Promises and Pomegranates

According to Dr. Kal Anderson, he did, at one time, have a heart.

He's not sure whether it was before he saw his mother pass away after a protracted fight with cancer or before he was adopted by the most infamous crime family in Boston.

At thirty-two years of age, all he knows now is that the organ in his chest functions, at most, mechanically. He has an advantage as a fixer and internal doctor for the Mafia because of his emotionless, frigid existence; he has nothing to divert his attention from his task, and his judgment is as quick and unbiased as death.

Up to her.

Elena Ricci, the twenty-year-old daughter of his employer.

Elena is strong-willed and used to violence, so she is aware that temptation might easily turn into a problem.

She has spent her whole life admiring the cold-blooded doctor from a distance. Eventually, she catches him in a moment of weakness, and the two have one passionate night together as they try to break one other out of their system.

But the impact of the night appears to be the reverse. For Kal, Elena is now more than just a tempting prospect; she is a need.

a fixation.

One that he won't allow anyone to obstruct, even if it means intercepting her other man's wedding, taking her as his wife, and taking her to the shady tiny island where he lives.

For the first time in her life, Elena finds herself alone with the man of her dreams, and she begins to break through the layers of ice that cover his ice-hardened heart. However, the warmth and immorality of her new spouse may not be worth the revealed secrets or the lives that will be irrevocably changed.