Ivy Callahan runs on spreadsheets, contingency plans, and the quiet confidence of a woman who has always known exactly where she's going. Copper Ridge, Nevada, is just the next step ? a small town, a new market, and a satellite office for her family's event planning company.

Straightforward. Manageable. Planned.

Then she meets Cade Mercer at a gas pump, and nothing about her plan survives the encounter.

He's the President of the Iron Veil MC ? tall, tattooed, and carrying the weight of a town on his shoulders since the night a rival club took his father from him. Cade has spent three years keeping Copper Ridge safe, the only way he knows how, and he doesn't do distraction. He doesn't do soft. He doesn't do the kind of want that a green-eyed girl from Chicago wakes up in him just by refusing to be afraid of him.

But Ivy isn't afraid. She's intrigued. And the more she learns about the man behind the patch, the harder it becomes to walk away from something that was never supposed to happen.

When the Bone Saints set their sights on Ivy to get to Cade, the line between his world and hers disappears entirely. And what's left on the other side of the danger is something neither of them planned for ? and neither of them can live without.