Reaper’s Thorn

He sat beside her bed for five months. She never knew he was there.

Ezra “Briar” Watts hasn’t missed a single day. Not when the club needed him. Not when they handed him the gavel. Not when the doctors said she might never wake up. He reads to her, talks to her, keeps his hands to himself, because you don’t touch a woman who can’t say yes. By the time Rose Caudill opens her eyes, he’s the president of the Grimm Reapers MC and the man who fell in love with a woman who didn’t know his name.

She woke up to a world that moved on without her and a stranger who isn’t a stranger at all.

Rose lost five months. Her body. Her farm. Her autonomy. A court-appointed conservatorship put her uncle in control of everything she owns, and the man behind it, a land speculator with a polished smile and a mineral-rights deal worth killing for, is the reason she crashed in the first place. She just doesn’t remember that part yet.

But Rose Caudill doesn’t wait for someone to hand her life back. She fights for it with a farm ledger, a phone tree, and the kind of stubborn, clear-eyed refusal to break that runs in Appalachian women the way coal runs in the mountains.

The crash wasn’t an accident. The man who ordered it is still in town. And the biker who kept vigil is the only one she trusts to stand beside her while she tears the whole thing down.

Reaper’s Thorn is a Sleeping Beauty retelling set in the hollers of eastern Kentucky. A story about waking up, fighting back, and choosing love with your eyes wide open.

Reaper’s Thorn is Book 4 in the Grimm Reapers MC series. Each book is a standalone dark fairy tale retelling with an HEA. Dual POV. No cliffhanger. This book is a SLOW BURN that eventually results in explicit intimate scenes. There are also mature themes including recovery from a traumatic injury.