She ran from a life that was suffocating... only to fall into the hands of the man fate had carved for her.
A year ago, Kelsey Anderson escaped a rushed marriage to a dangerously magnetic stranger. She thought she'd buried that part of her past_ until the very man she fled from shows up and drags her back into a world darker than she could imagine.
Lucien is powerful, untouchable, and terrifyingly captivating. A vampire who’s lived over a century without knowing desire_ until he found her. For someone like Lucien, love is not tender. It’s obsessive. It’s possession masked in silk. And when he’s denied what’s his, he doesn’t wait. He takes.
Now, locked in his mansion and bound by a past she didn’t ask for, Kelsey must navigate her way through his cryptic affection, seductive dominance, and the secrets he guards behind those midnight-black eyes. But Lucien isn’t just a vampire. His world is steeped in blood, power, and a hunger that goes far beyond the physical.
She hates him for what he’s done. He craves her for what she is.
But beneath the resentment and fear simmers a chemistry that neither of them can deny… and a soul-deep connection that might be more dangerous than any enemy stalking in the shadows.
Because once a vampire claims his soulmate_ he never lets go.