After serving ten years in prison for manslaughter, former Skuldmen motorcycle club president Landon "Blues" McKendry is released on parole. Instead of using violence to make his mark in the world, he is now armed with a university degree in architecture and a new guiding light-Buddhist philosophy. The biker is on a mission to reunite with his fourteen-year-old daughter Justine, the only surviving member of his family, but a restraining order and condition of parole prohibits Blues from seeing her. The restraining order, put in place by the maternal grandparents who have raised the girl since the death of her mother and brother, mandates that Blues will return to jail if he contacts the teenager.Appearing to lead an exemplary lifestyle, Blues has hardly become a model citizen. As he tries to rebuild his life, he crosses paths with bikers who have anything but his best interest at heart. The biker breaks parole by contacting his daughter, and learns in the process that she harbors a deep hatred for him, as he begins the long, hard journey to reconnect with the only family he has left.
Author Biography:
Edward Winterhalder is an American author who has written more than forty books about motorcycle clubs and outlaw biker culture published in the English, French, German and Spanish languages; a television producer who has created programs about motorcycle clubs and the outlaw biker lifestyle for networks and broadcasters worldwide; a singer, songwriter, musician and record producer; and screenwriter.Winterhalder has produced segments, episodes and documentaries for television such as Gangland, Outlaw Bikers, Gang World, Iron Horses, Marked, Biker Chicz, One Percenters, Recon Commando: Vietnam and Living On The Edge; and is the creator and executive producer of Steel Horse Cowboys, Real American Bikers and Biker Chicz. A prominent member of the Bandidos motorcycle club from 1997 to 2003 and associate from 1979 to 1996, he was instrumental is expanding the organization worldwide and assigned to coordinate the assimilation of the Rock Machine into the Bandidos during the Quebec Biker War-a conflict that cost more than one-hundred sixty people their lives.Associated with motorcycle clubs and outlaw bikers for almost thirty years, Winterhalder has been seen on Fox News (O'Reilly Factor with Bill O'Reilly & America's Newsroom), CNN, Bravo, Al Jazeera, BBC, ABC Nightline, MSNBC News Nation, Good Morning America, History Channel, Global, National Geographic, History Television, AB Groupe, and CBC. Marc Teatum resides in Salem, Massachusetts, and is an author of contemporary motorcycle fiction and professional photographer. He began his career behind the lens servicing the advertising and public relations industry, and has won numerous awards in the design and photography fields. His fine art photography has been exhibited extensively and is represented in private and museum collections. Teatum has been a Director on the executive committee for the Art Directors Club of Boston, and was the editor of Biker Update-the Modified Motorcycle Association of Massachusetts magazine-from 1987 through 1994. An avid motorcycle enthusiast for more than forty years, Teatum is active in Boston area motorcycle rights organizations, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Motorcyclist Association, the Modified Motorcycle Association of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Motorcyclists Survivors Fund.
