Jim Butcher and his new bride Kristy are thrust into a nightmare of captivity. Just leaving a wedding chapel, they are surrounded by a motorcycle gang and taken captive. Believed to be federal agents, they are held by the Iron Crows and questioned. Kristy is questioned in far deeper ways that leaves Jim struggling to understand himself. Dealer, the president, has his doubts about their involvement with the government - others do, too. But how do they clean up their mistake? Jim was latching onto Kristy as his last anchor to normalcy. His bride eagerly needed his companionship and intimacy. Both found themselves as life-preservers to the other in a society that seemed to shun them. The Iron Crows have a mission in their small town that is far more than running a couple of bars. Their efforts are helped along by a sheriff who looks the other way.