Signal Bend Heritage Series by Susan Fanetti

SIGNAL BEND HERITAGE: A NEW, NEXT-GEN SERIES FOR THE NIGHT HORDE MC!Gia Lunden grew up in Signal Bend, Missouri and in the Night Horde MC family. Her father, Isaac, was the most respected president of the club during its outlaw days. Isaac gave up the gavel and the Horde left the outlaw life behind long ago. These days, they run a construction company and keep the town safe, but the club’s reputation as fearsome outlaws abides... moreSIGNAL BEND HERITAGE: A NEW, NEXT-GEN SERIES FOR THE NIGHT HORDE MC!Gia Lunden grew up in Signal Bend, Missouri and in the Night Horde MC family. Her father, Isaac, was the most respected president of the club during its outlaw days. Isaac gave up the gavel and the Horde left the outlaw life behind long ago. These days, they run a construction company and keep the town safe, but the club’s reputation as fearsome outlaws abides.Gia is building a career as an anthropologist specializing in outlaw communities. As she works on her dissertation to complete a PhD, she means to begin her research at home, interviewing her family about their time on the dark side. But she hasn’t lived in Signal Bend since she first went away to college, and her homecoming is bumpier than she expected.Zaxx Bello is the newest and youngest Horde patch, still trying to shake off the stink of his prospect period and find his fit at the table. Though Signal Bend is the closest thing to a hometown he’s ever had, he wasn’t born there; he knows of the Horde’s outlaw days only through the stories of the older patches. For him, the Horde is a mantel of respect, a good job, and a place to be. It doesn’t yet feel like a family.Not that he has much idea what family should feel like. With two clueless parents and a nearly feral younger sister, Zaxx has spent most of his life being the grownup of his family. It’s a responsibility he takes seriously, and a weight he struggles to carry.Gia and Zaxx barely know each other, at least until an explosive one-night stand on her first night home. But being with Gia is no easy thing—she’s Isaac Lunden’s only daughter, after all. Nobody in town thinks Zaxx is good enough for her, least of all Zaxx himself.Nobody bothered to ask Gia what she thought. less

Autumn Rooney has a great idea.Newly promoted to VP of Commercial Development at MidWest Growth & Progress, she’s convinced her twentieth-century relic of a boss to fund her new “Heartland Homesteads” project, bringing vibrant new businesses to small rural communities. So many such towns are dying, and she sees a way to bring them new life without compromising the local culture.She’s identified Signal Bend, MO as the perfect site for her pilot development... moreAutumn Rooney has a great idea.Newly promoted to VP of Commercial Development at MidWest Growth & Progress, she’s convinced her twentieth-century relic of a boss to fund her new “Heartland Homesteads” project, bringing vibrant new businesses to small rural communities. So many such towns are dying, and she sees a way to bring them new life without compromising the local culture.She’s identified Signal Bend, MO as the perfect site for her pilot development. It’s a quaint town that already draws regional tourists and just needs a bit more commercial infrastructure to support its full potential. And there’s a perfect lot for it—a building that has sat vacant for more than a decade. Her project will bring that dead space back to life.But first she has to deal with the infuriating Night Horde MC.Like all his Horde brothers, Daniel Cox hates the redheaded, big-city snake so hellbent on forcing a strip mall onto a town that doesn’t want one. Then again, he hates pretty much everybody and everything. He shut all his other emotions down twenty years ago.When Autumn shows up in town and Cox is assigned to keep tabs on her, all he wants is to get the night over as quickly as he can, with as little pain in his ass as possible. And all Autumn wants is to shake the scowling biker off her heels.By the end of that night, however, their feelings are a lot more complicated. And ‘hate’ is certainly no longer part of the mix.She’s a fashionista, corporate go-getter from a big city hundreds of miles away. He’s a taciturn, misanthropic biker who’s never lived anywhere but Signal Bend. Their powerful attraction might not be enough to close the distance between them.It’ll take something monumental. less

Abigail Freeman has lived all her life in the hills above Signal Bend, Missouri. Like the grandmother who raised her and taught her all she knew, Abigail leads a traditional, solitary life mostly outside the prickly borders of the modern world. Some call her a witch, some call her a freak, but others call her an old soul and a good woman, the kind of country-bred that’ll drop everything to help a stranger. And just about everybody loves her pies... moreAbigail Freeman has lived all her life in the hills above Signal Bend, Missouri. Like the grandmother who raised her and taught her all she knew, Abigail leads a traditional, solitary life mostly outside the prickly borders of the modern world. Some call her a witch, some call her a freak, but others call her an old soul and a good woman, the kind of country-bred that’ll drop everything to help a stranger. And just about everybody loves her pies.Mel Lind has lived long enough in Signal Bend to be considered a local. A longstanding patch in the Night Horde MC, and lead electrician at Signal Bend Construction, he’s built up a decent life for himself. After years of family obligation, he’s glad to be living solo, no external expectations to shape himself around, no compromises, no burdens on his shoulders but his own.When Abigail comes home to find her property ransacked, death and destruction in every direction, she knows it’s too much for her to handle alone. So she calls the only help she feels she can the Night Horde.It’s Mel who answers her call. That simple coincidence changes both their lives forever.At the same time Abigail and Mel realize a bond is forming between them, the Horde discover a schism forming among them. When the club is in turmoil, Signal Bend suffers for it. That dark history has repeated several times.This time, Mel has someone other than himself to keep safe. And Abigail needs him safe, too. less