She wakes in a cell, darkness her only garment. Spec-ops soldier Clara Steel knows the price of capture behind enemy lines. And she is not alone. There is a man with her, one who fires her senses. His voice is velvet. His wicked words an electric current on her skin. They thrill and stir, stimulate and shock. Each decadent threat fills her mind’s eye with images of raw abandon. He is a professional, he assures her, sent to break her. And when he begins, Clara’s world becomes a feverish voyage into surrender and ecstasy.