On her twenty-first birthday, Melora is sold by her own father to a powerful, mysterious ruler in exchange for wealth and influence. Forced into an arranged marriage with a man she's never met, she's sent across the sea to a foreign land-escorted only by the one man she trusts: her brooding, fiercely loyal bodyguard. He's protected her since she was eighteen. Watched over her. Wanted her. But he hides a dark secret... one that makes him far more dangerous than she ever imagined. Now, with every passing night spent alone together, his control begins to crack-and so does hers. She was supposed to belong to another. But what if the one forbidden to touch her is the only man she's ever desired? And what if he's not entirely human? -- This book will be fast moving between the two main characters.