Crippled souls are like magnets. Attracted to collide in incredible bliss..." Named "Cursed" from birth, Maddy has experienced nothing but pain and punishment at the hands of the Order's most cruel elder, Brother Moses. Now living on the isolated Executioner's property with her sister, Maddie is finally free. Free from the suffocating faith in which she had become disillusioned. Free from endless years of physical and psychological suffering. Just... free... At twenty-one, timid and shy Maddie is content with life within the confines of her new home - safe from the world outside, safe from evil and, strangely enough, her protects the most cruel of the Executioners - all in piercings and tattoos Flame. Flame... A man who tirelessly watches her with his dark as night and sizzling eyes. A man who protects her with amazing fearlessness. And a man who has awakened something in her numb heart. When circumstances are such that Flame needs HER help, Maddie bravely risks everything for the broken man who holds her fragile soul. The most dishonest of the Executioners, Flame, is driven by anger. Troubled by haunting demons from his past, consumed by rage and isolated by a disgusting hatred of being touched, Flame's days are filled with suffocating darkness, and permeated by only one ray of light - Maddie... the only person who is able to touch him. Flame's mission in life is to protect Maddie , ensure her safety. Until a trigger from his troubled past sends him down a spiral of madness, trapping him in the deepest recesses of his shattered mind. The Executioner Brothers fear that Flame can no longer be saved. His only hope for salvation: Maddie and her healing light.