Artist Alexandra Battista thinks a six month apprenticeship in Venice is the perfect escape from her overbearing family who all seem more upset over her recent breakup than she is Two months into it shes finding its everything she hoped for and more Until the night she hears her mentor being murderedSent by her family to check on Alexs wellbeing Dan Fawkes Fowler is nearly certain she wont welcome his interferencenot after the steamy one night they spent together or the morning after when he woke to an empty bed But when he finds her running down a darkened street fleeing from a murderer he knows theres no other place he wants to be other than by her side to protectand maybe even loveherFun loving playboy Fawkes first appears in THE PUPPETEER the prequel to the Windsor Series The former Navy SEAL likes nothing more to flirt the night awayuntil he meets his match Now if only he can keep her out of the crosshairs of a killerThis story is connected to the awardwinning Windsor Series but can be read as a standalone