Walker Madigan has seen too much to believe in happily ever afters.
A hardened ex-Marine with scars deeper than the ones on his skin, he’s watched his brothers-in-arms find their Little girls—their peace, their purpose. But Walker knows that kind of softness isn’t meant for a man like him. He’s too hard, too broken, and too used to violence to ever deserve something so pure.
Lottie Summers has spent her whole life searching for the love she never had.
Lottie longs for a Daddy’s steady hand and gentle heart… but the man she falls for is a Dominant, not a Daddy—and his walls are built too high for anyone to climb.
But Lottie’s innocence draws the wrong kind of attention, and something dark decides she should belong to him.
Walker thought his war was over. He was wrong.
Because his next battle won’t be fought on foreign soil—it’ll be for Lottie’s life… and for the heart he swore he no longer had.