The Virgin Bride of the Hollow

Tamsin Reyes said no to Wren Halloway four years ago at a county fair, and she was right to. He was twice her age, president of the Iron Hollow MC, and the most dangerous man she had ever met. She is twenty-four now, still untouched, and her brother has borrowed money from people who don't send letters. The only door with enough weight behind it belongs to the man she turned down — and he is not interested in her gratitude. He wants a marriage of convenience, ninety days, on paper, nothing more. It stays on paper for six weeks. Then it doesn't, and Tamsin finds out she's pregnant, and remembers the one thing Wren has ever said about children — a single sentence, said once, in the dark, that she has never been able to make herself forget. She leaves at fourteen weeks with a plan and a bankroll and a two-year-old daughter he has never seen. When he finds her, he doesn't beg. He sits down on her porch and finally says the whole sentence.