Grind by K.J. Pierce

Some things are built to fall. Some are built to last. Wren Calloway has spent two years holding up her family’s legacy with her bare hands. Operating a massive, sixty-year-old concrete grain elevator in rural Kansas, she is fighting a losing battle against the bank, a corrupt local government, and the crushing weight of her father’s unsolved death. When the county issues a fraudulent condemnation order to seize her land, they send a demolition crew to finish the job. Enter Silas Cain. Ruthless, precise, and scarred by his own tragic past, Silas is the demolition contractor hired to tear Wren’s world to the ground. He has 41 days to execute his contract or lose everything he’s built. But as Silas studies the towering concrete structure, he realizes the building is perfectly sound—and the fierce, fiercely independent woman defending it is the only thing he can't figure out how to break. Trapped on the same property, their bitter structural war turns into a raw, breathless collision. But Silas is hiding evidence that could save Wren's elevator, and revealing it means destroying his own company. Grind is a highly emotional, slow-burn dark contemporary romance about tearing down walls, the heavy secrets we carry, and finding shelter in the storm.