When a courageous beauty determined to have what she wants collides with a broken beast in need of saving...Tortured to the point his control over his wolf is tenuous, Lord Gareth Randolph is a man even hardened soldiers fear, but fear will not stop Vanessa. After trading herself for her brother's freedom, she discovers there is much more to the arousing, intimidating Lord Randolph than the icy facade he projects to the world. Lured by the pain in his eyes and consumed by a hunger the likes of which Vanessa has never known before, she finds herself swept away by her captor. Lord Randolph knows he is too damaged, too dangerous to claim his mate, but that does not silence the bellowed demands of his wolf to do just that. Nothing he has tried can tame the beast that rages within him, and when Vanessa barges into his study to beg for her brother's freedom, his wolf becomes incensed, making him do things he should not...Will Vanessa be able to tame the beast before the full moon sees him devour her? Or will the horrors of his past destroy them both before they can find their happily ever after?