Overview

He pulled him out of a cage. He should have left it at that.

Zain Rashid doesn't save people anymore. The former Detroit cop turned his back on a broken system and built something better - a crew of ex-military, ex-law enforcement operatives who hunt human traffickers in the ruins of a city that forgot how to protect its own. He's efficient. Methodical. Cold.

Then he cuts the lock on the last cage in a Delray warehouse and finds Seth - starving, shaking, and ready to fight anyone who touches him.

Seth doesn't do grateful.

Four months of debt bondage couldn't kill him. Neither could the pills, the prison time, or the years of sleeping in places no one should sleep. He's been invisible his whole life, and he's not interested in being someone's rescue story. What he wants is purpose. What he wants is in - into the crew, into the work, into the war Zain is waging against the people who caged him.

What he wants is Zain. Even if wanting him is the most dangerous thing he's ever done.

Zain has one don't get attached.

Seth breaks it the first time he opens his mouth.

As Lakefront Logistics closes in on a trafficking network with connections to Detroit PD, Zain and Seth are pulled deeper into a conspiracy that threatens everything the crew has built. The closer they get to the truth, the harder it becomes to keep their hands off each other - and the more Seth proves he's not content to stay on the sidelines.

He's not a victim. He's not a liability. And when the blood starts flowing, he'll prove it.

Weight of Ruin is Book 1 in the Iron & Blood series - a gritty, dark MM romance set in the decay and defiance of contemporary Detroit. This book features a morally gray vigilante crew, a sharp-mouthed survivor who refuses to break, explicit content, and men who love as hard as they fight.

What you can An ex-cop vigilante who kills with precision and loves like it's a threat A sharp-mouthed survivor who bites back harder than he breaks "Teach me to fight" → training that ends on the mats (and not the way either of them planned) Touch him and I'll bury you energy He kills for him. It changes everything. Found family forged in blood and bad decisions A crew of broken, beautiful men you'll be desperate to read about next Detroit in winter - rust, ruin, and no mercy Possessive, filthy, can't-keep-their-hands-off-each-other heat Dual POV - his cold control cracking, and the brat who cracks it "Your brat." (Yes. That scene.) An HEA earned in blood

Content Trafficking (on-page aftermath, not graphic depictions of assault), past addiction and recovery, violence, morally gray characters, explicit sexual content, gun violence, references to past incarceration, found family forged in blood.

222 pages