Her niece is kidnapped… and the clock is ticking...

Eight years after getting out of prison, Shea Stevens has put her criminal past and her outlaw biker family in her rearview. She's proud of the custom motorcycles business she's built and of her relationship with a girlfriend who adores her.

But when her eight-year-old niece is kidnapped, Shea's deep distrust of the police pulls her back into rural Arizona's criminal underground. No matter the cost, she's determined to save the girl and rain hell on those who took her.

Shea forges an uneasy alliance with her family's drug-dealing biker gang. But as they search for the missing girl, Shea once again witnesses the violence from her childhood. Brutal nightmares she's worked hard to forget. And unless Shea acts quickly, history is likely to repeat itself.

Through a series of high-speed chases, shootouts, desperate bargains, betrayals, and narrow escapes, Shea risks everything to rescue her niece. All while confronting her family's darkest secrets as well as her own misdeeds.

Will Shea save the girl in time? And what will her loyalty cost her and the people she loves?

In the first book of the Shea Stevens Outlaw Biker series, author Dharma Kelleher delivers a groundbreaking thriller that fans of The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo and Sons of Anarchy will adore.

Curl up with Iron Goddess and join Shea as she races to save her niece in a white-knuckle, full-throttle, thrill-a-minute adventure through the seedy side of Arizona's high desert that will touch your soul and keep you turning the pages into the wee hours.

Dharma Kelleher is the author of the Jinx Ballou bounty hunter series and the Shea Stevens outlaw biker series. She is a pioneer in transgender crime fiction, writing gritty tales about outlaws, renegades, and misfits from a queer perspective.

She is a former journalist and a current member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers and the Alliance of Independent Authors. She lives in Arizona with her wife and three feline overlords.

How far would you go to save someone you never met? Eight years after getting out of prison, Shea Stevens is estranged from her outlaw biker family and has her own business building custom motorcycles.

But when her niece is kidnapped, Shea launches herself back into the criminal underworld of Arizona's high desert, determined to rescue the girl, even if she has to join forces with her father's biker gang to do it. Meanwhile, the local sheriff is looking for any reason to send her back to prison. Shea soon learns not everything is as it appears. Finding herself torn between competing loyalties, she's forced to confront an ugly truth that nearly destroyed her when she was a teen. To save her niece and bring those responsible to justice, Shea realizes she must follow her own rules no matter what. Even if it means risking her freedom and her life. In her debut novel, Dharma Kelleher delivers a groundbreaking thriller that is equal parts Sons of Anarchy and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Iron Goddess takes readers on a gritty, high-speed adventure that will keep you turning pages late into the night. "Shea Stevens is absolutely one of the more original crime fiction heroes to come along since Lisbeth Salander." -Son of Spade crime fiction reviews