North

She built her life from grief. He burned down hers to save it. Patty Callahan has spent five years pouring everything into her North Side daycare—twenty-five kids, twelve-hour days, and the stubborn refusal to let her husband's death break her. When a rival MC rolls onto her block demanding territory, Patty does what she's always done: she keeps her head down and protects what's hers. Then they threaten her children. He's a founding member of the Steel City Reapers. She's about to become the reason he starts a war. North helped build his MC from nothing—five men with motorcycles and a vow to protect the neighborhoods Pittsburgh abandoned. When he learns that the daycare owned by his old friend's widow is being terrorized, he rides into the Mexican War Streets expecting to deliver a warning. What he finds is a woman with crayon-stained hands and steel in her spine. A woman who maps enemy movements while managing nap time. A woman worth killing for. She's not looking for rescue. He's not giving her a choice. As the Ravens burn her daycare and photograph her grown children, Patty discovers that the most dangerous man on the North Side is also the only one who's ever made her feel whole again. But loving North means accepting his world—the brotherhood, the blood, and the claiming that makes her his. She spent five years surviving alone. Now he's going to show her what it means to live.