Sasha Petrov has been hiding from her old life for two years. It finds her in the form of a Manzanita charter sergeant with a borrowed leather cut and a job offer she can't refuse. Be the dead president's widow. Prove he was murdered. Don't get killed doing it. The man keeping her cover is Doran Vasquez, who hates her cover story, hates her fake grief, and hates that he's starting to believe it. Three weeks in a one-room apartment above a bar. One motel room in Reno. One name said out of turn. When the killer turns out to be the treasurer, the funeral becomes a trial and Doran becomes the sentence. Sasha leaves with her real name. She comes back with his.

Dani Ochoa found out her husband was cheating at his own birthday party, when the other woman walked in wearing a dress Dani had picked out for her. She packed a bag. She moved into her sister's guest room. She bought a red dress she couldn't afford and wore it to a memorial ride she wasn't invited to. Rigger Knox runs the Iron Hollow MC and has never been good at parties. He notices her because she's the only person in the room not pretending to be somebody else. She's not looking for a saviour. She's not looking for a second husband. She's not even sure she's looking. But she is keeping the house, and the divorce lawyer is on speed dial, and the man across the bar has a motorcycle and a mother and a slow, steady way of not lying to her. October is going to be a good month.