Dust's Defiance

He found her on a back road carrying a hoof knife. She wasn't looking for rescue. But some debts run deeper than blood. Ellie Crenshaw is a third-generation farrier who shoes horses across the Hill Country, driving the same circuit her grandfather built over forty years. She doesn't need much — good tools, honest work, and clients who trust her with their animals the way they trusted Earl before her. Then a loan shark named Frazier decides her route belongs to him. Slashed tires. Scattered tools. Collectors threatening her seventy-four-year-old grandmother on her own front porch. Frazier has been squeezing Hill Country workers for a decade, and a farrier who won't cooperate is just another problem to break. Dust is the tail gunner of the Ghosts of the Alamo MC — the last man in the column, the one who sees what everyone else misses. When he finds Ellie walking a back road with her grandfather's tools in her hands and murder in her eyes, something clicks that twenty years of silence can't explain. Ellie doesn't need a protector. She needs someone to watch her back while she fights for everything her family built. What she gets is a quiet outlaw who handles her grandfather's tools like they're sacred and looks at her like she's the first thing worth wanting in years. When Frazier's men start killing horses and burning what the Crenshaws spent generations building, Dust and Ellie will answer with iron and fire — and a love forged in forge smoke and Hill Country dust that neither of them saw coming. Dust's Defiance is Book 6 in the Ghosts of the Alamo MC series. Full-length MC romance. Complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA.