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
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
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
Mostrar todos os capítulosVer menos
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
34The End
35About the Author
36Also by Jax Holloway
37Acknowledgements
38A Note from the Author
More from Jax Holloway
Sinners MCJax Holloway8h 30m$5
The Biker's CaptiveJax Holloway7h 7m$5
Property of the RenegadesJax Holloway7h 23m$5
The Outlaw's VowJax Holloway8h 41m$5
The Outlaw's QueenJax Holloway8h 7m$5
The Outlaw's ObsessionJax Holloway7h 35m$5
The Renegade's ObsessionJax Holloway8h 56m$5
The Outlaw's Old LadyJax Holloway8h 39m$5
The Renegade's Old LadyJax Holloway8h 31m$5
The Renegade's QueenJax Holloway7h 22m$5
The Renegade's PropertyJax Holloway8h 32m4.2 (1.6K)$5
The Renegade's VowJax Holloway7h 41m$5
The Renegade's CaptiveJax Holloway8h 3m$5
The Renegade's ClaimJax Holloway4h 52m$5
The Outlaw's PropertyJax Holloway7h 51m$5
Outlaw's ObsessionJax Holloway7h 53m$5
Kutte and CrownJax Holloway8h 31m$5
Her Duty Bound DefenderSharee Stover6h 30m4.6 (559)$12 · $0.00
Defending from DangerJodie Bailey5h 46m4.6 (588)$24 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
Explosive RevengeMaggie K. Black6h 18m4.6 (545)$12 · $0.00
Her Brand of JusticeB.J. Daniels6h 48m4.6 (1.3K)$12 · $0.00
Search And DetectTerri Reed5h 51m4.6 (706)$24 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
Danger in the WildernessDarlene L. Turner6h 54m4.7 (299)$12 · $0.00
Yukon JusticeDana Mentink6h 15m4.6 (751)$12 · $0.00
The Rogue WarriorCindy Roland Anderson5h 44m4.6 (410)$17 · $0.00
Trail Of ThreatsJessica R. Patch5h 47m4.6 (425)$24 · $0.00
Ironwood, a Fae Universe SeriesAlessa Thorn26h 57m4.6 (835)$30 · $0.00
Ready to ProtectValerie Hansen5h 38m4.6 (981)$24 · $0.00
Searching For EvidenceCarol J. Post6h 21m4.6 (552)$24 · $0.00
New Beginnings at Lullbury BayGeorgia Hill6h 59m4.6 (423)$13 · $0.00
Hiding in MontanaLaura Scott6h 18m4.6 (1K)$12 · $0.00
Christmas K-9 Unit HeroesLenora Worth, Katy Lee5h 51m4.6 (507)$24 · $0.00
Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
Craft BrewLayla Reyne7h 50m4.5 (986)$26 · $0.00
THE BLUE CASTLE (Unabridged) (Annotated)Lucy Maud Montgomery9h 18m4.5 (61.8K)$2 · $0.00
You may also like
Break Every RuleBrian Freeman12h 1m4.3 (3.5K)$25
A Dark and Stormy NightJeanne M. Dams9h 4m4.1 (2.2K)$20
The Llama of DeathBetty Webb9h 14m3.9 (1.3K)$20
RestorationTate James8h 13m4.4 (4.3K)$23
Vendetta (Lexi Winter Book 3): The suspense-filled third instalment in the gripping vigilante turned cop Aussie crime thriller series.Sarah Barrie12h 12m4.4 (1.2K)$29 · $0.00
Murder on the Orient ExpressAgatha Christie6h 50m4.3 (1.5M)$24 · $0.00
The Green ArcherEdgar Wallace13h 44m3.8 (1.9K)$1 · $0.00
Claimed by the Bratva EnforcerDmitri Volkov12h 14m$5
McKenna’s GuyMike Lawson7h 44m4.4 (191)$23
The Don He Vengeance-TookRosalind Vane11h 16m$5
The Reaper's CaptiveRaven Sinclair8h 8m$5
GhostReese Calder10h 25m$5
Long Time LostChris Ewan10h3.7 (896)$20
The Outlaw's ObsessionJax Holloway7h 35m$5
The Enforcer She BetrayedRae Delacroix10h 58m$5
The Renegade's ClaimJax Holloway4h 52m$5
The Lie MakerLinwood Barclay10h 18m$29 · $0.00
Road KillJan Coffey, May McGoldrick8h 38m4.1 (48)$6 · $0.00
Mile High MysteryCindi Myers5h 31m4.2 (221)$12 · $0.00
The Kingpin's PossessionElena Moretti8h 59m$5