He's country-polite, slow to speak, and the last man you want coming for you in the dark.
Tally watched his family's cattle ranch get stolen by men with lawyers and money. He joined the Deadwood Hangmen MC so somebody in his family would finally win one. He's the club's enforcer, he sends half his pay home, and he doesn't stop for strangers on back roads — until he does.
Shelby Aldridge doesn't need a rescue. She built her barrel-racing stable from a leased arena and eight years of bloody knuckles, trains winners on land she owns free and clear, and answers to no one — especially not the quiet biker who spliced her cut wiring harness without being asked and called her students her kids.
Then a gun-running crew decides her trailers and her name are the perfect cover, and when she says no, the threats come fast — cut fences, sabotaged rigs, and a teenage student run off the road with a broken collarbone. Shelby can handle a tire iron and a threat, but she can't fight an armed crew alone — and Tally isn't asking permission to protect what's his.
She's not his. She'll make damn sure he knows it.
But the closer the danger pushes them together — into his compound, into his war, into his bed — the harder it gets to tell the difference between his claiming and her choosing. Because Tally doesn't just want to stop the crew hunting her.
He wants her. The stable, the kids, the fight, all of it. And he's done being polite about it.
TALLY'S TEMPTATION is book 15 in the Deadwood Hangmen MC Series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.
