Incline

She held her ground. He watched from above.

Evie Marshall has spent seven years keeping her coffee shop alive on Grandview Avenue—alone, exhausted, and too stubborn to sell. When a developer's muscle starts breaking in, trashing her inventory, and carving threats into her equipment, Evie does what Mount Washington women have always done: she smiles and keeps pouring.

Then they corner her after closing.

He's the Reapers' eyes on the mountain. She's about to become everything he's been watching for.

Incline joined the Steel City Reapers after the Army, claiming high ground on the slopes where his family was pushed out by developers. When he sees the coffee shop owner he's been watching for two months cornered by contractors, he doesn't think—he moves.

What he finds is a woman with coffee-stained hands and fire in her spine. A woman who swings a bat at an ex-Ranger's head. A woman worth going to war to protect.

She's not looking for a guardian. He's done just watching.

As the developer burns her shop to ash and sends his killers after her, Evie discovers that the quiet biker who's been ordering black coffee is also the most dangerous man on the mountain. But loving Incline means accepting his world—the brotherhood, the violence, and the claiming that makes her his.

Three generations of his family built something on these slopes.

Now it's her turn to prove the mountain still belongs to its people.