He was never meant to want her. She was never meant to need him.

When the woman he married for one reckless night dies, casino pit boss Tor is forced to find her daughter and deliver the news.

Gianna is a struggling college student living in her car, broke, and now immersed in grief. She leaves Long Beach for Las Vegas expecting boxes and memories. Instead she finds Tor-the man who was briefly her stepfather, the man who now looks at her like she put his world into perspective.

He's older. Controlled. Possessive in ways that should send her running.

She's young, grieving, and aching for someone to take the weight off her shoulders.

What begins as reluctant responsibility turns into something far hungrier. Nights spent watching her on security cameras while she sleeps in his house. Quiet orders that settle the angst in her chest. Plans for her future that feel less like help and more like promises. The slow, deliberate way he tends to every need she didn't know she had... while she starts filling the empty places in him.

Grief. Voyeurism. Jealousy. A daddy kink that feels less like play and more like the only way either of them can breathe again.

He was never supposed to keep her.

She was never supposed to stay.

But sometimes unexpected loves are the most consuming.

Tor was previously published as the Taboo Duet, Unexpected and Consumed. This is a second edition.