Artist Alexandra Battista thinks a six month apprenticeship in Venice is the perfect escape from her overbearing family who all seem more upset over her recent break-up than she is. Two months into it, she's finding it's everything she hoped for and more. Until the night she hears her mentor being murdered.

Sent by her family to check on Alex's well-being, Dan "Fawkes" Fowler is nearly certain she won't welcome his interference—not after the steamy one night they spent together or the morning after when he woke to an empty bed. But when he finds her running down a darkened street, fleeing from a murderer, he knows there's no other place he wants to be other than by her side to protect—and maybe even love—her.

Fun loving playboy Fawkes first appears in THE PUPPETEER, the prequel to the Windsor Series. The former Navy SEAL likes nothing more to flirt the night away...until he meets his match. Now if only he can keep her out of the crosshairs of a killer.

This story is connected to the award-winning Windsor Series but can be read as a stand-alone.