When ambitious marketing associate Evelyn attends her firm's annual gala, she expects handshakes and small talk—not a collision with desire itself. Julian Ashford is everything she shouldn't want: arrogant, untamed, and not her boyfriend of three years. One reckless elevator ride later, Evelyn finds herself consenting to a night of devastating, bruising pleasure that her body craves and her conscience condemns. Torn between loyalty and lust, she discovers that the most violent battlefield isn't the bedroom—it's the war inside her own mind...