Ruthless Lessons

<p><strong><u>Rina</u></strong></p><p><br></p><p>My arrival in Echo Bay was supposed to be a fresh start. The beginning of a new peaceful life for me and my sister.</p><p>As a teacher getting to know your students' parents is part of the job. One I've always excelled at and enjoyed.</p><p>Then <em>Edmond Vasiliev</em> strolls into my classroom.</p><p>He is everything I shouldn't want: intense possessive and savagely handsome.</p><p>I knew he was heartbreak wrapped in a dark intoxicating package.</p><p>In spite of myself I'm drawn to the danger.</p><p>Until I realize that monsters don't come with warning signs.</p><p>They slither into your life promising to make your fantasies come true.</p><p>He takes everything and leaves ruin behind.</p><p>I wish I could hate him but I'm addicted to his ruthless ways.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Edmond</u></strong></p><p><br></p><p>I live a life divided between the brutal demands of my power and the singular tenderness I hold for my niece Mila.</p><p>On the surface I appear as nothing more than a devoted uncle turned single father.</p><p>The truth is far more insidious: I rule Echo Bay by violence bribes and any means necessary.</p><p>Then Rina Christenson enters our lives shining a ray of light into my world of shadows.</p><p>Her innocence stands in stark contrast to the blood that stains my hands.</p><p>She is the type of delicate beauty that men like me ache to possess.</p><p>I watch her and I obsess.</p><p>I need to make her mine.</p><p>She might hate me. But now that I have her I'm never letting her go.</p><p>Not even when she begs.</p>