title: His for the Taking
author: Black, Yuwanda
description: KARIAA cheating fiance.A controlling father.A life-changing illness.Can a break from the past bring lasting happiness in the future?***When twenty-nine year old Karia Bailey suffers a heart attack and discovers that her fiance of three years has been cheating, she knows something has to change. Everything has to change. But she's unsure how to go about it, or what the life she'd carved out for herself as a successful corporate attorney is supposed to look like.Reeling from shock and grief, she leaves New York and retreats to Basil Bay, a tropical, Central American island where she had vacationed once. It was the most peaceful place she'd ever been. And above all, peace was what Karia needed right now. Peace to unravel the mystery that had become her life.Hence, her return to Basil Bay.Karia had spent her whole life with an overbearing, cold-hearted father who refused to even give her so much as a crumb of information about the woman who'd given birth to her.As she begins digging into the darkened halls of her life, Karia discovers that life often hid more than it revealed – unless you were willing to pull back the veil, dig out long-buried secrets, and expose them to the light of truth. For that she needed the time and space to develop courage, and act on it. And that's exactly what the peace of Basil Bay offered. Until she met Zendan Cage.He was a mirror of everything Karia never had, and everything she ever wanted. Powerful, handsome and all-consuming, he blew into her life like a category five hurricane: suddenly, forcefully and insistently. And try as she might to resist him, he refused to let her go.He disturbed her peace, demanding the very piece of her that she was unwilling to give – her heart. Even when it screamed that she was ...His for the Taking