Leather, Chrome, and Good Manners

Deputy Brody Morgan rides up Route 12 expecting a lonely roadhouse and maybe a bad crowd. What he finds is the Wuthering Inn - a place with spotless motorcycles, impossible wine, a gracious proprietor named Riley, and a bartender who risks everything to pass him four words on a napkin: Help us - please. The deeper Brody looks, the less human the Inn becomes. Its guests smile at the right times. Its motorcycles run without heat. Its doors open only when they are allowed to. And somewhere behind the cottonwoods, a violet seam waits to carry the missing farther than any county line. Brody has survived the impossible before, but this time the danger is courteous, patient, and already settled into the world. To get anyone out alive, he'll have to break the pattern from the inside - before the Wuthering Inn finishes its collection.