From USA Today Bestselling Author KL Donn comes an intensely emotional, age gap, friends-to-lovers, dark romance with a possessive alpha who will do anything for his broken heroine.

Lake Sutton has had a chokehold on me since the day she was born.

What was once a feeling of brotherly protection has turned into something more.

Something deeper and more magnetic than my black heart has ever encountered.

Everything changed when she was a teenager.

She left for summer camp happy, bubbly, and full of life.

She returned as a total stranger to everyone who loved her.

At first, she wouldn't speak to me.

Then she would run from me.

Now, she cries in my arms and hides behind my massive body.

I'm her shield against the world.

Slowly, her smile begins to brighten her face again.

The humor she once possessed makes a comeback.

Then it happens...

The reason for her change shows up on our doorstep, and I'm forced to make a decision.

Let her hide or force out the truth.

They don't call me Vicious Saint for nothing.

Once I have answers, I'll stop at nothing to give her the peaceful life she deserves as long as I'm at her side forever.