Hard as Stone by Megan Wade

He’s the Road Captain of a motorcycle club. She’s the traffic controller who keeps making him take detours. Their love story was never going to be a straight road.

POPPY

Growing up watching Hallmark movies, I thought moving to a small town would be my dream come true.

Instead, I’m directing traffic in steel-toed boots while explaining to a grumpy biker that no, he can’t drive through my construction site just because he’s the hottest thing I’ve ever seen.

And boy, is he hot—in that ‘might be a felony waiting to happen’ kind of way.

He’s everything I shouldn’t want, especially with my family’s construction company hanging by a thread.

But there’s more going on in this town than missing permits and mysterious road work delays.

When the truth comes out about my father’s dealings,

I’ll have to choose between the family I was born with,

And the leather-clad one that’s stolen my heart.

AXEL

I didn’t expect her—this sassy traffic controller who thinks bedazzling safety equipment is appropriate work attire.

She stands up to me like I’m just another guy in her way.

Not someone who could make her life difficult.

Instead of being intimidated, she names me Toto and threatens to make me a rhinestone collar.

But while she’s busy driving me crazy with her smart mouth, I’m trying to uncover who’s really behind Summit’s corrupt development plans.

The last thing I need is to fall for the daughter of the man I’m investigating.

Yet every time she challenges me, every time she makes me laugh, I fall a little harder.

Now I have to choose between protecting the club, and protecting the woman who’s become my everything.

Even if it means losing her in the process.