Lissa Piner is a skilled glass blower whose delicate gift conceals a burning inner strength that can destroy as exquisitely as it can create. Commissioned to design chandeliers for a string of luxury hotels, her skills have taken her to Italy. But Lissa's real mission there is a secret. For her entire life has been a lie, leading to a chance to avenge a terrible wrong. Enlisted as her bodyguard is Casimir Prakensskii, a trained assassin living off the grid. In Lissa, he sees something unexpected and wicked, mysterious and sensual. But more than desire will bring them together : because both of their pasts cry out for revenge.

Also published in a regular print edition New York : Penguin Publishing, 2016.