Come the First Snowfall

<p>Exactly one week before my best friend's wedding I was claimed by a man in the pouring rain-James Pierce a fiercely protective stranger who turned my world upside down over the course of a single unprecedented night. Offering myself to him freely he ravaged both heart and flesh and took from me what he pleased.</p><p><br></p><p>I still have the marks on my body and an impassioned heart to prove it. But the monsters I was warned about my entire childhood whose existence I chalked up to my father's delusions and-dare I say it-insanity are in fact real.</p><p><br></p><p>And they found me.</p><p><br></p><p>Seizing the opportunity to strike like a serpent in the grass they have taken me far beyond the reach of James's protective grasp.</p><p><br></p><p>The one in charge-a man with burn scars on his face and an antique key hanging from around his neck-says he has plans for me. And come the first snowfall of winter he promises those plans will come to fruition.</p><p><br></p><p>But by then it will be too late-for me my freedom and the life I knew before.</p>