Powerful, ambitious, and devastatingly sexy, Jackson Steele was unlike any other man Sylvia Brooks had ever known. He went after what he wanted with his whole mind, body, and soul-- one touch and she surrendered, one night together and she was undone. But they both have secrets, dark pieces of their pasts that threatened to swallow them both. In passion they found salvation; in each other's arms they found release; and now that they've laid claim, there's no more holding back....