Earned by the Mountain Outlaw

She came to the mountains to disappear. He spotted her from thirty feet up and never looked away.

Autumn is a remote content strategist who burned out hard in Seattle and drove until the city noise stopped. Six weeks in Timber Ridge, she has a balcony desk, three dead plants she refuses to give up on, and a routine that finally feels like hers. She is not looking for anyone.

She just happens to be very easy to watch from a rooftop.

Trace is thirty-two, built for hard work, and four days away from the patch vote that will end eleven months as a Timber Ridge MC prospect. He has kept his head down, shown up clean, and never once let anything pull him off a job. Then a woman drags a solid wood desk through a doorway by herself at six in the morning — no help, no hesitation, no awareness she’s being watched — and he counts how many times he looks over until he stops counting.

He climbs down at noon. He walks to her door. He tells her exactly what he’s been doing.

She lets him in.

What follows is fast, certain, and mutual: the specific kind of instalove that doesn’t ask permission. But with the patch vote hours away, a buried secret from Trace’s past surfaces: a connection between a job he worked before Timber Ridge and his MC president’s business interests. He’s known about it for six months. He said nothing.

He can keep saying nothing. Or he can walk into the Iron Stag and prove that the man asking for that patch is the same man who deserves it.

The vote is unanimous. The patch lands. And she’s on the balcony when he walks back up the street.

Earned is a steamy, small-town MC romance featuring:

• Instalove done right: fast, certain, and earned on both sides
• A curvy, plus-size heroine who left her body image issues in Seattle
• A gruff, possessive, blue-collar biker hero who says exactly what he means
• First-person dual POV
• Explicit heat with emotional depth
• A loyal brotherhood and a tight-knit mountain town community
• A quiet, inevitable HEA

Perfect for fans of MC romance, mountain man romance, small-town instalove, and curvy heroine romance.

Book 6 in the Timber Ridge MC series. Can be read as a standalone.