August 29, 2026 · Book Review
by Kari Roller
Kyah Starling built her entire adult life around never needing anyone. She worked her way through veterinary school and opened her own twenty-four-hour emergency clinic in small-town Massachusetts, driven in large part by watching her mother’s marriage collapse under her father’s years of lies. Her carefully controlled world cracks open at two in the morning when a massive, blood-soaked biker carries a savagely injured pit bull through her doors and refuses to leave until the dog is safe. What Kyah doesn’t yet know is that the man has been quietly watching over her for a decade, and that his motorcycle club is already at war with a rival gang running an illegal dogfighting operation through her own patients.
As Kyah’s new “benefactor” keeps showing up with gifts, favors, and an unsettling amount of knowledge about her private life, she has to decide whether to trust the very thing that’s been making her feel unsafe in her own home. Meanwhile, the rescued dogs she keeps treating point toward a criminal network with a leak inside the police department and, eventually, someone far closer to Kyah than she realizes. The back half of the book turns from slow-burn tension into a genuine crime plot, with betrayals inside the biker club itself that reshape who Kyah, and the reader, thought the real threat was.
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