Words have the power to bind you or break you... Sometimes you meet someone who has the potential to change your life entirely, but the timing isn't right. Kelly The first time I met Nathan Harrison I drunkenly exclaimed I was going to climb him like a mountain. But when I found out he lived halfway across the country I didn't think I'd ever see him again. Until he found me crying at my brother's wedding and showed me what it was like to be with a man who thrived on control. After an eye-opening weekend, I knew I didn't want anyone else, but our lives were in different places. Fate had other plans when circumstances brought us back together for longer than a few steamy hours. Nathan Kelly Stineman was a temptation I found hard to deny. I tried to ignore my attraction, but when the obstacles keeping us apart fell away for a few stolen weeks at her brother's house in rural Connecticut, I knew resisting her was futile. Introducing her to my world of forbidden desires, we both found solace and strength in one another. She was the one woman I'd ever felt truly comfortable submitting control to. Letting go of our fears brought new possibilities for a future that bound us together in a way neither of us ever imagined. When ghosts from our pasts threatened to drive us apart, would we be able to resist the pull?