At two in the morning, ER nurse Mara Doyle stitches a knife wound at a biker's kitchen table and does not flinch.
They call him Ledger: thirty-two, road captain of the Steel Vow MC, and hollow on purpose after losing the little brother he raised, bound to a single rule that no one will ever matter enough to break him twice.
Mara is twenty-eight, working toward her nurse-practitioner license, and a single mother who will not let any man meet her son until he has proven he will stay.
She is not looking for a dangerous enforcer, especially not one who repairs her broken locks, learns her boy's name, and turns up the instant the worst men in town close in.
The crew muscling into her neighborhood answers to a face from Cole's past, and the threat is not random; it is aimed at the wound he swore he would never feel again.
He can keep them safe, but not without his whole club seeing how much a nurse and her child have come to mean to him.
