Quake serves as Sergeant at Arms for the Kings of Anarchy MC in Washington, a man who knows every ugly corner of the world and works to offset the darkness before his time runs out.
Whitney should be off-limits: a nun whose quiet life has never brushed against the violence his club attracts, yet the isolation she conceals makes walking away impossible.
Left at an orphanage as a child and never chosen for adoption, she grew up among the sisters and now, at twenty-three, lives as Sister Emiliani, devoted to the church and close to taking her final vows.
His rough edges and the danger around him should send her running, but instead they wake something she did not know she could feel.
She begins to wonder if courage might mean reaching for more than prayer and solitude, while he keeps inventing reasons not to let her go.