For seven long years, Hawke Lucan bided his time in this town. Waiting to spring the MC's revenge on an unsuspecting family. But life had other plans for him and he became a bestselling political thriller writer. Meanwhile, the pest next door was growing up. When Hawke sees her riding her bike in the dark on a cold night, he knows she needs saving, but he doesn't realize how much until he discovers her step-family has been neglecting her.

Ella has plans of leaving town to seek out an elderly aunt in another state. Trouble is, now she's a woman and Hawke can no longer blank her out. She's young and he's almost twice her age, but she needs a protector. Will he be able to help her? Will he finally admit he feels something more for her? And when he confesses why he moved to this town will she understand?

Ella McCauley crushed on her hot biker neighbor for years. He even told her he was married at one point to get her to leave him alone.

When Hawke discovers the issues she's having with her family, the next thing she knows, he's moving her into his home. A hot biker and neighbor girl don't mix, but his badass attitude rocks her world and she will give anything if he'd ask her to stay indefinitely. But although Hawke has his MC friends looking into her family connections, her step-brother has others plans for her and they don't involve her staying in town.

Resisting the biker takes on new meaning when she desperately needs him to find and claim her.

This MC, older man story is book 1 of 4 and is a steamy contemporary. It can be read as a standalone.