Annalise Grace has spent twenty-seven years believing she is an ordinary woman. She lives a quiet life in Manchester, works as a kindergarten teacher, and has learned to be grateful for the little things. After losing her mother years ago, Annalise has no family left to depend on and no desire to dig into the past her mother desperately tried to bury. Until someone tries to kill her. One night, Annalise returns home to find armed men waiting for her. She has no idea who they are or why they want her dead. Then Jaxon “Guns” Cole walks into her life. President of the Black Vipers MC, Jaxon is the kind of man people cross the street to avoid. Cold, heavily tattooed, brutally protective and feared throughout the criminal underworld, he has spent years building an empire where loyalty is everything and he also believes that weakness kills people. But Jaxon knows something Annalise doesn’t. Her mother once saved his life. And before she died, she made Jaxon promise to protect her daughter. When another attempt is made on Annalise’s life, Jaxon takes her to the Black Vipers’ club secluded compound in the Peak District, where she is forced to live under his protection. Annalise hates being controlled and Jaxon refuses to let her die. What begins as a battle between a stubborn woman looking for her freedom and a dangerous man determined to keep her alive slowly becomes something neither of them expected. Then Jaxon discovers the truth. Annalise isn’t an ordinary kindergarten teacher. She’s the secret daughter of Victor Devereaux, one of Britain’s most powerful criminal cartel boss and the rightful heir to an empire her stepbrothers will kill to control. Now the woman Jaxon promised to protect has become the target of an entire criminal dynasty. As enemies close in and betrayal reaches the heart of the Black Vipers, because Annalise may have been born into a dangerous empire but Jaxon will make sure she survives long enough to rule it.