She filmed the whole thing from four hundred feet. She just wasn't meant to see it.
Aerial cinematographer Ines Calder spends every Long Light Run behind the controls, filming the Crosswind MC's annual memorial ride for the widows who wait all year to watch it.
She's never been in a single frame. She's always told herself that's the point.
Then, editing at two in the morning, she finds the shot her drone recorded on its own.
Her boyfriend, Crosswind road captain Ansel "Hush" Draeger, is climbing the Coyote Loops at sunset with another woman on the back of his bike. His first love. Wearing Ines's jacket. While Ines worked at the bottom of the hill.
Ansel swears it isn't what it looks like. Sidonie Ashby is going blind and running from a dangerous husband across the river, and he only wanted to give her one last look at the gorge.
But the lies keep surfacing. And the footage Ines refuses to delete is about to drag two rival clubs to the edge of war, with her name on the wrong side of the bridge.
Ansel lied to her face. Now he has to earn back every word, with his patch, his pride and the bike he loves, before the deadline on Lantern Night runs out.
But Ines has secrets too: a way out she's hidden for months, and a fear she's never said aloud. That she's the woman nobody needs.
Some betrayals can't be edited out. Some trust has to be rebuilt in the open, where everyone can see.
The Ride I Wasn't Meant to See is a standalone MC romance with other woman drama, a slow-burn grovel, rival-club danger, a heroine who saves the day from the sky, and a hard-won happily ever after.
