Hatchet's Hunt (Route 66 Outlaws MC #5)

She had a forge in her truck bed, two rescue horses she couldn’t afford, and a reputation built one ranch at a time. He had a tremor in his firing hand, an armory full of promises to dead men, and a club that settled debts in blood.

Caroline Jessup shoes horses for a living. No shop, no storefront — just her tools, her truck, and a circuit of Panhandle ranches that took her years to build. She learned the trade from her father, took over his route when his back gave out, and never asked anyone for help.

Then the men with the white trucks start showing up.

A land baron is building a corridor of ranchland to bury hazardous waste, and Caroline’s clients are in his path.

When she refuses to drop the ranches that won’t sell, she becomes a target — the kind that gets handled with slashed tires, stolen horses, and three men pinning her against her own tailgate.

Hatchet didn’t plan on her.

The Route 66 Outlaws’ armorer came home from Afghanistan with a Bronze Star, a ruined hand, and the kind of quiet that has nothing to do with peace. He keeps the club’s guns running because he couldn’t keep his squad alive, and that’s enough. It has to be enough.

But when he rides out to a ranch and finds a woman cracking a man’s jaw with a farrier’s rasp — fighting back with the only weapon she has — something in him shifts. Something that’s been quiet for a long time.

Now he’s moving her behind compound walls. He’s hunting the men who stole her horses. And when the land baron sends fifteen armed men to finish what his enforcers started, Hatchet puts every weapon in his armory between her and the violence coming for her.

Caroline doesn’t need a savior. She needs a man who understands that broken things are worth fixing.

Hatchet’s about to prove he’s that man — and claim her as his own.