Brothers and Strangers

Jolene Hart hasn't been back to Kenmore since her mother's funeral. Karl's will brings her back: one house, one service bay, one condition — both signatures required. Her stepbrother Deacon has been paying the property tax for eleven years and running couriers out of the bay, and he will not sign. Neither will she. So they move back into a house with thin walls and one very old story, and they start finding out what happened in the year Jolene was thirteen, when Deacon was sent away at seventeen and nobody said why. He never wrote. He never missed a tax payment. He is exactly as steady and immovable as she remembers, and considerably more dangerous, and the line between them is a decision they make together at the end of chapter eight. A slow, adult, dark stepbrother MC romance about buried houses, unpaid debts, and two names on one sign.