Prince Ruan is in the sights of an assassin who will stop at nothing to kill him. He's in need of protection—though by his reckoning, he can bloody well take care of himself.

Major Chastain Neff is a lethal weapon. As one of the elite Riezell Guardians, she is an expert in all the deadly arts that have made her an accomplished bodyguard to the rich and important. When she's assigned to protect a man who believes she's the one who needs the protecting, she knows she's going to have her hands full with Ruan Cosaint.

Queen Annalyn is not a woman to leave things to chance, especially when the mystic's message pointed to a woman fated to become Prince Ruan's consort, the ruler of his heart, his protector and the mother of his children.