Businessman. CEO. Head of household. Three titles worst suited for Gunner Steele, the short tempered, reticent former Marine and rebel of the infamous Steele brothers. After an evening searching the mountains for his missing office manager, Gunner finds an undercover agent at his front door demanding protection-and that anyone but him be her bodyguard. Usually, Gunner didn't give a damn if someone disliked him, but this particular curvy vixen had information about the man who killed his father and maimed his brother. Information he'd gladly sell his soul for... but is he willing to sell hers, too? After failure to deliver the location of a Russian spy as slippery as a bowl of borscht, Lexi York is fresh out of a job and a near-death experience when she seeks refuge at Steele Shadows, despite her disdain for the tattooed bad boy, Gunner Steele. At her wits end, Lexi devises a plan to use Gunner to get her job back, but what she hadn't planned on was developing feelings for the tortured soul she could never tame. Unwilling to make promises he can't keep, Gunner is faced with the biggest decision of his life. Avenge his family, or throw away the only woman who's cracked open his shielded heart?