The Unclaimed Bride of the Widowmaker

Wren Kovacs has spent her whole life being careful — careful with her father, careful with her savings, careful with a body no one has ever touched. When the Blood Ash MC comes to Bellhaven to settle a debt her father left behind, the man at the head of the table is not careful at all. Anton Vazquez is fifty-three, patient and hollow-eyed, and the town calls him the Widowmaker. He doesn't want her house. He wants the ground under it, and he wants a wife on paper for the ninety days his mother has left. Wren signs. She should have read the small print: the clause where the pretend marriage becomes a real one, the clause where the debt has a second name, and the clause where what her father actually did is the only thing standing between her and the child she is carrying. Some debts are paid in blood. This one is paid in a library, at dawn, by a woman who finally stops being careful.