Allison Michaels quickly learns she is in way over her head. Taking a design job with unscrupulous strings attached to ruin a man she doesn't know spirals out of control and she fears she has lost Bryant forever. Like everyone warned her, "she never could do the job."
Allison is determined to find a way to convince her boss, Martin Kirklen, to let her out of the deal in hopes of salvaging her dignity and her relationship. But when she receives a cryptic message from her sister and Martin implies she would not only be risking her own life but the life of her sister, Allison is trapped.

Hurt the man she loves or risk her sister's life. There never was a win-win-win.

Tantalizedis the second book of the slow-burn Taste of Freedom Trilogy, following the cliffhanger ending of Tempted. The books within the trilogy are continuous and not stand-alone novels. The trilogy concludes with book three, Torn.