Love, Lust, Death

Dahlia Rose has been a storm in every life she's touched-a nineteen-year-old orphan with a taste for trouble. Since losing her parents in a devastating car crash at the age of nine, she's been tossed from one foster home to another, each family rejecting her for the chaos that seemed to follow in her wake. But Dahlia doesn't care. She doesn't need anyone... or so she thinks. That is, until she crosses paths with Kia Alistair, a man whose presence is as dark and dangerous as the world he rules.

Kia Alistair is a legend in the underground cage-fighting world-a six-year reigning champion feared as much for his ruthless skill as for the cold, unfeeling mask he wears. His past is a graveyard of pain, his childhood marked by the bruises left by his father's fists. At seventeen, he ran, carving a place for himself in the brutal underworld, fighting to survive until survival turned into domination. Now, at twenty-five, he's the undisputed King of the underworld, a man without weakness.

Until Dahlia.

The reckless, defiant girl is unlike anyone Kia has ever met. She's fire to his ice, chaos to his control. And somehow, despite everything, she's found a crack in his armor. For the first time in years, he feels something. But Kia doesn't know what to do with these emotions-these unfamiliar, dangerous feelings that threaten to turn his carefully built world upside down.

Dahlia may be the only person who can melt the ice in his veins. Or she may be the one to destroy him completely.