I live my life by a few simple rules — let no one in, trust only my family, and don’t ever spend more than three nights with a woman.

Those are easy enough to abide by when I meet gorgeous, captivating and absolutely brilliant Sophie Winston. Who wants nothing more than to explore all her sinful desires with me after dark. Desires that put me firmly in control in the bedroom.

That works for me — as long as I can keep the secrets I need to protect. Not only the ones about my family, but the ones about how she’s interwoven into my dangerous past.

But the night she learns the truth, I’m faced with a stark new choice — let her go or give up control of my heart for the first time ever.

Trouble is, the past is chasing both of us right now and it just caught up.