For the past fifteen years, I've learned 101 ways to take a man's life and, more than that, to survive someone else trying to take mine.

I was tortured at the hands of my enemies, beaten to within an inch of my life, and convinced death was at my doorstep.

But nothing could have prepared me for the fresh hell that awaited when I came home.

My new stepsister who drives me crazy.

I try to resist her because whatever hangs between us is wrong. Or at least seems like it. Yet the moment I get a taste of her, my resolve and initial reluctance vanish into thin air.

And when I find out she's in danger from my father's enemies?

The burst of fury and protectiveness thundering through me catches me off-guard. I have trained my whole life to kill men five times bigger and stronger than me.

I will end every single one of them before I let them touch a hair on her head.

Because Lila isn't just my stepsister anymore.

She's my woman, and like every alpha predator that ever existed, I will lay down my life to protect what's mine. Death awaits anyone who even breathes around her the wrong way.

I am an assassin, and the most important mission in my life isn't killing, but protecting my woman, my future wife, and the mother of my children.

Good luck trying to get through me.