The Prisoner Who Owns the Warden

Fifteen years after abandoning Elias Vaughn, Adrian Cole arrives on a prison transport ship haunted by memories of the young man he left behind. Elias is now the warden of an island prison, and Adrian is one of his inmates. Elias has every reason to hate him, but their first encounter makes it clear that neither has escaped the pull of their past. As Adrian challenges Elias's authority and Elias answers with punishment, old desire resurfaces alongside questions neither man is ready to face. Then Roland Ashcroft calls with an order: Adrian must die, and his death must look like an accident. Caught between the man who abandoned him and the demand to kill him, Elias struggles to keep his composure. Adrian, meanwhile, keeps provoking the one person on the island who could protect him—or destroy him.