Literary & Contemporary Fiction
Chrome and Mercy
Some families are inherited. Others are earned.
A young man enters a motorcycle shop looking for work and finds the people who will remake his life.
With nowhere stable to stand, a young outsider is taken in by bikers who understand that loyalty is proven through action. The garage becomes a refuge, the motorcycle a language, and the people around him something dangerously close to family.
Chrome and Mercy is a coming-of-age story about belonging, hard choices, and the rough-edged grace of being claimed when the world has taught you to expect abandonment.
Brian R. Smith 