Splinter's Battle (Mountain Reapers MC #30)

She poured coffee for desperate families while a debt collector circled. Now they want her diner destroyed—and she's claimed by a man who learned to build beautiful things from nothing but scrap wood and stubborn patience.

Ivy Caudill ran Caudill's Diner with three generations of Appalachian tradition because mountain families deserved hot meals and her grandmother's legacy deserved protection.

She never expected refusing a predatory debt collector's impossible demands would get her window shattered, her daughter terrorized, and her life's work turned into a war zone.

Then Splinter walked through her door.

Arlo Halcomb—Mountain Reaper prospect, former carpenter who learned that wood never lies if you know how to listen—understood building things the way other men understood destroying them.

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 sawdust had settled.

Now she's organizing compound kitchens and rebuilding her diner while a debt collection empire crumbles around them.

She's provided tactical intelligence while everyone else saw just a waitress.

She's become the woman who turned desperate survival into strategic advantage—and she's falling for a man who believed he'd never have anything worth keeping, because the only building he'd done was for people who paid him and walked away.

Splinter promises to eliminate every threat, rebuild her diner, and finally believe that some things are worth more than money. But Garland Messer doesn't surrender quietly, and his operation is coming for everything she loves with fire and violence.

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

SPLINTER'S BATTLE is a full-length standalone MC romance with explosive action, claiming/territorial behavior, and a guaranteed HEA. No cheating, no cliffhangers, just one prospect who built beautiful things and the diner owner fierce enough to be worth keeping.

Each book in this series is a complete standalone romance. While characters from previous books may appear, every story delivers a full arc, guaranteed HEA, and can be enjoyed in any order. Jump in anywhere.