Cold RoadA Motorcycle Club Cozy Mystery

Some strangers are just passing through. Some never leave.

Winter has settled over Cedar Hollow like a held breath. The highway is quiet, the mountains are white, and Harlow Reed is finally finding her rhythm—running Ironside, decoding her mother’s cryptic notebooks, and pretending she doesn’t notice every time Caleb “Ghost” Voss walks into a room. (She notices.)

Then a stranger turns up dead on the shoulder of Route 20. No car. No ID. No phone. The sheriff calls it hypothermia—a drifter caught in the cold.

But Harlow saw him. The day before he died, he came into the shop, shaking and watchful, and bought a pair of gloves with cash. He wasn’t a drifter. He was running.

As Harlow digs into the dead man’s last hours, she finds a charming couple in a rented cabin with a room that doesn’t appear on any floor plan—a room with a bolt on the outside and tally marks on the walls. She finds a motel owner who’s been looking the other way for profit. And she finds a thread in her mother’s coded notebooks that connects twenty years of obsessive record-keeping to the body on the highway.

Someone is moving people through the Cascades. Someone in Cedar Hollow is helping. And June Reed spent two decades behind the counter at Ironside, watching and documenting what no one else could see.

Meanwhile, a burst pipe brings Ghost into Harlow’s kitchen for three hours of proximity neither of them is ready for. Diesel claims the fireplace. And the crafting corner fills with people who bring cornbread and code-breaking and the quiet insistence that Harlow isn’t doing this alone.

Cold Road is the second book in the Iron Cedars MC series—a cozy mystery with Pacific Northwest winter atmosphere, a grumpy shop cat who’s slowly choosing his new human, a motorcycle club VP who shows up without being asked, and a slow-burn romance that tightens with every snowfall.