Beautiful Venom

A young woman wants revenge on the people who destroyed her life. Someone pulled the strings behind it, and she has almost no way to find that person. Her one lead is the Vipers, an elite college hockey team that dominates the ice and keeps a secret society hidden behind its success.

To get inside, she picks what looks like the easiest target: Kane Davenport, the team's charming captain and the one decent man among a group of snakes. She plans to use him as her way in.

The plan fails almost at once. Kane's friendliness is a front, and the man underneath is far more dangerous than she guessed. Once his true nature shows, she understands that she was the one being reeled in, and that she is now caught in a deadly game with no clear way out.

This is a dark college romance told in the first person by the woman at its centre. It is a revenge plot built on infiltration and deception, with a hockey setting and a menacing love interest. Expect a tense, predatory tone in which the hunter and the hunted keep swapping places, and where trust costs more than it is worth.