He came out of nowhere. A tornado made out of ice and shadows and he swept me in. Men like him aren’t supposed to come up to the surface. They reside in the underworld and keep to themselves but now he is all up in me. In my life what I’ve known is chess. I know strategy but now there is one strategy I don’t know. And it is how to hold on when a brutal mob enforcer wants my all.

The morning started like any other, a normal day at the farm when a man stepped out from the shadows. He made the animals nervous and with his towering height and black clothes he made me nervous. But those eyes of his hit me in the heart when they look at me and being the genius I am, I drew the wrong conclusion. Mistaking someone’s identity is never good, but especially not when the stranger turns out to be a rugged... mobster .

My life is picture-perfect. Every day I do my best to live up to the image of the spoiled, upper-class girl everyone thinks I am. But I have a little secret. Dacre Cage is my stepbrother but I want to be more than just his stepsister. The sheer thought is scandalous and I’d be rejected by high society if my true feelings ever came out. I keep Dacre in the dark about how I feel, failing to realize that Dacre has secrets of his own...