When beautiful 35 year old Leelee Markum decides to change her life and move to Atlanta from Maine, she doesn't anticipate how much it will turn her world upside down. She wants more out of life... and she wants her mother out of her business When she starts her new position at Vlord Enterprises, falling for her boss is the last thing she could have expected to do. He is like no other man she has ever met in her life. He is intriguing, brooding and devilishly handsome. Rich, handsome, arrogant, and powerful, Thayne Vlord isn't interested in finding a woman to share his life with; he's already loving his new life, and won't dare fall for any woman. He's not willing to share his dark secret with anyone. Fleeing his village and keeping his dark past behind him was all that mattered... or so he thought...