Hadley Adair has lived a life of near perfection. Nothing bad has ever happened to her. And the guilt of that is nearly enough to swallow her whole. She watched her friends get broken down until they were mere shells of themselves. Hadley has always been the shoulder to cry on, the strong friend. The one to fight everyone's battles. So why, when she meets a sexy as sin nightclub owner does she expect the worst to happen? Ashton DeMarco is a self made man. When he sees something he wants, he doesn't hesitate to acquire it. Like the hot little number who grabbed a guy by the balls and made him piss his pants in one of Ashton's clubs. From the minute her glare lasers through him, Ashton is hooked. There isn't a person alive who could scare him off claiming Hadley Adair. Not her criminal family and not her brash attitude. But when his past comes back to bite him in the ass, for the first time in his life, Ashton feels true fear at the possibility he could lose Hadley before he's rightfully claimed her.