Bedrock's Rage (Mountain Reapers MC #28)

She refused to let cockfighters use her parking lot. Now they want her destroyed—and she’s claimed by a man who learned that some foundations hold because someone decides they will.

Opal Whitaker ran Whitaker’s General Store with four generations of Appalachian stubbornness because her community deserved someone who stayed when everyone else left.She never expected refusing a blood sport operation’s demand would get her fence flattened, dead roosters on her doorstep, and her life turned into a war zone.

Then Bedrock broke three men’s fingers in her store.

Curtis Pennington—Mountain Reaper enforcer, last of four generations of miners who all went underground and never came back—understood loss the way other men understood breathing.He saw her trouble and didn’t hesitate. He brought her to the compound, killed the men who came for her, and declared her his before the dust had settled.

Now she’s organizing supply rooms and winning over old ladies while a cockfighting empire crumbles around them.She’s provided tactical intelligence while everyone else saw just a shopkeeper.She’s become the woman who turned stubborn refusal into strategic advantage—and she’s falling for a man who stopped believing anything could last, because everyone who shared his blood was already in the ground.

Bedrock promises to eliminate every threat, rebuild what they’ve broken, and finally believe that some things last because someone builds them to. But Clyde Henson doesn’t surrender quietly, and his operation is coming for everything she loves with fire and violence.

Opal just has to survive long enough to build something permanent with her possessive protector—before his enemies reduce four generations of Whitaker tradition to ash.