Paradise, the blood daughter of the King's First Advisor, is ready to break free from the strict life of the women of the aristocracy. Her strategy is to join the Black Dagger Brotherhood training center program and learn to fight for yourself, think for yourself...be yourself. It's a good plan until everything goes wrong... The training is immeasurably more difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies and it soon becomes apparent that the Brother in charge, Butch O'Neil, has serious problems in his life. This all happens before she falls in love with her classmate. Craig, an ordinary civilian, is not what her father wanted for her, but he is everything she could ask for in a man. The erotic tension between them becomes irresistible and Paradise must understand whether she is strong enough to claim power...both on and off the battlefield.