She welds steel for a living. He tears down worlds like hers for profit.

Marisol Reyes built herself from nothing?a foster kid turned master welder, forging her identity in the sparks and smoke of Detroit's Ironworks Rail Yard. When a Manhattan venture capital firm moves to demolish the only home she's ever known, Mari is ready to burn it all down before she lets go.

Then Callum Blackwood walks onto her yard.

Cal clawed his way out of Detroit's wreckage after the 2008 crash destroyed his family. Now he's back with a billion-dollar blueprint and something to prove. He didn't expect the fiercest opposition to come from a woman whose fire matches his own.

Forced into a joint community assessment, they can't avoid each other?or the slow, dangerous heat building between them.

But surrendering to desire means surrendering control. And for two people who survived by never letting anyone close, that's the one thing they were never taught to do.

A searing enemies-to-lovers romance set against Detroit's gritty beauty?for readers who love slow burns with molten payoffs.