As a warder, Jackson Tybalt is among the good guys until he sees the man he loves kissing another. Betrayed and upset, Jackson tempts danger and death, overlooking the pleas of additional warders to be careful. It’s a vile disposition in which to start out a love, but that doesn’t end the kyrie Raphael, who a lot more than anything wants Jackson for his very own.

Jackson doesn’t desire a hearth, he doesn’t desire a lover-he simply desires dark and painful, and Raphael will give him what he desires. But occasionally the sins of the flesh are just what a body needs to bandage the wounds of the heart, and Raphael will conceal the tenderness he feels for Jackson for as long as the warder wears the guise from the Sinnerman.