Nicholas Harris is a professional badass. Ex-Army Ranger, former personal security for the one and only Valentine Roth, mercenary, assassin, pilot, and my lover. After Roth and Kyrie holed up in their island fortress estate in the Caribbean, Nick started a private security contracting company: Alpha One Security. He hired the best of the best, the scariest, nastiest, toughest-and sexiest-security experts in the business. And oh yeah, there's little ol' me: Layla Campari, mercenary-in-training.***Thresh.Just the name suggests power, dominance, danger...and the man himself? Oh man. I've never met anyone like him. Larger than life, exuding raw power. He's a mountain of rugged, masculine sex appeal.But I have walls that no man, no matter how big he is, has ever been able to break through. Thresh doesn't know how to take "no" for an answer, though. He's determined to get past all my defenses and show me what I've been missing.Can Thresh singlehandedly take on armed and dangerous men out to kill us AND my freight train of emotional baggage?***Under ordinary circumstances, waking up bound and gagged next to a hot guy wouldn't be the worst thing that's ever happened, but these aren't ordinary circumstances. There's guys with guns after us...LOTS of them--both the guns and the guys. Fortunately, Duke Silver is a hard-core badass, because it's going to take every last shred of skill he has as a killer commando to keep us both alive, and even then, nothing's a sure thing.