After betrayal and violence left him scarred inside and out, Draiper Sinclair stopped trying to fit into the world around him. He prefers the darkness anyway. Living a solitary, nocturnal life allows him to avoid the stares, the fake sympathy, and the reminders of the man he used to be. Love, trust, and emotional attachment are risks he has no intention of taking again. Then Violet Kincaid knocks on his door. Beautiful, polished, and known around town as the perfect librarian, Violet is tired of always playing it safe. Beneath her carefully controlled exterior is a woman craving passion, danger, and something real for the very first time. Draiper should be the last man she wants. But the intense, mysterious neighbor with the eyepatch and haunted gaze quickly becomes impossible to resist. What begins as temptation and late-night desire soon turns into something far more dangerous: real feelings neither of them are prepared for. And as Violet slips past the walls Draiper spent years building, he's forced to decide if loving her is worth risking the pain he barely survived once before. Because he knows that some people enter your life unexpectedly… and change it forever.