HOPE It should have been an easy sell. He was just another client, a wealthy target.I offered him what I had. He stole the rest.Beautiful. Confident.His Viking blood made him a conqueror.He dominated my senses.He planned to rule my body as well.I didn't have a chance at keeping my heart. AXEL Her name said it all. Hope.She came to me in my darkness.The compass that would guide me out of the storm.The goddess, Freyja. She's with me as I fight Hel, the enemy that took everything from me.I am at war now, but the moment the dust settles I'm taking Hope as my prize.She's a challenge. Resistant. Catching her will be like catching the wind.But my people were sea wolves. We know how to tame the wind.And I'm a patient man. Victory is my only option.

Ireland Steinburgen is absolutely determined to never love again. Happy endings only exist in fairytales, and she's tired of being let down over, and over, and over again. The one common denominator?Men.Now that she's moved her life from her small, Southern hometown all the way to the big city of San Francisco, she's convinced she can make it in life, blissfully happy in her singledom. Of course, she'd be an awful lot happier if she could get a handle on her temper and hold down a job.Which is how she ends up interviewing to be the assistant to the CEO of Knight Industries.But when Zach Knight, billionaire playboy extraordinaire, steps through his office door and straight into her rollercoaster of a life, Ireland's faced with the biggest challenge of her lifetime: resisting the charms of a talented bedfellow, well versed in the art of unclothing beautiful women.She's strong, a born and bred Southern Belle. She can be the perfect assistant to Mr. Knight and keep him firmly in...