Hunter Wesley Thornton-Payne III has perfected the role of bored playboy. When he attends a fundraiser for the Renaissance Women's Center hosted by Chicago's elite, intending to pick up information about a dangerous organization - he first has to find and terminate an assassin who is killing innocent Americans connected to an upcoming arms trade agreement. Abbie Blanton's mother falls prey to a mysterious illness, and Abbie turns to her investigative skills as a television news journalist. While attending a Chicago fundraiser, she leaves with more questions than she arrived with, and becomes the focus of a killer with a twisted sense of honor. As if her night hadn't gone badly enough, Abbie encountered a man she never forgot...and never wanted to see again. Abbie begins to realize Hunter isn't the superficial playboy he appears to be - but a dangerous operative with a tortured past whose success depends on destroying the best chance her mother has to survive.

Author Biography

Bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon currently has more than sixteen million copies of her books in print, in over thirty countries. Writing as Kinley MacGregor and Sherrilyn Kenyon, she is an international phenomenon and one of the founding authors of the current paranormal craze (her first paranormal novel was published in the US in 1994). She's the author of several series including: The Dark-Hunters, The League, Brotherhood of the Sword, Lords of Avalon and the forthcoming Nevermore and Chronicles of Nick. Her Lords of Avalon novels have been adapted by Marvel and her Dark-Hunter novels are now manga published by St. Martins and packaged by the talented Dabel Brothers. Her books always appear at the top of the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly and USA Today lists in the US. The Kenyon Minions are a million strong and growing every day, all over the world. Join in the fun! http://www.dailyinquisitor.com/sherrilyn/