The Bride She Buried

Marley Cross left her wedding dress in a hotel bathroom and got on the back of a stranger's bike. She didn't plan on Ember, Oklahoma, a company town that exists because the Sons of Verity built a garage, a bar, and a church beside the same crossroads. She didn't plan on Boone Cardew, either — the road captain who brought her in and then watched her from the corner booth for three weeks before he asked her one question. She answered it. He told her a name from a headstone and a name from an old betrayal, and the two names belonged to the man waiting at the altar. Marley has his phone. The meet happens on the Arkansas line, and Marley rides pillion holding a phone that's already wiped, so the men following the signal are following a ghost. A sun-faded, slow-burn MC romance about a bad town, a good liar, and a woman who picks the truth exactly once.