Shattered

1700, London

Rossin Morgan is a woman on the run from her murderous uncle, a fiendish man who is starved to possess her body in wicked lechery.  Forever wounded in a vicious knife attack, his face horribly scarred on one side, Warrior Markay hails himself monstrous and is a savagely angry, reclusive duke who reviles the world and every person alive.  When Rossin steals her way into his lair, hiding from her uncle, she begins to thaw Warrior's frozen heart, aching to seduce his shattered soul.  After Warrior and Rossin are forced to marry in a trap sprung by her uncle, Rossin begins to untwist the nefariousness, which commanded Warrior's knife attack.  Her yearning to resolve the mystery behind the treachery wielded against Warrior, alas, lures Rossin down a stunning path of devastation she never imagined existed, leading her into a web of sinister evil forged by countless villains who still seek blood revenge on her husband.  Rossin must unbury the secrets surrounding Warrior in darkness and tempt him to love again or she'll lose him forever -- the rage, which has captured him as prisoner, will draw him to become a merciless pirate or he'll be slain by those traitorous fiends who hide in the shadows, wanton for his death at the indiscretions festering in his past.  Will Warrior renounce the brutal creature he's dubbed himself as and allow Rossin to capture his heart or will they both be tangled in a malicious labyrinth which demands the forfeiture of both their lives?