New York Instances bestselling author Gena Showalter comes back with her most explosive Lords from the Underworld story to date, in regards to a brutal warrior in the brink of sanity who’ll stop at nothing to claim the exquisite individual with the energy to soothe the beast inside him… Powered to his death from the demon of Distrust, Baden spent hundreds of years in purgatory. Right now he’s back, but at what cost? Bound to the king of the underworld, a straight darker force, he’s unable to endure the touch of another…and he’s about The Darkest Torment quickly devolving right into a heartless assassin with an uncontrollable temper. Points only get worse when a mission will go awry and he finds himself saddled using a bride–just not really his personal. Famed pet trainer Katarina Joelle is certainly forced to marry a monster to protect her loved ones. When she’s taken hostage from the ruthless, gorgeous Baden immediately after the ceremony, she’s plunged right into a battle between two evils–with a protector more dangerous than the monsters he hunts. They are meant to be opponents, but neither can withstand the passion burning between them…and everything too soon the largest threat is to her heart. But mainly because Baden slips deeper into the abyss, she’ll have to educate him to like…or lose him forever.