He watched her for two years. Every morning, Mace Donnelly walks into Cora Nash’s diner, orders black coffee, two eggs, and rye toast, then sits on the same stool like he belongs there. He never smiles much. He never says more than he has to. And he has never once made a move. Cora knows exactly why he keeps coming back. She also knows better than to trust a man who says nothing while looking at her like she is the only thing in the room worth wanting. Mace is the vice president of the Steel Kings MC. Quiet. Dangerous. Controlled. The kind of man who notices everything and gives away almost nothing. Cora is too busy keeping her diner alive to make room for a biker with secrets, bruised knuckles, and a habit of fixing things she never asked him to fix. Then the wrong men start using the alley behind her diner. When Cora sees something she was never meant to see, her name lands on a list belonging to men who do not forgive loose ends. A warning comes first. Fire. Smoke. A message meant to scare her off her own block. But Cora Nash does not run. And Mace Donnelly is done watching from a distance. Now he is in her diner, in her kitchen, at her back door, and under her skin. He says he is there to protect her. Cora thinks he has been waiting two years for an excuse. As danger closes in and the Steel Kings prepare to take back their block, Cora has to decide whether the quiet biker who never asks for anything might be the one man she can trust with everything. Her business. Her body. Her heart. Mace has spent two years wanting her. This time, he is not walking away. MACE is Book 2 in the Steel Kings MC series, an interconnected standalone dark motorcycle club romance featuring a quiet protective hero, a stubborn diner-owner heroine, forced proximity, slow-burn tension, found family, danger, heat, and a hard-earned HEA. Content This book is intended for mature readers and contains strong language, violence, explicit romantic content, and dark suspense themes.