Steel's Promise

She needed protection from corporate predators destroying working-class bars—until an industrial enforcer claimed her as his.

Amanda Pierce's Rusty Nail is under siege. Regional manager Greg Dalton suspended her liquor license through fabricated violations, sent armed contractors to terrorize her, and made it clear—sell her bar for pennies or watch it burn. When Alabama law enforcement ignores corporate tactics destroying independent businesses, Amanda knows the system has abandoned her—unless she finds protection the law won't provide.

Then Steel crashes through her door on a Harley.

Ben "Steel" Carter is the Crimson Kings' enforcer—former automotive plant steel worker who watched his best friend die when corporate cost-cutting failed, now protecting working families with industrial brutality. He fights for people the system destroys, eliminates predators who value profit over lives, and won't let another working person lose what they've built. When Dalton threatens a bar owner who's spent two years building her business, Steel doesn't negotiate. He eliminates threats permanently.

One look at Amanda's fierce courage standing in her destroyed bar, and Steel knows—she's his.

But claiming the bar owner means war with a corporate executive commanding eight ex-military contractors and weaponized bureaucracy across three counties. Steel doesn't care. He'll dismantle Dalton's entire expansion operation before letting anyone destroy his woman's business.

Amanda never wanted an outlaw's protection. But when Steel's possessive claiming makes her feel cherished instead of controlled, when his industrial violence eliminates predators the law ignores, when she kills to protect his brotherhood and he loves her fiercer for it—she chooses the dangerous enforcer over every safer option.

Together they'll hunt the corporate bastard destroying small businesses, defend working families with brutal efficiency, and prove that some protection requires men willing to kill without hesitation.

He'll defend working families with industrial violence. She'll stand beside him and fight. Some claiming is built on fierce devotion.