ROMANCE. Alexandra Messner is the first genuine love to break into the iron fortress of Officer Nathalie Duncan's heart. After years of redeeming a brutal and sordid past, Nathalie believes in a future. Until a photograph of a dead woman destroys her world. Alex has always thought that there were no wounds of the heart that love can't heal. But she can't believe what the woman she loves is confessing. She'd known that Nathalie had scars but these secrets are unthinkable and unforgivable. How does love turn so quickly to hatred and revenge?Nathalie's last desperate hope is to act before Alex does--to at least spare Alex a terrible price on her soul. With a crime family's secrets suddenly at risk, broken trust and shattered love may be the only gifts that can save the fortune teller's daughter.