Description: Undercover cop Clay Navarro left the Sultans biker gang a changed man. Its ringleaders may be awaiting trial, but he wears the memory of every brutal act he was forced to commit tattooed across his skin. He doesn't have space in his messed-up life for anything gentle--not now, maybe not ever. Dr. Georgette Hadley is drawn to the damaged stranger's pain, intimidated but intrigued by the warmth that lies beneath Clay's frightening exterior. But when the Sultans return looking for revenge, she finds herself drawn into the dirty underbelly of a life forged in violence ... that not even her touch may be able to heal.
Brief description: Adriana Anders has acted and sung, slung cocktails and corrected copy. She's worked for start-ups, multinationals, and small nonprofits, but it wasn't until she returned to her first love-writing romance-that she finally felt like she'd come home. Today, she resides with her tall French husband, two small children, and fat French cat in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she writes the dark, gritty, emotional love stories of her heart. Her first debut novel, Under Her Skin, the first in the Blank Canvas series, won best unpublished contemporary romance with both the New Jersey Romance Writers and the Heartland Romance Writers.
Review Quotes: Anders has created wonderful variations on the beauty and the beast theme and the damsel-in-distress trope, a greatly tormented hero, and a powerful mix of menace and romance.-- "Booklist"