Shafted: Vipers MC, #1

By Misha Talea

The Rusty Spur Saloon has seen better days. Its owner, Selina King promised her father on his deathbed that she would keep it open and make it a success. A slowing economy has made it an almost impossible promise to keep. She is on the brink of having to close the Spur when the Vipers, a local motorcycle club come to her rescue-sort of.
Darrell Cox is the newest full-patched member of the Vipers who piques Selina’s interest and desire. When they arrive at the Rusty Spur, he has no idea that he will find a beautiful woman who will challenge him and put a crack in his hard heart.
Soon the Vipers and Selina strike a deal; she needs more money, they need a central hub from which to operate. Things go fine until Selina sees something she shouldn’t and she has to make a choice whether to save her bar or keep her dignity. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: BCH Publishing House
• Release date: Jun 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386496526

Book preview

Selina tried not to watch the clock, but couldn’t help it.  It was nine-fifteen on a Friday night and there were only three people in the Rusty Spur Saloon.  She had finished up all of the chores that needed to be done before opening.  Full kegs of beer sat under the counter, the worn bar shone with cleanliness, and all of the mugs and glasses were washed and ready to be filled.

She turned on the TV that hung to one side of the bar and flipped through the stations, but found nothing that interested her.  She wasn’t into basketball and since it was late March, it wasn’t football season.  She finally put on CNN and let it ramble on in the background.

Jack Fulmer, an old-timer who hung around at the Spur a lot, smiled at her.  Nothing much going on, huh?

Selina gave him a tight smile and refilled his beer mug without him asking.  She prided herself on anticipating the needs of her patrons.  Her father, Ron King, wouldn’t have been surprised by the lack of clientele if he had still been alive.  The bar had been on the decline in the last years of his life, as had his health.

At the young age of nineteen, Selina King had become sole owner of the Rusty Spur Saloon.  She’d grown up in the bar and knew the business backwards and forwards.  She was a hard worker and was intelligent; the right combination to run a successful business.  The problem was that the economy and her hometown were starting to change and bars like hers weren’t as popular as they once were.

Selina tamped down the disappointment that Jack’s sympathetic comment had sparked and she replaced it with determination.  She’d had several offers to buy the place, but was steadfast in her desire to turn the bar around.  Selina fully intended to honor her father’s memory by keeping the Spur open and making it a hot spot again.

After checking on the other two people in the place, a younger couple about her age, Selina went back to the bar and pulled out her laptop from underneath it and logged onto the Internet.  She belonged to some business forums that offered advice and checked to