A lightness of spirit often draws the darkness.Gabriella Hernandez admits her irrational attraction to Harper Delkin and his bodyguard Elijah Eklund. Despite a little bit of fear about why they want her, she can't deny her excitement. She has no doubt they'll leave her body humming but her heart shredded.Harper Delkin didn't like her. The woman was too emotional and dangerous to his self-control. There was something about Gabriella that twisted him up and made him harder than he'd ever been in his lifetime. Elijah Eklund knew the moment Harper mentioned Brie that things in their life were about to change drastically. He never suspected she would ultimately turn their world inside out or the lengths he would go to keep her.Visit with characters you fell in love with in the other stories set in "The Barter System" universe and meet a few you are never going to forget. A contemporary romance novel by Always the Good Girl, Shayne McClendon.