When Merik Hearne finally lays claim to the woman that betrayed him, she inspires much more than his need for revenge-but is her love worth dying for again? Condemned to play host to a demon, scarred Romani leader Merik Hearne has amassed a fortune with only one goal in mind-to possess Hannah Worthington, the traitorous beauty that has eluded him for over a decade. With an exchange of coin, everything he has been striving for is within reach but nothing is as he imagined. The tender, sharp-tongued woman he encounters tests the bounds of his convictions and he is torn between the promise of reckoning and longing for a love that once destroyed him. Exchanged for a purse of gold and informed she is to be a slave, Hannah vows she has not survived a lifetime of loss only to whither under the likes of Merik Hearne. And she will do everything she can to make sure he knows it. Despite his overbearing manner, his fierce scars, and her own determination to escape him, she begins to see that something beautiful might lie beneath...something that belongs only to her. She must discover the angle from which the great lord plays before his dark desires consume them both. As they struggle to find truth amid pasts marred by sorrow and secrecy, they are unaware that a vengeful apostle orchestrates the rise of a forgotten god-and the end of their chance at a life together.