the story of two people who were meant to be together. Why? Because unknown to them, they shared terrifying pasts and the cruel circumstances of their births doomed both of them to a life of hell. Two strangers ... one night ... one accidental meeting that changed their lives forever. Gabriella Martinelli, Manhattan psychiatrist had only one goal in life—to help abuse victims avoid the horrors she’d experienced herself. She worked late, volunteered, and donated her services to anyone who needed them. Life was good ... until her nightmare resurfaced. He found her, and began stalking her, and she knew he wouldn’t stop until he destroyed every ragged piece of her.Kolson Hart, Manhattan’s most eligible bachelor, was ruled by his dark past. He liked control, from the boardroom to the bedroom and didn’t care to be involved with someone whose life was just as screwed up as his was. But one look at Gabriella short-circuited everything. Want ... desire ... need ... will sometimes drive a man to do things he swore he never would.He freed her from a life of fear ... When he couldn’t even save himself.

    Until the day she meets Talon, a bad-ass drifter on a motorcycle who shows her that being on the bottom can be loads of fun.But things get ugly.Part-demons, hot up-against-the-wall sex, and alpha men, are a deadly mix. Learning who you are, and what you are, can sure mess up your love life.Warning: BDSM themes

    Nor did she expect to become the personal assistant for the company's handsome billionaire owner, P. Winston Dunn. To be a billionaire's assistant, however, requires her to submit to his every desire...

    So why does he keep showing up in Mac's late-night fantasies as the Dom of her dreams? She can't even ignore him, because she's stuck working with the fellow musician for the Christmas concert season.Mac Wallis is a mess, and Finn can't fall for a submissive who's so damaged she needs medication just to get through a performance. But he's drawn to the beautiful oboist, even as he keeps pissing her off. He can't resist trying to take care of her--in every way.

    But when Mr. James reveals he knew all along she was playing him, and commands her to take off her coffee-stained dress and follow his every order, Isobel's fragile world of deception is turned upside down!Soon they're entwined in a steamy web of lust and deceit; Tyler James is a man who knows exactly what he wants, and Isobel promptly discovers she has a taste for following the billionaire's every command. However, when she unearths a discarded wedding band inside a drawer, can she reconcile feelings of irresistible lust, and a deep, hurting desire to know if she's just His Dirty Secret?This sordid, steamy novel is the latest release from best-selling author Evelyn Troy. Filled with graphically described depictions of hot, BDSM-infused sex, it is for neither the faint-hearted, nor for anyone under the age of 18!