Shining Smith stands on the brink of achieving her goals, and yet now she could lose everything.

The presidents of four motorcycle clubs are coming to claim blood sacrifice and to ink her with motorcycle club tats. Her new roadhouse and its charter have to meet their approval or the roadhouse has no future, and neither does Shining.

An injured kid shows up at Smith’s Junk and Scrap, but collapses before he can speak.

A note arrives containing a warning and a plea for help, addressed by someone who knows Shining’s most intimate secrets—her history, her plans, and the names of her friends. The sender claims his daughter has been kidnapped by Shining’s enemies. To keep her secrets, he wants Shining to get his daughter back.

In order to rescue the hostage and keep her junkyard, her roadhouse, her people, and the cats alive, Shining Smith will have to suffer, fight, and bargain her way out of danger. All without accidently transitioning anyone—creating an accidental thrall—no matter how much her nanobots want her to.

Lock and load. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

This story starts six months after the last book ended. Shining has gotten her Roadhouse built, she has made a deal with the various motorcycle clubs that will allow her roadhouse to operate as neutral territory. Just before the various clubs arrive, a young boy bearing a message for Shining is picked up near the junkyard. He is gravely wounded and bears a message for Shining from the leader of the Logan Wildcats Militia whose town has been attacked and his daughter kidnapped. He hints that he knows Shining’s secrets and asks for her help.

This is a quick read, the entries in this series being more novella length than standard book length. The action is quick-paced and draws the reader into the story. The cats are a great help though not as prominent as in the previous entries. While this episode comes to a satisfying end it is clear that there is more adventure  to come as Shining wants to track down the headquarters of the villains who were central to this entry’s action. I look forward to the next entry, Junkyard Riders, and since it luckily is already in my tablet I don’t have to wait. Highly recommended ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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