Every day, Zoe struggles to keep going. The cruel winter took her father’s life and left her angry and brokenhearted. As she carries her little brother through a snowstorm that could kill him in minutes, her only thought is finding shelter. The cabin beyond the woods is far from the place of safety she hoped it would be, but it is there that she meets a man whose muscular body marked with strange and primitive tattoos hints at an extraordinary story. He has the power to light up the lake, and with it, Zoe’s world.

Zoe calls the stranger X. He is a bounty hunter, tormented by the evils of his victims that course through his veins. X has never felt anything but hate, until he meets Zoe. She shows him what his heart is really for, and if they can find a way to be together, just maybe his pain can help Zoe forget her own.

This high-stakes, heart-pounding romance will leave readers breathless for this break-out new series and its sequel.

Jeff Giles recently left Entertainment Weekly, where he was Deputy Managing Editor and oversaw all coverage of movies and books and made the magazine a go-to destination for fans of YA fiction. Prior to EW, Jeff was a writer–editor at Newsweek, where he profiled dozens of authors, musicians and movie stars, and served as a Rohan Army extra in Lord of the Rings while chronicling the trilogy (Peter Jackson shot a close-up of him, then cut it, saying he 'looked silly'.)

Jeff has been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and written for The New York Times Book Review and the Daily Beast, among other places. He has won a MIN profile-writing award and a feature-writing award from The Deadline Club. Jeff has also moderated a panel with Peter Jackson and James Cameron in front of an audience of 6,000 at Comic-Con, and teaches an annual course in arts writing at N.Y.U.'s graduate school of journalism. He is also the co-author of the non-fiction from TED Books, The Terrorist's Son.

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