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War teaches a person to survive.
Family teaches a person to stay alive.
But love - love demands a fight you never expected to wage.
Priscilla "Cilla" Reacher didn't plan on stopping in Charming. She rarely planned anything once she left the Army MPs - not when routine meant returning to the nightmares she'd worked years to drown. Like her brother, Jack, she preferred to keep moving, keep breathing, and never let anyone get close enough to become a weakness.
Charming was supposed to be a short pause - a town with cheap rent, quiet streets, and enough distance from her past to let her sleep through the night.
But Charming... has a way of pulling people in.
Filip "Chibs" Telford didn't expect her either. The Sons' hardened Sergeant-at-Arms had long ago learned that attachments were liabilities - and love, a luxury people like him rarely survived. Yet Cilla walks into his world like she belongs in it - sharp-eyed, scarred, and stubborn as hell.
He sees the soldier still inside her.
She sees the man beneath the leather.
Their connection is instant, magnetic - and dangerous.
SAMCRO thrives on loyalty and blood, on lines drawn in violence and blurred by brotherhood. Cilla isn't built to follow rules she didn't make... and Chibs isn't the kind of man who lets go once he cares.
Every step closer ties her deeper to a world she swore she'd never join.
And when threats rise - old enemies from the club and ghosts from Cilla's past - she realizes the worst battle she'll ever face isn't on a battlefield, but in her own heart.
Because love, real love, means staying.
And Reachers don't stay.
Not until they find something - someone - worth staying for.