Secrets and Shadows 2
(2026)(The sixth book in the Lucifer's Saints MC LSMC Sacramento Chapter series)
A novel by Tonya Anders
Gillian Stein didn’t disappear. She was taken, and the world was rearranged to make it look as though she had chosen it.
As the daughter of a powerful man, Gillian has spent her life being shaped into something useful––a political asset, a legacy, a perfect daughter, and eventually, the perfect wife for Michael Pierce. Walking away from the future they designed for her was never supposed to be an option. When she escaped and built a life of her own, she believed she had outrun the hands that had controlled her for years.
She was wrong.
Now Gillian has been forced back into the world she escaped, surrounded by familiar faces, old expectations, and the carefully constructed illusion that she returned willingly. Her father controls the house. Michael expects obedience. Everyone around her assumes that enough expectations will eventually force her back into line.
What they fail to understand is that Gillian isn't the same woman who left.
She isn't running this time. She's watching, listening, and learning exactly where the weak points are. While the people holding her believe they have placed her back inside their gilded cage, Gillian begins using the very skills they underestimated to dismantle it from within.
Nitro Masterson doesn't beg, and he sure as hell doesn't lose. But waking up to a world where Gillian is gone—and discovering that she's been placed back inside the world she fought to escape—forces him to confront something more difficult than violence.
Patience.
The old Nitro would have torn through every obstacle between himself and Gillian. He would have given her father and Michael exactly what they expected––rage, retaliation, and enough destruction to justify everything they already believed about him.
Instead, he waits. He watches.
Piece by piece, relationships begin to fracture. Money moves. Allies grow uncertain. Questions surface in places they were never supposed to reach. The people who built their lives on control begin to discover that their world is only as strong as the people willing to keep supporting it.
Gillian was never missing. She was positioned exactly where she wanted to be—calculated, controlled, and contained. What they never considered was that she might use that position against them.
Nitro was never late.
He was waiting.
Author Note: This is Book Two of the three-book Secrets and Shadows series. Politics play a significant role in this story, so if you're looking for nothing but bikers being bikers, well… this book is more than that. It’s about a woman who is taking her life back.
As the daughter of a powerful man, Gillian has spent her life being shaped into something useful––a political asset, a legacy, a perfect daughter, and eventually, the perfect wife for Michael Pierce. Walking away from the future they designed for her was never supposed to be an option. When she escaped and built a life of her own, she believed she had outrun the hands that had controlled her for years.
She was wrong.
Now Gillian has been forced back into the world she escaped, surrounded by familiar faces, old expectations, and the carefully constructed illusion that she returned willingly. Her father controls the house. Michael expects obedience. Everyone around her assumes that enough expectations will eventually force her back into line.
What they fail to understand is that Gillian isn't the same woman who left.
She isn't running this time. She's watching, listening, and learning exactly where the weak points are. While the people holding her believe they have placed her back inside their gilded cage, Gillian begins using the very skills they underestimated to dismantle it from within.
Nitro Masterson doesn't beg, and he sure as hell doesn't lose. But waking up to a world where Gillian is gone—and discovering that she's been placed back inside the world she fought to escape—forces him to confront something more difficult than violence.
Patience.
The old Nitro would have torn through every obstacle between himself and Gillian. He would have given her father and Michael exactly what they expected––rage, retaliation, and enough destruction to justify everything they already believed about him.
Instead, he waits. He watches.
Piece by piece, relationships begin to fracture. Money moves. Allies grow uncertain. Questions surface in places they were never supposed to reach. The people who built their lives on control begin to discover that their world is only as strong as the people willing to keep supporting it.
Gillian was never missing. She was positioned exactly where she wanted to be—calculated, controlled, and contained. What they never considered was that she might use that position against them.
Nitro was never late.
He was waiting.
Author Note: This is Book Two of the three-book Secrets and Shadows series. Politics play a significant role in this story, so if you're looking for nothing but bikers being bikers, well… this book is more than that. It’s about a woman who is taking her life back.
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