He's cold, dark, and everything that I should run from. The problem? I want to run to him instead of away from him. Bethy I thought life had taken everything from me. My parents and my sister--all gone in one fleeting moment. Left to take care of my niece Lily, I knew that would do anything for my sister's child, even marry a man who worked on the wrong side of the law.Then I met him, Lark. The man coated in shadows. I should have turned and walked away the day I met him, but I couldn't I didn't know he was going to awaken something dark, and dangerous inside me.Lark I was a kill by nature. Taking lives was my job until I was forced to work a babysitting job watching a woman I had never met. I was about to refuse the position but, that was until I laid eyes on her, on Bethy. I thought I was dead inside. Emotions? I didn't have any. That all changed when my eyes soaked in her beautiful face.They thought they could take her. Take what's mine? I'll watch the world burn. *WARNING* This work of fiction is intended for mature audiences only. All sexually active characters portrayed in this paperback are eighteen years of age or older. Please do not buy if strong sexual situations, dark situations, dark real-life situations, violence, drugs, domestic discipline, and explicit language offends you