Mean Machine, Sweet Thing - A Curvy Girl and an Ex-Military Age Gap Instalove MC Romance #989880

**He looks like trouble. She looks like everything he should stay away from.**

Mara Bellamy came to Gravel Creek to restore an old house, sell it, and leave.

That was the plan.

Then her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere—and a massive, tattooed ex-military biker pulls up on a black motorcycle like trouble personally came looking for her.

Rafe Mercer has spent years making people afraid of him. At forty-three, he's too old, too scarred, and far too dangerous for a woman like Mara.

Except the moment he sees her, something inside him goes completely off the rails.

She's curvy, stubborn, mouthy, and entirely unimpressed by his reputation.

He calls her **sweet thing**.

She threatens to throw a wrench at his head.

He smiles.

And suddenly Rafe has a problem.

Because Mara isn't just tempting him. She's in danger.

Someone wants her out of Gravel Creek—and they're willing to make sure she doesn't stay alive long enough to finish restoring her house.

Rafe knows how to handle threats. He knows how to fight. He knows how to protect what belongs to him.

What he doesn't know is how to resist a woman who makes his battered heart feel alive again.

Mara never expected a mean machine to become her safe place.

Rafe never expected his sweet thing to become the one woman he'd burn the whole damn town down to protect.

**One broken-down car. One dangerous biker. One irresistible mistake neither of them wants to fix.**