In this village, Iโm an outcast: Griffin Everett, the scowling giant who prefers plants to people. Then I meet Keynes, a stranger from the city whoโs everything Iโm not: sharp-tongued, sophisticated, beautiful. Free. For a few precious moments in a dark alleyway, heโs also mine, hot and sweet under the stars...until he crushes me like dirt beneath his designer boot. When the prettiest man Iโve ever hated shows up at my job the next day, Iโm not sure if I want to strangle him or drag him into bed. ActuallyโI think I want both. But Keynes isnโt here for the likes of me: he makes that painfully clear. With everyone else at work, heโs all gorgeous, glittering charmโbut when I get too close, he turns vicious. And yet, I canโt stay away. Because thereโs something about this ice king that sets me on fire, a secret vulnerability that makes my chest ache. Iโll do whatever it takes to sneak past his walls and see the real man again. The last thing I expect is for that man to ruin me.