Raw Rhythm — Cari Quinn; Taryn Elliott

Saving her was his addiction.

When Warning Sign drummer Malachi Shawcross first saved Elle Crandall, he put her in a box in his head -- do not touch. Not that she remembered him anyway. Then he joined her band, and he got to spend every night behind the kit watching her shred on her guitar.

Hating himself for wanting her.

But that was before the night the band he'd never wanted to join became his family. The night he had to make a choice to save someone, and someone else was lost.

Of course he saved Elle. He'd do it every damn time.

Though she's filled with guilt, Elle survived -- with scars. With her reason to stay clean gone, even temporarily, she's tempted to be bad.

Oh so bad.

Until Mal's unexpected help as she recovers turns into something else entirely. She never expected him to offer her another kind of addiction, one just as dark and dangerous as the chemicals she craves.

Him.

But with the band under siege from a threat from the past, Mal is no longer fighting to keep from falling for the one woman he shouldn't.

He's fighting to keep her alive.