"Haven't you ever been in love?""You mean that stupid, insane, sickly infatuation one gets when they can't eat and can't sleep because they only think of him?""That's the one."John Taylor is a beautiful and dangerous man, but also a deeply damaged soul, bound to his tormented past. Nicknamed Father John, he's also a notorious, sought-after sadist at the local BDSM club.Kelly Flynn is restrained by troubling ties of her own. She is suffering from the fatal female flaw, where ordinarily sensible women fall madly in love with an unattainable man who can't, or won't, love them back. There's no possible way Kelly can ever break through John's defenses to the tortured soul beneath... or can she?