The Biker He Spurned

Junie Wexler turned Ade Kane down when she was seventeen. Nobody holds a grudge that long. Nobody stable, anyway. Ade holds it. He is the sergeant-at-arms of the Dust Kings now, and he still remembers the exact shape of no. He also remembers the man he ran out of Nevada the last time he was in love, and that man has been leaving dead birds on Junie's porch. The sheriff calls it a prank. Ade calls Bones and Rook, who call Junie's truck stop the worst kind of neutral ground. Junie does not want protection from three men who were not asked. She wants the person doing this identified, and she is the only one with access to the employee files. But when the answer comes, it comes with a fuel pump, a shift change, and a man in the parking lot who will not take no for an answer. Junie took no for an answer once before. She is done with that word.