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The Club Queen He Replaced
Other Woman Drama MC Biker RomanceBy Lynda Stewart
Length8h 42m
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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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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length8 hrs 42 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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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