Darius: She's forbidden. My attraction to her is wrong and dangerous. I'm like the serpent in the Garden of Eden targeting Eve. Corrupting her. I understand the serpent, though. When you've seen the worst of humanity, taken the brunt of evil, you crave goodness. You want compassion and courage, even when it comes in a girl far too young and innocent for the likes of you. If I get too close, I'll ruin her. But she's so tempting. Sweet. And impossible to resist. Nell: I can't believe I feel this way about him. Darius is my father's oldest friend. He's broken and scarred in ways I will never know or understand. But so am I. And I see myself in him—this embattled war photographer and I are more alike than he will ever admit. He warns me. He tells me our desire is wrong. Immoral. But the wild, explosive heat between us is like a living creature. Neither one of us can escape it...no matter how desperately we try. Or even if it destroys us both. New York Times bestselling author Nina Lane returns with the Birdsong Trilogy, a provocative romance between two people whose forbidden love will set their lives—and the world—on fire.

Darius: "This is why I never contacted you. I still have no control around you. You want me to tell you I haven’t thought of you? That would be a damned lie. Wherever I’ve been, whatever I’ve done, I haven’t stopped thinking of you. You are always there.” Nell: Once, I was convinced that my feelings for Darius, my love for him, were pure and real. I fought against all his perceptions of wrongness. But that was four years ago. If I still can’t find pleasure in even the thought of kissing another man, maybe my feelings for Darius have gotten twisted and warped. Maybe they’re obsessive. Maybe they’re wrong. New York Times bestselling author Nina Lane returns with the Birdsong Trilogy, a provocative romance between two people whose forbidden love will set their lives—and the world—on fire.

I chose this. I wanted him. I knew he was complex and challenging and that he would never fit into any kind of conventional life. That right there is just one of the reasons I fell so hard in love with him. And why I’ll always stay exactly where I fell. There’s no rising and flying away from Darius Hawke. New York Times bestselling author Nina Lane returns with the Birdsong Trilogy, a provocative romance between two people whose forbidden love will set their lives—and the world—on fire.