[Selling Her Soul to Declan 01] • The Love She Craves

The day Nyxie Carmichael's little brother is struck by a pickup, her life is thrown into chaos. The young waitress had been working a double shift at the truck stop when the tragedy occurred. When CPS takes guardianship of her brother and two young nieces, Nyxie is lost, and doesn't know how to regain custody. She can barely afford to keep her family fed, and knows no way to earn the money to hire an attorney. All hope seems lost until she is approached by a resident doctor who will hire a lawyer to help her . . . for a price. Declan Stryker remembers Nyxie from high school. Everyone had expectations of who the star quarterback should date, and it didn't include a girl whose father was known to stagger drunkenly through town. Even if the freshman had not been too young to date, he was unwilling to cross the arbitrary line that separated them. But Declan never forgot the shy outcast or the secret he knew about her. When he saw an opening, he offered to hire a lawyer, if she would become his submissive. Was he her guardian angel or had she just sold her soul to the devil?