Furnace

She refused to break. He refused to let her fall. Anna Novak has spent three years keeping her grandmother's pierogies shop alive in Polish Hill—alone, exhausted, and too stubborn to quit. When a protection racket moves into her neighborhood, demanding money she doesn't have, Anna does what Novak women have always done: she stands her ground. Then they threaten to break her hands. He's the president of the Steel City Reapers. She's about to become everything he never knew he needed. Furnace built his MC from the ashes of Pittsburgh's steel industry—men with nothing left to lose, protecting neighborhoods the world forgot. When he learns that the shop where his grandmother used to take him after Mass is being terrorized, he rides into Polish Hill expecting to handle a simple problem. What he finds is a woman with flour on her hands and fire in her eyes. A woman who walks toward guns instead of running. A woman worth burning down the world to protect. She's not looking for a hero. He's not asking permission. As the violence escalates and Anna's shop goes up in flames, she discovers that the most dangerous man in Pittsburgh is also the only one who's ever made her feel safe. But loving Furnace means accepting his world—the brotherhood, the brutality, and the claiming that makes her his. Four generations of Novak women built something worth fighting for. Now it's his turn to prove he's worth staying for.