Nikolai Since childhood, I have been a hired killer. For years I enjoyed the fear my name evoked, the trembling caused by the sight of my tattoos. The stars on his knees, the marks on his fingers, the dagger on his neck, everything signaled danger. If you saw my eyes, that was the last thing you saw. I have always been the hunter and never the hunted. With her I'm just a shadow, I'm ready to lie down and let her take over me. I open my wounded heart to her, and it revives my enemies. I'll deal the final blow. But if they hurt her, I will destroy their world.

Daisy All my life I have been protected from the outside world. Raised at home, growing up on a farm, I'm so naive that my best friend calls me Pollyanna. I like to believe in the best in people. Nikolai has become a part of my new life, but he scares me. Not because his eyes are cold, and not because my friend warns me against him, but because he is the only person who has seen the real me. With him, my heart is in danger... and so is my life.