His version of home

For some, home means warmth.
For him - it's a territory of control.

Cole Mercer is not a man you want to anger.
A former soldier, callsign Predator 0-1, and founder of the private military company Specter Corps. Dangerous. Charismatic. Powerful. He's used to commanding not only people, but fear itself.
After the war - and the betrayal of his family - there's nothing left inside him but emptiness. And pain. A pain he calls love.

When General Arden invites him to a family dinner, Cole expects nothing more than another tedious evening.
Until he sees her.

Kate Arden - the general's twenty-year-old daughter - is far too gentle for his world.
She hides behind politeness, wears a smile that never reaches her eyes, and breathes carefully in her own home.
Cole sees in her something he lost long ago - purity.
And he decides she will be his home.
His version of family.

But Cole's home is not a place of love.
It's a place of breaking.
Where walls remember screams, and tenderness always has a price.
He will give her everything - attention, protection, desire.
In exchange for the only thing that matters - her freedom.

And when the door finally closes behind her, she'll realize:
sometimes, "home" is the most terrifying place you can enter.