The Prototype

He could very well be the most brutal, sadistic, cold-blooded Mafia King to walk this earth-or wherever the hell I am. But at the end of the day, he either kills me or respects me.
Either one is fine with me.

I leaned against the long hardwood table, staring into his dark brown eyes with unwavering defiance.

"Until this contract is fulfilled, until the prototype passes every test and reaches its final form-the prototype is mine. I am the prototype."

Tempest Taylor is intelligent, dominant, and dangerously daring. A summa cum laude graduate of an Ivy League university, her brilliance earned her a position at one of Washington D.C.'s most powerful technology companies-where she successfully created a groundbreaking software system designed to obliterate the competition.

She never expected her technology to be used for more than corporate domination.

Unknowingly, her software breaches the private networks of the world's most dangerous crime syndicates. When Tempest witnesses a mass murder, she makes the fatal mistake of thinking she can walk away.

She can't.

Now marked as a living witness and a target, Tempest is delivered into the hands of a man who doesn't just wield power-he is power. And he's about to learn that Tempest is no ordinary woman.

Just like any revolutionary creation, before the final version is unveiled, there is a prototype.

And until he realizes exactly who he's dealing with, she'll make sure he understands one thing:

She is the prototype.