Mallory Taniss would fight to protect her family, and when the strange creature in her kitchen threatened that family she vowed to fight him or die trying.But it wasn't no ordinary man standing in her kitchen. Aodhan Adrastos was the strongest warrior of his vampiric race, and the woman before him wasn't just the granddaughter of his enemy—she was the mate he'd waited almost six hundred years to claim...But trust was something Mallory knew she would never be have for any man again, least of all one who held her against her will...