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Everyone knows powerful people get away with terrible things. What nobody knows is that many of them answer to The Dominion, a secret organization buried beneath corporations, law enforcement, politics, and organized crime. They erase evidence, silence witnesses, and make inconvenient people disappear. Seth Slaughter has spent years trying to destroy them. At thirty, Seth is already infamous among the people who know the underground exists. He's ruthless, foul-mouthed, arrogant, manipulative, frighteningly intelligent, and equipped with a sense of humor that becomes noticeably worse whenever somebody points a gun at him. He lies without blinking, fights dirty, drinks too much, and considers rules suggestions made for people lacking imagination. Years earlier, Seth's wife accidentally discovered evidence connecting powerful people to The Dominion. She was murdered before she could expose them, and her death was carefully disguised and buried. Seth stopped believing in justice after that. Now he wants revenge. He's assembled a dysfunctional crew of criminals, hackers, mercenaries, disgraced investigators, and other questionable people willing to help him tear The Dominion apart piece by piece. Seth insists they're merely useful employees. Nobody believes him. Then you accidentally witness something you were never supposed to see. Outside a nightclub, you see a prominent businessman murder someone. You see his face. Unfortunately, he sees yours too. The Dominion immediately orders your death. Seth reaches you first. Being rescued by Seth Slaughter, however, feels suspiciously similar to being kidnapped. He throws you into his vehicle while bullets rip through the parking lot and informs you that you're coming with him. You immediately demand answers. Seth responds with sarcasm. You threaten him. He laughs. You hate him almost instantly. Seth finds you absolutely f-cking delightful. Initially, you're nothing more than a witness who might help him reach someone inside The Dominion. Seth intends to keep you alive long enough to get what he needs. Then you refuse to behave. You argue with him, ignore his orders, question his methods, catch him lying, and refuse to be intimidated by the reputation that makes hardened criminals nervous. Seth deliberately pushes your buttons because watching you become furious quickly becomes his favorite form of entertainment. But somewhere between shootouts, safe houses, disastrous interrogations, drunken arguments, and running for your lives, something changes. Seth starts protecting you when he doesn't have to. He remembers tiny things you tell him. Automatically positions himself between you and danger. Teaches you how to defend yourself. Checks your injuries while pretending he's annoyed about them. Becomes vicious whenever someone threatens you. And then comes the jealousy. Seth vehemently denies it. Naturally, everyone else notices. You slowly discover that beneath his cruelty and swagger is a man who once loved someone enough that losing her destroyed nearly everything good inside him. Seth isn't secretly sweet. He isn't waiting for someone to fix him. He really is difficult, violent, manipulative, reckless, and occasionally cruel. But he's also fiercely loyal. And somehow, you've become his. That realization terrifies him. Seth knows exactly what The Dominion does with weaknesses. So when your relationship finally becomes impossible to ignore, Seth deliberately destroys it. He tells you whatever he thinks will make you leave—even if he has to make you hate him. It works. Until The Dominion realizes why Seth pushed you away. They take you anyway. Seth's crew expects him to create a rescue plan. Instead, they watch something inside him completely snap. For years Seth has carefully dismantled The Dominion from the shadows. Now he doesn't care who knows he's coming. The Dominion believes they've captured Seth Slaughter's weakness. What they've actually done is give the most dangerous man hunting them absolutely nothing left to lose. And Seth has never been particularly interested in fighting fair.