On her twenty-fifth birthday, Emma Montrose decides it’s time to show bad-boy investigator Jack Sullivan she’s more than an efficient secretary. She’s a woman with needs, and she needs him.

Jack is a taniwha, a shifter, who requires women to satiate the sexual demands of the serpent within. Nothing more. Then work forces the reluctant Jack and ecstatic Emma undercover as a couple. Thrown together, pretence and reality blur, generating hot sex laced with risk…

Publisher’s Note: Story originally appeared in the Ellora’s Cave anthology Men to Die For.