Stack

She kept moving. He gave her a reason to stay. Maggie Brennan has spent fifteen years pouring everything she has into her Oakland catering business—the kitchen she built after burying her husband, the four a.m. starts that keep the grief at bay, the work that became the only thing holding her together. When she witnesses a theft operation at a hospital loading dock, the men running it decide she's a problem. Then they burn her kitchen to the ground. He left everything behind. She's the reason he came back. Stack walked away from the Steel City Reapers eight years ago and spent every day since pretending he didn't miss the brotherhood. When Furnace called him home, he came—but he's been carrying the guilt of leaving ever since. Oakland is his territory, and the woman who's been feeding his neighborhood for a decade is under attack on his watch. What he finds is a widow with steady hands and a backbone made of cast iron. A woman who swings a skillet at men twice her size. A woman who makes him stop running from the man he used to be. She's not looking for a protector. He's not giving her a choice. As a decade-long criminal operation turns its full force on Maggie, she discovers that the quiet security guard she once knew is now the most dangerous man in Pittsburgh—and the only one who's ever felt like home. But loving Stack means stepping into his world—the violence, the brotherhood, and the claiming that makes her his. She built her life from nothing once. Now they'll build one together.