“Tell me, does my nephew know his fiancee begs this pretty when she's begging for someone else?” Betrayed on the night she was supposed to celebrate forever, Jennifer Reyes makes one reckless choice, and wakes up in the arms of a man she should never have touched. Cold, calculating, and dangerously patient, Carter Blackwood isn't just a stranger. He's her fiance's uncle. The one every Kane pretends doesn't exist. She wants to disappear. He wants a weapon. When her father's company teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, Carter offers her a deal she can't refuse: his money, his protection, his name, in exchange for helping him destroy the family that erased him ten years ago. By day, he's the exiled Kane no one speaks of. By night, he makes it clear exactly who she belongs to now. Carter believes she said yes for the money. He has no idea that the woman he recruited as a weapon wants Gerald and Sylvia to burn just as badly as he does. But Carter isn't only after revenge. Buried in Jennifer's past is a secret her late mother died protecting, one that could bury the entire Kane empire, and the only man desperate enough to bury Jennifer with it is the fiance she left behind. Caught between a fiance who wants her back only to save himself, a mother in law who will do anything to keep the truth buried, and an uncle who refuses to let her go, Jennifer has only one choice left. Run straight into the arms of the man dangerous enough to protect her from all of them.