Ryker's Retribution
(2026)(The fourth book in the Guardians of Blackwood Falls series)
A novel by Ivy Noir
She came to build a case against the system that broke him.
He'd stopped believing in retribution. Then she walked in carrying it.
Sloane
I've been trying to reach him for six weeks. Now I'm sitting in his garage while he ignores me from under a car that doesn't need fixing, and I'm supposed to be focused on the case. I'm not. He thinks I'm the enemy. He's not entirely wrong. But every time he slides out from under that car with grease on his hands and that mouth set against me, I stop thinking about the chain of command and start thinking about what it would take to make him lose the attitude.
Ryker
She showed up in uniform with months of ignored paperwork and eyes that evaluate before they decide. I gave her five minutes. She used three. I gave up on retribution years ago. Buried my evidence, stopped trusting anyone enough to hand it over. Now she's here saying she can burn down the men who broke me, and she keeps coming back. I'm done pretending I want her gone. I want her done arguing, pinned under me, that sharp mouth too busy to fight.
Ryker's Retribution is book four in the Guardians of Blackwood Falls series. Enemies to lovers with a disgraced pilot, a military investigator who won't stand down, and a tension that has nothing to do with the case. Standalone HEA.
Genre: Romance
He'd stopped believing in retribution. Then she walked in carrying it.
Sloane
I've been trying to reach him for six weeks. Now I'm sitting in his garage while he ignores me from under a car that doesn't need fixing, and I'm supposed to be focused on the case. I'm not. He thinks I'm the enemy. He's not entirely wrong. But every time he slides out from under that car with grease on his hands and that mouth set against me, I stop thinking about the chain of command and start thinking about what it would take to make him lose the attitude.
Ryker
She showed up in uniform with months of ignored paperwork and eyes that evaluate before they decide. I gave her five minutes. She used three. I gave up on retribution years ago. Buried my evidence, stopped trusting anyone enough to hand it over. Now she's here saying she can burn down the men who broke me, and she keeps coming back. I'm done pretending I want her gone. I want her done arguing, pinned under me, that sharp mouth too busy to fight.
Ryker's Retribution is book four in the Guardians of Blackwood Falls series. Enemies to lovers with a disgraced pilot, a military investigator who won't stand down, and a tension that has nothing to do with the case. Standalone HEA.
Genre: Romance