My stepbrother thinks he owns me.Six years ago, he disappeared. No calls, no texts, not even a postcard. Suddenly he's back- bigger, badder, and cockier than ever. I want his massive arms wrapped around me. I want him in my bed each time he gives me that smirk. Every time he touches me, I'm ready for him to pin me to the wall and make me scream. Too bad lust doesn't mean forgiveness. I'm coming home and I'm bringing hell with me. Four years ago, I was given an impossible choice. Staying meant putting Alexis in danger. The only way I could protect her was to disappear. I spent four years on the other side of the world getting shot at and dragging dying kids out of firefights, my every dream haunted by her memory. The thought of all the ways I'd put my hands on her body and my mouth on her skin kept me sane. Then I found out the world went crazy: My father married Alex's mother. He'd taken over the town and its criminal underworld. I thought by leaving I'd keep her safe, but I only put her deeper in harm's way. Now I'm back to fix my mistakes. Alexis is mine, stepsister or not, and my father will pay for what he's done.

I didn't believe in heroes until I met him.For five years, I've lived in fear. No one will stop my stalker. Nobody can - his father is a senator. Alone and powerless, I couldn't run, couldn't hide, couldn't escape. Then I met Jacob. He's built like a freight train, covered in scars, and fights like a trained killer. He scares me. Fascinates me. Makes my heart stop when I imagine what his rock hard body can do to mine. One look in his haunting eyes draws me in. Tempts me to do things I've never imagined. He kisses like he fights - furiously. One taste, and I want more. If I can trust him with my life like I have with my body, he might just be my hero. I came to destroy this town. I lost everything, spent a year under a torturer's knife, and woke up a dead man walking, hungry for vengeance... Then I saw her. The man I hate was laying his hands on her and I snapped. Something went off inside me, something that drove me to remove his filthy hands from her beautiful body and replace them with mine. The mission has changed. I won't stop until she's safe, and I've found out how hot her lips burn on mine...**