Kael Blackwood is my new stepbrother, and he is also the boy who made my high school years a living nightmare. Now I have to live under the same roof as him, and he is still the cruel, arrogant captain of a famous hockey team who promises to make my life hell.But somewhere between our hateful fights and stolen glances, something dangerous begins to bloom. Our hatred twists into a forbidden, secret passion that consumes us both. We meet in the dark, we touch in hidden places, and I know it is wrong but I cannot stop.Then his jealousy and his cruel words shatter everything, and I walk away with a broken heart and a secret growing inside me. I am pregnant with his baby. Now Kael says he has changed, that he wants to heal and be a father, but how can I trust the monster who once destroyed me? Or will loving him be the one mistake I can never survive?

Alina Cole has only a few months left to live. Since childhood, she has suffered from a mysterious illness that no doctor has been able to cure. But her life takes a dark turn on her twentieth birthday when she is kidnapped. The kidnappers demand a huge ransom from her father, Mr. Cole. Desperate to save his only daughter, he borrows a large sum of money from the bank to pay them.Months later, Mr. Cole is unable to repay the debt, and the bank threatens to take everything he owns, his company, and even their home. With no other choice, he turns to the most powerful and feared man in the country, a man people call “The Devil.”The Devil agrees to help… but only on one condition.Mr. Cole must give him his only daughter.Horrified, Mr. Cole refuses. But Alina makes a shocking decision. Since she only has a few months left to live anyway, she agrees to go with the Devil.Her father knowing how dangerous the Devil is, refuse to let his daughter go live with him afraid she might not even survive it to her remaining months. But Alina plead with him to let her go with the Devil.After all, if death is already waiting for her…What difference does it make if she spends her final days with the most dangerous man alive?