One debt. One secret. One night. I have a secret and I’ll do everything in my power to keep it that way. I’ve been watching her for a long time. I’ve been following her. She’s lost a brother. I lost a best friend, but no one could ever know. She’s in pain, and so am I. She deserves so much better than me. I am rotten to the core and if I take this any further, I will pull her into my darkness. But I can’t stay away. I can’t stop. What happens when she starts to uncover my lies? What happens if love isn’t enough?

One taste gave me an addiction for life.

We were promised to one another as children. Heath took my first kiss and stole my innocence. He wrote me letters filled with love, darkness and hope. I was supposed to be his wife, until everything I knew was ripped away from me. My life is over and there’s no one who can help me now. Not even the boy with charcoal eyes…

He’s the most beautiful monster she’s ever seen.

Emmy Atler is desperate for a job so she can help her grandfather with his increasing medical bills. She even applies to be a maid for Jason Belmont, recluse writer, who’s known more for the murder of his cheating wife and her lover than his popular thrillers. He may have gotten off on a technicality, but everyone knows he’s guilty.

Just because he’s quiet and awkward doesn’t mean he’s actually innocent. Just because he treats Emmy with warmth and respect doesn’t mean he’s not capable of killing her with his bare hands – especially considering the fact that he lives in a secluded cabin in the woods of Lake Tahoe. Emmy can scream and no one would hear.

Now, with her grandfather’s health on the line and the risk of debt closing in, Emmy must do her job and ignore her growing attraction for her employer – especially if she wants to avoid risking her life for a man both brooding and fatal.