Snake

Autumn Rooney has a great idea. Newly promoted to VP of Commercial Development at MidWest Growth & Progress, she's convinced her twentieth-century relic of a boss to fund her new "Heartland Homesteads" project, bringing vibrant new businesses to small rural communities. So many such towns are dying, and she sees a way to bring them new life without compromising the local culture. She's identified Signal Bend, MO as the perfect site for her pilot development. It's a quaint town that already draws regional tourists and just needs a bit more commercial infrastructure to support its full potential. And there's a perfect lot for it-a building that has sat vacant for more than a decade. Her project will bring that dead space back to life. But first she has to deal with the infuriating Night Horde MC. Like all his Horde brothers, Daniel Cox hates the redheaded, big-city snake so hellbent on forcing a strip mall onto a town that doesn't want one. Then again, he hates pretty much everybody and everything. He shut all his other emotions down twenty years ago. When Autumn shows up in town and Cox is assigned to keep tabs on her, all he wants is to get the night over as quickly as he can, with as little pain in his ass as possible. And all Autumn wants is to shake the scowling biker off her heels. By the end of that night, however, their feelings are a lot more complicated. And 'hate' is certainly no longer part of the mix. She's a fashionista, corporate go-getter from a big city hundreds of miles away. He's a taciturn, misanthropic biker who's never lived anywhere but Signal Bend. Their powerful attraction might not be enough to close the distance between them. It'll take something monumental.