He never wanted to become a beast. But the only way to stay a man requires the taming touch of a woman. Marcus escaped the doctors who thought it was okay to experiment on him. Totally expected to savor freedom far, far away from the evil wrought by the Chimaeram Clinic. Instead, he finds himself inexplicably drawn back to the place that made him a monster. And what do monsters do best but terrorize humans? When he kidnaps Jayda, he has no thought other than to make a certain doctor pay. However, taking an alluring woman to his lair means having her close. Hearing her. Smelling her… Remembering what it means to be a man. Wanting to be her lover. Is she his salvation, or his downfall? Because there is only one punishment for a project gone rogue…