She aimed a shotgun at four men. He decided she was his.

Pearl Dawson has been fighting alone since her father died. When a ruthless protection racket threatens to take the bar he built, she refuses to pay—even when they hospitalize her regulars and put hands around her throat.

Judge didn't plan to claim her. As the Ozark Outlaws' deadliest enforcer, he's spent years being nothing but a weapon—cold, precise, empty inside. But when he watches her stand behind that bar ready to die fighting, something long-dead wakes up.

She's his.

Now Pearl's under his protection whether she likes it or not. She's sleeping in his cabin, fighting beside him in firefights, and making his brothers wonder if the man they call Judge has finally remembered how to feel.

But the predator hunting her has been bleeding small businesses for a decade. And when he sends an army to take back what he thinks is his, Pearl will have to decide: run from the war that's coming—or stand beside the outlaw who's claimed her heart.

JUDGE'S AWAKENING is book 4 in the Ozark Outlaws MC series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.