The only woman I've ever loved: taken.
The only man I've ever called a father: wanted.

I was hired to watch her, tasked myself with protecting her, and now I have to save her. I tried to be her Romeo, but despite everything the past crashed into our lives like wild thunder. She begged me to run, I begged her to stay, until a force greater than both of us took over.

Erin Warner is captivated from the moment his mystifying green eyes find hers, but there is more to Hunter Ellis than meets the eye, including the intricately etched tattoos decorating his body that disguise horrific scars from a past he refuses to revisit. As she peels away the layers, Erin realizes that what she thought was true, never really was at all, for both of them.

Now she can only hope that blind adoration for the dashing stranger hasn't signed her death warrant.