Dust

Dust has spent his entire life living in the shadows of violence, loyalty, and bloodshed. As Smoke's stepbrother and right-hand man, he's known throughout the city as ruthless, unpredictable, and dangerously loyal to the people he considers family. While Smoke rules with fear and control, Dust is the chaos beside him-the man willing to get his hands dirty without hesitation.

But underneath the tattoos, sharp tongue, and reckless behavior is a man carrying years of anger, abandonment, and loneliness.

Dust has never believed he deserved love. Not after the life he's lived. Not after all the blood on his hands.

Then she walks into his life.

She's everything he isn't-soft where he's hard, patient where he's impulsive, and brave enough to look past the monster everyone else fears. For the first time, Dust begins to imagine a future beyond violence and survival.

But enemies are closing in, old betrayals resurface, and Dust's past refuses to let him go.

Now he has to decide if he's willing to lose everything to protect the woman who's slowly teaching him how to live instead of simply survive.

In a world built on loyalty, danger, and family, Dust will have to fight for the one thing he never thought he could have:

Love.