Pitfall's Obsession (Mountain Reapers MC #27)

She refused to stock counterfeit goods in her grandmother’s craft shop. Now they want her destroyed—and she’s claimed by a man who learned to climb out of darkness with nothing but bloody fingers and stubborn refusal to die.

Nadine Combs ran Mountain Crafts Cooperative with four generations of Appalachian tradition because elderly artisans deserved fair prices and their work deserved respect. She never expected refusing a counterfeiter’s demand would get her window shattered, her artisans targeted, and her life’s work turned into a war zone.

Then Pitfall pulled her from the parking lot.

Vernon Eldridge—Mountain Reaper prospect, former kid who fell into a mine shaft and spent three days climbing out—understood darkness the way other men understood daylight. He saw her trouble and didn’t hesitate. He brought her threat to the brotherhood, killed the men who came for her, and declared her his before the blood had dried.

Now she’s weaving baskets and organizing craft rooms at the compound while a counterfeit kingpin’s operation crumbles around them. She’s provided tactical intelligence while everyone else saw just a shopkeeper. She’s become the woman who turned stubborn preservation into strategic advantage—and she’s falling for a man who believed he’d never stop reaching for things just beyond his grip, because the only climbing he’d done since that shaft was toward a patch he wasn’t sure he deserved.

Pitfall promises to eliminate every threat, rebuild her shop, and finally believe that some foundations hold better after they’ve been tested. But Boyd Maggard doesn’t surrender quietly, and his operation is coming for everything she loves with fire and violence.

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