If you need a vital ingredient found for your dangerous occult practice, Russell Bristow is your man, no questions asked. But when he's offered a job so dark that even he turns it down, it gets his only family held hostage. Now he has no choice but to locate a young woman marked for a sacrifice. He knows it will leave a scar on his soul, but nothing could prepare him for the toll it would take on his heart.Zoe King won't be used as currency to pay her sorcerer father's debt to a demon. She'll fight for her life with everything she's got, even if it's a formidable love hex. When Russell is blackmailed into kidnapping Zoe, they soon find themselves wondering if their feelings for each other are real, or just a magical illusion.Russell's past is coming back to haunt him, and there's a demon with a claim on Zoe's soul. Hellfire is on the horizon, and there may be no escape.