Logan — B.J. Wane

She's the girl next door he's always protected. He's the man she's always wanted. Will the threat of a killer finally get them on the same page?

Logan Lemaster drew Melanie Barnes under his protective wing the moment he rescued her from a fall off her bike. She was six and he thirteen, and his over-protectiveness never abated over the next twenty years. When a good friend ends up murdered on the family's private island following one of Logan's BDSM weekend parties, Melanie insists on being there to comfort him. Only, he hadn't counted on the grown woman's tenacious determination to worm her way past his defenses and into his bed. He has spent the past eight years â€" since Melanie reached adulthood and made her interest in expanding on their friendship known â€" refusing to jeopardize their special bond by introducing her to his preferences. But he is only human, and when her grief over an assault on a co-worker leads him to comfort her, his good intentions fall to the wayside under her responsive body.

As he and his cousins plan to hold another party to feel out their friends for hints about which one betrayed them in the worst way, Logan tutors Melanie in his sexual preferences so she can join him. But as they grow closer, so does the killer, and when her life is threatened, Logan knows he will stop at nothing to protect her and make her his in every way.