A left-at-the-altar event planner.
A stoic motorcycle club president.
One charity ride.
Two weeks.
One return flight.
One betting board.

Sloane Vasquez, elite freelance event coordinator
She didn’t come to Copper Ridge for a fresh start. She came to save a fundraiser, do the job, and leave on schedule.
She wants to pull off the Iron Run without losing control—or breaking the two rules that have kept her heart intact since being left at the altar.
She refuses to fall for a man in Bex’s orbit… especially not one who rides a motorcycle and argues with her like foreplay.

Dante Navarro, Iron Wolves president who built his life on staying
He turned loyalty, discipline, and responsibility into a life that holds everyone else together. Then Sloane walks in with her binders, her color-coding, and her impossible competence—and suddenly “holding it together” stops feeling simple.
He wants the Iron Run saved, the burn-unit fundraiser protected, and Sloane close enough to help but far enough not to matter.
He can’t afford distraction. He definitely can’t afford the one woman who sees straight through him—and fights him like an equal.

Tropes you get
✅ Enemies to lovers ✅ Forced proximity ✅ Motorcycle club romance ✅ Best-friend’s-family complication ✅ Competence kink ✅ Betting board meddling ✅ Left-at-the-altar heroine ✅ Stoic hero who falls hard ✅ Open-door spice ✅ Happily ever after

The Iron Run is ten days behind, the sponsors need wrangling, the logistics are chaos, and Sloane and Dante have exactly two weeks to turn a near-disaster into a successful charity event. Every meeting becomes a battle. Every concession costs them. Every fix pulls them closer. And the longer they work side by side, the more obvious it becomes that the real risk isn’t the fundraiser failing—it’s what happens if neither of them walks away in time.

Because Sloane already booked her flight home before she ever got there.
And Dante has spent his whole life staying for everyone but himself.

A betting board, a baby goat, escalating chemistry, and one deeply inconvenient attraction later, Sloane is stuck with a man who remembers her coffee, challenges every defense she has, and makes “temporary” feel like a lie.
If she stays, she risks trusting the kind of love that broke her the first time.
If she leaves, she risks losing the one man who never mistakes her strength for something to fear.

Sharp banter.
Found-family chaos.
Weaponized competence.
A hero who loves through action before he ever says a word.
A heroine who learns that staying doesn’t have to mean surrender.

Perfect for fans of enemies-to-lovers motorcycle club romance, forced proximity, and high-competence love stories with open-door heat.

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