Live life out loud. Chrissie Laursen doesn't date models. Having barely survived her battle with alcoholism and just out of a ten-year marriage that lasted nine years too long, she's laser focused on her thriving Miami Beach business: promoting erotic photographers in local galleries. She has no time for the ego driven pretty boys that proliferate in that business. For so long she's wondered if life and love would ever truly touch her that she decides to go it alone. Then she sees the glacial blue eyes and rugged, animal intensity of Nick Jessup, and her resolve begins to fracture....

Who is The Mastermind? The daughter of a con-man and the woman of a dangerous, escaped convict, Chrissie Laursen is paying the price for her devotion to Nick Jessup in a Pennsylvania prison. Heartbroken at her lover's murder and enduring the hardships of incarceration, Chrissie is shocked to find Nick back from the supposed dead and on a warpath to free her. But can her love withstand the whirlwind of the nefarious cartel empire Nick has built in Mexico; plush, violent, and steeped in sexual submission? This new world pulls her ever deeper into Nick's deadly psychosis as he challenges...