He was the one thing she couldn't run from.

Beatrice Arsenault has spent the last ten years running. She's changed her looks and changed her name and lives her life off the books or under the table, constantly looking over her shoulder for the one person she knows is looking back.

She's the one thing he could never leave.

Dominic Xiang is a name that strikes fear into the hearts of hardened criminals. He runs an empire of vice and blood, which he rules with an iron fist. But when he met Beatrice ten years ago, he had just enough of a heart left to break.

If they don't bury the past, they'll bury each other.

Now he's found her again, and she's dancing on the edge of his knife. Whether it cuts her ties or ends her life is all up to him . . .