Blade’s Sheath by Ethan Brand

You don’t forget a man like Blade. You just learn to live with the scar.

Diego. The Steel Phoenixes’ blade man. Lean, dark, dangerous, with a knife on his belt and a mother’s border crossing story carved into his bones. He doesn’t do attachments. He doesn’t do second chances. He buried whatever he felt for Logan Kessler six years ago and sharpened himself into something that couldn’t be hurt again.

Logan. Ex-Army Ranger. Montana rancher. Six-two of sun-weathered muscle, blue eyes, and a patience that masks the kind of man who’ll shoot first and feel about it later. He built a life from nothing: horses, fences, open sky. A quiet life. Then he finds workers with brands burned into their shoulders living in his bunkhouses, and the quiet life detonates.

One phone call. One name he never deleted. One man he never stopped wanting.

Now Diego is riding north for a rancher who shouldn’t still matter—but does. Logan is watching everything he built become a crime scene. And the woman pulling the strings is a deputy director of the FBI who traffics the same people her badge is supposed to protect.
A corrupt federal agent. An outlaw MC used as enforcers. Branded workers with no names and no freedom. And two men who broke apart six years ago, trying to hold it together long enough to burn the whole operation down, without burning each other again.

Diego knows what happens when he lets someone in. He knows the cost. He should keep his distance. He should do anything other than press this man against a wall in a dark kitchen and whisper soon…

Second chance romance · Military veterans · Reunited lovers · Forced proximity · Protective heroes · Found family · Hurt/comfort · Who did this to you?
Steamy gay romance. Explicit scenes. Graphic violence. Mature themes including labor trafficking, past trauma, and institutional corruption. HEA guaranteed. No cliffhanger.

Steel Phoenixes MC Book 4. Can be read as a standalone.