After the sudden passing of her mother, Dr Etta Lewis takes control of her family’s failing veterinary practice. Diving into the lucrative world of organized crime is the only way she can get the business out of immense debt — quickly and quietly.

But what she didn’t sign up for, was to be kidnapped by a man too cruel to be beautiful and blackmailed into fulfilling a decades-old contract that will bind them together in holy matrimony.

On the brink of the control he’s desired for decades, Odin Bolt’s revenge is almost complete. But in the pits of the crime world, the good guys always lose.

And Etta only plays to win.

As she’s thrust deeper into an underground scene she’d only flirted with before, Etta’s life — and dignity — are on the line. Forced to share her secrets and a bed with her new fiancé, she is quick to hate Odin’s sad heart and intoxicating presence. Immensely. Wholeheartedly. Maybe.

TRIGGER WARNINGS:

profanity, alcohol use, kidnapping, violence, graphic sexual content, sexual assault

(minor), murder, animal death, death of a family member and unborn child (off-page).