"You're making it very challenging for me to end this painlessly."
Kate Withers was supposed to die on Christmas.
Instead, she wakes up at the celebratory table, surrounded by five dead bodies. And the hitman who poisoned all of them.
Her would be killer fully intends to fix the anomaly of her survival... painlessly. But when she buries his DNA beneath her fingertips, the killer has no choice but to kidnap her. Extending her life… if for a bit.
Kate does not mourn the death of the foster family that hurt her.
She allows all the pain and grief of her past to fuel her fight. Using every bit of her wit and strength to claim what is rightfully hers. Freedom. But her captor is no easy match, he watches, calm and meticulous. He is the kind of man who cleans the blood from his trunk without hesitation, talks about life and death as if he is God, and places a black rose behind her ear for reasons she doesn´t understand. Yet, she vows that she will live free or die trying.
Whatever his plans were, she would be getting out of here. In a casket or on her feet.
The hitman is cherished in the community as a hero, women fall at his feet left and right. But Lucien Alexander Evans is a lonely fox, he needs no one but his trusted dog, Ghost. His life was perfect until his victim survived. If his employer discovers she is breathing, Lucien is dead, if Kate escapes, his death is written in stone.
But she is also the first woman who knows what she is doing, and while she feels the fear rolling beneath her skin. Kate doesn't back down. And when threats and fights evolve into quiet conversations and banter, each passing day it becomes harder to remember why Kate has to die.
What happens when the only man she can trust is also the one she should fear the most?
What happens when the only woman he wants is supposed to die?
When two people with impossible pasts clash and fall in love, the results could be... disastrous.
"As for what gets into other men. Power. Always. Truth is, Kate. Hell is empty, and the devils are here, free to play around. Power is all they care about. You have to strip that away from them."
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