Natalie has spent the last two years of college building a life that doesn't include Easton Maddox—the boy she loved, the boy she left, and now, the movie star the whole world is obsessed with. She's perfectly content, thank you very much, and has zero interest in revisiting the past. But when her sister's Christmas wedding throws them together as maid of honor and best man, avoiding him becomes impossible.

What do you do when the killers come out to play? When it's hunt or be hunted? You sharpen your knives and prepare to get bloody because nobody does it better than a woman scorned with something to prove. Welcome to the 23rd annual serial killer war games, where the adrenaline runs high, the blood is fresh, and the revenge is best served cold.

Gossip always goes around at Falcon Elite Prep. Everyone knows Nate Wilson, the most popular football quarterback and every girl's crush. But there's more behind those drop-dead gorgeous eyes and that killer smile… He's a notorious heartbreaker… And he's got his eyes set on me. The twisted games he plays are cruel and dangerous. He teases and tempts me… just to ruin me. Because I know the one thing he doesn't want anyone to know. A big, dirty secret… And there's nothing bad boys won't do to keep a secret buried.

In my world, marriage is a transaction between two families. Nothing more. So, when the head of the Mancini crime family approaches me with an offer to marry his daughter in exchange for what I need to destroy my enemy, I accept. But when a woman I've never heard of shows up on the contract, questions arise. If forcing her hand in marriage is what it takes to get what I want, then so be it. A wife was never meant to be anything more than a business transaction. A means to an end.

Sean "Ax" Hunter is both a former Marine and Sergeant at Arms for the Hounds of Hell MC. His mind works like a twisted hamster wheel. Dates, facts, faces, and memories are all vivid and constant. Nothing holds his attention long, until the night a Georgia storm forces him into an upscale club, and suddenly his attention belongs solely to her.