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The Club Queen He Replaced

Other Woman Drama MC Biker RomanceBy Lynda Stewart

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For twenty-six years Ottoline "Otts" Fairbank was the soul of the Bittern Row MC — the keeper of its history, its funerals, its welcome, the woman whose memory made a rough desert club into something a whole town leaned on. She made her husband a president worth following. And at the club's spring feed, in front of everyone, Nesbit "Preacher" Coyle sat a dazzled twenty-six-year-old in her chair, gave away her roles, and ordered the club's history "brought current in a fresh hand" — hers erased so a man afraid of getting old could feel young again. Otts does not cry and she does not fight for the chair. She does the one thing no one at the Roost imagined the matriarch would do: she takes the club's true story out of his hands entirely, writes and prints the real forty-year history herself, and becomes the keeper of the record on her own terms — the one thing a gavel can't vote away. Let him keep the seat. She is keeping the truth. Preacher spends a year learning what he threw away — doing the thankless, un-royal memory-work, facing his own age instead of chasing a mirror, standing up in church to restore her name and take the blame out loud. Sable, the young woman he used, wakes up, hands the crown back herself, and leaves to make her own name. And at the club's fortieth anniversary, Preacher surrenders his gavel, kneels, and reads Otts's true history aloud — naming his erasure the club's shame and naming her its foundation. Then he offers her the seat back. And Otts, from the top of the thing she built with her own two hands, turns it down. The Club Queen He Replaced is an emotional, grown-up outlaw-MC romance about an older woman whose legacy is the prize, a man whose fear of getting old cost him everything, and a marriage rebuilt only after it is completely re-leveled — on her ground. A real other-woman reckoning (with a young woman who outgrows the man who used her, never a villain), a year of hard-earned groveling, and a hard-won, on-the-page happily-ever-after. Gritty and character-driven, with a heroine who chooses the man back from full hands, not empty ones.

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1Content note: this book contains marital betrayal and public

2Prologue Otts The Roost is empty the way a church is empty,

3Chapter 1 Preacher The knee tells me it's going to be a long

4Chapter 2 Otts I'm late to my own feed because a wedding alb

5Chapter 3 Preacher The feed runs itself down the way a good

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6Chapter 4 Otts Lindy is waiting at the bindery when I get th

7Chapter 5 Preacher The high lasts about a week. I've had han

8Chapter 6 Otts I withdraw. I want to be precise about the wo

9Chapter 7 Preacher Hollis dies on a Thursday in the first re

10Chapter 8 Otts The Calder Wash chapel keeps its heat the way

11Chapter 9 Preacher A man learns the shape of his own useless

12Chapter 10 Otts The true history starts, like all true thing

13Chapter 11 Preacher I stand up in church on a Sunday and I a

14Chapter 12 Otts Sable Winthrop comes to the bindery on a Wed

15Chapter 13 Preacher The morning I face it straight, I'm on t

16Chapter 14 Otts We pull the first true proofs of the history

17Chapter 15 Preacher The proofs come to me the way bad weathe

18Chapter 16 Otts The first person to buy the history and not

19Chapter 17 Preacher I don't send word. You don't send word f

20Chapter 18 Otts He believes he handed me something on that s

21Chapter 19 Preacher Church is the first Sunday of fall and t

22Chapter 20 Otts Sable Winthrop comes to the bindery on the s

23Chapter 21 Preacher Fall comes down hard off the high countr

24Chapter 22 Otts The first cold morning of the fall comes in

25Chapter 23 Preacher I ride out to the reservoir road the nig

26Chapter 24 Otts Church is Thursday at seven and I am there a

27Chapter 25 Otts Sable Winthrop comes to the bindery on the l

28Chapter 26 Preacher Old man Renn — not Tobe, the other Renn,

29Chapter 27 Otts He fixes the bindery's back door in December

30Chapter 28 Preacher I tell Cass first, the night before the

31Chapter 29 Otts Cass Ules comes to the bindery two days befo

32Chapter 30 Otts The Roost has not looked this full since we

33Chapter 31 Preacher I wake at the gray hour with no gavel an

34Chapter 32 Otts Two weeks after the fortieth, I am at the co

35Chapter 33 Preacher The young patch's name is Denny Ault and

36Chapter 34 Otts I carry the ledger home on a Sunday in late

37Epilogue Otts A year on from the fortieth, on an ordinary Th

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