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“Maya Banks writes the kind of books I love to read!”

—Lora Leigh, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Secret Sins

Praise for the novels of Maya Banks

“Incredibly awesome . . . I love Maya Banks and I love her books.”

—Jaci Burton, New York Times bestselling author

“Maya Banks . . . really dragged me through the gamut of emotions. From . . . ‘Is it hot in here?’ to ‘Oh my GOD’ . . . I’m ready for the next ride now!”

USA Today

“[A] one-two punch of entertainment that will leave readers eager for the next book.”

Publishers Weekly

“For those who like it naughty, dirty, and do-me-on-the-desk HAWT!”

—Examiner.com

“A cross between the Bared to You or Fifty Shades series and the Wicked Lovers series by Shayla Black.”

Book Savvy Babe

“Hot enough to make even the coolest reader sweat!”

Fresh Fiction

“You’ll be on the edge of your seat with this one.”

Night Owl Reviews

“Definitely a recommended read.”

Fallen Angel Reviews

“[For] fans of Sylvia Day’s Bared to You.”

Under the Covers

“Grabbed me from page one and refused to let go until I read the last word.”

Joyfully Reviewed

“An excellent read that I simply did not put down . . . Covers all the emotional range.”

The Road to Romance

Titles by Maya Banks

FOR HER PLEASURE

BE WITH ME

The Sweet Series

SWEET SURRENDER

SWEET PERSUASION

SWEET SEDUCTION

SWEET TEMPTATION

SWEET POSSESSION

SWEET ADDICTION

The Kelly/KGI Series

THE DARKEST HOUR

NO PLACE TO RUN

HIDDEN AWAY

WHISPERS IN THE DARK

ECHOES AT DAWN

SHADES OF GRAY

FORGED IN STEELE

AFTER THE STORM

WHEN DAY BREAKS

Colters’ Legacy

COLTERS’ PROMISE

COLTERS’ GIFT

The Breathless Trilogy

RUSH

FEVER

BURN

The Surrender Trilogy

LETTING GO

GIVING IN

Anthologies

FOUR PLAY

(with Shayla Black)

MEN OUT OF UNIFORM

(with Karin Tabke and Sylvia Day)

CHERISHED

(with Lauren Dane)

Specials

PILLOW TALK

EXILED

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WHEN DAY BREAKS

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PUBLISHING HISTORY

Berkley mass-market edition / July 2014

Cover art by Craig White.

Cover design by Rita Frangie.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF MAYA BANKS

TITLES BY MAYA BANKS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 22

CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 24

CHAPTER 25

CHAPTER 26

CHAPTER 27

CHAPTER 28

CHAPTER 29

CHAPTER 30

CHAPTER 31

CHAPTER 32

CHAPTER 33

CHAPTER 34

CHAPTER 35

CHAPTER 36

CHAPTER 37

EPILOGUE

In loving memory of Pat Pattarozzi.

She was a true “Mama Kelly” and will be missed by many. I hope you enjoy your angel’s wings as you lovingly look after your family from heaven.

CHAPTER 1

BIG Eddie Sinclair sat behind his aged wooden desk in his big empty house—a house that had once been filled with love and laughter—his gnarled, callused hands shaking.

Sweat beaded his forehead and ran in thin rivulets down his temples, tracing a line over grooved, aged, weather-beaten skin. His hands shook so badly that the papers he’d been holding fell, scattering on the desk, some sliding onto the floor.

He stared up, his gaze unconsciously seeking out the mantel over the fireplace his wife had insisted on having installed in his working space. She hadn’t wanted him to ever get cold. The idea that Big Eddie Sinclair’s gentle wife had been concerned that he’d get cold would have gotten him laughed out of the barracks. His badass buddies would never let him hear the end of it.

Eddie was a big man. A killer. Trained by the best. And in turn he had trained the best. But right now he felt as helpless as a newborn babe. Fear, an emotion that until the day his first child was born had been completely alien to him, gripped him by the balls, freezing his insides. He rubbed at his chest in an effort to alleviate the discomfort and closed his eyes, trying to rid himself of the images the threat had invoked.

He’d lived his life knowing that he was invincible. He wasn’t egotistical. Men who served with the men he served with didn’t think they were good. They knew they were good.

And none of that ability had been able to save his precious wife.