Silas Doyle, vice president of the Ironclad motorcycle club, has spent six years keeping the club on its feet while a hospital-room vow keeps his heart shut and his house empty.
Wren Calloway, a single mom eighteen years younger, walks into his bar with a restraining order on file and a three-year-old son asleep at her sister's, and he is already choosing her safety before he admits he has broken his own rule.
She wants her ex-husband gone and one week without another crisis so her boy can stop flinching at raised voices, not a biker twice her size appointing himself her guard.
Dean is out on parole and still knows how to hide danger inside calm words, and every approach toward Wren is also an approach toward her son.
The first time Silas stands between them, the years that separate him from Wren stop feeling like a barrier.
He has always guarded other people without letting himself need anyone back, and leaving now may cost him the one future he refused to want.
