First volume of the dark romance trilogy and New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Kidnapped. Taken to a private island. I never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely. Now I belong to him. To Julian. A man who is as ruthless as he is handsome, a man whose touch makes me burn inside. A man whose tenderness I find more excruciating than his cruelty. My captor is an enigma. I don't know who he is or why he took me. There is a certain darkness inside of him, a darkness which I find both frightening and seductive. My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story.