Homestead

She kept their secrets. He made them pay. Donna Horvath has spent eight years running a thrift store in a dying mill town—finding value in castoffs, serving customers too stubborn or too broke to leave. When she notices a pattern of burglaries targeting elderly residents, she does what survivors do: she stays quiet. Then they threaten to make her disappear. He's been protecting the Mon Valley for twenty years. She's about to become everything he's been fighting for. Homestead is an original Reaper—one of the men who built the club from nothing when the steel mills closed. He rides the territory every week, watching his hometown hollow out one family at a time. When he discovers a woman in a thrift store who's been tracking the crew terrorizing his people, he finds something worth more than territory. A woman who watched for two years and finally decided to fight. A woman with enough backbone to swing a lamp at a man twice her size. A woman worth killing for. She's done being afraid. He's done being alone. As the violence escalates and her store burns to ash, Donna discovers that the man who's been carrying his town for twenty years is also the only one who's ever seen how tired she really is. But loving Homestead means accepting his world—the brotherhood, the brutality, and the claiming that makes her his. Two people too exhausted to pretend. Too stubborn to stop showing up. Some things are worth protecting until the end.