She put a tattoo needle through a man's face when they came for her. The outlaw watching from across the street decided she was his.

Riley Preston didn't survive six years as a military police officer to come home and bow to a corrupt cop running a protection racket. When she tells Deputy Harker where to shove his "licensing fee," she knows there will be consequences. She just didn't expect them to include an Ozark Outlaw with deadly aim and an even deadlier claim on her heart.

Arsenal doesn't do attachment. As the club's armorer, he's spent years perfecting his discipline?maintaining weapons, not relationships. But when he watches Riley stand her ground against armed men with nothing but a tattoo needle and enough spine to shame most soldiers, something inside him snaps.

She's his.

Now Riley's caught between a badge-wearing criminal who wants her destroyed and a possessive biker who wants her forever. She's fighting beside him, sleeping in his bed, and discovering that the quiet armorer who appreciated her ink work was never just a client.

But Harker isn't going to stop until she's broken or buried. And when fifteen years of corruption come crashing down, Riley will have to choose: stand alone like she always has?or trust the outlaw who's claimed her as his own.

ARSENAL'S DEFIANCE is book 12 in the Ozark Outlaws MC series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.