She reached for a bat when his men came for her. The heavy equipment operator watching from his regular booth decided nobody was touching her again.

Della Quinn spent twelve years as a Marine, kicking down doors in Afghanistan. Now she's built something peaceful—a coffee shop that's become the heart of her community. When a construction kingpin decides her building is in his way, she refuses to sell. The beatings don't change her mind.

Gravel didn't plan to get involved. He's just a customer who appreciates good coffee and the woman who makes it. But when he watches her swing a bat at men who've already cracked her ribs once, something breaks loose inside him.

She's his.

Now Della's caught in a war between the Ozark Outlaws MC and a man who's buried his enemies in quarry pits for twenty years. She can fight—God knows she can fight—but even a Marine can't survive alone against an army.

When the final battle comes, she'll have to choose: stay the woman who needed no one, or claim the outlaw who refuses to let her go.

GRAVEL'S FORTITUDE is book 7 in the Ozark Outlaws MC series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.