He was her tormentor before he was her temptation. Her bully before he was her fate. And her stepbrother before she could run from either.Nora survived him once. She is not sure she can survive him twice — especially now that the moon goddess has decided they belong to each other.He refuses to let her go. She refuses to need him. And somewhere between sixty days under the same roof and a bond neither of them asked for, the line between hatred and hunger is getting harder to find.Some fates are a gift. Others feel like a punishment. Nora is still deciding which one he is.

He rejected her at eighteen and disappeared without a backward glance. Now she's been shipped to his island, and there is nowhere left to run.Ivy Laurent didn't come to Meridian Island to be reformed. She came to finish what she started — to make Matthias Thorne look at her and finally see the woman he turned away, the one he never stopped wanting. He has twenty years on her, a billionaire's discipline, and every reason in the world to keep his hands to himself.None of it will be enough.Because when a tsunami destroys the island and strands them alone in the wilderness with nothing left to hide behind, two years of buried obsession has nowhere left to go — and the most dangerous thing about Matthias Thorne was never his money or his power.It was always the way he looked at her when he thought she wasn't watching.