Marin Calloway has spent twenty-seven years making herself smaller.

She's a hospice nurse — the calm in the worst rooms there are, the one who stays when everyone else leaves. She holds the hands of the dying and asks nothing back. She's good at it because she was raised to believe she was "too much," and shrinking is the one thing she learned early and well.

Then a patient dies, Marin photographs the wrong ledger for the family's probate, and a corrupt sheriff's deputy decides the tidiest way to erase a witness is to set her car — and her — on fire in a gravel driveway at two in the morning.

She'd have died there. Except a stranger comes around the bend.

Nine years ago, Specter buried his wife and unborn son and decided never to want anything again — because wanting is how the world finds the exact thing it can take from you. He's been a ghost in a leather cut ever since. Then he lays his bike down in the gravel for a woman he's never met, pulls her out of the flames, and feels the thing he swore off roar back to life in a single half-second.

He falls first. He falls hard. And he decides, before he even knows her name, that no one is ever going to make her small again — not the man who tried to burn her, not the mother who taught her to apologize for existing, not anyone.

For the first time in her life, Marin is somewhere she doesn't have to shrink. A silver-haired biker matriarch reads the gray in her lips and wraps her in a blanket without being asked. A clubhouse full of hard men watches her patch one of their own back together and decides, quietly, that she's theirs now. Specter leaves every door in his house unlocked so she never once feels caged.

But the deputy isn't finished. He trades the fire for a warrant, the warrant for a frame, and the frame for the one weapon that always worked on Marin before — the voice that first taught her she was too much. To beat him, Marin will have to do the one thing she's never been allowed: take up the whole room, out loud, in front of a club full of dangerous men who are already choosing her as their own.

Specter came back from the dead the night he met her. Now he'll burn the world down before he loses her.

A slow-burn-that-earns-its-heat, standalone MC romance with a fiercely protective hero, a curvy heroine who stops apologizing for her size, and a found family worth fighting for.

One-click Specter's Obsession and find out what happens when a ghost decides he's keeping her.