Twenty years on the road, and Cal Rourke still can't say his own name without flinching.He was nineteen when the Painted Saints threw him out over something he didn't do. He never patched in anywhere else — just cut leather and inked skin in other men's clubs and kept moving. Now the old man who sponsored him is dying in Chattanooga and asked for Cal by name.He walks back in expecting a bullet. Instead he gets a box of tools, a job rebuilding the patch he was denied, and Ma...

Bramble Rae has run the same garage for eleven years and answered exactly one question about the Sump Riders: no.She does not ask why they only ride at night. She does not ask why their road captain has been alive since before the highway was paved. She fixes their bikes, takes their cash, and locks up at midnight.Then the state decides to run a bypass through both their properties, and the only legal name on the deed belongs to a vampire who has spent ninety years avoiding...

Zwanzig Jahre auf der Straße, und Cal Rourke kann seinen eigenen Namen immer noch nicht aussprechen, ohne zusammenzuzucken.Er war neunzehn, als die Painted Saints ihn rauswarfen – wegen etwas, das er nicht getan hatte. Nirgendwo sonst hat er sich eingekauft. Er hat Leder zugeschnitten und Haut in den Clubs anderer Männer tätowiert und ist weitergezogen. Jetzt liegt der alte Mann, der ihn damals gefördert hat, im Sterben in Chattanooga und hat nach Cal verlangt.Cal geht zurü...