Breaking His Exile (Valor Ridge Book 5)

He sentenced himself to a life alone.

Evander Cole came to Montana to disappear. Tucked away in the mountains outside Solace, he keeps his distance from everyone—including the men at Valor Ridge who would have been his brothers if he'd stayed at the ranch. But after eight years alone, numbness feels safer than letting anyone close. His Cane Corso, Tilly, is the only company he allows himself.

Then she walks into a roadside bar with a guitar on her back and danger at her heels.

Indie singer-songwriter Rainey Beckett knows better than to trust dangerous men. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped her from ending up on the wrong side of the Sons of Sin motorcycle club. And when danger catches up to her before she can find her brother, there's nowhere left to run…

Except straight into the path of the quiet stranger at the end of the bar—a man with cigarette burns on his hands that mirror the scars on her wrists, and a dog at his side that looks ready to kill on command.

One violent night changes everything.

Now the president of the Sons of Sin is dead, the club wants revenge, the law is hunting Evander for murder, and the media is convinced he kidnapped a rising music star. Forced deeper into the wilderness together, Evander and Rainey discover hiding from the world starts to feel less like survival…and more like freedom.

But falling for Rainey means abandoning the exile Evander built for himself.

And for the first time, he's starting to wonder if just surviving alone is enough—or if he wants more.

Breaking His Exile is a steamy small-town romantic suspense featuring fugitives on the run, forced proximity, hurt/comfort, found family, and a love powerful enough to bring a broken man back from the edge.