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From Booklist Readers who like "unpleasant and warm" romantic suspense may enjoy sexually-explicit Southern medieval and Bartonis modern. To get a judge, Ella Porter, the adopted child of a rich senator and his ill wife, is fairly trusting. She thinks her parents' lies about their content relationship and at 30 continues to be living at home, waiting for great love like theirs, until good looking bad-boy Reed Conway is released from jail after serving 15 years for the killing of his strongly violent stepfather. Reed is enthusiastic about discovering who framed him for killing the person who'd created his family's living hell; meanwhile the actual assassin, intent on delivering Reed back once again to prison, begins a campaign of fear against Ella, which makes it seem like Reed reaches fault.