BOOK ONE IN “THE GYM” TETRALOGY
They called him Detroit’s Little Heartbreaker.
He wore it like a crown — because once, it was one.
The night Jimmy Davidson walked into Threshold at eighteen and a rhinestone crown touched his head, the city named him. And for a while, being named was enough.
Then came Joey Reeves.
Young. Beautiful. Damaged in ways Jimmy mistook for depth. Over three years, Joey dismantled him with the patience and precision of someone who had learned, early and thoroughly, that love and control were the same thing. By the end, Jimmy had lost his friends, his family, his job, his sobriety — and finally, on a bridge over the Detroit River in December, very nearly his life.
What saves him is not hope.
Hope left a long time ago.
What saves him is a black card pressed across a bar by a man whose eyes absorb light instead of reflecting it.
An address.
A promise that what has been destroyed can be remade into something that can never be destroyed again.
123 Industrial Way.
Detroit has been building toward this for years.
So has he.
THE GYM is a four-book series exploring transformation, revenge, love, and what survives the fire.
