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Hope, Faith, and Charity—the three virtues embodied into three sisters with unconventional upbringings. When Hope hits The Kraken MC's hometown of Ft. Royal, Florida, she sets into motion a chain of events that will change the club forever—starting with Cutter, its president. Follow this adventure through three books and one short story that happens to now be exclusive to The Virtues box set.

The Sacred Hearts Motorcycle Club is about more than just badass bikers. It’s about loyalty and brotherhood. When the men of SMHC find love, the club celebrates. When they hurt, their brothers hurt with them. And when someone crosses them…watch out. This boxed set includes the stories Shattered & Scarred, Broken & Burned, and Cracked & Crushed. You’re invited to live, love, and ride with the SHMC.

The Sacred Hearts Motorcycle Club is about more than just badass bikers. It’s about loyalty and brotherhood. When the men of SMHC find love, the club celebrates. When they hurt, their brothers hurt with them. And when someone crosses them...watch out. This boxed set includes the following stories: Masked & Miserable, Tattered & Torn, Fractured & Formidable, and Damaged & Dangerous.

Before he was the charismatic singer of Black Veil Brides and an accomplished solo artist under the Andy Black moniker, he was Andrew Dennis Biersack, an imaginative and creative kid in Cincinnati, Ohio, struggling with anxiety, fear, loneliness, and the impossible task of fitting in. With his trademark charm, clever wit, and insightful analysis, Biersack tells the story of his childhood and adolescence and the discovery of the artistic passions that would shape his life.

Ashton Granger is a perfect wife to her husband. She has to be, if she's not, he will find a way to correct any perceived imperfections. Such is life, and so it has been for a very long time, eroding Ashton's sense of self, cracking her sense of worth until she lies in a million pieces on the side of a stretch of lonely highway.

In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a 23-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next 20 years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns.

He's broken.... Dray, vice president of the Sacred Hearts MC, watched his mother die in a bloody hail of bullets at the tender age of 16.... Dray doesn't want to be that guy anymore. Then came Everett Moran.... She's been burned.... Evy is having one of the worst days in the history of, well...ever, and she's seen a lot of rough days.

Faith. She’d managed to keep her namesake while in captivity, but now that she was free? The daunting task of rejoining society was in front of her, and it seemed that Marlin had to keep it for her. Marlin couldn’t help how he felt about Faith; she was remarkably easy to like. The only thing he could do for her was be there, and keep his damn hands to himself, which was the real challenge. Neither one of them knew if she would make it out of the darkness intact; only time would tell that. During trying times, all you can do is hold on and have a little faith…

Cutter had given up on finding a woman when Hope sauntered right into his bar. With her straight talk, toned figure, and military training, she can disarm a man in more ways than one. But the mission she's on will shake up Cutter's world. Hope's lost her younger sister, but she hasn't lost her namesake. It's been almost two years since Faith vanished, but Hope hasn't given up the search. She'll find either her sister or some answers. Can Cutter keep his club out of trouble and help the siren in his bar on her mission?

Chrissy Franco has every reason to take one hell of a victory lap around the courtroom. She's just defended her client to the best of her ability and what's more, her client was actually innocent! Oh, she'd killed her husband, baseball legend Skip Maguire, alright, but he'd been about to hit a home run with Miranda's head. His rabid fan base doesn't agree with the verdict, and they've set their sights on Chrissy as the one to blame.

Assistant District Attorney Damien Parnell leads a double life above and beyond his membership with the Indigo Knights. Driven by dark desires considered shameful by most, he covets the one thing he can’t allow himself to have - a real relationship. Enter Ally Blaylock, an innocent by Yale’s standards. She’s the sweet and beautiful girl, who makes his coffee at the café across the street from his office.

One catastrophic night, Shelly Jordan's world was ripped to shreds. Now, living in an isolation of her own making, she's slipping away from everything and everyone she once loved. She tells the world she's fine, afraid to lose the only family she has. After all, there's no place in an MC for a used-up club whore who can't bear to be touched. Ghost feels responsible for the horrible things he said that drove Shelly into the predator's hands. Now he wants to man up and make it right.

Mandy Price is best friends with Everett, the Ol' Lady to the Sacred Hearts' Vice President. The product of a broken childhood, Mandy lives a fractured existence, but she's the preacher's dutiful daughter and she knows how to keep a secret. Every Sunday she returns to her father's church, sits at his table and plays the good girl. But Mandy is starting to grow into her own. It's becoming harder and harder to maintain appearances, and the strain is taking its toll.

Charity is home free: her degree under her belt and making a beeline, straight for sunny Ft. Royal, and her sisters, Hope and Faith. Excited to see them, yet having been warned by Hope to watch herself when it came to the disarmingly charming ways of The Kraken, Charity never expected to walk right into the one man to flip all of her switches to the "on" position before she’d even taken a dozen steps into town. Nothing was everything she liked: tall, handsome, with a pair of eyes that any woman should swoon over.

Red-XIII is, and always will be, a Sacred Hearts man. But for now, he's a Suicide Kings prospect. Tasked with providing intelligence on the King's inner workings to his real club, Thirteen has been slowly, quietly, and carefully dismantling the King's operation from the inside out. Thirteen is blindsided by his heart when he lays eyes on Dani, a pretty little thing with long black hair and striking blue eyes. She slays him with one look from her damaged soul, and now Thirteen has tasked himself with two missions: take down the Suicide Kings and get both Dani and himself out alive.

Reaver has always been a little weird, a little strange - okay, more than a little of each. His psyche cracked right down the middle a long time ago. He holds the official title of treasurer for the Sacred Hearts MC, but he's much more than that. He's the club's enforcer, the one they call on when things need to be done quickly, quietly, and efficiently and have no traces left behind... but then Hayden Michaels enters the picture, and Reaver decides that he wants much more.

Squick has been a longtime fixture of the Sacred Hearts MC. His boss, Trigger, is their Sergeant at Arms after all. It took a while for him to put together a bike to become an official hang-around then prospect, and he was pretty thrilled that his other boss, Zander, took the plunge with him. Still, Squick is hiding something big that could test friendships and destroy relationships. The mask is becoming increasingly difficult for him to wear.

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. These are the five natural stages of the grieving process and something London Greene knows all too well. She’d thought she’d buried them long ago, but then a mysterious young man moves in upstairs, one with captivating green eyes and some serious emotional wounds...and she quickly figures out that he is working through each stage on his own. London can’t let that happen, and so she tries to be there for him. It’s the right thing to do, after all. But this stranger carries a secret.

At what point does coincidence turn into something else? Annika and Brody, two strangers online in a cancer support message group, are about to find out. When so many things line up, when the very stars seem to align in the sky, it can’t be anything else but synchronicity.

The Disc Dive, where artists dive deep into their discographies with longtime journalist Ryan J. Downey. Downey has worked as writer, editor, correspondent, and producer for MTV, Billboard, and the Hollywood Reporter. He is the host of the MI Conversation Series and the Speak N’ Destroy podcast, as well as a longtime artist manager in the rock, metal, and punk genres.