I'm Damien "Facet" Blackwood-tech guru for the Ankeny RBMC. Love is bullsh*t. My mother and her two thousand husbands were enough to convince me. Give me my computers any day of the week.

Until Willow. Victim of a black market adoption, she wanted our help to find her biological parents. From the second I laid eyes on her, I wanted her, but I couldn't touch her. It would only lead to heartache.

Then one night I killed a man and my entire world turned upside down. I wasn't who I thought I was-hell, I wasn't what I thought I was-and it seemed the people who should've protected me only used me.

In a moment of weakness, Willow pushed me too far and I made her mine. Now despite being the biggest danger to her, I can't let her go.

With secrets and enemies pouring out of the woodwork, I might need to embrace the very darkest part of myself. Because if I don't, none of us may survive.

Kristine Allen lives in beautiful Central Texas with her adoring husband. They have four brilliant, wacky and wonderful children. She is surrounded by twenty-six acres, where her seven horses, six dogs and three cats run the place.

Kristine realized her dream of becoming a contemporary romance author after years of reading books like they were going out of style and having her own stories running rampant through her head. She works as a nurse, but in stolen moments, taps out ideas and storylines until they culminate in characters and plots that pull her readers in and keep them entranced for hours.