Luca Undertaker Stone isn't looking for love. He already had his love of a lifetime and lost her a decade ago. Now his darkness keeps women at a distance. He likes it like that. Running a self defense and cage fighter training gym keeps him busy. Well that and his side job as a contract killer. Soft and sweet has no place in his world.

That's good because Honor Williams is anything but soft and sweet. She's a verifiable badass who put a violent sexual predator back behind bars. Ok so maybe he's out now and stalking her. Maybe she's on the run. And maybe she's not quite so much a verifiable badass as she is telling herself she's one until she believes it. She doesn't date criminals and she sure as hell doesn't date sexy badass ex military contract killers.

They have no business hooking up. Honor needs to lay low and steer clear of trouble. Luca never dates and certainly doesn't sleep with a woman more than once. Honor just needs to learn self defense so she doesn't end up dead. Luca just wants to help her stay alive. It's not like they're going to fall in love

Donnie Lowe never stopped loving the first woman to own his heart. She was his secret lover ten years ago. At the time, he wanted to protect her. She was young and innocent with her whole life ahead of her. He was the President of a gun-running MC. He didn't have a right to corrupt her, but he'd done it anyway.

Aurora Dewitt isn't the same woman she'd been a decade ago when she asked her lover to kill the man who had murdered her little sister. Having left the only man who had ever really owned her heart because he didn't want her in his world, she clawed her way to the top of her own criminal enterprise. Aurora didn't need a man to do her dirty work now.

They had every intention of leaving the past where it belonged. They didn't know working together to stop the Cartel would bring back so many memories. It was only supposed to be a way to release stress; neither of them wanted to relive the rejection of their past together. How could they know they'd never stopped loving each other?

Joe Reynolds has a protective streak a mile long, he is also incredibly loyal… perhaps to his own detriment. Joe is happy as a member of the local MC and running a lucrative and classy pub in the main street area of his small town. He is not looking for love, his one and only long term relationship was an absolute disaster and as a result he has sworn off anything longer than a night and more serious than a quick slip between the sheets, especially with a gorgeous, smart and highly talented woman who previously dated a club brother and potentially broke that brothers heart. Nope, not gonna happen. So why is it proving so damn difficult to stay away?

Ella Jones is trouble. She has a past with the Brotherhood MC and did date one of Joe’s MC brothers. It just wasn’t the tortured love affair that Joe thinks it was and until her ex is ready to come clean and let her go for good she can't tell Joe the truth. Unfortunately for them both, they can't seem to stay away from one another. This is a problem for the Brotherhood as they fight off a Cartel that circles ever closer, a rival MC that is out for blood and a madman who has his sights set on Ella.

Lamar Evans isn't a good man. As an enforcer for the Brotherhood MC, he has not only seen his fair share of violence but has been responsible for inflicting more than enough himself. He can be shallow, and has been selfish and egotistical his entire adult life. He knows without a doubt that he doesn’t deserve the love of a good woman, especially not the love of a woman who has been victimized and tortured and lived to tell her story, and yet somehow he cannot find it within himself to walk away from the one woman he should keep at arm's length.

Peyton Williams has been through hell and back and in her journey to heal after a harrowing ordeal all she can think about is the bad boy of a notorious one percenter MC. Peyton knows better than to seek out a man who kills for a living and yet she has never felt safer than she does in his arms. Her sister would never approve and his brothers would have his head if they knew what he does with their golden girl when the lights are out, still they can’t walk away from each other and what's more Peyton doesn't want to. Can they make a future out of their forbidden passion or will her past catch up to her before they discover the difference between love and desire?