I see a handful of paramedics and rescue workers other than that, the last ones to board are all plain-clothed question marks. An air-bound dolmu ş collective taxi van that dashes off as soon as the seats fill up. The national disaster management agency has blocked off a commercial plane for us. Some of them are presently trying to free themselves.

Our task is to help free people from their homes and to do it fast. We will fly, a team leader says as they hand me a blank boarding pass, to the epicenter of the first quake (Maraş), from where we will drive to the epicenter of the second (Gaziantep), to join our co-volunteers in Islahiye, a town about halfway down the gash and deep into its scab. Some sixty rescue volunteers from across Istanbul, we have gathered here, the second morning after two earthquakes sheared a 185-mile gash from the lower gut of Turkey into the western tip of Syria. Every tick seems to mark another passing, sorting the living from the dead. Only an expensive-looking clock that makes our heads turn. There are no X-ray screeners, no rowed seating or gates, no last calls. Istanbul has the world’s largest airport, but our corner of it is as hushed as a hospital waiting room. Now, as Joker's secrets are revealed and an outside threat endangers the club, Joker must decide whether to ride steady with Carissa-or ride away forever. A good girl like Carissa is the least likely fit with the Chaos Motorcycle Club. While catching her is irresistible, knowing what to do with her is a different story.

Today, he's the hard-bodied biker known only as Joker, and from the way Carissa's acting, it's clear she's falling fast.

In high school, Carson Steele was a bad boy loner who put Carissa on a pedestal where she stayed far beyond his reach. Now a struggling, single mom and stranded by a flat tire, Carissa's pondering her mistakes when a vaguely familiar knight rides to her rescue on a ton of horsepower. Money, marriage, motherhood: everything came easy-until she woke up to the ugly truth about her Prince Charming. Once upon a time, Carissa Teodoro believed in happy endings.

Read Ride Steady Storyline: Meet the intense and sexy bad boy bikers of the Chaos Motorcycle Club in Carissa and Joker's story from Kristen Ashley's New York Times bestselling series.*

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