"Scream and you're dead." The voice was male, a mix between a growl and a whisper, and whoever it was could definitely have used a breath mint. He tightened his grip, leaning into her, and Satine winced as she was forced to her tiptoes to avoid being strangled. "Who--" she croaked then skipped ahead to avoid the pain. "What do you want?" The man sneered with a, "Mmmm..." that sent a shudder down her spine. As if that wasn't bad enough, he leaned forward to inhale against her neck. His hot breath slithered over her skin when he said, "I didn't believe it. Not until now." It was too dark to see his face, but his excited energy was quickly filling the room. He'd found what he was looking for and he wasn't about to let it go anytime soon. "Be-lieve...what?" she gasped, forced to hang onto his arm to keep her balance. He let out a low laugh and leaned forward to nuzzle her neck again. "That you existed." ***** Caught up in a mad dash around the world, finding out that everything she never believed in is out to get her, Satine Tierney would give anything to go back to her hated aristocratic life once she's thrown into a world she knows absolutely nothing about with four mysterious men she's just met. Men who seem convinced that the bad guys are after her because of something that happened before she was even born. Something in her blood...