Bianca hated those Merrick boys. She wasn’t alone. They were nothing but trouble, but no one dared stand up to them. Look at one Merrick cross-eyed and before you knew it you were at war with the whole clan. She kept to herself and bit her tongue when they wrecked her diner on a regular schedule. It was a small price to pay to stay on Merricks’ good side. Braden Foster never was much good at keeping his opinions to himself. The leader of a nomadic band of bikers, Braden was accustomed to facing trouble head on, usually with fists. Occasionally with a crowbar. This policy didn’t win him many friends, but it rarely mattered. He never stuck in one place long enough to weather the consequences. That was before he came to the aid of a pretty lady restaurateur. He figured he’d at least earned a cup of coffee for his trouble, but when he stepped between the Merrick boys and Bianca’s diner, he lit a spark that threatened to burn the whole town to ashes. It was up to him to put it out. Bianca knew a gathering storm when she saw one. But which was more frightening: the storm between Braden and the Merricks, or the one brewing in her heart for a man arguably more dangerous than the Merricks themselves?

In 1947, 4,000 motorcycle hobbyists converged on Hollister, California. As images of dissolute bikers graced the pages of newspapers and magazines, the three-day gathering sparked the growth of a new subculture while also touching off national alarm. In the years that followed, the stereotypical leather-clad biker emerged in the American consciousness as a menace to law-abiding motorists and small towns. Yet a few short decades later, the motorcyclist, once menacing, became mainstream. To understand this shift, Randy D. McBee narrates the evolution of motorcycle culture since World War II. Along the way he examines the rebelliousness of early riders of the 1940s and 1950s, riders' increasing connection to violence and the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, the rich urban bikers of the 1990s and 2000s, and the factors that gave rise to a motorcycle rights movement. McBee's fascinating narrative of motorcycling's past and present reveals the biker as a crucial character in twentieth-century American life.

Motorcycle riders from all walks of life--from Main Street to Wall Street, Hollywood to Washington, D.C.--are invited to peel back their "badass" masks and answer one simple question: What is the meaning of life? Their answers expose the motorcycle community's lesser-known philosophical and charitable nature and help to smash the typical motorcycle-rider stereotype. Joining the "regular folks" interviewed are celebrities, including Peter Fonda, Gen. Tommy Franks, John Paul DeJoria, Jillian Michaels, Kyle Petty, Carey Hart, and Norman Reedus, along with a former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a congressman, a senator, a former NASA astronaut, governors, military generals, actors, rock n'roll and country artists, corporate executives, and NFL, NBA, MLB sports figures. Whether you drive on four wheels or straddle a "wild thang" on two, these voices are sure to enlighten and entertain.

Little Mike and Maddie are happy dogs. They have lots of toys, treats, and love from Big Bob and Amy, but what they really want is to go for a motorcycle ride. How will they make their dream come true? Ride along with Little Mike and Maddie on the first of many motorcycle adventures to come. Vrumm, vrumm!

In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan,Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among theeffects of a recently deceased tenant. These photographs,presented for the first time in Band of Bikers, offer anintimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and thewoods, and a touching snapshot of an entire generation atits carefree zenith. Newly aware of muscle and biker magazines and their heavy-handederoticism, photographer and photographed brimwith a subtly vibrant, chromatic pride. The photographs asa whole bring into focus a brief, specific period of relativeinnocence, when middle-of-the-road Americans more oftenthan not failed to perceive the homoerotic undertones oftheir most heterosexual of institutions. With conceptual lightcast by issues ranging from anonymity in homosexuality andunderground motorcycle chic, to vernacular photography'spop-culture ramifications, a warm and generous spiritof camaraderie pervades this subterranean survey. Likea real-world set forScorpio Rising casually captured byan unpretentious extra, presented as Band of Bikers andaccompanied by an essay by Zieher, this found cache ofold-school, leather party snapshots attains archeologicalsignificance.

Rosie McCormack has always known the type of man she wanted. Determined to hold out for the man she sees every night in her dreams, she’s turned down more dates than she could count. She's almost ready to give up, and to settle down with the next best thing she can find. Oscar Kincade was sick of not being good enough. After his wife left him for being, in her eyes, unwilling to change, Oscar is raising his son Danny on his own, with only his brothers in the Pitch Wheels MC there for support. The brotherhood was the only place he felt he belonged, and besides Danny, who thought he was a superhero, they were the only ones who accepted him as he was and didn’t expect him to change a damn thing. She’s the best he’s ever had. When Oscar walks into Rosie's classroom where she teaches his son, she knows he’s the one she has been waiting for. Oscar doesn’t know why he’s so affected by the innocent-looking woman who’s sexier than anyone he’s ever seen, but he has to have her. She’ll discover that dreams don’t always give you what you want, but what you need instead. Their relationship explodes with passion, the likes of which Rosie never imagined, and she finds herself falling hard for the man who lights her on fire with just a touch. But Oscar hold’s himself back, afraid she wants to change him, like every woman before her has tried to do, and as Rosie’s dream turns into a darker reality than she ever expected, she’ll have to decide if it’s what she truly wants.

Lydia has heard of long distance romances before but a romance in transit? That's a new one. High in the hills of Montana there isn't much work for an orphaned rancher's daughter and working the small diner in town is all the sheltered young woman has. Until the day Mickey O'Halloran and his boys ride into town. They shatter they idyllic peace of the neighborhood with their roaring motorcycles and clutter up the small diner with their brawny bodies clad in dirty denim and leathers. Mickey, takes a shine to a shy and slightly scared Lydia. But his playful manner and gentle giant persona soon put her at ease and when he promises to see her again she hardly dares hope. But soon enough he is making regular trips through town, always stopping to see his favorite waitress and soon the townspeople begin to talk. Lydia is torn between the life she knows is respectable and the man who has made her feel things she never has before. The next time he rides through will she be forced to tell him goodbye...or go with him?