Sensual and seductive, this novel from one of erotica's rising stars is an unflinching journey into the dark heart of desire and the chilling secrets of those who live by night.Vice cop Brenden Wallace has walked on the dark side for too many years. Now, newly divorced, he's smoking too much and sleeping too little, and the empty darkness in his soul is the blackest part of any night-until he's assigned to investigate an escort service called Exotic Jewels and meets L¡ad n Niamh. Lushly beautiful, she is the embodiment of seduction and thrilling control. She arouses Brenden's most feral desires-fierce, bone-deep needs they explore together, mouth to mouth and skin to skin. But L¡ad n's hungry kiss is more dangerous than Brenden could have imagined. Women are turning up dead, and every clue leads Brenden back to L¡ad n-and a raw, brutal passion that could cost him his life.