**For fans for Sylvia Day, J. Kenner and Maya Banks. An emotionally gripping tale of erotic romance suspense from the New York Times ebook bestselling author of the Because You Are Mine series and The Affair.** Dr. Sophie Gable wasn’t expecting her peaceful getaway to be shattered by the arrival of a half-dazed, dead-sexy guest. Thomas Nicasio has obviously been traumatized, and Sophie thinks she knows by what. There’s something about Thomas’s father that he can’t – or won’t – remember. Something that could get them both killed. Still she can’t resist Thomas’s electrifying seduction – or her instincts to help him… An ex-Navy explosives specialist, Thomas has never felt this type of volatile need for a woman. Even while he’s grieving the deaths of his brother and nephew, something in Sophie makes Thomas want to overtake her, and each time he does, her willing submission makes him want her all the more. But danger is lurking close by, and if he can’t face the demons of his past, he and Sophie could be the next victims in a pattern of meaningless violence… **Enter the seductive world of Beth Kery where the rules are broken with that first electrifying touch in the sizzling Because You Are Mine, One Night of Passion and The Affair novels.**