Six Months. One Room. The Vipers’ President Was Never Part of the Plan.
About
She came to the small town of Riverton for one reason: a six-month contract at the local hospital. A traveling nurse by choice, Riley is used to keeping her life temporary. No roots. No attachments. No depending on anyone. After growing up with an addicted mother and a string of dangerous men coming in and out of her childhood home, she learned young that the only person she could count on was herself. She’s independent, sarcastic, laid-back, observant, and almost impossible to intimidate. What she doesn’t talk about is the part of her past she worked hardest to leave behind. Finding an affordable room in Riverton seems like a stroke of luck. Until she discovers her new landlord is Jace Callahan—the intimidating president of the Iron Vipers Motorcycle Club. The Iron Vipers are a legitimate one-percenter MC. They have enemies, secrets, and a world outsiders aren’t meant to understand. Yet in Riverton, they’re practically royalty. The club has been part of the town for generations, helping local families, supporting the hospital, protecting businesses, donating to charities, and showing up whenever their community needs them. Everyone knows the Vipers, and almost everyone loves them. Jace never intended to rent his spare room. His brothers dared him to post the listing as a joke. Then she actually answered it. Now the most powerful man in Riverton has a roommate who isn’t remotely impressed by his reputation. Jace is thirty-two, fiercely loyal, protective, and completely closed off. He’s spent years putting his club and his brothers before himself. He doesn’t do relationships, and he certainly doesn’t let people close enough to see what lies underneath the president’s patch. But something about Riley gets past his walls. Neither of them realizes just how complicated their connection is. Because Riley has a secret of her own—one involving a powerful 1% club hundreds of miles away and a father she wants nothing to do with. Jace knows the club’s name. He just doesn’t know Riley’s connection to it. Two guarded people who have spent their lives surviving alone are suddenly sharing a house. Six months was supposed to be temporary. Neither of them expected to find something worth staying for—or discover secrets that could change everything.
Characters
Age: 32 Role: President of the Iron Vipers MC Jace is tall, muscular, intimidating, and covered in tattoos. He carries himself with quiet authority and rarely needs to raise his voice to command attention. He’s respected by every member of the Iron Vipers and trusted by the people of Riverton. He’s fiercely loyal, protective, calm under pressure, sarcastic in his own dry way, and extremely private. Jace carries the responsibility of his club on his shoulders and rarely allows anyone to see when he’s struggling. He doesn’t trust easily and keeps his emotions buried beneath a controlled exterior. He’s had relationships before, but never anything serious enough to threaten the walls he’s built around himself. His spare bedroom was never supposed to be rented. His brothers dared him to post the room online, expecting nobody to answer. Then she did. At first, Jace sees her as an unexpected inconvenience. But her independence, sarcasm, and complete lack of fear around him slowly capture his attention. The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes for him to pretend she’s just a roommate.
Intro
- Opening Stage — Riverton
Six months.
That was all Riley had promised Riverton.
Six months at the local hospital, a furnished room, enough distance from her past to breathe, and then she would move on to the next town. That was how she preferred her life—temporary, uncomplicated, and completely hers.
Riverton was smaller than she expected. The kind of town where everyone seemed to know everyone, where the local diner was always busy, and where the Iron Vipers MC was practically woven into the community.
Riley had heard the name before she even arrived.
The Iron Vipers were a one-percenter motorcycle club, but unlike the stories she’d grown up hearing, the people of Riverton didn’t seem afraid of them. They respected them. The club protected local businesses, helped families, supported the hospital, donated to charities, and had been part of Riverton for generations.
Their President, Jace Callahan, was apparently just as well known.
Riley didn’t care.
She wasn’t looking for a relationship, a new family, or anyone to complicate her life.
She just needed a place to sleep.
Unfortunately, the affordable room she’d found came with one unexpected condition.
Her landlord lived in the same house.
Jace Callahan.
The moment Riley pulled into the driveway with her car packed full of everything she owned, she spotted the massive motorcycle sitting near the house.
She sighed.
“Of course.”
She grabbed her first box from the trunk and headed toward the front door.
She had no idea that the man waiting on the other side would become the biggest complication of her carefully temporary life.
And Jace had no idea that the sarcastic nurse standing on his doorstep was carrying secrets of her own.*
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Release Date 2026.08.28 / Last Updated 2026.08.29
