Hollow Creek's Unclaimed Girl

The Serpents of Hollow Creek have been buying up Hollow Creek Road for ten years, house by house, and Sila Nunes knows exactly why her grandmother's place is the one still standing. Some debts are paid in silence. When the county raises her taxes and she has no way to pay them, the club's president offers her a job instead of a check — answer the phones, mind the office, keep her mouth shut about what's in the filing cabinet. Emeric Stone is twice her age, patient, dangerous and entirely unused to being refused. She gives him everything she has and he gives her a ring, a date, and a plan. Then his brother takes a bullet in the tow yard, and the man she married disappears into the club for six weeks and comes back a stranger. She leaves the deed on his desk and takes their daughter two states away. It takes him two years to find her. It takes her five minutes to know he isn't leaving again.