She came to Timber Ridge running. She found something worth staying for.
Olivia Barton has one rule: keep moving. Don’t get comfortable. Don’t let anyone matter enough to cost her the exit. She’s been following that rule since she left a Houston engagement ring on a kitchen counter and drove north until the towns got small.
The Iron Stag is just a bar. The job is just cash. The man behind the bar — MC president, controlled, quiet, watching her with the kind of attention that doesn’t flinch — is supposed to be temporary.
He’s not temporary.
Gage Richardson has run a clean operation for eight years by knowing exactly what he has and what he doesn’t. By making decisions with the full picture in hand. By not letting in anything he can’t account for.
She is the one thing he can’t account for.
And he installs the deadbolt before he admits that.
Kept by the Mountain Outlaw is a steamy, slow-burn MC instalove romance about protection and possession, and the very real difference between a man who controls what’s his and a man who chooses what matters. Timber Ridge MC Book 1. HEA guaranteed.