She came to help the broken… but stumbled into a war no one survives unscathed.

Athena has dedicated her life to healing others. As a therapist at Crossroads—a sanctuary for women fleeing violence—she’s seen the worst humanity has to offer. Pain. Fear. Survival at any cost. But nothing in her training prepares her for what waits beyond the safety of those walls.

Or for the man who pulls her straight into danger.

Ranch is the Demon Dawgs’ Secretary—and the quiet force who keeps the club running. His land sits on the border, a sprawling ranch that hides more than cattle and dust. It’s a lifeline. A smuggling route. A battlefield. He’s controlled, calculating, and fiercely loyal… but when Caitlin asks him to show Athena his world, he never expects her to see too much.

Or to matter so damn much.

When a routine tour turns into a desperate rescue—a group of immigrants fleeing across the border, a young woman going into labor in the dirt—Athena refuses to walk away. She steps in. She saves a life.

And paints a target on her back.

Because someone is watching.

Someone who profits from the desperate… and eliminates anyone who interferes.

Now Ranch is in a race against time to protect the one woman who challenges everything he thought he knew—about control, about loyalty… about love. But the deeper they’re pulled into the brutal underworld of trafficking and exploitation, the clearer it becomes:

Saving her might cost him everything.

And losing her?

Isn’t an option.

On the border, mercy is a weakness… and loving her could get them both killed.

Author’s Note: These books contain mature themes and possible triggers. Each book covers the developing relationship between its protagonists, each with an HEA. While each novel ends with our focus on the protagonists, the novels are by no means the end of the story for the club. Each novel contains a lead-in for the next novel. Highly recommend reading the books in order.