Their love is forbidden. Will they dare tempt fate?Atlanta criminal defense attorney, A.J. Blessings, has always led a double life, straddling two worlds-one black, one white; one dirt poor, the other obscenely wealthy; one tangible, the other spiritual-and learned very early it was best to keep to the darkest corners. When she attends a steamy costume ball, she is kissed by a masked musician and Dominant, Jonas Davies, which sets off a series of events that will change her life forever, including being invited to a BDSM Nightclub, Dante's, where an impulsive moment leads to a second Dominant, Master M., becoming obsessed with her. Everything is not as it seems...Unbeknownst to her, Autumn's estranged aging rock star father is being blackmailed; the threat directed at her. Knowing people in high places, he entrusts her safety to the governments best black ops team, The Reapers, with the understanding they'll use any means to get close to their very private protectee, but with the directive she never learn the truth about any of it and they will walk away in the end. With secrets, lies, and danger afoot... The greater journey lies in the truths The Reapers keep from their protectee. Dominants, their play is dark and dangerous, and for one sadism isn't a game at all...it's an illness.