Lakeshore (Windy City Wolves MC #6)

She was drowning. He was born for the water.

Tess Mahoney walked away from a six-figure career to save her father’s legacy—a bait shop on Chicago’s South Side lakefront. But when a smuggler decides he wants her dock, she finds herself facing a threat that stubbornness alone can’t stop. Her boats are sinking. Her insurance is denied. And the men watching from the parking lot aren’t going away.

Then he walks through her door.

Lakeshore spent eight years pulling bodies from Lake Michigan. Some he saved. Most he didn’t. He left the Coast Guard when the ghosts got louder than the living—and found a new home with the Windy City Wolves. He doesn’t do relationships. Doesn’t do feelings. Doesn’t let anyone close enough to see the darkness that lives inside him.

But the woman with lake-water eyes and a spine made of steel? She sees everything.

What starts as protection becomes obsession. Every night on her dock, every brush of his scarred hands, every moment she refuses to back down pulls him deeper into waters he swore he’d never enter again. But Gregor Petrovic has run this lake for fifteen years, and he’s not giving up his territory without blood.

Now Lakeshore has a choice: stay on shore where it’s safe... or dive into the deep end and claim the only woman who’s ever made the noise stop.

For a man who’s spent his life saving strangers, the answer is simple.

His woman. His water. His to protect.