The first time Jax saw Lia, barefoot and bloody, he knew she would be his to keep and protect.

Most of the world doesn't consider Jax a good man. An ex-con who's spent ten years behind bars, Jax has trouble adapting to normal society. He chose to drive big trucks for a living to avoid human interaction. When an injured and curvy beauty runs in the middle of the road, begging for his help, Jax knows he doesn't need Lia's kind of trouble but he lets her in his truck anyway.

Eager to leave her small town to see the world, Lia's made the mistake of trusting one dangerous man who turned out to be a monster. Now she has no choice but to trust a muscled, scarred and inked stranger—but Jax isn't what she expected. Encased beneath a rock-hard body is an unexpectedly protective and fierce heart. If Lia isn't careful, she might just wind up begging him to keep her.