake loan. She knows every rancher in the Spearfish valley by name and by herd, and she answers to no one — especially not the oversized Hangman who keeps showing up at her counter, hauling her feed sacks, and drinking her terrible coffee like he belongs there.
Then a cattle-rustling crew decides her store is their next asset, and the men who won't take no for an answer start coming back with muscle. June can swing a hay-hook and hold her ground, but she can't fight an entire operation alone — and Relic isn't asking permission to protect what's on his valley.
She's not his to claim. She'll make damn sure he knows it.
But the closer the war pushes them together — into his compound, into his brotherhood, into his bed — the harder it gets to remember where her independence ends and his claiming begins. Because Relic doesn't just want to save her store.
He wants her. All of her. And the old man's done waiting.
RELIC'S SALVATION is book 13 in the Deadwood Hangmen MC Series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.
