He was her unrequited love.

She was his redemption.

Cassidy

I fell in love with James Davis when we were children, long before he was ever known as Knuckles.

We were only ever friends because James was infatuated with Simone.

Simone had been my very best friend before she used James's crush on her to try to make his best friend, Jasper, jealous.

Simone knew how I felt about James. Unlike my best friend, Jasper refused to step on James's toes. The minute Simone and James hooked up, Jasper would no longer give Simone the time of day. In a fit of anger, my former best friend agreed to marry the man I'd been in love with for years.

To make my life seem just a little more like a daytime soap opera, James blamed me when he eventually caught Simone cheating on him. I was so far down on his radar by then that he hadn't even realized that Simone and I stopped talking long before their wedding and years before he caught her cheating.

Knuckles

I publicly humiliated a girl who I once considered a dear friend.

Worse—I did it for no good damn reason other than my ego had been bruised by my wife, the woman I thought was still best friends with Cassidy.

It wasn't until my club brother and lifelong best friend knocked me out and gave me a reality check that I realized everything I had loved about my wife had been stolen from the hopes and dreams of another girl.

It would take a miracle to earn back Cassidy's love and trust, but after I got my crap together, I swore to spend a lifetime doing just that.

Tropes: friends to enemies to lovers; unrequited love; other woman drama; betrayal and grovel; action and adventure; second chance.

All the Kings of Anarchy MC: New Mexico books can be enjoyed as standalone stories.