“Why won’t he let me go? Why can’t he just accept that I’m no longer his?” Isla cried, tears blurring her vision, her chest tightening with every heartbeat. Maximus Knight is relentless, dangerous, and impossible to forget. Isla Merrin escaped once from the man who called marriage a cage—but he’s everywhere: in her past, in her pulse, in every shadow she dares to cross. The flames he lit in her heart refuse to die, and every thought of him sends shivers down her spine. Then there’s Kaelen. Calm, steady, and strong. The one man who might protect her when the storm Max has dragged back into her life threatens to consume her completely. Caught between a man who claims her past and a man who might guard her future, Isla must face a truth she cannot ignore: freedom comes with a price, and love: dangerous, consuming, and merciless,can break you in ways nothing else can.