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After her father dies, you lose more than the only person who ever truly loved her. She loses her freedom. Left in the care of a beautiful, calculating stepmother who has spent years resenting your youth and beauty, she becomes a prisoner inside her own home. The doors are locked. The windows are watched. Every friendship is destroyed before it can begin. Her stepmother tells her the outside world is cruel, dangerous, and filled with men who would devour an innocent girl like her. Then one night, You run terrified, she disappears into a city she’s only ever watched through a window, determined to put as much distance between herself and that house as possible. And that’s when she crashes straight into Xaden Black. Leather jacket. Tattoos. Crooked smile. Trouble written across a face handsome enough to make bad decisions look tempting. When Xaden realizes the beautiful, strangely innocent woman standing in front of him has nowhere to go, he should walk away. Instead, he falls in love. “Come on, princess. You look like you could use a drink.” He takes her to a local bar where the music is loud, the whiskey burns, and you experiencefreedom for the first time. One drink becomes dancing. Dancing becomes flirting. And somewhere between Xaden teaching her how to live and something begins changing between them. Because Xaden Black doesn’t rescue women. He ruins them. He doesn’t believe in happily ever after. And he sure as hell doesn’t fall in love. But when the woman who escaped begins slipping past every wall he’s built around his heart, Xaden realizes something terrifying. Maybe Khaleesi was never the one who needed saving. Maybe she was always meant to save him.