He rescued her from corporate thugs. Now he'll burn down anyone who threatens his woman.
Courtney Reedling built Semper Grounds coffee shop as a lifeline for transitioning Marines—the community her Marine father never found before he died alone. When a ruthless developer wants her property badly enough to send armed contractors after her, she refuses to surrender the only thing standing between veterans and the void.
Cap didn't plan on claiming a woman. The Leatherneck Brotherhood president has spent six years building a family for Marines the VA abandoned, warriors who need brothers more than the Corps ever gave them. But when he finds Courtney cleaning up vandalism with fury in her eyes and contractors circling like wolves, every protective instinct he thought he'd buried roars to life.
She's his to protect. Anyone who threatens her dies.
Courtney should run from a man who solves problems with overwhelming Marine Corps violence. Instead, she fights beside his brotherhood when hired muscle storms their compound. Proves she can handle his brutal world. Makes him want something beyond duty for the first time in his life.
But the developer escalates. Professional contractors. Coordinated assaults. A corporate predator who thinks money makes him untouchable.
He's about to learn what happens when you threaten a Marine's woman.
Cap will eliminate every threat with the same lethal precision he used commanding Marines through Fallujah. Courtney's not just under his protection—she's his to claim, his to keep, his to defend with bullets and blood until the only thing left standing is their future together.
Semper Fi means forever. So does his claiming.
