Detonate

Grayson left the special forces seven years ago, after a betrayal that hurt him badly, and rebuilt his life in New York. In daylight he trains boxers and is famous for it. After dark he works as a mafia hitman, putting his old training to use in the only place he feels at home.

Maddie is the family disappointment, the woman no man stays with. She has kissed plenty of frogs hoping for a prince. Instead she falls for the villain, the one man she never expected to love. He calls her sunshine, and it is his darkness she wants.

Grayson believed he had everything under control until a single kiss with a woman who hated him broke down the walls around his heart. Maddie was never meant for his world, yet he brings her into it anyway.

This is the second book in the Beneath the Mask series, a dark mafia romance told in alternating points of view, with Grayson and Maddie each narrating.

Just as Grayson thinks he can keep both the woman and the life, everything blows up in front of him, and loving her puts them both in danger. He will fight for her as far as it takes, but he cannot give her the fairy tale she wants.