Chesapeake's Fire (Charm City Killers MC #7)

She dropped a smuggler’s package back in the bay. Now he wants to drop her to the bottom of it.

Tess Rourke doesn’t need a man to save her. A drunk father taught her to captain alone, and twelve years of dawn charters built Rourke Charter Services from nothing. So when smugglers punch a hole in her hull and leave a dead cat on her deck, she does what she’s always done—fights back.

Big mistake.

When Marco Serrano’s crew starts calling her clients and bleeding her business dry, Tess knows she’s out of options. She cost him sixty thousand dollars in lost product, and his buyers don’t accept excuses.

Enter Chesapeake.

The Charm City Killers’ bay runner, he’s spent his life reading water and men with equal patience. When Serrano threatens a charter captain on Killers territory, it becomes club business. When he meets the salt-scarred woman who tells his enemies to go to hell and patches her own hull, it becomes personal.

Tess doesn’t trust men who kill for a living. Chesapeake doesn’t let anyone close enough to anchor for. But when Serrano escalates from threats to warfare, they’ll need each other to survive—and the heat between them might burn hotter than anything the bay has ever seen.

In a city where the harbor keeps secrets and killers protect their own, Tess is about to learn what it means to be claimed by a man who knows the water better than he knows himself.

And the bay always keeps what it takes.