Nolan Mariano is on loan from the Night Horde Missouri charter; he's been sitting at the SoCal table for almost a year. Though his family is clamoring for him to return home, he doesn't feel ready yet-he doesn't feel that he's been tested enough. Despite the patch on his back, he's not sure he's earned the right to sit in the seat his father once occupied. Analisa Winter meets Nolan when he volunteers to teach her to ride a Harley. Learning to ride is on Analisa's bucket list, and that list is of paramount importance to her. She is dying, and she's determined live her full life first. Nolan has no intention of falling in love with a dying girl. But Analisa is the kind of girl you can't help falling in love with, even when you know that love is doomed. Nolan becomes a man in California, and he learns what kind of man he has become. His story is just beginning. Note: Explicit sex.