Keller Montgomery is a tough, independent woman who doesn't need a man for anything. As a full-time bodyguard, she works for the Vitala Vampire Senate when the situation calls. When the Senate requests she guard a master level Vitala visiting the city she readily agrees—until she meets him. Khalid is six feet three inches of sexy male and, from their first meeting, shakes Keller's control. Khalid's every touch undermines her careful restraint until she wants nothing more than to lie beneath him and beg for more. Khalid knows who he wants and pursues Keller with single-minded intensity. She is his blood mate, the one woman who will complete him, and he will do anything to keep her. During an incredible night of love making, he bonds the two of them without a thought to what the independent-minded Kell needs or wants. Furious, Kell leaves him without a backward glance. But when Khalid's life is in danger, will Kell come to the realisation they are meant to be together? And when she does, will it be too late?