Book excerpt: Chrys was just a young girl of seventeen who had the weight of the world on her shoulders. With a base head for a mother, nothing ever seemed to work out for her. She had her two best friends, but what she really wanted was her mom to care enough to get better. On a chance encounter, she runs into Ky'zaire. He's seen her before but avoided her as best he could because Chrys made him do something that he hadn't done since he was nine: feel. Ky'zaire is a contract killer who doesn't feel remorse or anything for that matter. But coming across Chrys gives him feelings that only killing has done for him. Once he gets closer to her, he decides that she is his, and he will do whatever it takes to protect her and keep her close. But the past has a way of catching up to people, and there in no telling if the past will catch up to Chrys and Ky'zaire.