(Please note: this book was formerly published as Black Knight, White Queen) One night changes everything… Ruthless. Controlled. Masterful. Aleksandr Shastin is a man who has his every move planned. Both as a chess master, and in his life. Nothing shakes his control. Nothing shocks him. Until, mired in grief over the death of his mentor, he sees a woman who shatters everything he thought he knew about himself. Passionate. Beautiful. Lost. Izzy Cornwall is in Thailand to forget. To escape the raw grief left behind by the death of her sister. What she didn’t count on was meeting stranger on a Bangkok rooftop, and for a scorching attraction—fueled by the intensity of their grief—so hot it could consume them both. One night is enough to get lost for a while. But there are darker demons lurking in Alex’s past, and if Izzy wants to help him defeat them, one night will never be enough. But can the master release his grip on his control long enough to take hold of only woman he could ever love?
Author
Jackie has been writing fiction since she was eleven years old. Mild mannered fantasy/SF/pseudo-literary writer by day, obsessive romance writer by night, she used to balance her writing with the more serious job of librarianship until a chance meeting with another romance writer prompted her to throw off the shackles of her day job and devote herself to the true love of her heart – writing romance. She particularly likes to write dark, emotional stories with alpha heroes who've just got the world to their liking only to have it blown wide apart by their kick-ass heroines. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband, the inimitable Dr Jax, two kids, two cats and some guppies (possibly dead guppies by the time you read this). When she's not torturing alpha males and their stroppy heroines, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, posting random crap on her blog, or being forced to go mountain biking with her husband.
