My name is Cassidy Porter...My father, Paul Isaac Porter, was executed twenty years ago for the brutal murder of twelve innocent girls. And although I was only eight years old at the time, I remember - every day of my life - that I am his child , his only son. To protect the world from the poison that poisons my blood, I lead a quiet life, on the edge of the world, far from people. I swore to myself and my mother that I would not infect innocent lives with the darkness that swirls within me as a deadly whirlpool, waiting to break out. And I would have kept that vow... If Brynn Cadogan hadn't accidentally walked into my life. Now I'm trapped between heaven and hell: falling in love with a woman who wants to love me, while constantly reminding me to myself that I must remain...Unloved.