The Outlaw's Claim
A Ransom Demand, Missing Child Biker MC RomanceBy Jax Holloway
Length9h 27m
About this audiobook
The case file lands on Leah's desk with a thump that sends coffee over the rim of her mug. She catches it before it can reach the photograph pinned to her corkboard: her father, frozen at thirty-eight, smiling like he has just told a joke.
Six years since that smile stopped existing. Six years since The Ghost painted the walls of the Black Mesa Mining payroll office with it.
Inside the folder is a single page. Coordinates, a timestamp, and a line of cramped handwriting.
*He's been using the old Arboles Mine. Moves at dusk. Comes alone.*
Leah Hartwell's corkboard holds thirty-two photographs of the same man from thirty-two useless angles. Tall, lean, quick hands, a surveillance frame from the Wells Fargo job where he is scaling a fire escape with one arm held against his side. Her father taught her to read people by their hands, and in that photograph there is a pale line across the knuckles that she has somehow never noticed.
Damon Salazar wants the case and tells her the informant is a meth dealer with a grudge and the lead is a landmine, not a breadcrumb. He is not entirely wrong.
What she finds inside the mine is not a hideout. It is a base: a cot, a sleeping bag, a propane stove, a generator still warm, and a laptop with no password whose folders are named Payroll Records, Safety Violations, Land Rights Disputes, and Black Mesa Evidence.
And at the bottom seam of a duffel bag, her father's badge. The number worn smooth, the pin bent, and old dried blood across it in a bloom that spreads outward from the centre, the way a thing looks when somebody has pressed it hard against a wound.
Not the way it would look if it had been taken off a body.
The man who has been carrying that badge for six years has grey eyes, a limp, and a scar across his hand. He also has a woman from his past who is on her way to Cedar Ridge with a shotgun crew and a snake inked up her forearm, and Leah's sister lives in this town.
A crime romance set in the red rock of New Mexico: a deputy who has built her whole adult life on one certainty, a thief who let her see his face on purpose, a mining company that went bankrupt six months after a murder, and an alliance neither of them can explain to their own side. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length9 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
4Chapter 3 - The Bargain I Didn’t See Coming
5Chapter 4 - The Mask She Wore for Me
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6Chapter 5 - The Betrayal That Almost Broke Me
7Chapter 6 - The Hand I Didn’t Want to Trust
8Chapter 7 - The Wound That Never Healed
9Chapter 8 - The Ridge Where We Became
10Chapter 9 - The Mole in the Hydra’s Den
11Chapter 10 - The Key to Every Lie
12Chapter 11 - The Run That Couldn’t Last
13Chapter 12 - The Dinner That Changed the Rules
14Chapter 13 - The Dream That Opened My Eyes
15Chapter 14 - The Trap I Walked Into for You
16Chapter 15 - The Lie That Saved Her
17Chapter 16 - The Canyon of Second Chances
18Chapter 17 - The Boat I Didn’t See Sink
19Chapter 18 - The Ceasefire That Wounded Us Both
20Chapter 19 - The Road That Burned Behind Us
21Chapter 20 - The Confession I Didn’t Want to Hear
22Chapter 21 - The Mine We Walked Into
23Chapter 22 - The Sacrifice That Saved Us
24Chapter 23 - The Breath After the Fall
25Chapter 24 - The Trial We Already Won
26Chapter 25 - The Ghost in the Mirror
27Chapter 26 - The Letter That Almost Ended Us
28Chapter 27 - The Chase We Chose
29Chapter 28 - The Mine That Buried the Truth
30Chapter 29 - The Fall That Forged Us
31Chapter 30 - The Beginning I Never Expected
32Chapter 31 - The Road We Built Together
33Epilogue
34About the Author
35The End
36About the Author
37Also by Jax Holloway
38Acknowledgements
39A Note from the Author
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