Kept hidden from society for her first eighteen years of life, Gemma D'Elouise Taylor was a young woman longing for adventure and passion. On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Gemma experiences first hand the heated gaze of a man filled with power and greed; a man who desperately wanted to claim her as his. "In this life, there are two kinds of people: the ones who take and the ones who give. What are you?" "If you go through your life believing that, then aren't you really the one who suffers?"