"I want your wife."

In the past twenty years, Joel Lockhart had crossed a lot of lines on his quest for vengeance. But this was a new one. He was demanding exclusive sexual access to another man's wife.

One look at Tracy Grainger though, and he couldn't stop himself. She was battered, beaten, but not quite broken—not yet. He made the demand of the crime lord with every intention of seeing it through. Anything to get her away from her vicious husband.

He never expected to fall in love. When he looked into Tracy's eyes, he felt something stir in the emptiness of his heart. An emotion that was unknown to him. It didn't take long for Joel to realize that he is willing to give up everything to have her, to hold her, to keep her safe.

But the price to stay with her will be high. Staying with her might require letting go of his quest for vengeance. Giving up his need to put his sister's killers in the ground. Joel has to decide what is stronger—his need for vengeance or his need to have Tracy with him always.