The last thing Liam Mcyntire expected to find in his barn one cold February morning, was a half-starved , frozen-solid woman. She's covered in bruises and full of mistrust and suspicions. He'd been perfectly content in his bachelor life of trapping critters, selling furs and living in solitude but this mysterious woman might just change all that. Emma Hawke was running. Running from her father, from the damage the man had done. Running from a life she didn't want--a life no different from the one that had killed her mother. She's never been off the mountain. She trusts nothing and no one--not even the man who saved her life by bringing her out of the cold. If Liam's going to win her heart, he's going to have to learn patience and how to truly care for someone more than he does himself. He'll have to love her softly. Can Emma overcome her past? Can she learn to trust--possibly even love--despite the fear that she holds of men and of marriage? Or will her past track her down and destroy any hope she has for a future?

Tatum had done her best to survive. Kicked out of Haven and sent down to downworld, she had been forced to survive in a way that no one should ever have to live. But Tatum was a survivor and she made the most of her life on downworld, becoming the top earner, making enough marks to keep her off her back and away from the males that only want her for her body. That is until she is rejected. She is thrown into a new position in life, surviving like always but fighting in a different way as she finds herself hardened to males and mates. Cast off by her own mate she isn't expecting a sinfully attractive male to set his eyes on her and take no prisoners as he does his best to pull her into his world of decadence and pleasure. Tatum is torn between her soul and her heart and the what ifs that rage in her brain. But she knows very well that life and love are never what they seem and above all that she has been given a choice she had never been given before.