Asphalt's Anger

She'd been fighting alone for six weeks. He was a trucker who'd spent fifteen years running from everything—until she made him want to stay. Sadie Mercer inherited her father's stables and a lifetime of stubbornness. When drug runners decided her trails were their new highway, she did what Mercers do—grabbed a rifle and refused to bend. Six weeks of fires, threats, and sleepless nights later, she's running out of options. She never expected a biker with highway maps in his head to change everything. He's the Black Hills Riders' route master. Patient. Watchful. And completely unprepared for her. Derek "Asphalt" Lange spent fifteen years in a truck cab convincing himself that motion was freedom and isolation was a choice. When he finds Sadie stranded on a back road with a broken-down truck and a vocabulary that impresses even him, something shifts. She's not a mission. She's not a problem to solve. She's his. What starts as reconnaissance becomes obsession—a claiming that burns hotter with every threat they face together. But the drug boss who wants her land has resources, patience, and a body count that says he always gets what he wants. He's already sent his best men. None of them are coming back. In the Black Hills, some men spent years learning every road. And Asphalt is about to show a drug lord what happens when you threaten something that belongs to him.