Book excerpt: Alex: “When I need Jonas the most he has deserted me. It’s not Jonas Blackstone’s job to come to my defense, it’s Maximillian Blackstone’s. Why not Jonas? He said he loved me, but I rejected everything from him except…” Alex Blackstone’s body shook, and it carried the bitter hint of fear. A familiar scent since she’d married Christian aboard his yacht. It had become the soundtrack swirling through her mind, ever since Christian’s monstrous attack which had chased her in her dreams. Jonas threw her a lifeline, but Alex knew this was different. This was a terror that ran deeper than any man's wrath, a fear that gnawed at her soul. Her son, Maxim, was gone and Jonas couldn’t be found because he was no doubt tied up with newfound love, in the arms of a woman who wouldn’t understand Jonas and Alex’s problematic relationship. Maximillian, her husband, was consumed by “old business” the threat to his life and family and his marriage and how he’d allowed Alex to be sullied in front of strangers. Black Ice a Blackstone novel is a dark spicy romance with a HFN ending.