Samantha Bennet, half-angel vigilante, is horribly burned from her encounter with the Shiro Tai warriors. Her healer, Angela, helps, but due to now visible scars, Samantha must now reveal her identity as the Reaper to her boyfriend. Her decision will change her life forever.-At her confession, Neal-s reaction devastates her and she is forced to flee.- Samantha takes only a few possessions to her only sanctuary.- Within hours, her identity as the Reaper is all over the news. Betrayal strikes home. What is to become of her loved ones in the wake of Neal-s treachery?- Kyle Brandt, self-made millionaire, extends his support and resources to help her, but is a stranger with supernatural secrets of his own. She is intrigued. His gentle touch makes her blood course swiftly through her veins and his brooding dark eyed gaze is a hypnotic aphrodisiac. Soul searing yearning is compelling.- As days go by, Samantha mourns for her normal life, but with her injuries, is hardly her Reaper self. Add to that her face plastered on every channel on television and life as she knows it has come to an end.- Who will mind the shadows of the city in her absence?- Kyle suggests the enlisted aid of two mercenaries whom he trusts implicitly.- But can they be trusted? There is, after all, a bounty on her head.