Once you’ve been owned, can you ever really be free? Chained by memories of her violent past, Jessie Turner walks quietly through her safe, new life. No one can touch her, save for two women she trusts as friends. To the rest of the world, she doesn’t exist outside her role as a stylist at Chicago’s exclusive Madame Briarwoods boudoir. Until a chance encounter with a hot, glasses-wearing, seductive mystery man leads to a kiss she can’t forget—and the reappearance of the assassin who used to own her mind, body and soul. Ex-Special Forces, Will LaCroix spent four months as a captive across enemy lines. Surviving that ordeal was easy compared to his latest mission to earn Jessie’s help in uncovering a black market slavery and antiquities ring. She’s the most closed-off person he’s ever met, aside from himself. But once he starts to reveal the soft sensuality and strength of the woman beneath, passion and personal truths threaten to consume them both. When her best friend Mila is threatened, and friends become enemies, Jessie has to decide between giving in to the man who owned her past, and the one who owns her heart. Can Will push past his fears to save her, or will the ghosts of captivity rip him apart before he can save them both?