Do Old Friends Make the Deadliest Enemies? It's the end of summer, 1971, and Regents MC probate Joe Wilson can't seem to avoid trouble, particularly with his own sponsor, Jess Whitley, a former Vietnam combat medic dogged by the ghosts of the men he couldn't save. Jess's green-eyed girlfriend Kitty doesn't make things easier for them, either, as she connives desperately to keep Joe from quitting and returning to his redneck roots. As the conflict heats up in Atlanta, a different kind of disaster is brewing in south Louisiana. Once combat buddies of the Regents, the treacherous Bayou Runners are driven by their ambitious boss to commit the ultimate sacrilege against a respected Regent. Enraged, the Regents descend on New Orleans, hell-bent on revenge. Hot-tempered Joe accidentally places his own Fate in the hands of a beautiful double-dealing redhead with a magician's talent for vanishing into thin air. As an expendable probate, he quickly discovers his survival depends on not trusting anyone, including the Regents. When the biker war escalates through the ancient city streets and down dusty swamp roads, the local underworld of gamblers, whorehouse madams, and tattoo artists are forced to choose sides, knowing there's no going back for anyone.