She came to Blackthorn Gap looking for a story.
He was ordered to make sure she never printed it.
Investigative reporter Lily Hendricks has one source, one career-making story, and one last chance to prove she belongs in the business.
Her source has a federal badge.
Her target is the Copperhead Motorcycle Club.
According to the evidence she's been handed, the men of Copperhead have spent years helping move poison through the mountains of Virginia. Lily expects intimidation, threats, and a town determined to protect its own.
She doesn't expect Rook Walsh.
Copperhead's enforcer has been given one job: stay close to the reporter, find out what she knows, and keep the wrong story from destroying his club.
Watching Lily should be easy.
Wanting her is not.
The longer they circle each other, the more cracks Lily finds in the story she was given. Trucks that belong to someone else. Routes missing from official manifests. Arrests that don't match the bodies piling up across the county.
And a federal source who seems far too interested in making sure Copperhead takes the blame.
Now Lily has a choice.
Print the story that could finally make her career.
Or trust the dangerous man she was sent to expose and uncover the truth someone powerful is willing to kill to keep buried.
Rook has spent his life standing between Copperhead and anyone who comes for his brothers.
This time, the woman standing on the other side might be the one person he cannot let go.
Enemies become allies.
Allies become something neither of them can afford.
And in Blackthorn Gap, the truth has a body count.
Dry Bite is Book Three in the Copperhead MC series, a gritty, high-heat motorcycle club romantic suspense featuring enemies-to-lovers tension, a morally gray hero, an investigative journalist heroine, danger, found family, and a guaranteed romantic HEA.