Life is not a romance novel. At least not for Sloane McDare. Destined to be forever alone, the romance novels lining her bookshelves and filling her e-reader are the closest she’ll ever be to finding true love. Cowboys, millionaires, hockey players, shapeshifters, and vampires? Sloane has read them all and everything in between. But the one that really gets her motor running? That bad boy biker. Determined to meet some of her favorite MC authors, Sloane makes the trip to the Motorcycles, Mobsters, and Mayhem book signing with her best friend in tow. Sloane knows what to expect. This isn’t her first book signing. Books, authors, and cover models. Oh my! What she doesn’t expect is the Iron Fiends Motorcycle Club also at the hotel for the weekend. Sloane needs to remind herself that this isn’t a romance novel, and she isn’t going to get swept off her feet by a sexy biker. Right?

Biker: Short Stories is a work of fictional short stories with a variety of perspectives of the biker world. In each story, one will find something unique. Each story has its own personality from action and adventure to comedic situations mixed in with some sage advice. Every story takes the reader on its own, often surprising, ride.

In Biker Chicz: The Attraction of Women to Motorcycles and Outlaw Bikers, the authors provide the reader with an intriguing snapshot of the culture through women who have an intimate knowledge of the lifestyle. Although many people question their motivation to be involved with a lifestyle that most people find frightening and repulsive, to some women there is an attraction to the motorcycles and the outlaw bikers that permeate the culture. Publisher’s note: Biker Chicz: The Attraction of Women to Motorcycles and Outlaw Bikers is a condensed version of the previously published book entitled Biker Chicks: The Magnetic Attraction of Women to Bad Boys and Motorbikes (2009 Allen & Unwin), which is no longer in print and was available only in Australia and New Zealand.

It’s lights, camera, ACTION for the Iron Fiends! Throttle doesn’t care about anything but the Iron Fiends MC. Life dealt him a bad hand from birth, and he’s finally got things going his way. Well, for the most part… If you had told Throttle a few months ago that he would be on a reality show, he would have told you to get bent. Having cameras following him around and acting like he didn’t cuss every five words wasn’t what Throttle wanted or needed. But the Iron Fiends needed it, and the Iron Fiends were Throttle’s life. You know what else Throttle doesn’t need? Dove. Sloane’s friend disappeared for over two weeks, and then she just magically reappeared after the club turned heaven and hell upside down looking for her. Dove’s lips are sealed on where she was or what happened, but Throttle knows something is up. Something that could very well threaten the club he loves like family. While the cameras roll, Throttle is trying to figure out just what Dove is up to while also trying to act like the perfect little biker. What Throttle doesn’t know is the Iron Fiends are headed straight for trouble, and Dove is the only one who can help them.

Have you ever had one of those weeks? You know, nothing good can come of it, but you push along anyway. And each thing that you do only digs the hole deeper until you have no idea how you are going to get out of it. Welcome to my world. The Devil’s Brothers MC did some housecleaning. Got rid of some rats. Only problem is when all was said and done, I lost something, someone near and dear to me, and I don’t know how to handle it. Mama told me to blow in the breeze, so I hop on my Harley and ride with no destination in mind. I find myself back in my old stomping ground, Las Vegas, the place of my misspent youth. The place I always came to, to make some coin as soon as I got my first fake ID was able to get in the casino. The town I once called my own. That’s how I got my name. I was the best card shark around in my day. When I get in debt too deep, I do something stupid. Something drastic. Now the stakes have changed and I’m in way over my head. Carpagio People think I’m rich because I’m crooked. Fact is, I’m crooked because I’m rich. If I can’t buy it or borrow it, I steal it. When someone steals my shipment, I have to do what I can to get it back. What I didn’t expect is that it would be a person from my past. Someone I left behind. Someone I loved. And he has no idea who he’s crossed. Annystasia My mother always talked about Stanley. Daddy said she was crazy. He had nurses take care of her. I thought he was a figment of her imagination. My whole life has been a lie. I have a brother, and Daddy isn’t going to like the results.

She’s mine, only mine. I will guard her, save her – even if it means, protecting her from members of my own gang. Yes, we bought her innocence at the auction together, But one taste of her, And I realize I’m not ready to share. I know this is against our rules, But who the f*ck cares when rules involve a woman as gorgeous as Jenny.

Bikers Diary started in 1999 as a weekly column in a local newspaper then known as the River Valley Reader, now the Bluff Country Reader. Located in a very popular tourist area, the publishers plan was a newspaper that emphasized local arts, culture, and recreation. Dr. Jan applauded that effort, and had spent a year as a community columnist for another paper, so she submitted some sample columns and proposed this column, written by a biker. Ten successful years later, she was asked by a faithful reader is she intended to publish the columns in a book. That started her thinking, and she asked her publisher for permission to do so, which was granted. At the beginning, Dr. Jan was living in Lincoln, and commuting to her and Spouse Rogers country place near Lanesboro MN. Upon retirement, they chose that country place as their primary residence. Those locations and the people along the way provided fodder for the mill of writing, as have the many places around the world to which they have both traveled and/or at which Dr. Jan has worked. The column started out as a way to capture the ambling and sometimes philosophical thoughts and experiences triggered by almost-daily time spent on a bike. When a serious illness got in the way of biking, the habit of writing about life became almost a tension reliever as she wrote about that experience. In the years since it started, the column has evolved into writing about anything and everything she and others experience in life. This book captures some of the best of those first ten years.