Born a month apart into the family of the Brazen Bulls MC, Athena Armstrong and Sam Spellman have been best friends from their earliest days. When they were little, the family always joked that they were boyfriend and girlfriend, but in reality they've never been anything but best friends. Completely platonic. They consider themselves each other's person, as close as twins. But they've both struggled with romantic relationships. Sam, prospecting for the club and trying not to let that ordeal break him down, is starting to think he's pulled in too many directions to fall in love. Or worse, that he's just not capable of that kind of love. Athena, who is deaf, is caught in a troubling relationship with a man she feels is the best she can do. The pool of ASL-fluent people in Oklahoma is neither wide nor deep. Sometimes the truth is so close it's hard to see it clearly. For Sam and Athena, only crisis will bring that truth into focus.

As an enforcer for the Pagano Brothers, Tony Cioccolanti's life is steeped in violence. For the most part, he feels no burden on his soul for the blood he spills or the pain he inflicts. He is a soldier, and blood and pain are the wages of war.Yet one terrible mistake haunts him, in his dreams and in his waking hours.Billy Jones has moved to Quiet Cove, the place of her happiest memories, to start a business and fulfill a dream. Having summered in the Cove through most of her childhood, she understands about the Pagano Brothers and their control of the town. Their interest in her nightclub doesn't surprise her—nor does the "protection" payment they demand. The glowering goombah who visits her club regularly, however—he surprises her plenty.She was not prepared for the attraction between them.As Tony and Billy draw closer, Tony's violent life, and the Pagano Brothers' brutal world, explodes on the streets of the Cove.War has come,...

Twenty years ago, as a young Pagano Brothers soldier, Donnie Goretti was horribly injured on the job. The devastating scars of that attack led him to be known as "The Face."Since then, he's been alone, reminded daily that he's too ugly to look at, much less to love. He devoted himself instead to his work, and he rose through the ranks to become the underboss of the Pagano Brothers family.Now, he is a man of wealth, influence, and respect. In the day, he's a powerful executive and philanthropist. In the night, he's the don's ruthless right hand. When he wants companionship, he has it; there will always be women attracted to his status. But he harbors no delusions that they care about him. How could they, when they can hardly bear to look at him?When he meets Arianna Luciano, a principal dancer with the Rhode Island Ballet, Donnie offers her the same arrangement he's offered many other women. He's armored his heart with cool reserve and an arsenal of...

As the Pagano Brothers' head of security and enforcement, Angelo Corti has done Nick's darkest work for years. Intimidation, torture, assassination—he's done it all without a qualm. There is nothing he won't do for his don.Angie's built a good life for himself on his own, devoted entirely to the Pagano Brothers, and it's all he wants. He has no interest in a romantic relationship; there's no chance he'll ever fall in love. He's already taken his vows: to Nick and the Pagano Brothers family. There is room for nothing else in his life.Nick's plans for his legacy will rock their whole world, but Angie is at Nick's side, ready to render his justice and clear the path for his don to get what he wants, no matter what.Giada Sacco has been cleaning up after her brother, don of the Sacco Family, for years, running the family from the shadows while his arrogance and cruelty threaten to destroy it. But Giada is tired of doing the work while her unworthy brother...

When Cooper Calderon threw his name on the table to be president of the new Nevada charter of the Brazen Bulls MC, he didn't think anyone would take him seriously. He's not exactly known for being serious. But here he is, in a strange town, leading a charter of men he barely knows. He's starting to crack under the pressure. To top it off, his new neighbor already hates him, and he doesn't like her much better. Siena Morgan is at the end of her rope. She's trying to cobble together a life for herself and her younger sister, but the universe keeps dealing them losing hands. The latest set of cards includes a party-boy jerk with an outrageously loud Harley and the world's smuggest smirk as her new neighbor. She knows he's trouble the second she lays eyes on him. Yet another thing she needs to worry about. It's not good for the president of an outlaw MC to be in open war with his next-door neighbor. So Cooper tries to build a...

THE CONCLUSION OF THE BRAZEN BULLS MC SERIESTulsa, Oklahoma, 2002.Gary Becker never wanted to lead. He hates to be the center of attention, and he doesn't feel up to the job. But Delaney shocked the Bulls when he retired and set aside the gavel, and the Bulls shocked Becker when they unanimously voted to hand that gavel over to him.Now he's the president of the Brazen Bulls MC, and he's trying to figure out how to deserve that new flash on his chest, and how to bring the club back from the edge it's teetering on.Sage Cleary is trying to figure out her own life and help her mother figure out hers. The latest in a lifelong line of her mom's abusive boyfriends is one of the worst, and Sage is doing all she can to protect herself and her mom, too. But her mom doesn't want to be rescued, and doesn't see that Sage needs rescue, too.When the mysterious, hot biker who lives behind their house jumps the fence one night and saves them, Sage goes to thank him properly. But he's older, and thinks she's too young for him.Sage has never been one to let a little rejection get in her way, and once she gets to know Becker a little, she's determined to show him how right they are together. He just needs to see that the truths between their lives are much closer than the years between their births.

Gigi Mackenzie left home in a hurry ten years ago, and she hasn't looked back. She's spent the decade traveling the world, moving fast, never landing anywhere long, chasing something she's never been able to find, or even define. In all those years, there's only one thing, one person, she's truly missed—the one person she hadn't been running from at all. The person she hurt most when she left.When she gets word of trouble at home, she knows she has to go back. Tragedy sent her flying, and tragedy brings her back to the nest.Like his father and his grandfather before him, Reese Webb runs The Apple Jack Saloon. In more than forty years of life, he's hardly crossed the Idaho state line, and he has no need or intention to go anywhere. Jasper Ridge, and the Jack—that's his home. He's a man who likes things to stay the way they are.Ten years ago, he meant to bring the love of his life home to these familiar, well-worn walls. But the night before their wedding, she ran away.Now Gigi is back, and Reese realizes there's a reason he's been standing in place all this time. He's been waiting.But has too much time, and too much pain, filled the space between them?

Eastern Kentucky, 1937. After the death of her husband, Ada Donovan returned home to live again with her aging parents. She does all she can to help them keep the small family farm going. But times are hard, and there's never enough.During one of her infrequent visits to town, she sees a help-wanted notice for the Pack Horse Librarian Project, seeking librarians to ride up high in the mountains and bring books to the people there. Before her marriage, Ada was a teacher, and the thought of returning to the work she loved is impossible to resist. The mountains are her favorite place, books are her great joy, and her horse is her best friend.But not everyone on the mountain is happy to see her.Living in a crumbing cabin at the highest, most isolated point of Ada's route, there's a family that catches her attention. The father keeps to the shadows. There is no mother to dote on the happy, curious children. But soon Ada comes to love them just as...