One man intent on reclaiming his birthright. Another denied his own. The secrets between them should keep them apart, not bring them closer.

The first time someone tried to kill Gideon Winters, his mother took the bullet meant for him. He was thirteen. The second time they came for him, his father faked Gideon's death and sent him into hiding. It's been fifteen years and he's finally out of the shadows, ready to claim his rightful seat on The Council, the secret group of seven with the ability to make or break corporations and countries.

The son of a powerful man who refuses to acknowledge him, André Tesfaye leads a quiet life of monotony that's upended when he gets trapped in a random robbery. Whispered warnings abound about the man who saves him, but he's too busy getting lost in Gideon's ice-blue eyes to listen.

André is the weapon Gideon plans to use to exact revenge on the people who took so much from him. Wanting him, loving him, puts everything at risk, and tests Gideon's loyalties and focus… Which is a shame, because a battle is on the horizon.

And Gideon has acquired a weakness.

A desperate gunman and a Federal Marshal walk into a mechanic's garage. Unfortunately for them, an assassin is waiting.

He might answer to a new name, but Zander remains a killer on the hunt. He moonlights as a mechanic, his nights spent plotting against the man who wiped out his family. He'll wait however long he has to for revenge…until an armed stranger breaks into his garage one dark night.

U.S. Federal Marshal Vince Hardin is driving cross country, a futile effort to outrun heartbreak and the gunmen intent on ending him. Car trouble takes him to Zander's place in time to meet the bullet of a desperate man's gun.

All Scotty Fallon wanted was a reprieve from the memories haunting him since childhood. Breaking into Zander's garage was a last resort. Finding himself trapped between a menacing assassin and a Federal Marshal? He doesn't expect to see the sunrise.

As blood and secrets get spilled, danger turns to connection. Then passion. But soon, a new day arrives, bringing with it new enemies and tough choices that will leave hearts broken and the future of the most unlikely trio hanging in the balance.