Her Biker's Secret Desire

A second phone exposes thirty-one nights of lies.

The truth on it could destroy Kristen Niemi's marriage or get her killed.

Kristen Niemi has spent half her life in black water. At thirty-three, she owns a commercial dive company, recovers the dead from Lake Superior, and refuses to leave anyone beneath the surface. She is also the daughter of the man who founded the Gale Wardens MC; and the wife of the club's vice president.

Then a prepaid phone falls out of Sven's leather cut.

Eight months of messages.

Thirty-one late-night visits.

One dead brother's widow.

And every truth Sven could never bring himself to tell his wife.

He never slept with Deborah. He never kissed her. But he gave her his grief, his guilt, his dream of a different life, and the truth about the night her husband died. He came within inches of crossing the final physical line, stopped, and returned the next Thursday anyway.

To Kristen, the missing bed changes nothing. Her husband handed another woman the deepest parts of himself, then came home smelling of woodsmoke and lied.

Sven "Anvil" Lindqvist has spent years mistaking silence for protection. He runs the club's tow yard, carries the vice president's patch, and lives with the guilt of failing the best friend Kristen pulled from the harbor. Losing his wife forces him to face what his loyalty has cost, and whether he has the courage to tell the truth when it can take everything from him.

If Sven wants another chance, Kristen sets the terms:

Tell the true thing first.

End the affair in daylight.

Expose every lie.

Choose with actions, even when the whole club is watching.

But the second phone is only one betrayal. A young informant lies dead in a submerged truck. Counterfeit fentanyl is moving through the club's impound lot. A corrupt county investigator wants the evidence Kristen recovered from the water. And the president who built his power on her father's legacy will do anything to keep her quiet.

To save the Gale Wardens, Sven may have to destroy the man who gave him his patch. To save his marriage, he must stop deciding what Kristen can survive and finally trust her with the truth.

He gave another woman the truth.

Now he must give his wife everything it costs.

A dark, deeply emotional, high-heat MC romantic suspense featuring marriage in crisis, emotional infidelity, betrayed-wife angst, a full on-page grovel, forced proximity, found family, and hard-earned second-chance reconciliation. Dual first-person POV. Standalone. Guaranteed happily ever after. No cliffhanger. No physical affair. No cheating by the heroine.

Content warning: emotional infidelity, explicit sexual content, grief, a past miscarriage, fentanyl trafficking, overdose and Narcan use, drowning and body recovery, abduction, gun violence, and physical violence.

Kristen never leaves anyone in the lake.

Sven must prove he is worth bringing back.