Michael's favorite pass time is torturing Julienne, when their mothers become friends Julienne doesn't cope well having him close. He decides to use a new tactic to get under her skin and finds an attraction he never deemed possible.

Sequel to BQHCH: It's been ten years since the imprisonment of Charlotte's abusive exhusband, Nicholas Monroe, and Charlotte couldn't be happier. She's marred to her own personal angel on earth Marcus Samuels and she has four beautiful children, Cara, Audrianna, Aaron, and baby Brooklyn. Charlotte and Marcus are happy and living their lives with out worry, until Nicky is released from jail early, and he wants his wife and his daughter back. Marcus and Charlotte take their children away to the family cabin in Pennsylvania for the summer, keeping out of the public eye while John, Nicky's brother, searches for nicholas in the hopes of keeping him away from Charlotte and her family. Will Marcus be able to keep his family safe whe they are threatened by his wife's abuser? or will Nicky finally succeed in hunting Charlotte and Cara down?

Vampires? Check. Werewolves? Check. Death prophecy to hang over your head? Double check. Seventeen year old Emma Hutchinson struggles to find her place in the world she has been born to as she tries to decide whether she should be with Michael, the boy she has been dreaming about since she was three or if she belongs with Dominic, her betrothed.