My husband hasn’t touched me in fourteen months. I've begged, cried, and swallowed every ounce of pride I had, hoping Richard would look at me like a woman instead of an inconvenience. Every time I reach for him, he pulls away. Then he hires Barrett Stone to watch me. Barrett is a former Special Forces commander with a biker's reputation, a body built for trouble, and a stare that makes me forget I'm a married woman. He wears leather, speaks in low, gravelly tones, and watches me with an intensity my husband hasn't shown me in years. He doesn't look away. Doesn't pretend I'm invisible. And soon, I find myself craving the attention I should never want. What begins as stolen glances becomes a dangerous affair. My husband's bodyguard becomes the man I can't keep my hands off, and every stolen moment brings us closer to a line neither of us should cross. I thought Barrett was my escape. I was wrong. Just before Christmas, my carefully constructed life comes crashing down. A scandal destroys my company, the police arrest me for murder, and I discover that my husband has orchestrated a betrayal far more devastating than I could have imagined. My body has been violated, my chance at motherhood stolen, and the man I trusted most has made me the perfect scapegoat. Barrett gets me out of jail and takes me hundreds of miles away to an isolated lodge in the Alaskan mountains. But the man who once couldn't keep his hands off me is gone. Here, Barrett is a different person. He's a devoted father to his little girl, a friend to the mountain locals, and a man everyone seems to adore. Everyone except me. He gives me cold orders, avoids being alone with me, and makes it painfully clear that whatever happened between us is over. He wants me to hate him. He wants me to stay away. And judging by the secrets buried in his past, he might have a very good reason. But a Christmas blizzard has other plans. With the mountain roads buried in snow and the lodge's guest rooms suddenly uninhabitable, I'm left sharing the only available bedroom with the man who broke my heart. One bed. One fireplace. Two people pretending they don't remember what happened between them. And one Christmas vow that could change everything. Because Barrett Stone might have rescued me from my husband's betrayal, but can he protect me from the truth about why he let me go? Or will the man who once risked everything to have me become the reason I lose everything again?

"Whose is he, Harlow?" Torin’s voice rumbled through the clubhouse. I backed away, instinctively shielding my five-year-old son behind my legs as the President of the Steel Howlers MC stalked closer. His golden eyes flashed, his massive, tattooed frame suffocating all the oxygen in the room. He didn't look like the man I loved five years ago. He looked like the ruthless, cold-blooded Alpha I had been warned about. "Tell me," he demanded, his gaze dropping to the little boy who possessed his exact same storm-gray eyes. "Before my wolf tears this place apart." At eighteen years old, human Harlow Kincaid made the most terrifying decision of her life: she vanished in the dead of night, fleeing Torin Rathbourne, the feared and deadly thirty-three-year-old Alpha of the Steel Howlers MC. She didn’t run because she stopped loving him. She ran to survive. Now, five years later, her worst nightmare has come true. Her half-blood son is suffering from a violent, mysterious sickness that human doctors can't cure. Desperate and out of options, Harlow is forced to return to the den of wolves she barely escaped, begging the man who hates her for help. Torin is colder, harder, and deadlier than she remembers. For five years, his wolf has been tearing him apart from the inside, and he blames the fragile human who abandoned him. He demands complete control, he claims her son. And he locks Harlow inside his compound, swearing she will never escape him again. But Harlow isn't the naive teenager he remembers. She is a mother who has survived on her own, and she didn't come back alone. There are secrets trailing right behind her, shadows hunting her from the human underworld, ancient betrayals lurking within Torin's own pack, and a dark ticking clock the Alpha is hiding from everyone. Torin thinks he is punishing the woman who broke him. He doesn't know that she is the only thing standing between him and his impending death.