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Beneath Chicago Chicago has always hidden monsters. Not the kind from stories, but the kind who walk among everyone else — criminals in expensive suits, underground fighters, people who buy and sell lives like they’re nothing. Far beneath the city exists another world. A world of illegal fighting rings, black-market deals, and people who survive because they refuse to break. Mickey Milkovich knows that world better than anyone. But he never expected to find someone like her. Locked inside a cage beneath an abandoned warehouse is Nyx Volkov — an eighteen-year-old fighter who was stolen from Russia, raised in violence, and turned into something the underground could never fully control. To everyone else, she is a weapon. A monster. A possession. But Mickey sees something different. He sees the same fire that has kept him alive his entire life. Wild, reckless, sarcastic, and impossible to tame, Nyx is a storm trapped behind steel. She doesn’t need saving — she needs someone who understands why she refuses to surrender. And for the first time in years, Mickey Milkovich doesn’t walk away. Because some cages aren’t meant to hold people. They’re meant to be broken.