Never Touched, Never Told

Wrenna Blake has spent four years learning how to put ink on people without letting anyone put anything on her. That's why she's twenty-two and still untouched, and she's fine with it. Then a club walks into her shop and a man named Cass Raines decides the sidewalk outside her apartment is the safest place in Quarry Bend. He's eighteen years older. He's the man the Devil's Ledger sends when it wants something finished. He has never once lied to her and that is precisely the problem, because when she tells him she's pregnant, in the same week they vote to send him to war, and she tells him she doesn't want to be the reason he comes home — he listens. He comes home anyway. It just takes him two years, and by then he has a daughter with his jaw and his hands and her mother's stubborn mouth, and the whole club has opinions. She never told anyone. That's not the same as forgetting.